in honor of his birthday, my favorite Johnny Cash song: https://youtu.be/t_DSnfVNLwY
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“HB 999 would eliminate ‘any major or minor’ that ‘engenders beliefs in the concepts defined’ in the unconstitutional Stop WOKE Act, as well as any ‘major or minor in Critical Race Theory, Gender Studies, or Intersectionality,’ or any ‘derivative major or minor of these belief systems.’
As we have said before, efforts to purge universities of gender studies because of the viewpoints they advance are reminiscent of attacks on academic freedom abroad.” https://www.thefire.org/news/thought-stop-woke-act-was-bad-new-florida-bill-worse
if you’re ever wondering what’s going on in the background of every zoom meeting I’m in
Twitter appears to have stopped publishing transparency reports showing what takedown demands governments have issued and, importantly, which demands Twitter honored. This is a bad development for free speech and transparency — especially after the recent censorship demands India has been granted on Twitter. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/elon-musk-twitter-no-transparency-reports-government-data-1234684941/
IFEX#Turkey 🇹🇷 indicts 10 Kurdish journalists on terrorism charges
The ten journalists - nine of whom have been under pre-trial arrest since October - face up to 15 years in prison if found guilty under Turkey’s anti-terrorism laws.
https://ifex.org/turkey-indicts-10-kurdish-journalists-on-terrorism-charges/
Richard Van Noorden"In the middle of the tragedies of lost lives, bombed buildings and thwarted careers, many Ukrainian scientists are forging collaborations with institutions outside the country that, some think, are laying a strong foundation for a thriving, Western-facing scientific community after the war." Aisling Irwin reports for Nature on how Ukrainian scientists are faring a year into Russia's invasion. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00508-0
Hong Kong is, of course, arguing that its vague and murky definition of national security — used to punish political expression — is intentionally unclear to grant authorities the flexibility to redefine it at will. https://hongkongfp.com/2023/02/17/security-law-needs-flexibility-as-threats-to-national-security-are-difficult-to-define-hong-kong-tells-un-committee/
Security law needs ‘flexibility’ as threats to national security are ‘difficult to define,’ Hong Kong tells UN committee
The national security law needs “flexibility” because national security threats are fluid and hard to define, Hong Kong delegates have told a United Nations (UN) committee. Sitting before a team of UN experts in Geneva, Switzerland, on Thursday, delegates from the city were asked how they defined national security, as defendants have been denied bail […]
give it a nonzero chance the next update is that only twitter blue subscribers can use vowels
Kevin CollierAnd it's official: Twitter users can now choose to be less secure — to use text messages for 2FA rather than an app — but only if they pay the monthly fee. You pay for insecurity. The weirdest security decision I've ever seen from a major tech company.
https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/product/2023/an-update-on-two-factor-authentication-using-sms-on-twitter
https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/product/2023/an-update-on-two-factor-authentication-using-sms-on-twitter
#Russia 🇷🇺: A court in Siberia convicted journalist Maria Ponomarenko of spreading false information about the military and sentenced her to 6 years in prison, along with a 5-year ban on journalistic activities.
https://cpj.org/2023/02/russian-journalist-maria-ponomarenko-sentenced-to-6-years-in-prison/
Russian journalist Maria Ponomarenko sentenced to 6 years in prison - Committee to Protect Journalists
Paris, February 15, 2023 – In response to news reports that a Russian court on Wednesday sentenced journalist Maria Ponomarenko to six years in prison, the Committee to Protect Journalists issued the following statement of condemnation: “Russian authorities should be ashamed of the six-year prison sentence given to journalist Maria Ponomarenko, whose sole so-called crime...