A review of the riskier apps to use when it comes to protecting personal data finds Instagram and Facebook ranking first, collecting the most sensitive information like physical address, device, and user identity.
[Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew] Ferguson pointed to research by a pro-Trump group that accused Apple News of suppressing articles by Fox News, the New York Post, Daily Mail, Breitbart, and The Gateway Pundit. read more
A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to facilitate the return to the U.S. of a group of Venezuelan migrants who were sent to a maximum security prison in El Salvador last year ... read more
In a humiliating defeat for Donald Trump's administration, all federalized National Guard troops have been pulled out of American cities that never wanted them there after failing to accomplish what the president asked them to do.
A group of House Republicans defied leadership on Tuesday to sink a key procedural vote that would have barred lawmakers from overturning President Trump's sweeping global tariffs. read more
@#13 ... Hey DJ LampEasy, ...
Since your current trolling alias mentioned that, allow me to post another song ...
Is this what MAGA really thinks about Pres Trump?
Neil Young - Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (1969)
www.youtube.com
Lyrics excerpt ...
...
[Verse 1]
I think I'd like to go back home and take it easy
There's a woman that I'd like to get to know, living there
[Chorus]
Everybody seems to wonder what it's like down here
I gotta get away from this day-to-day running around
Everybody knows this is nowhere
La la la, la la la la
Everybody, everybody knows, everybody knows (La la la, la la la la)
Oh yeah
[Verse 2]
Every time I think about back home, it's cool and breezy
I wish that I could be there right now just passing time
...
Trump pushes voter ID 'whether approved by Congress or not!'
www.politico.com
... President Donald Trump insisted Friday that voter ID requirements will be in place for this year's midterm elections regardless of congressional approval, escalating his push for sweeping changes to how Americans vote.
"There will be Voter I.D. for the Midterm Elections, whether approved by Congress or not!" the president wrote on Truth Social. He also said he "searched the depths" of legal arguments on the issue and would be "presenting an irrefutable one in the very near future," though he did not specify what legal rationale he would rely on.
"If we can't get it through Congress, there are Legal reasons why this SCAM is not permitted," Trump wrote in a separate lengthy post shortly after, adding that he would present his justification in the form of an executive order. ...
OK, I would like to proffer.
I am not against Voter ID to vote. Here in Connecticut I have have to show identification for decades in order to cast my vote(s).
My concern on this current issue is --- what are the hurdles that Pres trump is trying to put into place to prevent legal voters from being able to obtain the ID needed to be able to vote?
imo, that is the crux of this issue.
U.S. Appeals Court Strikes Down North Carolina's Voter ID Law (2016)
www.npr.org
...The appeals court noted that the North Carolina Legislature "requested data on the use, by race, of a number of voting practices" -- then, data in hand, "enacted legislation that restricted voting and registration in five different ways, all of which disproportionately affected African Americans."[emphasis mine]
The changes to the voting process "target African Americans with almost surgical precision," the circuit court wrote, and "impose cures for problems that did not exist."
The appeals court suggested that the motivation was fundamentally political -- a Republican legislature attempting to secure its power by blocking votes from a population likely to vote for Democrats....
Georgia's GOP House Speaker says vote-by-mail system would be 'devastating to Republicans' (April 2020)
thehill.com
..."... a multitude of reasons why vote by mail in my view is not acceptable," [Georgia state House Speaker David] Ralston went on, before adding "the president said it best, this will be extremely devastating to Republicans and conservatives in Georgia." ...
"The things they had in there were crazy. They had things, levels of voting that if you ever agreed to, you would never have a Republican elected in this country again," [fmr Pres] Trump said...
imo, one of the best songs of the Moody Blues ...
Moody Blues - Dream Sequence (1969) (it's a 12 minute tune)
www.youtube.com
Back in the progressive music days when multiple songs were continuum of music.
OK, here's the first song of that musical amalgam ...
...
Spoken:
When the white eagle of the North is flying overhead
The browns, reds and golds of autumn lie in the gutter, dead
Remember then, that summer birds with wings of fire flaying
Come to witness spring's new hope, born of leaves decaying
As new life will come from death, love will come at leisure
Love of love, love of life and giving without measure
Gives in return a wondrous yearn of a promise almost seen
Live hand-in-hand and together we'll stand on the threshold of a dream
...
Yeah, they don't write lyrics like that anymore. :)
... A review of the riskier apps to use when it comes to protecting personal data finds Instagram and Facebook ranking first ...
Then there are things like this ...
Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses
www.nytimes.com
... In an internal memo last year, Meta said the political tumult in the United States would distract critics from the feature's release. ...
Five years ago, Facebook shut down the facial recognition system for tagging people in photos on its social network, saying it wanted to find "the right balance" for a technology that raises privacy and legal concerns.
Now it wants to bring facial recognition back.
Meta, Facebook's parent company, plans to add the feature to its smart glasses, which it makes with the owner of Ray-Ban and Oakley, as soon as this year, according to four people involved with the plans who were not authorized to speak publicly about confidential discussions. The feature, internally called "Name Tag," would let wearers of smart glasses identify people and get information about them via Meta's artificial intelligence assistant. ...
@#14 ... Is there any other kind of left,...
Well, according to Pres Trump, Democrats are the enemies from within.
'So evil' and 'dangerous' - Trump doubles down on calling Democrats 'enemies from within' (2024)
www.nbcnews.com
Are There More Bacteria on Computer Keyboards Than Toilet Seats?
www.center4research.org
... We all try to keep our kitchens and bathrooms clean and bacteria-free. But how clean are our offices, computers, and keyboards? Most of us spend many hours every week typing at a computer, but rarely think to clean it. How dirty can our desks get?
Keyboards and Bacteria
Research from the Swinburne University of Technology in Australia studied the amount and type of bacteria on personal faculty keyboards and shared keyboards and other surfaces around the university. They found that keyboards can have high levels of bacteria on them and that shared keyboards tend to have more bacteria than those used by only one person.[1]
Even more disturbing, research by University of Arizona researchers also found that the average desktop has 400 times more bacteria than the average toilet seat. ...
OK, I have to ask...
How much has Trump personally profited from these actions?
I mean, it would not be the first time Pres Trump has benefited from his apparent grifting of his Oval Office occupancy.