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Where Did Soul-Sucking Office-Speak Come From? | VICE | United States
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… office-speak is not language. It’s not even jargon, but more a verbal argon—inert strings of sounds or symbols used to confuse underlings, to deliberately bore them and keep them servile.
Where Did Soul-Sucking Office-Speak Come From? | VICE | United States
The rape scene in Brad Pitt’s Fury no-one is talking about
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7 Colorado communities just secured the right to build their own broadband – The Washington Post
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There’s a debate taking place on the national level over whether the federal government should step in to overturn laws like Colorado’s, which prohibit municipal broadband. Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler recently signaled that he might be willing to do so.
7 Colorado communities just secured the right to build their own broadband – The Washington Post
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Virginia judge: Police can demand a suspect unlock a phone with a fingerprint | Ars Technica
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Explanation from an earlier Wired article:
A communication is ‘testimonial’ only when it reveals the contents of your mind. We can’t invoke the privilege against self-incrimination to prevent the government from collecting biometrics like fingerprints, DNA samples, or voice exemplars. Why? Because the courts have decided that this evidence doesn’t reveal anything you know. It’s not testimonial.
Virginia judge: Police can demand a suspect unlock a phone with a fingerprint | Ars Technica
Talk Show Inspires 1 Million+ Callers to Protest India’s Anti-Gay Law · Global Voices
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India: Court files notice to Aamir Khan for ‘promoting’ homosexuality
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A court in India has filed a legal notice with Bollywood actor Aamir Khan – for ‘promoting’ homosexuality on a TV show.
According to the Free Press Journal newspaper, Mr Khan is accused by a petition of using his popular talk show ‘Satyamev Jayate’ as a platform for homosexuality, with an LGBT-themed episode last week.
During the episode, a clinical expert pointed out: “If I asked you today to not look at women, but consider men sexually, would you be able to do it? Then why expect that of a [homosexual] boy or girl?”
Anti-gay petitioners complain the episode violated a Supreme Court judgement reinstating Section 377 of the Penal Code – a colonial-era law which criminalises homosexual acts.
Today, Judge Jaswinder Singh, issued notice to Mr Khan, who must file a reply by December 19.
India: Court files notice to Aamir Khan for ‘promoting’ homosexuality
The world is not awash in refugees: Open the gates – The Globe and Mail
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… the refugee flood is, in its origins and its greatest extremes, a European phenomenon. We Westerners have been refugees much more than we have been refugee’d upon…
Today we face the Syrian crisis. It is neither the largest nor the most unmanageable refugee flood of the postwar era, but it has arrived at a bad moment: first, because we have by now forgotten our own history as refugees; second, because an ugly politics of intolerance is influencing many Western governments; and third, because there is an unfortunate public belief that refugee tides are larger and more permanent than they really are.
The world is not awash in refugees: Open the gates – The Globe and Mail
Facebook, hidden services, and https certs | The Tor Blog
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Facebook has launched its own hidden service on the Tor network. The service provides HTTPS access using a CA signed certificate, is not the norm for such services. This blog post is a good backgrounder and explains pros & cons of Facebook’s security/authentication choices.