Hard Pass

cross-posted from : https://lemmy.zip/post/64616650

Screenshot/lyrics from an old CollegeHumor parody of Ke$ha's "Tik Tok" called "Sing Talk" that lambasts the autotune trend back in 2010.

I've been noticing lately that emails from coworkers are all starting to sound like they were written by the same "person", and this old parody song popped into my head.

Federal agents can no longer make arrests without exceptional circumstances in and around three Manhattan buildings where immigration proceedings occur, a judge ruled Monday.

The decision by U.S. District Judge P. Kevin Castel brings an abrupt halt to a practice begun under the Trump administration that enabled agents to take into custody individuals who follow requirements to appear before immigration judges.

The arrests have resulted in dramatic scenes in courthouse hallways as those being detained were sometimes pulled away from emotional family members.

A majority of Americans oppose providing economic and military aid to Israel, according to a poll conducted by The New York Times and Siena Research Institute.

Until this past weekend, a contractor for the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) maintained a public GitHub repository that exposed credentials to several highly privileged AWS GovCloud accounts and a large number of internal CISA systems. Security experts said the public archive included files detailing how CISA builds, tests and deploys software internally, and that it represents one of the most egregious government data leaks in recent history.

The Software Freedom Conservancy taking some bold steps to push back against Bambu's blatant anti-consumerism via (amongst other tactics) violation of AGPLv3.