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Congratulations, Rimu! And to PieFed!

An amazing milestone. Kudos to the developers and the volunteers who made this all possible.

In a world experiencing such disruption and rising inflation, people reaching out to form community and share information have become more important than ever before. I hope to see these “third” spaces protected, and that these spaces prosper.

In awarding the plaintiff more than $1.8 million in damages, Marzari wrote that Paladin’s conduct was “deserving of condemnation and punishment” even beyond the injuries and trauma suffered by the plaintiff.

She wrote that the company admitted to “negligent training of its guards,” and that Paladin representatives failed to review the plaintiff’s serious allegations and consider corrective action in the years afterward.

“On the evidence before me, Paladin’s uncaring attitude is not a one-time occurrence, but part of the culture of how upper management responds to complaints of excessive force employed by their workforce,” Marzari wrote.

Paladin was basically found to have committed a systemic failure that led to discrimination, use of excessive force, and a complete disrespect of the rights of the plaintiff. See anyone else contracting with Paladin?

Wait…this is as far from innovation as it gets. I agree this is gambling on its face, but under the hood is basically a honey pot mechanism where you’re creating a market to price out leaks of confidential or sensitive information. I don’t think there’s anything of value here, just the introduction of vulnerability that cuts vertically all the way to the most vulnerable of society to government agents with potential conflicts of interest.

For all the bluster about the US taking down fascism in World War II, it is with ghastly irony that you have these figures within US society, like Karp and Zamiska, who out right advocate for basically racism and fascism. They simply couch their recycled old bigotry into the vague, covert lingo of the modern post-civil rights America.

But, they project what they want in society. They want less regulation upon themselves, they want more military contracts with the US government, they want the public to give more credibility to the power of their surveillance software, they want the draft so their software can go far and wide, and they want the ability to pay people less and to ask them to work more.

Then they go on to make some obligatory comment about how America has brought such peace and prosperity. And, somewhat tellingly, they wax nostalgia for fascist Germany and Japan. They just don’t say it in so few words. When the US SCOTUS declared that money can translate into political power, these unqualified persons are the symptoms.

I keep asking what the ASEAN members are thinking when they see this garbage while they’re days away from running out of gas and diesel.

Virkkunen said the Commission will also establish a European co-ordination mechanism to ensure consistency as member states implement their own national age verification schemes, which currently vary significantly in approach and minimum age thresholds.

The app arrives as at least a dozen European countries, including the UK and Norway, have enacted or are actively considering legislation setting minimum age limits for social media, typically between 13 and 16 years.

Part of a global lobbying effort as Canada’s governing party, the Liberal Party of Canada, is also discussing age verification simultaneously, as are a number of US states.

I sympathize too, but these conditions have persisted for decades. People have sounded the alarm for decades.

Landowners get attention from legacy media, but it took a doctor who had to risk everything to sound the alarm for the people of Fort Chipewyan and beyond. Dr O’Connor faced complaints from his own College and defended himself. He must have felt like an island at that point.

In 2006, Dr. John O’Connor started raising concerns about disproportionately high rates of cancer in Fort Chipewyan, Alta., believing that nearby oilsands sites may have played a role.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/alberta-whistleblower-fort-chipewyan-john-o-connor-1.5943389