“Mr. Sanborn acknowledged that keeping the secret could be a strain: His computer has been hacked repeatedly over the years, he said, and obsessive fans of the work have threatened him. ‘I sleep with a shotgun,’ he said.”
#GiftLink #Cryptography #Art
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/science/kryptos-cia-solution-sanborn-auction.html?unlocked_article_code=1.wE8.RLwP._RQV-Pvn-PVr&smid=url-share
“What he wants, … is to dominate them: to subjugate them to his will. To that end, he has refashioned the most coercive parts of the federal government into instruments designed to force his opponents — or as he sees them, his enemies — to bend the knee. And it is this, as much as anything else, that inspired millions of Americans to define their opposition to Trump in terms of royal power and royal prerogatives.”
#NoKings #NYTimes #GiftLink
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/opinion/no-kings-trump-declaration-independence.html?unlocked_article_code=1.vU8.E365.RThq1pZiuhA6&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
People seem to really really love agrivoltaics.
People seem to really really love agrivoltaics.
Thousands across #InlandEmpire in #SouthernCalifornia turn up for numerous #NoKings rallies despite top #GOP elected officials labeling them them #Communists & #Marxists while #Drumpf attends $1 million-per-plate #MarALago #MAGAInc. event
https://www.sbsun.com/2025/10/18/thousands-expected-to-protest-trump-at-no-kings-rallies-across-inland-empire/?share=mxttnless0necsntopoo #GiftLink #SharedStory
🧵Judge Young’s 30 Sep 2025 1st Amendment ruling #NoKings
“The First Amendment does not draw President Trump’s invidious distinction, and it is not to be found in our history or jurisprudence,” he added. “No one’s freedom of speech is unlimited, of course, but these limits are the same for both citizens and noncitizens alike.”
#nytimes #GiftLink #1stAmendment
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/us/politics/student-speech-palestinians-ruling.html?unlocked_article_code=1.uE8.BrVD.Ku3aR_ot_XYC&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Thousands across #InlandEmpire in #SouthernCalifornia turn up for numerous #NoKings rallies despite top #GOP elected officials labeling them them #Communists & #Marxists while #Drumpf attends $1 million-per-plate #MarALago #MAGAInc. event
https://www.sbsun.com/2025/10/18/thousands-expected-to-protest-trump-at-no-kings-rallies-across-inland-empire/?share=mxttnless0necsntopoo #GiftLink #SharedStory
Judge William G. Young’s 30 Sep 2025 1st Amendment ruling in AAUP vs. Rubio #NoKings
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.282460/gov.uscourts.mad.282460.261.0_1.pdf
18 Oct 2025 No Kings Protest, Harrisburg PA.
🧵Judge Young’s 30 Sep 2025 1st Amendment ruling #NoKings
“The First Amendment does not draw President Trump’s invidious distinction, and it is not to be found in our history or jurisprudence,” he added. “No one’s freedom of speech is unlimited, of course, but these limits are the same for both citizens and noncitizens alike.”
#nytimes #GiftLink #1stAmendment
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/us/politics/student-speech-palestinians-ruling.html?unlocked_article_code=1.uE8.BrVD.Ku3aR_ot_XYC&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Can Cory Doctorow’s Book ‘Enshittification’ Change the Tech Debate?
Over the course of a nearly four-decade career, Cory Doctorow has written 15 novels, four graphic novels, dozens of short stories, six nonfiction books, approximately 60,000 blog posts and thousands of essays.
And yet for all the millions of words he’s published, these days the award-winning science fiction author and veteran internet activist is best known for just a single one: #Enshittification.
My favorite word: Enshitification
Now there’s a book 📕 by Cory Doctorow
Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish?
It’s not just you. The internet is getting worse, fast. The services we rely on, that we once loved? They’re all turning into piles of shit, all at once.
Ask any Facebook user who has to scroll past 10 screens of engagement-bait, AI slop and surveillance ads just to get to one post by the people they are on the service to communicate with.
This is infuriating. Frustrating. And, depending on how important those services are to you, terrifying.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/05/way-past-its-prime-how-did-amazon-get-so-rubbish #Enshitification @pluralistic
Can Cory Doctorow’s Book ‘Enshittification’ Change the Tech Debate?
Over the course of a nearly four-decade career, Cory Doctorow has written 15 novels, four graphic novels, dozens of short stories, six nonfiction books, approximately 60,000 blog posts and thousands of essays.
And yet for all the millions of words he’s published, these days the award-winning science fiction author and veteran internet activist is best known for just a single one: #Enshittification.
‘Nothing in the Dark’
The Twilight Zone
“Long before Robert Redford played Bob Woodward, Jay Gatsby, Jeremiah Johnson or the Sundance Kid, he was Death. In a memorable 1962 episode of “The Twilight Zone” — often cited as one of the anthology’s best — the blond, handsome actor, still in his early 20s, played the most charming, calming emissary of the afterlife imaginable, assigned to escort a wary old lady into the great beyond.”
#GiftLink #robertredford #twilightzone
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/arts/television/robert-redford-the-twilight-zone.html?unlocked_article_code=1.m08.C09B.bpDzXKbWToJt&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
V NYTimes:Florida Says It Plans to End All Vaccine Mandates
The state would be the first to scrap requirements that children be vaccinated to attend school, among other rules.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/us/florida-says-it-plans-to-end-all-vaccine-mandates.html?unlocked_article_code=1.jE8.c6Ju.fKXbouBrhpsH&smid=nytcore-android-share
#GiftLink
"A Democrat and a Republican will team up to try to ban masked law enforcement in Oregon"
"Their proposal would prohibit law enforcement officers from wearing face coverings and would require them to wear 'official uniforms' with badge numbers and names. It would not apply to SWAT teams or undercover police officers as they currently operate."
"A Democrat and a Republican will team up to try to ban masked law enforcement in Oregon"
"Their proposal would prohibit law enforcement officers from wearing face coverings and would require them to wear 'official uniforms' with badge numbers and names. It would not apply to SWAT teams or undercover police officers as they currently operate."
“[Acting CDC Director] Mr. O’Neill carved out a career in Silicon Valley, working closely with Peter Thiel, the billionaire and Republican megadonor…
During the Covid pandemic, he indicated support for a number of unproven coronavirus treatments and preventives, including ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine and vitamin D. He has also been critical of vaccine mandates and the Biden administration’s response to the pandemic.”
#giftlink #nytimes #cdc
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/health/james-oneill-cdc.html?unlocked_article_code=1.iE8.V2Lr.4TC0kfPqwhie&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Prosecutors Fail to Secure Indictment Against Man Who Threw Sandwich at Federal Agent
“The grand jury’s rejection of the felony charge was a remarkable failure by the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington and the second time in recent days that a majority of grand jurors refused to vote to indict a person accused of felony assault on a federal agent. It also amounted to a sharp rebuke by a panel of ordinary citizens against the prosecutors…”
A detailed, blistering profile of Emil Bove’s legal career and his relationship with Donald Trump. “…the president is grooming Mr. Bove for bigger things — possibly a seat on the Supreme Court.”
#emilbove #nytimes#giftlinkhttps://flipboard.com/@newyorktimes/opinion-3eu4n9eez/-/a-m0_LZgGRSf-Sa87p5h-3LQ%3Aa%3A3195393-%2F0
“What I keep thinking is this: If you torture one animal, you’re arrested and considered a psychopath. But if you abuse millions of animals in a systematic, industrial process, you’re hailed for your business acumen. That’s an uncomfortable contradiction at the heart of modern dining.”