Bankrupt 23andMe’s DNA Data Gets Nod for Sale (Maria)
The author writes,
“Bankrupt genetic testing firm 23andMe Holding Co. won permission from a
judge to try to sell information about customers’ medical and
ancestry-related data, a trove that is considered the most valuable
asset in the insolvency case — and has become a source of privacy and
safety concerns amid the company’s collapse.”
The US Postal Service Has Been Struggling for Years. Now Trump’s Talking About Privatizing It (Reader Steve)
The author writes,
“The U.S. Postal Service is facing an uncertain future after the
resignation this week of Postmaster General Louis DeJoy and the
suggestion by President Donald Trump and Elon Musk, who heads the
Department of Government Efficiency, that the mail service could be
privatized. Unions representing postal workers have balked at the idea
of privatization, staging protests across the country. While they
support modernization efforts, including those initiated by DeJoy, union
leaders warned that allowing private corporations to run the U.S. mail
will ultimately harm everyday citizens, especially the estimated 51
million people living in rural areas who depend on the Postal Service.”
Must the Palestinian Have an Oscar for the World to Care When He’s Attacked? (Dana)
From +972 Magazine:
“When news broke of the settler ambush, the headlines focused almost
exclusively on one thing: Ballal’s Oscar win. Across mainstream Western
media — from the Associated Press and Reuters, to the Washington Post and
the BBC — publications used surprisingly direct language to describe
the attack on this ‘Palestinian Oscar winner.’ Unlike some of their
coverage of Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza, for instance, these outlets
clearly named the perpetrators of the assault — Israeli settlers — with
one traditionally liberal publication going so far as to describe his
brutal arrest by the Israeli army as a ‘kidnapping.’ But still, the
emphasis was clear: the assault and detention of a Palestinian is
notable because he holds international acclaim.”
Hazel Johnson Launched an Environmental Movement in Chicago That Trump Is Trying to End (Laura)
From Inside Climate News:
“[Hazel Johnson’s] public health and environmental activism persuaded
President Bill Clinton to recognize ‘environmental justice’ in an
executive order. A proposed city ordinance, promised by Mayor Brandon
Johnson in September 2023, is expected to be named after the legendary
Chicago activist. … With a stroke of a pen in January, President Donald
Trump ended that 1994 order signed by Clinton. Trump declared that the
document, recognizing poor communities that often bear the brunt of
pollution, amounts to ‘illegal discrimination’ and is ‘radical.’
Environmental advocates say Trump is creating a new narrative to
demonize programs and policies aimed at helping vulnerable communities.”
Open Source Devs Say AI Crawlers Dominate Traffic, Forcing Blocks on Entire Countries (Sean)
From Ars Technica:
“Software developer Xe Iaso reached a breaking point earlier this year
when aggressive AI crawler traffic from Amazon overwhelmed their Git
repository service, repeatedly causing instability and downtime. Despite
configuring standard defensive measures — adjusting robots.txt,
blocking known crawler user-agents, and filtering suspicious traffic —
Iaso found that AI crawlers continued evading all attempts to stop them,
spoofing user-agents and cycling through residential IP addresses as
proxies. … Iaso’s story highlights a broader crisis rapidly spreading
across the open source community, as what appear to be aggressive AI
crawlers increasingly overload community-maintained infrastructure,
causing what amounts to persistent distributed denial-of-service (DDoS)
attacks on vital public resources.”
This Michigan Democrat Cruised to Victory in a Trump District. Here’s How (Russ)
The author writes,
“Kristen McDonald Rivet is probably not a name you’ve heard, given that
she has been a member of Congress for fewer than 12 weeks. But
Democrats desperate for a way out of the wilderness, and bickering about
how to get there, would do well to acquaint themselves with what
McDonald Rivet did last year — and how she did it — in this House
district about 100 miles north of Detroit. Once bright-blue, Michigan’s
8th stands at the absolute median of the Cook Political Report’s
partisan voting index, which means that 217 districts across the country
lean more Republican than it does, and an equal number tilt more
Democratic. With redistricting and a general shift rightward by
working-class voters, Donald Trump won here by a couple of percentage
points, which was slightly better than he did statewide in this critical
swing state.”
‘Just Plain Old Larry’: A Wisconsin Man’s Testimony About Gender-Affirming Care Went Viral. Here’s His Story (Al)
From Wisconsin Watch:
“When Larry Jones arrived at the Wisconsin State Capitol on March 12,
he didn’t know what he was getting into — let alone that he would be a
viral internet sensation the next day. The 85-year-old self-described
conservative had been invited by his grandson to a public hearing on a
Republican-authored bill that would ban gender-affirming medical care
for transgender youth in the state. … Jones was there in support of the
bill, but wasn’t intending to get up and speak. But after listening to
nearly seven hours of testimony, he put his name down. ‘I have very
little knowledge of gay people and things like that there, so when I
came here, my eyes were opened,’ he told the state Assembly’s Health,
Aging and Long-Term Care Committee just after 9 pm. ‘I was one of the
critics that sat on the side and made the decision there was only two
genders, so I got an education that was unbelievable. And I don’t know
just exactly how to say this, but my perspective for people has changed.
… I’d like to apologize for being here, and I learned a very lot about
this group of people.’”
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