Say what you will about cops — even the federal ones — but they have nothing on the people charged with guarding people who have been detained or imprisoned. The cruelty of cops is slightly tempered by the fact that anyone with a cell phone, dash cam, or doorbell surveillance device might catch them in […]

ICE activity has increased exponentially since Trump’s return to office, bringing with it an exponential increase in rights violations committed by federal officers. Multiple lawsuits have been filed and, without exception, courts have safeguarded the rights of people to peacefully protest and document federal officers as they perform their duties. Meanwhile, the people running DHS […]

Last week Netflix announced a $82.7 billion acquisition of Warner Brothers, elbowing out rival acquisition bids (for now) by Comcast/NBC and Paramount/CBS. But the deal still needs regulatory approval from Trump, who has already stated several times that he’d prefer it if his bestie new owner of CBS, right wing billionaire Larry Ellison, comes away […]

Serious bugs often occur in third-party components integrated by other software. Ivan Fratric and I found this vulnerability in the Dolby Unified Decoder. It affects Android, iOS and Windows among other platforms, sometimes 0-click. Integrators should update today! https://project-zero.issues.chromium.org/issues/428075495

Say goodbye to the Guy Fawkes masks and hello to inflatable frogs and dinosaurs.

“There Is No Nobel Prize in Economics Sweden’s Central Bank quietly snuck it in with all the other Nobel Prizes to give free-market economics for the 1% credibility. […] “Few realize, especially outside of economists, that the prize in economics is not an “official” Nobel. . . . The award for economics came almost 70 years later—bootstrapped to the Nobel in 1968 as a bit of a marketing ploy to celebrate the Bank of Sweden’s 300th anniversary.”” https://www.alternet.org/2012/10/there-no-nobel-prize-economics

“17: Principal Components Analysis_ - Intro to Neural Computation” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-49t1j-XWY

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Luiz Pessoa: Beyond billard ball causation in the brain! https://www.thetransmitter.org/the-big-picture/beyond-newtonian-causation-in-neuroscience-embracing-complex-causality/ @PessoaBrain