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If the Great Chidimaar kills a bird, I'm here!

Suspicionless searches of electronic devices at the border have skyrocketed in recent years.

In this joint civil liberties lawsuit brought by EFF and @ACLU, we sued on behalf of 11 travelers, arguing that these searches violate the 1st and 4th Amendments. https://www.eff.org/cases/alasaad-v-duke

Alasaad v. McAleenan

On September 13, 2017, EFF and ACLU filed a lawsuit against the federal government on behalf of 11 travelers whose smartphones and other electronic devices were searched without a warrant at the U.S. border.The plaintiffs are 10 U.S. citizens and one lawful permanent resident who come from across...

BREAKING: a federal judge has ruled that suspicionless searches of travelers’ cell phones, laptops, and other electronic devices when we cross the U.S. border are unconstitutional.

This is an enormous victory for privacy. https://www.eff.org/press/releases/federal-court-rules-suspicionless-searches-travelers-phones-and-laptops

Federal Court Rules Suspicionless Searches of Travelers’ Phones and Laptops Unconstitutional

BOSTON—In a major victory for privacy rights at the border, a federal court in Boston ruled today that suspicionless searches of travelers’ electronic devices by federal agents at airports and other U.S. ports of entry are unconstitutional. The ruling came in a lawsuit, Alasaad v. McAleenan, filed...

Winter is coming, enjoy my Pawar play. #MaharashtraPolitics

Suicides among doctors is very high and almost no one has actually bothered to find out why.

Lovely article by Pamela Wible in the Washington Post.

Why So Many Doctors Kill Themselves:

https://swirlster.ndtv.com/wellness-mother/why-so-many-doctors-kill-themselves-1800081?type=news&id=1800081&category=Wellness%26Mother

Why So Many Doctors Kill Themselves

One million Americans lose their doctors to suicide each year

@Dasbolshevik Lal Salaam, comrade.
I sent you Gandhi, you killed him. I sent you Martin Luther King Junior, you killed him. So, I sent you Justin Bieber. You seem to be fine with him.
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Mastodon social adds policy against casteism as more Indian users join

Hundreds of users opened accounts on mastodon social last week, many of them accusing Twitter of casteism.

https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/mastodon-social-adds-policy-against-casteism-more-indian-users-join-112064

Mastodon social adds policy against casteism as more Indian users join

Open-source microblogging platform Mastodon’s most popular ‘instance’ – mastodon.social – has added a policy against casteism to its rules. The founder of Mastodon and moderator of mastodon.social, Eugen Rochko, posted on the platform on Sunday: “As promised, mastodon.social code of conduct has been updated to add "casteism and advocation of casteism" to the list of explicitly prohibited offenses.”