When the first step goes wrong, bad results follow.
Ars Technica - All content
• Nate Anderson
A missing underscore sent innocent man to prison for 18 months
Ars Technica - All content
• Ashley Belanger
“Google and Reddit do not own the Internet," web scraper says after court win
Google's and Reddit's use of DMCA to fight web scraper is bizarre, expert says.
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• David Edwards
'An Earthquake':Trump Action To Hit Elderly Care After SCOTUS Approves Power
President Donald Trump is using powers enabled by a recent Supreme Court decision to force thousands out of jobs, and it's the elderly who could face "dire consequences" of his actions.
Last month, the court ruled in Mullin v. Doe that federal law bars judges from revi...
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• David Edwards
'Warning Sign' For GOP As Trump Deed Turns His 'Own Base' Against Midterm Lifeline
President Donald Trump's voters are foreshadowing a midterm calamity for Republicans after their election lifeline was rejected by his base.
A new Politico poll conducted in July by the independent firm Public First found nearly half of Americans cannot explain the One...
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Noted
Spotted on Seventh Street between Avenue A and First Avenue today: a Christmas tree that's still committed to seeing this through...
Thanks to Richard Liotta (top pic) and Robert Miner for the photos...
Techdirt
• Anna Maria Barry-Jester and Sharon Lerner
Trump Officials Want To Use Human Rights Aid To Advocate For White South Africans And Right-Wing Causes In Europe
This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. For decades, the U.S. Department of State gave money to groups protecting free speech, human rights and persecuted minorities in poor and authoritarian countries. To decide what to fund, staffers with deep expertise typically pored over reams of information on abuses under the most repressive regimes […]
SCOTUSblog
• Amy Howe
Trump administration asks Supreme Court to clear the way for new mail-in voting restrictions
Added video podcasts for Micro.blog Studio. Micro.blog can make an MP3 from uploaded videos, linking the audio and video in the podcast RSS feed. Manton has blogged more about it here.
Electrek
• Michelle Lewis
Now Bojangles wants EV drivers to fast charge while they eat
Southern fast-food chain Bojangles is getting into EV charging, debuting its first DC fast-charging station in Savannah, Georgia – and dozens more are following.
Not sure if this is the most effective way, but I have a scheduled GitHub action that will poll the rss feed for changes, if it finds replies, it writes it to a file (one per slug/post on my site) into `_data` which makes it available to liquid templating `site.data.replies` and then in my templates I check for matches to the slug and then foreach and render the html into the file at build.
The python does the heavy lifting of sanitising the html parsing the rss etc
Racket
• Jay Boller
Craig vs. Flanagan MN Primary Fight Getting Messy
Plus more Ken Martin woes, a Lutsen fire longread, and delayed justice for Good and Pretti in today's Flyover news roundup.
If you see this on your wordpress site then it's working! ;-)
welcome ben. ;-)
Now posting to my new rss.chat account with the same email address as my blog admin. Just a quick late night test. Hopefully any replies there will come back here as comments. Using the new WordPress to rss.chat plugin.
Just setting up my rss.chat
All The Trains I Rode In Los Angeles | Defector (defector.com)
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ACTU leadership to step down, make way for new generation (afr.com)
Opinion | Against Todd Blanche (washingtonpost.com)
Trump Asks Supreme Court to Allow Order Restricting Mail Voting (Gift Article) (nytimes.com)
The Wolf – Hudson Valley’s New Country
• Donny Meacham
The Parton Family Is Mourning Another Loss
Coy "Denver" Parton spent most of his life far from the spotlight, but his death marks another heartbreaking loss for Dolly Parton and her close-knit family. Continue reading…