August, 2021 archive
Freedom of Screech 0
Elizabeth Dye points out that someone’s having been a Harvard Law School Professor doesn’t necessarily mean that he understands the law.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Play politely with your pets.
While playing with the firearm, Pleasant discharged the weapon, striking Daniels in the right thigh. Daniels, who was standing in a doorway when hit, stood “in shock for a second and then he asked Ms. Pleasant if she had shot him,” according to the witness quoted in the complaint.
Stray Thought 0
I don’t like this new-fangled algebraic chess notation.
Give me the kind I grew up with, darnit.
Grumble grumble grumble.
(I’m trying to get my chess legs back and enjoying playing with someone on a whole nother continent via PMs at LQ. Fortunately for me, he also favors the old style.)
Facebook Frolics 0
The EFF weighs in the inimical implications on Facebook’s decision to wall off its garden from legitimate academic research. A snippet:
Revealing the secrets behind this surveillance-based ecosystem to public scrutiny is the first step in reclaiming our public discourse.
The Zuckerborg is the fast lane of the disinformation superhighway.
Maskless Marauders, Reprise 0
Yet another marauded school board.
I used to think I lived in a civilized (and civil) society.
No more.
Hotel California Redux 0
Instead of not letting you leave, this one follows you around: David Curran tells of taking his family to a vacation rental only to discover afterwards that the landlord had left surveillance cameras in place.
(At the end of the article, he offers some hints as to how to protect yourself against intrusive landlords.)
Maskless Marauders 0
Marauders at a school board meeting want to suffer the children.
Kudos to the school board for making the right decision, but, really, the stupid . . . .
