The Academy of Educational Engineering is a premier platform tailored for aspiring and professional geeks. This all-in-one educational ecosystem is designed to empower you with expert-level knowledge and hands-on experience across embedded systems, electronics, IoT, and software development. As a premium member, you’ll access comprehensive tools, engaging projects, personalized feedback, and direct mentorship, helping you […]
At a time when politicians on both sides reflexively call for censorship and speech policing, it’s refreshing to see someone actually defend free speech principles—especially when it would be politically easier to cave. That’s exactly what New York City Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani did when NBC’s Meet the Press tried to pressure him into […]
Republicans are rewriting an infrastructure bill grant program to redirect billions of dollars to Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite broadband service. The claim is that this is necessary because Starlink is the perfect solution for the country’s rural broadband users and deserves this money. The reality is that Starlink continues to show that it lacks the […]
At the beginning of this year, the Colorado state legislature introduced HB25-1097, a state law that updated the state’s disease control statutes. Eventually signed into law by the Governor in April, the bill does a whole bunch of things related to public health: repealed the state’s epidemic response committee, set a schedule for reviewing the […]
During pandemic lockdowns, you might recall how AMC executives threw a temper tantrum because companies like Comcast/NBC began experimenting with more innovative movie release windows. AMC execs were mad because the pandemic highlighted how the 90-day gap between the time a movie appears in theaters and its streaming or DVD release was exposed as both dated and […]
The Supreme Court just discovered that nationwide injunctions are problematic. How convenient that this revelation came right as Donald Trump returned to office with plans to rule by executive fiat. Last week’s big Supreme Court decision in Trump v. CASA was trumpeted in the media as being about birthright citizenship, even though that was only […]
The cops certainly had fun partnering with Ring, the surveillance camera company now owned by Amazon. Ring handed out free cameras to cops, who handed out these cameras to citizens with the implicit expectation that they’d have warrantless access to camera footage whenever they wanted it. It didn’t quite work out that way. Lots of […]
One of Elon Musk’s first “promises” upon taking over Twitter was that fighting child exploitation was “priority #1.” He falsely implied that the former management didn’t take the issue seriously (they did) and insisted that he would make sure it was a solved problem on the platform he now owned. Of course, while he was […]
It’s no secret that Photoshop can be a bit dense when you’re first getting your feet wet with it. That’s why it pays to have a expert instructors show you the ropes. Led by a Photoshop pro, the Complete Photoshop Master Class Bundle will help you master Photoshop CC and become an expert—no prior experience […]
Quite obviously, the Trump Administration was never going to respect the law when it came to its mass deportation plans. That much became immediately clear as ICE engaged in raid after raid of neighborhoods and businesses, searching for literally any migrant, rather than just those suspected of or convicted for violent crimes. As soon as […]
Whether by dodgy Supreme Court ruling, executive order, mindless DOGE cuts, or captured regulators, the U.S. right wing, usually in lockstep with consolidated corporate power, are making massive, historic, and potentially irreversible inroads in destroying all federal corporate oversight, labor protections, public safety provisions, environmental standards, and regulatory autonomy. I bolded that last bit because it’s not clear […]
This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is MrWilson with a comment on last week’s post, where I had to forego most of the Funny section due to a lack of candidates: To be fair, it seems like there’s less and less to be laughing at, except as a gallows humor coping […]
Five Years Ago This week in 2020, we published our popular reference post on all the ways people are wrong about Section 230. It was needed because, as we covered in that week’s episode of the podcast, there were a whole lot of attacks on the law, most notably from some of the provisions of […]
When you’re a huge country, and a communist one to boot, the Streisand Effect is a thing that’s just going to inevitably happen to you at times. China has definitely lived this experience. The government is the unfortunate combination of incredibly authoritarian and completely devoid of a sense of humor. The result is the serious […]
This series of posts explores how we can rethink the intersection of AI, creativity, and policy. From examining outdated regulatory metaphors to questioning copyright norms and highlighting the risks of stifling innovation, each post addresses a different piece of the AI puzzle. Together, they advocate for a more balanced, forward-thinking approach that acknowledges the potential […]
This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. New laws in Georgia and New Mexico are requiring harsher punishments for students — or anyone else — who make threats against schools, despite growing evidence that a similar law is ensnaring students who posed no risk to others. ProPublica and WPLN News have documented how […]
Much of what we’ve written about regarding the Trump regime’s nonsensical and ridiculous immigration policies have focused on how they’re grabbing people off the streets, or disappearing them to random foreign gulags without due process. But we’ve also talked about the absolute insanity of US immigration policy as it pertains to foreigners traveling to the […]
Just because a constitutional violation is easy to ignore doesn’t make it any less of a constitutional violation. And yet, that was the first defense of Louisiana’s Ten Commandments mandate offered by the governor of the state, Jeff Landry. When asked what he would say to parents who are upset about the Ten Commandments being […]
The Ultimate AWS Data Master Class Bundle has 9 courses to get you up to speed on Amazon Web Services. The courses cover AWS, DevOPs, Kubernetes Mesosphere DC/OS, AWS Redshift, and more. It’s on sale for $39. Note: The Techdirt Deals Store is powered and curated by StackCommerce. A portion of all sales from Techdirt […]
The Supreme Court this morning took a chainsaw to the First Amendment on the internet, and the impact is going to be felt for decades going forward. In the FSC v. Paxton case, the Court upheld the very problematic 5th Circuit ruling that age verification online is acceptable under the First Amendment, despite multiple earlier […]
stLouIST