The two customers were, in fact, recording Hinkle, and the entire exchange was turned into content for social media. Another Target manager came across the video while scrolling online, without even looking for it. [...]
There's little recourse for those who have been unknowingly recorded. In one of the videos posted to social media that Hinkle is featured in, the Meta glasses wearer is seen chumming it up and dancing with a police officer who arrived at the Target store.
"You boys stay out of trouble," the cop says as he fist bumps the person recording. [...]
"Are your glasses blinking?" she asks.
He responds that he's recording her.
"Oh, could you not?" she says.
"That's what they're there for," he says, defiantly. "I'm here to watch you, and you're here to perform for me." The audience member refuses to stop filming even after being asked to. Rather than argue back and forth, Telesford cuts her set short and walks offstage. [...]
"We know that when people are being watched, they feel less free. They chill their behavior, they feel pressure to conform. They worry about even minor deviations from norms being used against them," he says. "It's just a sort of suffocating atmosphere to be a part of."
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US citizens: Submit a public comment to oppose the plan to undermine the Head Start educational program.
Here is the comment I submitted:
I strongly oppose the proposed rule, “Reducing Federal Burden for Head Start Programs,” and urge HHS and ACF to withdraw it.
The fact that this proposed rule would eliminate so many standards all at once shows that its true goal is to undermine Head Start, rather than to make it work better or more efficiently.
Head Start should be strengthened, not stripped of the standards that have been its backbone. To weaken these standards would open the door to weakening the education of American children, especially children in disprivileged groups and those struggling with poverty, housing instability, and difficulty obtaining documentation.
Please withdraw the proposed rule under docket ACF-2026-0595 and RIN 0970-AD30 and preserve strong nationwide Head Start Program Performance Standards.
See the instructions for how to sign this letter campaign without running any nonfree JavaScript code--not trivial, but not hard.
US citizens: call on Congress to ban the deportation thugs' electric shock gloves.
See the instructions for how to sign this letter campaign without running any nonfree JavaScript code--not trivial, but not hard.
US citizens: Join with this campaign to address this issue.
To phone your congresscritter about this, the main switchboard is +1-202-224-3121.
Please spread the word.
US citizens: oppose the Democratic National Committee's ban on ranked choice voting in Democratic primaries.
US citizens: call for restoring funding for Public Media.
US citizens: call on Congress to stop the saboteur in chief and RFK jr. from dismantling Head Start.
US citizens: Join with this campaign to address this issue.
To phone your congresscritter about this, the main switchboard is +1-202-224-3121.
Please spread the word.
Some "American" antisocial media companies are blocking the accounts of exiled dissidents from Salafi Arabia from being seen in that country.
US citizens: Support the Green New Deal for Health. It is designed to protect Americans from the danger of increasing heat and local disasters, both short term and long term.
Anyway, go read that post instead for the juicy gossip. No need to re-hash it all here.
We can see from the release notes that 3.0 contained such exciting new features as background colors in table cells, the <FONT FACE> attribute, and <SCRIPT SRC>. Plus better uuencode support! For porn!
Oh yeah, and I think 3.0 was the first release with "Gold", the WYSIWYG HTML editor, but Gold only worked on Windows and Mac. This was the first violation of what had been, until then, two of our guiding principles, which I was unable to stop:
- Simultaneous feature parity on all platforms;
- Never allow C++ into the cross-platform code base.
You get one guess why there was no Unix version. If you listen carefully, you can hear Ghosts of JWZs Past howling down the cubicle farm hallways, "I fucking told you so, did I not fucking tell you??" But Lloyd thought the way you write cross-platform code was to write for Windows and then port it once you were finished. "It'll be fine," he said. (Narrator: It was not fine.)
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The illustrations in this patent are great, they read like a silent children's book about a smirking creeper.
US citizens: call on your state lawmakers to tax Big Tech's ad income.
See the instructions for how to sign this letter campaign without running any nonfree JavaScript code--not trivial, but not hard.
US citizens: call on your public officials to tax big oil's war profiteering.
Here's what I said in my letter:
I urge you to tax the war profits being collected by giant oil corporations and end their tax breaks. They have been draining America's bank account as they drain America's petroleum, and polluting our politics as they pollute our air and water. It's time to make them stop!
See the instructions for how to sign this letter campaign without running any nonfree JavaScript code--not trivial, but not hard.
A 404 Media investigation was able to reveal Amazon's book buying operation, which hasn't been previously reported, by placing a tracking device in a rare book we suspected would be acquired by an AI company for training data, and following it around the country to its final destination. [...]
We first learned that AI companies wanted to scan millions of books for training data because of a lawsuit from book authors against Anthropic, which revealed Anthropic's "Project Panama." The goal of the project was to acquire books from commercial bookselling marketplaces, cut the spines off the books, and scan them. It's possible to scan books without destroying them, but cutting the spine makes it cheaper and faster.
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"With a glove, there are no burn marks or scars." That makes it hard for victims to sue.
"In today's society, you know, everybody's filming everything, everybody has a cell phone," Glueck said. If an officer punches someone on camera, that can go viral in an instant; even a standard taser leaves puncture wounds. But "the glove is low optic, and it looks better on camera, and it looks better to those witnesses. With a glove, there are no burn marks or scars."
The gloves, manufactured by a company called Compliant Technologies, have been used by police, sheriffs, jail wardens, and even school resource officers for years. They've been described by groups like Amnesty International as "readily misused for torture." And this week, ICE published a plan to order $20 million worth of them. [...]
But local police across the country are still eagerly buying the gloves -- in large part so that they can harm people and avoid being sued for it. It's been successful "from the patrolmen to the jailers," Lumpkin County Sheriff Stacy Jarrard said in a Compliant Technologies promotional video. "It's been a great tool as far as mitigating liability," according to Nelson County Jailer Justin Hall. Bob Couey of the Floyd County Sheriff's Department sung the GLOVE's praises, too: "I highly recommend these gloves to anybody that's looking for a utility they can use that is conducive to not leading to lawsuits."
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These are unlikely to change any minds, but they will defintely shorten some incredibly tedious conversations at the bar.
Here's a PDF if you'd like some of your own.
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Nine PBS VP and CCO Leah Freeman confirmed the station's lawsuit against Iron Mountain and its dedication to retrieving the archival materials and programming, which she says span over "70 years of our organization's history." [...]
The contract provided 30 days for Nine PBS to retrieve its data from OSS' storage "upon termination of services." But on March 6, OSS cut off the station's access without warning, according to the complaint. When Nine PBS attempted to contact OSS to sort out the problem, it discovered that OSS' website was defunct and the company had delinquency status with the Colorado Secretary of State. [...]
Iron Mountain has refused to return the materials to the station because its client, OSS, technically owned "the physical services housing the data" within Iron Mountain, according to the complaint.
Google oligarch Brin has now spent $100 million to avoid paying $13 billion in taxes.
Google co-founder Sergey Brin has donated another $20 million to Build a Better California, an organization advocating against California's proposed billionaire tax, according to a new filing. That means that the world's fourth-richest man, whose net worth hovers around $267 billion, has now spent more than $100 million to avoid an estimated $13.3 billion tax payment.
California's Prop 40, known as the billionaire tax, would impose a one-time 5% tax on the net worth of around 200 billionaires that live in the state. The windfall from this proposed tax would mostly go toward funding California's healthcare programs. The state's Medicaid program alone could lose up to $30 billion in federal funding once Trump's budget cuts take effect next year.
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Naturally, that means it's time for our latest installment of CYBERDELIA.
This is the THIRTY-FIRST Anniversary of HACKERS, yes really. Join me as I crumble to dust. So, as per tradition, we will have:
- A screening of Hackers at 8pm;
- Hackers costume contest at 11pm;
- Head-to-head Wipeout XL competition throughout the night;
- Skate ramps! Rollerblades welcome!
- Electro / big beat / cyberpunk dance party to follow.
If you've been to some of our other movie nights recently you may have noticed that people tend to clear out pretty soon after the movie ends. This one is not like that. There really is a dance party after, so be prepared!
"Hackers penetrate and ravage delicate public and privately owned computer systems, infecting them with viruses, and stealing materials for their own ends. These people, they are terrorists."
And we hope we will also see you at our subsequent movie nights as well! The Crow, Thu Oct 29 (Devils' Night Eve), Scott Pilgrim, Sun Nov 22, and the greatest Christmas movie, Batman Returns, Sun Dec 20. Season Pass tickets available!
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