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crises-luff-6bon Flock cameras track more than your license plate, and they're spreading fast

There is no expectation of privacy in public. It's really that simple.

crises-luff-6bon New York Times, AP, Newsmax and others say they won't sign new Pentagon rules

About effing time! Anyone else have a security clearance? It's ridiculous that on the front page of literally every major newspaper there are least a handful of examples of felonious leaks of literally Confidential military intelligence from "unnamed sources". Literally each instance of that is a potential & likely felony.

Those leakers are committing actual crimes. People here need a healthy dose of reality.

crises-luff-6bon US High school students' scores fall in reading and math

The answer NYC schools have come to is to relax /TEACHER/ basic knowledge requirements: https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-education/the-teach...

Without bonus points, DEI-hires at the school would not survive; these racist school districts need a way to ensure these lousy teachers create entire generations of people hostile to learning! The whole system needs to have an emergency cut over to vouchers.. $27k/year/pupil in NYS to get a teacher that looks like me but is functionally illiterate.

These public teachers aren't heroes, they are actively keeping us behind with their pro-union/anti-student behaviors.

crises-luff-6bon The National Guard Deployment in LA Is a Threat to Democracy

> Most illegal immigrants entered the country legally and are overstaying on expired visas.

Overstaying an expired visa is illegal bro. What world are we living in?

https://www.uscis.gov/laws-and-policy/other-resources/unlawf...

crises-luff-6bon Colleges must give up federal funding to achieve true intellectual freedom

Why are these researchers allowed to keep their data private for their future benefit? The data generated here should be part of the public domain.

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How about at the Library of Congress or National Archives? Just create a `nih-GR12345-2025-05-31.torrent` for all the data which would offer lots of benefits:

- small network traffic for LOC/NA to seed - American-skin-in-the-game to share the publicly funded data - more eyes on the prize, the "FOSS" case for data

I think public data would also help all of us, collectively, to lead us out of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis

crises-luff-6bon Colleges must give up federal funding to achieve true intellectual freedom

Why do these researchers get to benefit from patents and other intellectual property generated using the public money? The IP generated here should immediately enter the public domain.

crises-luff-6bon SQL Workbench – Republicans not welcome

GPL & Copyleft are pretty anarchocapitalist as applied to ideas.

It's been a few decades since I read it, but Free Software, Free Society is pretty clear about its political intent.