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This marks the 10th anniversary of the Foilies â awards given to the public agencies responsible for the most egregious, absurd and outrageous defiance of freedom of information requests:
The Foilies are awarded by EFF and Muckrock. This year's honorees are an entire Coen Brothers movie's worth of bizarre excuses and shenanigans. Top honors (the "Not-So-Magic-Word" award) goes to Augusta County, VA:
The staff at the Augusta County Sheriff's office somehow got the impression that if they wants to make an official communique immune to a public records request, all they had to do was add the words "NO FOIA" to the memo.
Needless to say, the law doesn't work this way. When a county employee anonymously tipped Breaking the News off to this practice, the organization quite naturally filed a request for every county document containing the phrase "NO FOIA." Given that the county's employees had thoughtfully tagged every document they suspected would get them into trouble with these words, it's no wonder that the request delivered a bumper-crop of news stories of incompetence and corruption:
These scandals come from just 140 of the 1,212 "NO FOIA" emails the county admits it has on hand â the remainder have been illegally withheld. Breaking Through News and The Augusta Press sued the county for the remaining emails and won â though the county has indicated that it might waste public funds appealing the decision:
There are so many great â by which I mean terrible â stories in this year's Foilies that it's hard to pick just a few to highlight, but boy oh boy, does the Chesterfield, Virginia Police have a doozy this year:
The police of Chesterfield County, VA claim that the names of every police officer on the force should be kept secret, because one or more of those cops might someday work undercover. As EFF writes, "Itâs not at all dystopian to claim that a public law enforcement agency needs to have secret police!"
Now, I don't want to give you the impression that all this nonsense stems from small-town-Deputy-Dawg-Barney-Fife-type dimwits with harebrained schemes. Big, important statewide offices are also in the mix. Take Arkansas governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who spends millions in public funds for her family to travel around America accompanied by an Arkansas State Police detail:
Governor Huckabee Sanders's relentless waste of public funds generated a steady, humiliating drumbeat of news coverage. This made the governor both sad and angry, prompting her to attempt to block FOIA requests for her travel spending, and when that failed, to call a special session of the legislature to enact sweeping limitations on Arkansas's sunshine law:
The governor's farcical wish-list of anti-transparency measures didn't just put severe limits on the disclosure of her use of public funds. It also contained a raft of administrative changes, like an end to the practice of FOIA plaintiffs being able to recover their legal fees if they successfully sued the government for illegally suppressing disclosures.
In the end, Governor Huckabee Sanders was defeated â a torrent of opposition to the bill removed its most odious clauses, though, as EFF notes, it's a near-certainty that Huckabee Sanders will try again in the next legislative session.
The military got in on the act this year, too: the USAF's FOIA portal was altered so that filers had to swear that their request pertained to "clearly releasable" records â then failed to define "clearly releasable." After a PR fiasco, they walked the changes back:
Now: on to Wyoming! Wye not? Democracy may "die in darkness," but culture war bullshit thrives in the absence of sunshine. When (former) Wyoming Superintendent of Public Instruction Brian Schroeder and Wyoming Department of Education Chief Communications Officer Linda Finnerty decided to waste public money on an private "Stop the Sexualization of Our Children" event, they correctly judged that secrecy would be key to pulling off the scam:
When Wyomingans sought details about the pro-censorship event, Schroeder and Finnerty manufactured "misleading statements" about the event and its funding:
Schroeder also illegally withheld his text messages from a public records request, ignoring state's attorneys' advice (instead, Schroeder took bad legal advice from his friend, a private attorney named Drake Hill, who told him he didn't have to follow the law):
The resulting lawsuit turned up 1,500+ texts and emails â enough damning evidence to discredit Schroeder and Finnerty, and to set important new precedent for sunshine laws in the cowboy state:
When you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bills. That's the strategy of both the Baltimore Police Department and the Richmond, Virginia Police Department. Baltimore's cops told Open Justice Baltimore that they would need to hand over one miiiiilion dollars if they wanted to see the department's use-of-force records. The Baltimore PD argued that the public interest fee waiver didn't apply to use-of-force records, because there was no public interest in knowing about how the only people in the state legally allowed to hit, kick, choke and shoot other people used force:
Baltimore police eventually dropped the ask to a mere $245k, which a court totally rejected, saying it contributed to the impression that the BPD had "something to hide":
Meanwhile, back in Virginia, the Richmond police told Open Oversight VA that they would have to pay $7,873.14 for a copy of the police's 151-item list of procedures â $52.14/hour for a pre-release review of each of those procedures (most police departments just post their procedures to their websites):
I opened this highlight reel in Virginia, and that's a good place to stop it. I hope you'll go read the rest, I've barely scratched the surface. And once you've read these all, I hope you'll try it for yourself!
As EFF and Muckrock say:
It's easy to feel powerless in these times, as local newsrooms close, and elected officials embrace disinformation as a standard political tool. But here's what you can do, and we promise it'll make you feel better: Pick a local agencyâit could be a city council, a sheriff's office or state department of natural resourcesâand send them an email demanding their public record-request log, or any other record showing what requests they receive, how long it took them to respond, whether they turned over records, and how much they charged the requester for copies.
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The discovery of 215 bodies buried in unmarked graves behind a jail outside of Jackson, Mississippi, has left a community in disbelief. The
I fully assumed these were archival graves. Maybe we're just figuring out that 75 or 100 years ago, people were being buried in unmarked graves outside a jail house. Which is also awful, but different from 215 people buried in unmarked graves after 2016, often while their families were actively trying to find out where they disappeared to.
December 05 marked the anniversary of the massacre of striking workers of the United Fruit Company on the Caribbean coast of Colombia in 1928, where thousands were killed. The company responsible is known today as âChiquita.â
Kissenger was still a baby in 1928, but when we talk about installing facist dictators to dismantle functional socialist states, we're talking about companies like Chiquita who liked things the way they were: workers strike to demand compensation (literally any compensation sometimes; they were often living on land that the company claimed to own, and faced being forced off the land if they refused to keep working for free; and how, exactly, did the company come to own it?) and the military shuts that shit down.
I don't have the history of Columbia, specifically, at my fingertips, but this was happening all over Central America across the 20th century. Countries finally managed to establish governments that were not going to slaughter workers for striking and suddenly labor was awfully inconveniently expensive. And so we got some dictators in there to shut that shit down and get our cheap labor back.
And to convince American's that unions are some evil commie badness.
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The Kingdom of Hawaii never needed you. They werenât backwards lazy people living in grass huts and even if they were, so the fuck what? You kidnapped their teenaged princess and stole their land by holding her hostage. Shut the fuck up about your self-important and arrogant belief that you were uplifting Hawaiians. Especially when you have proven completely incapable of taking care of the land which you have stolen and illegally seized and occupied.
This is your occasional reminder that literally every culture, nation or community that white America has labeled "lazy" was actually just difficult to subjugate and not willing to do to backbreaking farm labor for the whole purpose of enriching an extractive colonial power.
The CDC reviewed death certificates across the country and found about 3,500 deaths related to Long COVID from January 2020 to June 2022. To find more details on these deaths, MuckRock analyzed death certificates in several states.
In a first-of-its-kind analysis, we have detailed death certificate records in Chicago; Californiaâs Bay Area, Los Angeles and San Diego; Mi
tldr I was looking up the classification system for cerebral palsy (GMFCS) and part of the 2nd level is "climbing stairs with the use of a railing" which just about knocked me out. Ableds. . . are you not. . . using railings? it's right there? this is trying to tell me it's abled culture Not to use the railing?
Are you physically able-bodied and do you use the handrail on the stairs?
I am able-bodied and use the handrail always/almost always (ex: hands are full)
I am able-bodied and never use the handrail/only use in certain cases (tag them)
I am disabled and want to click a button/show results
Voting ended onMay 11, 2023
(use your best judgement as to whether or not abledness applies to you here. mostly I mean disabilities that would have some impact on stair-climbing, natch. chronic pain/fatigue counts, but, like, d/Deafness wouldn't, you get me?)
I'm able bodied and relatively agile most of the time I would rather not touch the railing if I don't have to. They slow me down.
I don't think that makes me special or anything, but you asked. If I'm unsteady for some reason (carrying a child who is too big to be carried) I might. but otherwise, touching hand railings is an exceptional event. Mostly I don't think about it, but often when I do I first ask myself whether that is something I need to touch.
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Anyone who is an admin on your G-Suite can see your whole calendar, including events that you've marked private. They don't have to do anything special to see that.
"Administrators have full access to all calendars in a domain, and can see all event details, regardless of whether individual users have shared calendars with them."
Issue A user with administrator rights sees all my event details, and the Calendar is visible under the administrator's My Calendars instead
As a G-Suite admin I can take a few steps and access your email, and it is relatively simple to restore anything you've deleted within the last 30 days. But I have to take steps.
If I subscribe to your calendar, which I do because I want to be able to turn people's calendars on and see who is free when, as an admin I see the details of private events as a matter of course. I encourage my staff to put "out of office" on their staff calendar and use a personal calendar for details of any appointment.
You thought the first page of Google was bunk before? You haven't seen Google where SEO optimizer bros pump out billions of perfectly coherent but predictably dull informational articles for every longtail keyword combination under the sun.
Marketers, influencers, and growth hackers will set up OpenAI â Zapier pipelines that auto-publish a relentless and impossibly banal stream of LinkedIn #MotivationMonday posts, âengagingâ tweet đ§ľÂ threads, Facebook outrage monologues, and corporate blog posts.
It goes beyond text too: video essays on YouTube, TikTok clips, podcasts, slide decks, and Instagram stories can all be generated by patchworking together ML systems. And then regurgitated for each medium.
We're about to drown in a sea of pedestrian takes. An explosion of noise that will drown out any signal. Goodbye to finding original human insights or authentic connections under that pile of cruft.
Many people will say we already live in this reality. We've already become skilled at sifting through unhelpful piles of âoptimised contentâ designed to gather clicks and advertising impressions.
4chan proposed dead internet theory years ago: that most of the internet is âempty and devoid of peopleâ and has been taken over by artificial intelligence. A milder version of this theory is simply that we're overrun with bots. Most of us take that for granted at this point.
But I think the sheer volume and scale of what's coming will be meaningfully different. And I think we're unprepared. Or at least, I am.
What we're really looking at is a universe where history books talk about how Google was incredibly useful for about decade before it was so utterly polluted that it ceased to be useful.
We'll have to go back to curated resources like libraries or something.
Nearly three years into the cityâs wastewater surveillance program, New York City has neither a local dashboard nor a clear strategy for how
New York City health and environmental protection agencies have been testing for COVID-19 in our sewers since early 2020, but transparency issues abound.
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Apple propaganda notwithstanding, the reason tower PCs are big isnât because theyâre outdated. The reason tower PCs are so bulky is because theyâre designed to be user serviceable. The case has lots of open space so your big, meaty hands can easily access all of the components, and everything is secured with friction-fit tabs and standard machine screws to minimise the need for specialised tools. A properly laid out tower PC is fully serviceable with a single Phillips-head screwdriver and no greater manual skill than your average Lego playset â heck, for some of the more modern case layouts you donât even need the screwdriver, unless youâre performing major surgery like a full motherboard replacement.
Like, think about who benefits from convincing you that a fully modular computing device that can be serviced and repaired with your bare hands and minimal technical skill is unfashionable.
I used to have a job where I would take computers apart and put new hard drives and RAM in and it was not a big deal.
I love that I can have one computer that folds flat and fits in a backpack and goes with me anywhere I want to take it (which is nowhere if I'm being honest) but yeah: unless you're designing for portability there's no reason to spurn towers.
For the last few months, Iâve been wincing a bit every time I see a
Maslowâs Hierarchy was developed from Maslowâs firsthand observations of the Blackfoot Nation, a highly successful and developed society with which he embedded himself before drafting his theory. Check out the archival photo below of Maslow at the Blackfoot Reserve in Alberta. Maslow was apparently stuck on his theory of human development and went to spend time with the Blackfoot, which greatly influenced his theory. He âborrowed generouslyâ (to put it lightly) âfrom the Blackfoot people to refine his psychological theory on the hierarchy of needsâ.
Why donât we know this? According to Dr. Pace, the American and Canadian governments buried the Blackfoot roots of Maslowâs theory because they didnât want to elevate a positive narrative about the Blackfoot people. In this excerpt of my interview with Dr. Pace, she talks about elders today who remember Maslow spending time on the reserve as he studied their sophisticated society including a âgrannyâ who said, âOh, I remember him.â At some point, Dr. Pace encouraged her colleague Dr. Sidney Brown, Behavioral Health Director at Navajo Regional Behavioral Health Center, to write a book on this topic. Dr. Brown went to the Smithsonian archives to find more information and eventually connected with Maslowâs daughter who gave her permission to excavate Maslowâs hidden archival box. There, she found this unsung story and began to unravel it in her own book, Native Self-Actualization: Transformation Beyond Greed.**
So take a deep breath and take this all in⌠One of the most popular conceptual models in Western education was built on the wisdom and sophistication of a First Nations society, which was then made completely invisible in the literature. This is not to disparage Maslow or suggest that his model lacks value. There is certainly merit in thinking about a hierarchy of needs as we aim to support students, and particularly ensuring that our institutions attend to foundational physiological and safety needs.
This is making the rounds and I for sure find it very interesting (and unsurprising, if I'm being honest) but there are two almost conflicting assertions here: first that Maslow stole his hierarchy from the Blackfoot people and the other that the first nations perspective flips the hierarchy on its head. I feel like they're two very different conversations.
The way I learned Maslow was closer to "you can't thrive without these things" and there's a degree of truth to that, but it also perpetuates the idea that before you can have ideas you have to have food and safety (and therefore people living in vulnerable circumstances and also whole communities that don't have basic needs met a cannot possibly have meaningful ideas.)
But that's kind of different from the idea that the individual is the pinnacle of liberation and achievement.
And that primacy of the individual is something that Americans, or at least white Americans in particular (probably not just Americans and I suspect that a lot of this is rooted in European Christianity) learn about individualism in a way that presupposes that self reliance is the prioritized by every culture in the same way. Realizing that whole cultures just see the world entirely differently is something I do over and over because the way I learned to see the world (and the individual) is so deeply ingrained.
Anyway: these are a few different distinct disjointed thoughts about this post and about Maslow.
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