Notices by Rachel Rawlings (linuxandyarn@mastodon.social)

@arstechnica Ah, the goddamned 5th Circuit again, shopping for judges who are already bought.

@arstechnica I can see a silver lining if Kamala Harris wins, because If O'Connor doesn't recuse himself from X cases it could be grounds for impeachment.

@aral

Before this, he was chief of staff to Trump's last director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe, a fellow at the Heritage Foundation, and a campaign "policy chief" to Ron Desantis during the 2024 Republican primary.

This was all on his resume when Meta hired him. They know what fascists they want in the tent pissing out.

@aral Haven't convinced my wife to watch it yet, but this is high praise! Hair and Chicago are the best musical films IMO. Rent is good too but it owes so much to Hair in terms of films structure.

@eff

"Start by seeing what your car is equipped to collect using Privacy4Cars’ Vehicle Privacy Report. Once you enter your car’s VIN, the site provides a rough idea of what sorts of data your car collects."

What the actual fsck are you recommending here? Sharing a VIN with some random website is a privacy issue. What's wrong with make, model, and year? I certainly don't want to provide specific PII for a "rough idea."

@nixCraft So you're supposed to put together a heist crew to steal your paychecks from the employer a la Leverage?

@wmclark Fuck, no! They've been one of the best publications on Mastodon, and an awesome mag for decades before that.

Meanwhile, much as I love @sewellchan (who used to be an editor at WHYY), neither he nor @texastribune have kept up with their fediverse accounts since creating them in November.)