Don’t Roll Back Bail Law

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Sanders, Warren: Don’t Roll Back Bail Law

The two leading progressive candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination on Wednesday pushed back publicly against efforts to alter New York's new bail law.

Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren posted to Twitter that it would be a mistake to roll back the law, which ended cash bail for misdemeanor and non-violent felony charges.

"Cash bail is an unreasonably punitive and financially burdensome system that disproportionately victimizes Black and Brown communities," Warren wrote. "Rolling back these reforms would blatantly disregard the voices of New Yorkers who voted to end it."

Sanders pledged to enact a national cashless bail law as president.

One of the biggest changes over the past.

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One of the biggest changes over the past year in my camping experiences is I’ve started to do less driving. More often now I will set up camp and park my truck, and walk from there on my adventures.

Solar, well some. It's December.

While motoring can get you farther then you can get on your feet, walking can teach you more about the land and appreciate your surroundings more. Having the solar panel on my truck means I can usually have enough power for subsequent nights especially if I conserve power and have a bright sunny day. It’s kind of nice spending more time near camp rather then putting extra miles on the truck and burning more gas, although it does make the time go by faster it seems.

Camp

For Cuomo, familiar music with some new notes

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For Cuomo, familiar music with some new notes

In 2019, however, the Democratic-controlled Legislature approved a huge chunk of these perennial proposals. That forced Cuomo to come up with an unprecedented amount of new material for his 2020 State of the State address on Wednesday.

The end result was still a very Cuomonian speech: New York, he said, needs to pass monumental pieces of progressive legislation. Particularly those that don’t make the budget soar.

I am pretty sure the same could be said about Governor Nelson Rockefeller and the Republicans, but then again, they weren't so concerned about letting the budget soar, especially back in the day. But then again, things kind of ended badly for New York with the rent strike putting the Urban Development Corporation and all of New York State at the edge by mid-1970s.

How A New Breed Of PR Firms Is Selling Lies Online

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Disinformation For Hire: How A New Breed Of PR Firms Is Selling Lies Online

Peng Kuan Chin pulled out his phone, eager to show the future of online manipulation.

Unseen servers began crawling the web for Chinese articles and posts. The system quickly reorganized the words and sentences into new text. His screen displayed a rapidly increasing tally of the articles generated by his product, which he dubs the “Content Farm Automatic Collection System." ADVERTISEMENT

With the articles in hand, a set of websites that Peng controlled published them, and his thousands of fake social media accounts spread them across the internet, instantly sending manipulated content into news feeds, messaging app inboxes, and search results.

"I developed this for manipulating public opinion,” Peng told the Reporter, an investigative news site in Taipei, which partnered with BuzzFeed News for this article. He added that automation and artificial intelligence “can quickly generate traffic and publicity much faster than people.”