Disney is not admitting that its forced arbitration claim was legally wrong. It's just "decided to waive [its] right to arbitration" in *this particular case*.
It's deliberately not letting that legal argument be tested in a court, which means it can try it again anytime in the future.
Until their "the arbitration clause applies to any and all dealings you have with us" argument is definitively struck down in a court of law, no one is safe.
Disney has now agreed that a wrongful death lawsuit should be decided in court following backlash for initially arguing the case belonged in arbitration.
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Local celebrations of Debian 2024 Day
also happened on [Pouso Alegre, MG, Brazil] (https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/315431).
In this year we managed to organize two days of lectures!
On the 14...
Longer post(s) to come after the morning school rush, but!
The Fediverse governance research @darius and I have been working on this year—with the absolutely central participation of so many wonderful Mastodon and Hometown server teams—is out:
Mily Mastodone, neco nefunguje uplne dobre :) Pred osmi hodinami jsem presunul ucet na k @archos Sledujicich 318. Vsechno ostatni se asi natahlo, ale sledujici nee. Postupny zanik Cynika :)
@Jirka Já jediny co našel je fedi.tips/transferring-your-ma… Tento článek popisuje, že přenos sledujících může trvat několik hodin, dní, nebo v extrémních případech dokonce týdny, v závislosti na tom, jak zaneprázdněný je server sledujících.
@Jirka No jestli nebude jednoduší, na účtu mastodon.social postnout, že už budeš na mamutovo. No a ti co tě sledovali, tě začnou opět sledovat. @cynik_obecny
@Jirka Ja nebyl na mastodon.social - mel jsem svuj secver. A na tom uz nic nepostnu, bo jsem se presunul k tobe. Ale kasli na to. To fakt neni akutni. Jen je to treba varovani pro nekoho, kdo by chtel presouvat, ze to muze zakopnout
O2 CZ nabídlo na léto zdarma na zkoušku NEO+ Bronzový s tím, že od září volitelně bude pokračovat za 599 Kč/měsíc. Dnes se zeptali, jestli chci v září pokračovat nebo ne, napsal jsem, že ne.
Obratem mi nabídli za stejnou cenu NEO+ Střibrný - což je předpokládám podle typu kovu hodnotnější tarif.
Poučení: všechny výhodné nabídky zásadně odmítat, přijdou ještě výhodnější. 😁
Měl jsem podobný, za stejnou cenu, ještě v rámci O2 Family jako "NEO Modrý". To ale zaniklo, sjednotili to pod O2 a vecpali mi za 699 Kč Zlatý s 20 Mbps (které z BTS tam, kde trávím víkendy, stejně nevymáčknu). Trošku pasivně agresivní přístup, na druhou stranu jsem předtím každý měsíc musel hlídat, abych utratil extra korunu a dosáhnul na tu 300 Kč slevu, o které píše kolega vedle.
LibreOffice is everywhere! And not just on computers – but at events around the world. At the weekend, community members attended FrOSCon in Germany, to answer questions and give out cool merch: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #OpenSource
I found the article a bit short and lacking in detail. It would have been great to have more information about the size of the event, the topics discussed, or even some photos to really convey the atmosphere and involvement of the attendees.
Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.
Today is the birthday of #DoctorWho actors Anthony Ainley, Sylvester McCoy, and Sophie Aldred. As it's also *my* birthday, a few years ago, I commissioned this artwork and then mocked up a book cover for a theoretical August 20th adventure!
I don't know Michael personally but on a professional level I'm very familiar with his work and his dedication. This is an excellent choice for a distributor.
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I just learnt of the passing of Pierre Cartier last Saturday. I was lucky to attend his George Kempf Lecture at Johns Hopkins a decade ago titled "A quantum group as Galois group for some difference equations". I don't remember much about it which probably means I understood little, but I remember fondly going for dinner later and sitting close to him. He was an entertaining person, treat everyone as his equals (in spite of me being a minion and him being a legend) and told some Bourbaki stories
A spare monitor and keyboard are handy things to have around, but they’re a bit of a hassle. They are useful for hardware development, plugging in to headless servers, or firing up a Raspberr…
I've just launched my new BT Projects blog! Here you will find posts on a wide range of topics, from tech to other miscellaneous things I choose to write about. There is currently only one post up, but one which I have had a lot of requests for, how to make Windows work better post setup. Note however that this post is an initial draft; it could be updated in the future but I felt ready to put what I have out there! Enjoy! btprojects.samtupy.com/blog/ Note also that this is not yet set up on the home page, this will be updated shortly. #blog #tech #writing
Super Geek Alert! This piece of techno-gorgeousness is a 3D printed model of the Mars Perseverance Rover, printed and painstakingly assembled by the intrepid @jfayre In this photo it’s bravely exploring the treacherous surface of our back yard.
We published a security fix for a High security vulnerability in Matrix JS SDK (CVE-2024-42369). Make sure to update your dependencies! See more at github.com/matrix-org/matrix-j…
### Impact
A malicious homeserver can craft a room or room structure such that the predecessors form a cycle. The matrix-js-sdk's `getRoomUpgradeHistory` function will infinitely recurse in this c...
"Laut des Berichts hat der Betroffene Strafanzeige gestellt, ist damit aber abgeblitzt – weil es keine reale Person gibt, die als Urheber zu betrachten ist."
Ja toll! Richtig suuuper!
Vielleicht sollte man in solchen Fällen den Geschäftsführer von MS in Deutschland oder den zuständigen Produktmanager heranziehen. Kann ja nicht sein, dass da einfach keiner verantwortlich ist.
Banning it is legislating feelings, instead of facts, being inherently subjective, resulting in censorship & oppression of any political dissent, a recipe for authoritarianism.
people don’t realize this might be one of the hardest challenges to overcome in a liberal democracy: having freedom of speech for all and whatever in a society where there are bad and hateful individuals. Laws and courts are a part of it but is not enough.
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Osy sa tento rok zdanlivo správajú inak. Viac práce kvôli nim majú hasiči, ktorí likvidujú väčšie množstvo hniezd než obvykle, aj záchranári, ktorí riešia veľa prípadov osieho bodnutia s alergickou reakciou.
Apple will now allow developers in the EU to include links to outside purchases, as long as they pay two new fees that apply to purchases across “any” platform.
Ok, I have thoughts about Chrystul Kizer being sentenced to prison.
The monster she killed was a known sex trafficker of young black girls. He’d been arrested and released without bail by the same cops that arrested this girl. He brutalized and trafficked this child, and she killed him. (I have no problem with that, personally. )
Wisconsin has a 2008 law on the books that allows trafficking as a defense, and her lawyers chose to plead out instead of taking it to trial.
I’m not a lawyer, but from the outside, that sure as fuck looks like malpractice. Let’s find a way to free this kid.
A Milwaukee woman who confessed to killing a man she claimed sexually trafficked her was sentenced to 11 years in prison on Monday in Kenosha. Her case has garnered significant attention.
Perhaps you have heard (or even believe) some or all of the elements of the following story about the past:
"Life in the past was crude and hard. People could not afford mercy or charity. People in primitive societies would leave the sick and weak behind to die, and even the ancient Greeks killed disabled infants through exposure."
I have frequently encountered this set of ideas, in various permutations. It shows up all over the internet in popular historical accounts: "Infanticide was a disturbingly common act in the ancient world, but in Sparta this practice was organized and managed by the state. All Spartan infants were brought before a council of inspectors and examined for physical defects, and those who weren't up to standards were left to die...If a Spartan baby was judged to be unfit for its future duty as a soldier, it was most likely abandoned on a nearby hillside. Left alone, the child would either die of exposure or be rescued and adopted by strangers."
In 2021, archeologist Debby Sneed wrote a paper reviewing the evidence for the popular belief in Classical Greek infanticide and found that it was basically non-existent. The best known source is a Roman writer, Plutarch, who made the claim about Sparta in the previous post-about 700 or 800 years after the fact. Plato and Aristotle also wrote passages about infanticide, as suggestions or thought experiments, not as historical accounts.
In contrast, contemporary Greek texts are full of recommendations for how to help, care for, and employ people who were born with disabilities. The Hippocratic Corpus-of Hippocratic Oath, physician-do-no-harm fame-specifically refers to exercises to help people born with limb differences. The archeology of the region also turns up little ceramic vessels that Sneed identifies as feeding bottles-based on their shape and the traces of milk products in them-for infants born with cleft palates.
(Sneed's paper is hidden behind a journal paywall, but she happily sent me a copy when I emailed her.)
Sneed, who specializes in the archeology of disability, has also explored the construction of accessibility ramps at Classical Greek temples. Based on their size, their stone construction, and their frequent association with temples and sanctuaries devoted to healing, Sneed concludes that these were deliberate and costly efforts to make these sites accessible to people with mobility and other impairments.
"The concentration of ramps at sites frequented by individuals with mobility (and other) impairments appears to suggest that the ancient Greeks consciously provided for the needs of the users of these spaces. In much the same way that sites associated with athletics were provisioned with stadia and gymnasia, healing sanctuaries were provided with the buildings and features necessary for the successful inclusion of its intended visitors in ritual activities...When we acknowledge the somatic realities of ancient Greek life and accept that, far from being excluded, individuals with impaired mobility occupied myriad productive and meaningful roles within their families and communities, we can ask new questions about the physical framework of the ancient world.”
These were people who lived more than 2,000 years ago in the Iron Age. They did not have access to modern tools or artificial power. Everything they built, they built themselves, with their own hands, and occasionally some animal power. They were, by modern standards, unimaginably poor. And yet Sneed demonstrates that they devoted time, energy, and effort into caring for disabled infants and making buildings accessible to those who needed access.
In the United States, the Americans with Disabilities Act wasn't signed into law until 1990. Despite the law, Americans with disabilities still routinely face discrimination and inaccessibility around the country, often because enforcement is lax and private firms can't be bothered to spend resources on compliance. *But they have no excuse.* The US is the richest state that is or ever was; it has access to unimaginably more resources than the Classical Greeks did thousands of years ago. If they could do it, modern societies like the US can do it.
Archeologists have found evidence from around the world, in sites spanning tens of thousands of years, of people caring for the sick, the injured, and the disabled. A young man buried in what is now Vietnam who lived, paralyzed, with Klippel-Feil syndrome for about ten years. A Neanderthal man who survived grievous injuries, including a partial blinding and the loss of an arm, in what is now 45,000 years ago. A boy who lived to about 15 with spina bifida in what is now Florida, 7,500 years ago. On and on and on.
These were people who almost certainly required enormous levels of care. Many of them would have struggled to contribute to the sustenance of their communities. Many of them were not particularly mobile. And yet they survived, many of years, which could have only happened with the cooperation of multiple other people. These are ancient societies in which, we've been taught, life was "nasty, brutish, and short." Yet they diverted precious resources to the care of other people, many of whom could never materially reward their carers.
Durante la segunda mitad del sXIV, en la localidad de La Guardia (Toledo), un niño fue cruelmente torturado y asesinado siguiendo un ritual mágico en el que un grupo de judíos y criptojudíos buscaban difundir una epidemia de cólera.
O, al menos, eso es lo que a día de hoy sigue afirmando parte de la Iglesia, como vemos en este artículo publicado en 2015 y cargado, todavía hoy, de propaganda antisemita y de un absoluto desprecio por la evidencia histórica.
Se conservan algunos de los documentos de este juicio, gracias a los cuales algunos historiadores tan poco sospechosos de rojeras como Luis Suárez Fernández (director de universidades durante la dictadura) han reconstruido coherentemente lo que realmente debió suceder.
En 1489 varios judeoconversos son detenidos por la Inquisición bajo la acusación de haber vuelto a sus viejas creencias judías. Al principio no hay nada más que esta acusación, pero bajo tortura, aparece el relato sobre un niño.
Los distintos acusados, bajo tortura, empiezan a lanzarse acusaciones unos a otros, incluyendo también a un par de judíos de la zona. Inmiscuyéndose los unos a los otros en la terrible historia de un niño raptado y torturado como blasfemo reflejo de la muerte de Jesucristo.
La única historia no obtenida bajo tortura la dio un judío que, enfermo y creyendo estar cerca de la muerte, pidió que le asistiera un rabino. Un monje se disfrazó de rabino y consiguió engañarle, consiguiendo, según él, una declaración que posteriormente el judío negaría.
Lo más curioso de esta historia es que no existe niño. De hecho, el niño no tiene ni nombre (la tradición posterior le adjudica el nombre de Cristóbal o el de Juan). No existen padres, los padres de los que se habla también son inventados. No hubo, por supuesto, cadáver.
Las distintas declaraciones están repletas de contradicciones importantes. Los acusadores tuvieron que crear un complicado relato en el que el niño fue transportado de un lado a otro (sin que nadie les viera) para explicar que cada uno hablara de sitios distintos.
Las mismas fechas son contradictorias, más allá de que todos decían que había sucedido en semana santa, según uno hacía cuatro años de aquello, según otro quince, según otro, once...
Los acusados fueron ajusticiados en 1491. La historia fue publicitada con gran eficacia por toda Castilla.
Unos meses después, la Reina Isabel firmaba la expulsión de los judíos. Sin duda, el caso del falso niño de La Guardia tendría su influencia en esta decisión.
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I guess they’re trying to rebrand as an AI company instead of a browser company? The old logo emphasizes URLs.
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