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"A quick refresher on a principle that everyone should fight to protect."
TL;DR: Due process is both how you decide what to do, and how you determine whether you've even got the right person in the first place. And authoritarians cheerfully broaden the definition of "terrorism" as an excuse to abuse people they don't like.

"The decision was opposed by justices Kagan, Jackson, and Sotomayor."

Lightning storm seen from above.

Sure, bureaucracy can sometimes be a nightmare, but *automated* bureaucracy is so much worse.
If you're going to automate something as serious as revoking someone's access to the tools they use to do their job, make sure someone can override it when there's a mistake.

"A few months after I started this blog, I experienced an influx of traffic like never before. I wrote an article that went "viral" on both Hacker News and Reddit..."

"“We’ve had a good run here,” Sacred Grounds owner David Lynch. Will it be back? That’s unclear."
If I'd read this last year, I would have assumed the David Lynch who owns the coffee shop was the coffee-obsessed filmmaker and gone through the whole thing wondering why that part wasn't mentioned before concluding he must be someone else. TL;DR on the article: the historic building is being renovated, so the space is being taken over for construction. The not-filmmaker-and-still-alive David Lynch hasn't decided whether to reopen elsewhere for the time being or focus on catering.

Basically getting the cell walls to pick up nanoscale iron particles
So far it's more durable than untreated wood, but it still has the same structural properties

"According to [iNaturalist], it's the most commonly seen creature in California: the western fence lizard. Why? The answer reflects how humans have invaded its space and how it has adapted to ours."

Boxy low-rise apartment buildings, often with some kind of design or artsy-looking logo on the front, built all over LA during the 50s and 60s.

"free speech in the US is a legal guarantee against government censorship, not a free pass to say anything without consequence in any context."
"Too often, however, the rhetoric of “absolute free speech” is used to criticise moderation or defederation decisions, especially when those decisions remove or limit harmful content. This perspective risks conflating censorship with community safety, and overlooks the very real harms that unmoderated online spaces can perpetuate, particularly towards marginalised groups."