he plans to sell everything – the soap, the building, their home and most of their belongings. He has already started the paperwork he hopes will allow France to recognize their marriage and extend to him a long-term visa.

Driving away great people.

Other people who are not white and have fled persecution in their home countries are in a much more difficult situation, the men and their friends acknowledge. Those undocumented immigrants do not have friends with the governor’s office in their contacts. They cannot reach a member of the state Senate so easily. They do not have the money for a lawyer or a quick flight to France.

They also cannot risk telling their story. That’s why Rick and Jeremy will keep telling theirs.

From NASA, used by earth.org:

Read that as “septic think tank.”

Thousands of lawsuits follow a similar formula: Strike 3 claims to use a proprietary software called VXN Scan to track IP addresses that have downloaded porn they own. The software cannot identify the user beyond a rough geographic location, so Strike 3 files suit against an anonymous John Doe, and subpoenas their internet service provider (ISP) to unmask the user. The ISP in turn alerts the subscriber – which is when most people find out they have been sued.

there remain several open questions about its methods. For one, IP addresses are notoriously fickle; it is easy to spoof an IP address through a virtual private network (VPN) or to use someone else’s address via malware that bypasses passwords. More to the point, as Mitch Stoltz, IP litigation director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, puts it: “In a lot of cases, many, many people are using the same IP address.”

In order to state a claim, the justices wrote, the plaintiff had to allege “something more” – some additional evidence to establish “a reasonable inference that a subscriber is also an infringer”.

Strike 3 found their “something more” – namely, the son’s profile on a uTorrent forum, where he wrote things such as “utorrent is a keeper.” But in this case, that was neither here nor there; they had sued Brown, not his son. Strike 3 quickly dropped the claims, and in 2020, a judge sided with Brown on his countersuit, affirming that he had not infringed any copyright and awarding him $47,777.26 in attorney’s fees. It remains the biggest victory any John Doe has notched against Strike 3, and yet for many critics, somewhat bittersweet.

Sounds like they make a plausible sounding guess, BS that they have evidence, and then with the US legal system being what it is people get scared and pay up.

For Strike 3 defense lawyers, the larger case presents a new opportunity to scrutinize the porn firm’s piracy detection practices because, according to the complaint, the company tracked Meta’s downloads the same way they had the Does’: VXN Scan. If the case proceeds to trial, it may finally let the public look inside Strike 3’s black box.

Sounds like a win win for the public: either Strike 3 is shown up as fabricating evidence, or Meta takes a hit for AI training on others’ work.

I would’ve believed they were more reactionary / just escalating power grabs, rather than premeditated ratcheting strategy. Useful to see how the pieces line up.

Hmm, seems like it’s just missing the low IR cutoff filter, so you could mod any dSLR to do the same. I can’t tell if it sees through masks well enough for facial recognition though.

What would it take to scan/image through cloth masks?

And keep, like, 1 of their promises.

The Boston rally on Oct 18th says they’ll have a bunch of local organizations with tables, so I think they are / one can take a “both” approach.

I had Plex for a long time, but switched to Jellyfin as they’ve been pushing more paid products even to lifetime-pass users. Very easy to switch, haven’t looked back.

Even in “good” school districts, often only well informed parents who advocate strongly for their kids are actually receiving the legally mandated services. Disgusting to see this gutted.

Less greater bang 'postrophes hash Carat quote backtick dollars en-dash Bang star equals at dollar …

Nope, I’m not getting this one to work. Different joke?

Summary of studies for anyone interested.

Why are the US and UK governments so against anti -Israel priests? It seems like more than generic “down with democracy and liberals,” or fascist ruler buddies looking out for each other, or the IDF training police. Is there a direct line of profit and/or power from Israel to the US and UK?

I recently learned it’s the larvae (little black and orange alligator looking things) that do most of the eating. We ordered ladybugs this year, most of them flew away, but they left little orange oval eggs on the back of a few leaves. When the larvae hatched, they demolished the aphids.

Similarly, in the US Northeast, I learned about the civil rights movement as a solved problem, and that slavery was basically the only (and long gone) system of oppression we’d had. “Black and brown people have their equal rights now, carry on!”

There’s an entertaining (somewhat NSFW though mostly quoting Trump) European take on a MAGA revision to Disney classics.

And an AR-14, which nobody needs. Unless we’re all going to use them to overthrow the gestapo like the 2nd amendment intended.

More extensive context and analysis from Calm Matters.

It doesn’t sound like the National Guard members are facing individual penalties for following illegal orders.