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karlauerbach

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I'm a techie & attorney.

Been on the net a long time.

I have a Norbert Wiener Award for Social and Professional Responsibility, and I've been a Fellow of Law and Technology at CalTech & Loyola/Marymount Law.

And yes, I am that person who was elected to the ICANN Board of Directors and who ended up suing them to see the financials (I won, hands down.)

Everything there is to know about me is on my personal and company websites:

https://cavebear.com/
https://iwl.com/

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Nancy Pelosi Has The Most Scathing 5-Word Prediction For Donald Trump—And It's Perfection

https://secondnexus.com/pelosi-trump-convicted-loser-again?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=infeed&utm_campaign=linkprogram

karlauerbach ,
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@georgetakei She could have uttered much better words when TFG stalked her around the debate stage in 2016:

"Do you need to use the toilet? Do you need directions? We will wait."

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Will the GOP try to steal the 2024 election? After the events of January 6, 2021, it's only natural to question the lengths Trump and his MAGA movement will go to secure a victory, regardless of the vote count. However, there's hope. Today on The Big Picture, writer Jay Kuo discusses the guardrails now in place to protect our democracy. But a threat still looms. Stay informed and prepared. https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/trump-overturn-biden-election-2024

karlauerbach ,
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@georgetakei Don't forget to take a look at Lessig's recent book "How To Steal A Presidential Election". Their analysis is not so positive.

https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300270792/how-to-steal-a-presidential-election/

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Executive Pay is Out of Control https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qpd0MGYESBw&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

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@rbreich On July 1 I will become a CEO. My pay (including many non-monetary benefits) is $0 until employees and contractors get paid.

From my point of view, only larger businesses are doing well enough to have big executive and CEO payouts: smaller companies here in the US are struggling.

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Tesla investors sue Elon Musk for diverting carmaker’s resources to xAI

Lawsuit: Musk's xAI poached Tesla employees, Nvidia GPUs, and data.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/06/tesla-investors-sue-elon-musk-for-diverting-carmakers-resources-to-xai/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

karlauerbach ,
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@arstechnica They have a valid civil case for unauthorized expropriation of corporate assets. I am not sure, however, whether a criminal case could be sustained. The SEC might also have some grounds for action.

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Elon Musk is diverting Tesla’s GPUs to X, xAI, Nvidia emails say

The Tesla CEO is accused of diverting resources from the company again.

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/06/elon-musk-is-diverting-teslas-gpus-to-x-xai-nvidia-emails-say/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

karlauerbach ,
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@arstechnica If done without proper authorization from Tesla's board this could be characterized as criminal theft. I also get this tingling that says "check for SEC rule violations".

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Facing more than half a billion dollars in legal judgments and fees, Trump just sold his $10 million jet to one of his megadonors.

Is the fire sale beginning?

karlauerbach ,
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@rbreich Perhaps these sales are a form of money laundering?

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Oh, puhh-leeeeze. https://www.comicsands.com/donald-trump-trial-mother-teresa-2668424845.html?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=infeed&utm_campaign=linkprogram

karlauerbach ,
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@georgetakei TFG kinda forgot an important point of comparison:

Mother Teresa is dead, and has been for a while.

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Google starts deprecating older, more capable Chrome extensions next week

Chrome's Manifest V3 transition is here. First up are warnings for any V2 extensions.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/google-starts-deprecating-older-more-capable-chrome-extensions-next-week/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

karlauerbach ,
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@arstechnica Friends do not allow friends to use Chrome.

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DNS glitch that threatened Internet stability fixed; cause remains unclear

For 4 days, the c-root server maintained by Cogent lost touch with its 12 peers.

https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/05/dns-glitch-that-threatened-internet-stability-fixed-cause-remains-unclear/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

karlauerbach ,
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@arstechnica The a-, b--, c-, etc root servers do not really talk to one another.

Rather they fetch their master zone file from Verisign who has a contract to maintain the root zone file.

The DNSSEC anchor file is obtained from IANA.

How a root server operator deploys these files through their anycast suite of actual physical servers is pretty up to the root server operator.

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Each of Trump's 34 criminal counts of false business filings in the New York case carries a penalty of up to four years in prison.

If Trump is convicted, what should the sentence be?

karlauerbach ,
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@rbreich Attica prison, in the general population.

Or in Kushner's cheapest tenement.

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Donald Trump has violated the gag order placed on him during his NY trial ten times so far. If he keeps violating it, what should Judge Juan Merchan do?

karlauerbach ,
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@rbreich I'd love to see the judge grab a role of Duct Tape, come down from the bench, and slap a strip of tape over TFG's mouth. But I dream.

I like the picking up trash idea, but I have no idea of NY law allows it.

So, that leaves me with "jail". I do not care diddly squat if that inconveniences the Secret Service (although some agents might suffer PTSD from what they see.)

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Whether it's the Electoral College, the U.S. Senate, or partisan gerrymandering, Republicans have mastered the art of exploiting anti-majoritarian structures in our system to wield power. Join us for a conversation with author Ari Berman, whose new book Minority Rule explores this GOP power play and what we can do to combat it. Catch up on this eye-opening discussion at The Big Picture here. https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/ari-berman-minority-rule-republicans

karlauerbach ,
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@georgetakei Don't forget Larry Lessig and Matthew Seligman's new book "How To Steal A Presidential Election"

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Updating California’s grid for EVs may cost up to $20 billion

Charging electric vehicles at home will exceed most power lines' capacity.

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/04/updating-californias-grid-for-evs-may-cost-up-to-20-billion/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

karlauerbach ,
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@arstechnica Home charging is already putting stress on in-home wiring. I know of too many houses with 100Amp or less feeds with wiring that is not up to the task.

We down-rated our home Tesla charger to 3.5kw to make sure we don't overload our in-house wiring.

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Excuse me but how is Louis DeJoy still postmaster general?

His destructive 10-year plan for the Post Office—slowing mail delivery, hiking prices for consumers, and speeding up privatization—is in full effect.

Hello?

karlauerbach ,
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@rbreich Under NoJoy's go-slow regime I've had important documents s,ent First Class, that took nearly two weeks to go from San Francisco to New York.

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