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Why NSA Surveillance Will Be More Damaging Than You Think – James Fallows – The Atlantic.

Lessig Blog, v2.

….For example, this context: The point the report makes in criticizing the prosecutors is that they were at a minimum negligent in not recognizing that under MIT’s open access policies, Aaron’s access was likely not “unauthorized.” …

The Stacks Project gets ever awesomer with new viz | mathbabe.

The Unglamorous Truth About Ending Poverty: A Response to Peter Buffett | Zack Exley.

Misogyny Trips Twitter; Will It Reverse Silicon Valley Sexism? | Kathy Gill.

Report to the President – report-to-the-president.pdf.

Feds Say It's Classified Info To Say Who We're At War With | Techdirt.

My Life in Circles: Why Metadata is Incredibly Intimate | American Civil Liberties Union.

Federal Reserve Policy Mainly Benefits Big Foreign Banks | The Big Picture.

Report-Wanted-Accurate-FBI-Background-Checks-Employment.pdf.

Faulty FBI Databases Could Keep You From Getting a Job.

Masculinity Crisis: The End of Male – Science & Technology – Utne Reader.

Bank Robs House By Mistake, Refuses To Pay Up | Techdirt.

Teach a Kid Functional Programming and You Feed Her for a Lifetime | John Pavley.

The six most disturbing fat-shaming cases in recent memory – Salon.com.

Surveillance Video Catches Police Informant Planting Crack On Business Owner | Alternet.

Woman Fired After Providing Document That Freed Innocent Man Jailed for Decades | Alternet.

think i wanna tell the world – Won't Get Fooled Again.

Faith and Works at Apple by Edward Mendelson | NYRblog | The New York Review of Books.

Snapchat Tested on Homeless People: Silicon Valley's Insensitivity | New Republic.

….There’s something queasy-making about the idea that homeless people are being used, essentially, like lab rats, exploited for their very out-of-stepness with society. It’s not the first time the tech world has shown a tendency to view the homeless as more tools than people….

With NSA revelations, Sen. Ron Wyden’s vague privacy warnings finally become clear – The Washington Post.

Woman awarded over $18million in dispute over credit report errors with Equifax | Mail Online.

Carter Roberts of WWF on how to use drones and other tech to save wildlife..

80 Percent Of U.S. Adults Face Near-Poverty, Unemployment: Survey.

“Ants from hell” are devouring America – Salon.com.

Technopessimism Is Bunk | The Business Desk with Paul Solman | PBS NewsHour | PBS.

BBC News – Virtual valets, or how to look good online.

BBC News – Webscape: Free undergraduate textbooks.

Fighting Back Against Wretched Wages – NYTimes.com.

Unemployed and Older, and Facing a Jobless Future – NYTimes.com.

Trash talk and the real dirt on a 'toxic tour' of Los Angeles – latimes.com.

Is it Legal Malpractice to Fail to Get Holder to Promise not to Torture your Client? | New Economic Perspectives.

The Hardware Revolution is Upon Us and Why it Matters | True Ventures.

How America's Top Tech Companies Created the Surveillance State – NationalJournal.com.

They’ve been helping the government spy on people for a very long time. The cozy relationships go back decades….

What to do with the Redundant Churches After the Demise of Religion? | Practical Ethics.

Tsunami of Public Outrage Builds in Colorado as Fracking Invades Cities | Alternet.

The Exquisite Art Of Marketing To Pauperized Consumers (By Hiding Inflation) | Zero Hedge.

Delta Passenger Baraka Kanaan Forced To Crawl Down Aisle, Across Tarmac To Wheelchair: Complaint.

North Pole Melting Leaves Small Lake At The Top Of The World (VIDEO).

Borgata Babes Lose Lawsuit: Waitresses Can Be Fired For Gaining Weight, Judge Rules.

Three Things I Think I Think :: PRAGMATIC CAPITALISM.

BBC News – India: Army 'mistook planets for spy drones'.

The Awesomest 7-Year Postdoc or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Tenure-Track Faculty Life | Guest Blog, Scientific American Blog Network.

Driver Charged with Manslaughter After Women Died Trying to Help Him.

Pepper-Spraying Cop Seeks Worker's Comp for ‘Psychiatric Injury’.

Texas Cops Go To Wrong House, Kill Elderly Man, Blame Bad Lighting.

NSA: THE DECISION PROBLEM | Edge.org.

The Cheat Code to Life | Underwire | Wired.com.

Steve Cohen’s Overflowing Email Inbox – MoneyBeat – WSJ.

Radhika Nagpal is a role model for fun people everywhere | mathbabe.

The 3 Most Absurdly Outdated Internet Laws | Mother Jones.

Liberty for Whom? | The Baseline Scenario.

NYPD Officer Arrests Woman and Steals Nude Pics Off Her Phone.

Tomgram: Eduardo Galeano, Robots, Drugs, and Collateral Damage | TomDispatch.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Eminent Domain and the Decline of Detroit.

Proprietary credit score model now embedded in law | mathbabe.

OffPocket Protects Your Privacy from Prying Eyes.

Google Serves 25 Percent of North American Internet Traffic | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com.

….It also explains why Google is building data centers as fast as it possibly can. Three years ago, the company’s services accounted for about 6 percent of the internet’s traffic….

Grasping for Dignity in the Era of the American Police State.

EMT pays Post reporter to take certification test – NYPOST.com.

Math fraud in pensions | mathbabe.

I wrote a post three months ago talking about how we don’t need better models but we need to stop lying with our models. My first example was municipal debt and how various towns and cities are in deep debt partly because their accounting for future pension obligations allows them to be overly optimistic about their investments and underfund their pension pots….

“Dizzy and sick”: McDonald’s workers strike after enduring 110 degree heat – Salon.com.

10 people who learned social media can get you fired with images, tweet · CNN · Storify.

BBC News – Fracking 'could put gas and chemicals' in drinking water.

Fourth Circuit Guts National Security Investigative Journalism Everywhere It Matters | emptywheel.

The Fourth Circuit — which covers CIA, JSOC, and NSA’s territory — just ruled that journalists who are witnesses to alleged crimes (or participants, the opinion ominously notes) must testify in the trial….

Demography: Broke in the ’burbs | The Economist.

Guantanamo's attorney-client mail controversy – Human Rights – Al Jazeera English.

Collision Between Water and Energy Is Underway, and Worsening – IEEE Spectrum.

Power generation in the United States relies heavily on water. For some plants, like the ones that run on coal or nuclear power, the water is needed for cooling, while hydro directly uses water for energy production. More than 40 percent of fresh water used in the United States is withdrawn to cool power plants. Renewable energy generally uses far less water, but there are glaring exceptions, such as geothermal and concentrating solar.

The report, part of UCS’s Energy and Water in a Warming World Initiative, noted that even though the oldest and most water-hungry, coal-fired power plants are being retired, the shift to cleaner energy isn’t happening fast enough to overcome increasing water shortages….

The Stop and Frisk sleight of hand | mathbabe.

MIT Moves to Intervene in Release of Aaron Swartz's Secret Service File | Threat Level | Wired.com.

Jim Gibbons Lawsuit From Former Cocktail Waitress Settled.

Cops need warrants to track cell phones, says NJ Supreme Court | Ars Technica.

Enforcing Rule of Law Is NOT a Waste of Time | The Big Picture.

Why did the Fed Refuse to Heed the Appraisers, Prosecutors, and Industry’s Fraud Warnings? | New Economic Perspectives.

McDonalds Tells Workers to Toil 70 Hours a Week, Use Ripoff Payroll Cards as Part of “Financial Literacy” « naked capitalism.

Deaf Customers Sue Starbucks, Claim Discrimination.

Police Are Engaged In ‘Mass Tracking' With License Plate Readers.

Charges Dropped Against Kid Who Rapped About the Boston Bombing.

Several Hospital Employees Fired for Accessing Kim Kardashian’s Records.

How International Justice Is Being Gutted – David Rohde – The Atlantic.

SEC Fraud Case Against Goldman Sachs’ “Fabulous Fab” Begins This Week.

….Judge Katherine Forrest, who is presiding over the case, has indicated that she will likely allow Tourre’s personal emails into evidence. The emails, many of which became public in 2010, are the basis of the SEC’s case and indicate that he was aware of how worthless mortgage-backed securities he was selling were.

‘Stand Your Ground’: Ladies, You Have No Ground to Stand on.

Can We Regulate Our Way Out of Climate Change? – NationalJournal.com.

Jailed Journalist Barrett Brown Faces 105 Years for Reporting on Hacked Private Intelligence Firms.

Five Important SCOTUS Rulings You Didn’t Hear About.

The 2 Supreme Court Cases That Could Put a Dagger in Organized Labor – Matt Bruenig and Elizabeth Stoker – The Atlantic.

…the justices quietly accepted a pair of cases that could make it nearly impossible for private sector unions to organize new members.

How the Sequester Is Holding Up Our Legal System – Andrew Cohen – The Atlantic.

… federal judges say a constitutional crisis may be on the horizon.

On the Poor Definition and Measurement of Corruption « naked capitalism.

Teen's Joke 'Threat' Lands Him In Solitary; While Cop Saying He Wants To 'Kill' The First Lady Walks Free | Techdirt.

People Arrested For Facebook Posts – Business Insider.

Many people exercise poor judgement on Facebook, a site where Freedom of Speech may no longer apply.

Patty McCord Netflix Firing Advice – Business Insider.

Special Report: How the Pentagon's payroll quagmire traps America's soldiers | Reuters.

The Brave New Workplace World Includes Data Sensors Monitoring Employees at All Times.

There’s No Justice When the Spied-On Have No Voice – Bloomberg.

If you’re not a U.S. Supreme Court (1000L) junkie, you wouldn’t know that the single topic that most exercised the justices in the decisions issued in late June was the arcane law of standing. This is the requirement that every case before the court pose two parties against each other, arguing the opposite sides of the case at hand. … Adversarial standing isn’t generally the stuff of headlines….

Less Than Total Recall – ProPublica.

In Wisconsin, Life after Collective Bargaining | Alternet.

Ex-Marine Arrested for Wearing Wrong T-Shirt at Supreme Court! | Alternet.

Land of the Free II: Police As Military Edition – Lawyers, Guns & Money : Lawyers, Guns & Money.

Undernews: The corporate media's long relationship with the spook world may help explain why it doesn't like Snowden.

BBC News – Ian Brady: How easy is it to fake mental illness?.

Opinion is Not Fact | Alternet.

Teen Justin Carter Jailed In Texas After Making Sarcastic Threat In Facebook Comment.

Maybe it’s time the Internet adopted a “sarcasm” tag to alert readers to the use of irony in online conversation, and, hopefully, avoid situations like that of Justin Carter, a Texas teenager who has been in jail since February over a Facebook comment that failed to make a woman in Canada LOL.

New Book Documents Cold War Experiments on Kids | NBC 10 Philadelphia.

What the First Arrest Captured on Google Glass Really Means – Connor Simpson – The Atlantic Wire.

What I’m getting at is there were very few barriers left for this medium to cross, besides the obvious unseemly one, before Barrett went out and captured the first fight and subsequent arrest using the extended video recording option. And no, this isn’t a video of the person wearing Google Glass getting beat up. (Though we’re sure that will happen soon.)

Harassment suit against egg farm brings settlement, but no charges | The Center for Investigative Reporting.

“Why did you shoot me? I was reading a book”: The new warrior cop is out of control – Salon.com.

Report finds female inmates were sterilized in California prisons without state approval – Salon.com.