Nobody Cares: PRS

[Essence Lumin]

The new symbol for American democracy: a non-scaleable fence around the Supreme Court!

"Non scaleable", it looks pretty easy to scale. It's only 8 feet with no barb wire. You risk getting shot though.

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

Well Boing Boing calls it "non-scalable", so who knows.

The Supreme Court gets a "non-scalable" fence — the new symbol of America | Boing Boing

Similar to the Capitol after the Jan. 6 attacks, the Supreme Court is now surrounded by an 8-foot “non-scalable” fence. It was erected last night, replacing bike racks that were removed…

boingboing.net

 

[Veritable Quandry]

Well Boing Boing calls it "non-scalable", so who knows.

The Supreme Court gets a "non-scalable" fence — the new symbol of America | Boing Boing

Similar to the Capitol after the Jan. 6 attacks, the Supreme Court is now surrounded by an 8-foot “non-scalable” fence. It was erected last night, replacing bike racks that were removed…

boingboing.net

Permissions set to no mod?

 

[Free]

Probably considered non-scalable in the sense that if you try to climb over it, they'll shoot you.

 

[Jolene Benoir]

In 2014, the Supreme Court struck dow

The new symbol for American democracy: a non-scaleable fence around the Supreme Court!

In 2014, the Supreme Court struck down a law requiring a 35 ft buffer zone around abortion clinics, citing that it infringed upon the free speech of the anti-abortion activists. Just citing their different approach in this case. Some people have MORE right to protest than others.

Supreme Court Strikes Down Abortion Clinic 'Buffer Zone' Law

The justices said Massachusetts' law mandating a 35-foot buffer zone around clinics providing abortion services violates First Amendment rights.

www.npr.org

 

[Cali Souther]

 

[Sid]

Sadly we have our own gun lunatics as well every few years.

Shooting at Dutch care home kills 2, seriously wounds 2

Police in the Netherlands say two people have been killed and two seriously wounded in a shooting near the city of Rotterdam

abcnews.go.com

 

[Essence Lumin]

Sadly we have our own gun lunatics as well every few years.

Shooting at Dutch care home kills 2, seriously wounds 2

Police in the Netherlands say two people have been killed and two seriously wounded in a shooting near the city of Rotterdam

abcnews.go.com

The difference is we call that a day ending in y.

 

[WolfEyes]

In 2014, the Supreme Court struck dow

In 2014, the Supreme Court struck down a law requiring a 35 ft buffer zone around abortion clinics, citing that it infringed upon the free speech of the anti-abortion activists. Just citing their different approach in this case. Some people have MORE right to protest than others.

Supreme Court Strikes Down Abortion Clinic 'Buffer Zone' Law

The justices said Massachusetts' law mandating a 35-foot buffer zone around clinics providing abortion services violates First Amendment rights.

www.npr.org

All animals humans are equal, but some animals humans are more equal than others.

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

That meme didn't age well when looking at Russia nowadays...

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[danielravennest]

"Non scaleable", it looks pretty easy to scale. It's only 8 feet with no barb wire. You risk getting shot though.

I would just bring a telescoping ladder. But yeah, the security people are the danger, not the fence itself.

 

[WolfEyes]

A Mother’s Walk for Justice | NIWRC

www.niwrc.org

Montana Legislature hears testimony on bills combating Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls epidemic

 

[WolfEyes]

On the other hand, ...

North Dakota challenges tribes’ awarding of mineral rights (msn.com)

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

How to say "I'm a racist Qultist" without actually saying "I'm a racist Qultist."

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

I would just bring a telescoping ladder. But yeah, the security people are the danger, not the fence itself.

Do you think their sharpshooters could stop ten million angry women scaling that fence?

 

[WolfEyes]

“Grounded for something we didn’t do”: Denver neighborhood pushes back against park closures as response to violence (msn.com)

The president of the La Alma-Lincoln Park Neighborhood Association of more than a decade can’t afford to live in the neighborhood she oversees.
Instead, Helen Giron, 70, lives in Lakewood with her son. She was priced out of the Denver Westside neighborhood she grew up in around 2010, but her heart will always call La Alma home.

The neighborhood, west of Capitol Hill, was designated a historic cultural district by the city last year for its importance in the Chicano civil rights movement.
Giron was teargassed fighting for Chicano rights at La Alma-Lincoln Park as a young woman. She was inspired by the historic Chicano murals on the recreation center’s walls. She spent quality time with friends and family under the park’s shade trees.

“When we wanted equal rights, that’s where the fight took place,” Giron said. “That’s why it’s called La Alma — ‘the soul.’ It is where everything took place.”
Lately, though, the historic park and pillar of its community has been surrounded by city-erected barricades, closed to the public, for weeks and months at a time, due — Denver officials say — to ongoing violence in the area. It’s part of a pattern of access to public spaces being curtailed in Denver, including at Civic Center Park and Union Station, in an effort to deal with systemic issues such as homelessness and addiction.

But in La Alma-Lincoln Park, residents of the predominantly Latino neighborhood are pushing back, demanding city officials explain how cutting off access to a cultural staple is effective public safety management and begging for investment back into the gentrifying neighborhood to prevent crime and promote well-being.
Their city councilwoman, Jamie Torres, called the park closures counterproductive.

“When something like this happens, we should have swarmed the park and neighborhood with love, with resources, with programming,” she said. “Instead, it was swarmed with barricades.”

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[WolfEyes]

Medical examiner's autopsy confirms Patrick Lyoya was shot in back of head; blood-alcohol levels over limit (msn.com)

The report from the medical examiner's office also shows Lyoya’s blood-alcohol level was more than three times the legal limit for driving, according to two medical experts who explained the findings in the report.

"The penalty for driving while intoxicated is not a gunshot wound to the back of the head,” said Ven Johnson, one of the lawyers representing the Lyoya family. "It would be arrest, and go to jail and face the music in court, but not a gunshot wound to the back of the head.”

 

[Free]

Yeah, that'll learn 'em.

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

Well while we're having fun that Ukrainians are able to brick their tractors in Ukraine, Cory Doctorow puts his finger into the open wound: this technology was not made to thwart Russian looters, but American farmers!

Why are John Deere tractors kill-switched in the first place?​

Here’s a hint: the technology was not invented to thwart Russian looters.​

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No, it was invented to thwart American farmers.​

It turns out that observing the farmers and grabbing that data is nowadays John Deere's business model, and the farmers don't totally own their tractors because the software necessary to run it is just licensed. So when by John Deere once delivered to Ukraine a debug firmware, which was less restricted on DRM, this was immediately wide spread throughout the globe.

In the 2017 edition of these exemption hearings, John Deere filed a stunning brief with the Copyright Office: in it, they explained that farmers do not own the tractors they spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on.​

In fact, the farmers can’t own these tractors, because the software that animates these tractors (and enforces VIN locks and restrictions on using your own data) belongs to John Deere for the full term of copyright — 90 years — and the farmers merely license that code, and they are bound by the terms of service they have to click “OK” on every time they switch on their ignitions.​

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Those terms specify that even if a farmer repairs their own tractor, swapping a broken part for a working one, they must pay hundreds of dollars and wait for days for an authorized Deere technician to come out to the end of their lonely country road to key in an unlock code.​

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This is the system that let the Ukrainian Deere dealership brick those tractors between Melitopol and Chechnya.​

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About those kill-switched Ukrainian tractors

What John Deere did to Russian looters, anyone can do to farmers, anywhere.

doctorow.medium.com