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Tuesday links

Published June 13, 2017 4:03 am by Claire

Wow. This is truly sickazoid sycophancy. Administration bigwigs praise their not-so-glorious leader like minions sucking up to a supervillain. Or glassy-eyed cultists adoring He Who Holds Them In Thrall. (H/T MJR)

How the SJWs have devalued their own verbal weapons.

Fedgov still using lame excuses to prevent Kim Dotcom from trying to regain the millions they outrageously seized from him.

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Weekend links

Published June 2, 2017 6:40 pm by Claire

One sincerely hopes this is satire. But these days, who knows?

OneLogin, which gives access to dozens of sites and apps has lost all U.S. customer data to malicious hackers. Gave the hackers access to the encryption, too. But it’s okay. All you have to do is register and log into their special support page to find out what you should do next.

“Was I wrong about hunting?” (More on the “kindness and humanity” of anti-hunters.) (H/T LA)

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Midweek links

Published May 31, 2017 10:11 am by Claire

In another triumph of automotive “security,” BMW’s new rental-car service manages to halt three Seattle ferries on a single evening.

Oh, such a relief. Apparently the cultural-appropriation pecksniffs are trying to find ways (however illogical) to “allow” writers to go on creating characters who aren’t exactly like their authors.

Looks as if Cleveland was looking for a reason to can the cop who murdered 12-year-old Tamir Rice. They found one, easily enough. Hardly a substitute for the prison sentence the creep deserved, though.

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Monday links

Published May 22, 2017 1:08 am by Claire

The cannabis entrepreneurs preparing to fight Jeff Sessions’ renewed war on an herb. They think it might be a war of regulation and bureaucracy this time.

Kim du Toit muses on bedside guns.

Why did we hear so little about Turkish goons — employees of the dictator Erdogan — beating up peaceful American protestors? In America? I’m sure Erdogan’s thugs are just shaking in their jackboots that the U.S. State Department had a very strong and forceful hissy-fit after the fact.

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Want to know how far the feds will go to trap people?

Published May 17, 2017 7:07 am by Claire

This far. And farther, of course. The Intercept tells the story of how the FBI concocted a fake production company with a fake documentary crew to get the Bundys and their supporters to self-incriminate. Journalists and filmmakers rightly object when police and spies impersonate them. They ignore the fact that plenty of actual journalists over the decades have acted as government agents. Long, weird, twisted story. Worth a read, though, and worth heeding for any activist.

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Weekend links

Published May 14, 2017 7:44 am by Claire

Welcome to the New Soviet Union, comrades — where you can now be paid to inform on the “incorrect” opinions of your peers. (H/T MJR)

Scary. The Washington state gov — with the cooperation of the quisling NRA — is attempting to put teeth into firearm background checks. Considering that up to 95% of denials may be in error, this could seriously screw with thousands of innocent people.

I know this area of southern Oregon and I get it. The rage, the resistance. The hidden America Our Masters fear but never understand. But never sacrifice your libraries. Bring them back privately if you can. (H/T jc2k in comments)*

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Friday links

Published April 28, 2017 2:55 am by Claire

The anti-fascist fascists may have reached a new low. They used threats of violence successfully to cancel a long-time traditional parade in Portland, Oregon. Why? Because Republicans were participating. (H/T M)

And once again — as is the usual these days — police are doing nothing to stop mob rule. Just happened again in Berkeley. Mind you, I think it’s naive to expect cops to protect free speech; they’ve rarely ever been in favor of it. But as a general rule, cops have at least enjoyed whacking left-wing demonstrators over the head. Now they’re not even doing that.

Sigh. Only NASA could be running out of space suits while hardly putting anybody into space. What a sad commentary.

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Monday links

Published April 17, 2017 1:48 am by Claire

I am really, truly not sure why the National Security Aagency imagines that having tools to breach the international monetary system makes anybody (except the NSA and its Chosen Ones) “secure”). I’m really not sure how they imagined that maintaining such sloppy “security” that details of their exploits got into the hands of hackers makes anybody “secure.”

Will the last middle-class person in Seattle please turn out the lights?

Waco Wacko Backlash. Or what happens when you point out that the U.S. government didn’t hesitate to attack its own citizens with deadly gas.

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Weekend links

Published April 2, 2017 1:07 pm by Claire

Sloppy science. It wastes billions, produces non-reproduceable results, and sometimes kills people.

Well. Elio Motors may not yet actually have a product to sell. But this is still a pretty cool map of where their registration holders are.

Am I following this correctly? The DoJ drops two kiddie-porn charges rather than having classified material brought out in court. Said classified material already being publicly available thanks to WikiLeaks.

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