hacker cracks pay laundry machines in like, five different ways after company fails to give him a refund. then he posts guides on how to do it: https://www.404media.co/hacker-shows-how-to-get-free-laundry-for-life/
“the very existence of a facility in your technology that causes it to betray you, by design, is a moral hazard that inevitably results in your victimization”
@pluralistic
https://pluralistic.net/2024/07/29/faithful-user-agents/#hard-cases-make-bad-copyright-law
The Republican mayor of Mesa, Arizona, is endorsing Kamala Harris. https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/2024/07/29/mesa-mayor-republican-vote-kamala-harris/74583703007/
RT @ridersalliance New Yorkers didn't fight for years to win congestion pricing just for Gov Kathy Hochul to throw it away in a half-baked political stunt.
Rally with us this Sunday, June 9 at Broadway Junction and tell #GridlockKathy NO to DEFUNDING OUR TRANSIT!
The Jesus Lizard announce first album in 26 years ‘Rack’, and share UK and US tour dates
RT @streetsblognyc The family of Zenaido Rosas-Pinzon thinks he'd be alive today if the DOT had finished the Washington Bridge bike lane on schedule instead of six months from now:
Will be pouring out a roast beef sandwich for him tonight
Texas electrical grid is going to be tight this evening once the sun goes down and solar goes offline.
@noelreports
I'm sure that Ukraine would be more than happy to focus on Russian military troops on their own territory... if only someone had the good idea to provide them with the equivalent of 60 billion $ in weapons and ammunition!
I really wonder whom this 60 billion $ military help could come from... any idea, Mr Austin?
Ah ha! It seems the SEC is capable of going after insider trading, so long as it's former minor league baseball players, not billionaires and banks and hedge funds.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-26/minor-league-baseball-players-insider-traded-del-taco-sec-says
If this level of violence was carried out with anything other than a motor vehicle, the perpetrator would be facing a charge of attempted murder. Four years and ten months jail is an insult and even considering allowing this person to ever drive again is a baffling decision.
https://www.societyforasianart.org/sites/default/files/manifesto_futurista.pdf
I just read the Manifesto of Futurism and loved the writing style, so wanted to share. It's only four pages long, well worth a read.
Futurism is an art movement characterized by "celebration of speed, machinery, violence, youth, and industry." But see this very cute Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash
Taylor Swift adopted one of Elon Musk's worst moves: launching lawyers at a student who's doing a totally legal (and useful) thing: tracking of her highly polluting private jet. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/02/06/taylor-swift-jet-tracking-legal-threat/
Whenever the "free fare transit" conversation comes up in US circles, I am always peeved with the big problem of transit in the US: whether from the left or the right, *everyone* agrees "buses are for poor people", so it doesn't get proper funding so anyone using transit ends up waiting an hour at bus stops with no seating or shade next to 6 lanes or traffic and changing three lines to get where they need to, because "poor people's time is cheap and they don't care about quality".
Woho! We are not parasites anymore!
https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevensalzberg/2024/01/01/nejm-reverses-itself-on-research-parasites-as-nih-beefs-up-data-sharing-rules/