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'$300m in cryptocurrency' accidentally lost forever due to bug | Technology | The Guardian

User mistakenly takes control of hundreds of wallets containing cryptocurrency Ether, destroying them in a panic while trying to give them back

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Ryan breaks record for shutting down floor debate - POLITICO

The House speaker has kept a tight grip on amendments despite promising a ‘more open, more inclusive’ process.

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Lab-grown insects approved by EPA to kill mosquitoes - CNET

Lab-grown mosquitoes armed with bacterium Wolbachia pipientis could be the key to killing off insects that often transmit dangerous viruses such as Zika.

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The more righteous seduced in partaking of their spoils! A referendum approving stealing from everyone.

Maine becomes first state to expand Medicaid by referendum - Axios

The Affordable Care Act's Medicaid expansion was a big winner tonight: Voters in Maine approved a ballot measure to participate in the expansion, and Democrats' significant gains in Virginia improved the odds it will expand the program, too.



Helaman 6:38 And it came to pass on the other hand, that the Nephites did build them up and support them, beginning at the more wicked part of them, until they had overspread all the land of the Nephites, and had seduced the more part of the righteous until they had come down to believe in their works and partake of their spoils, and to join with them in their secret murders and combinations.

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Deliberately electing the mentally ill!

Danica Roem Elected Virginia's First Transgender State Legislator - NBC4 Washington

Discrimination "is a disqualifier," Danica Roem says after her victory

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Feds want cash seized in a raid last year, so they’re suing the cash | Miami Herald

The federal government is suing a bundle of cash seized in a drug raid last year near Key West that turned up a smaller amount of cocaine and marijuana than agents anticipated they’d find when they served their warrant.

As in many “in rem” asset forfeiture cases, the feds want the money because they suspect it was gained from illegal drug sales. The people arrested in the case were charged, and one has already pleaded guilty to cocaine possession. The other defendant’s marijuana and drug paraphernalia case is still in the courts.

The money, totaling $166,400, was found in a laundry basket inside a Big Coppitt Key home where a federal, state and local drug task force executed a search warrant on Jan. 10. Agents deposited the money in the U.S. Marshals Service Seized Asset Account, and federal prosecutors want to make sure it stays there.

According to Forbes, “Under civil forfeiture, property owners do not have to be convicted of a crime, or even charged with one, to permanently lose their property. Instead, the government can forfeit a property if it’s found to ‘facilitate’ a crime, no matter how tenuous the connection. So rather than sue the owner, in civil forfeiture proceedings, the government sues the property itself.”

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To Fight Revenge Porn, Facebook Is Asking to See Your Nudes - Motherboard

Facebook has a new strategy for combating revenge porn: It wants to see your nudes first, before an abuser has the chance to spread them.

As part of a new feature the social network is testing in Australia, users are being asked to upload explicit photos of themselves before they send them to anyone else, according to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC).

This is how the new feature works. First, you upload an explicit image of yourself to Facebook Messenger (you can do so by starting a conversation with yourself). Then, you flag it as a "non-consensual intimate image" for Facebook.

The social network then builds what is referred to as a "hash" of the image, meaning it creates a unique fingerprint for the file. Facebook says it is not storing the photos, just the hashes of the photos. If another user tries to upload the same image on Facebook or Instagram, Facebook will test it against its stored hashes, and stop those labeled as revenge porn from being distributed.

One information security researcher I spoke to said using the new feature requires putting an enormous amount of trust in Facebook.

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Group Calling National Anthem Lyrics Racist, Anti-Black « CBS13 | CBS Sacramento

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — The California NAACP is pushing to get rid of the national anthem that they’re calling racist and anti-black.

“This song is wrong; it shouldn’t have been there, we didn’t have it ’til 1931, so it won’t kill us if it goes away,” said the organization’s president Alice Huffman.

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Group Calling National Anthem Lyrics Racist, Anti-Black « CBS13 | CBS Sacramento

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — The California NAACP is pushing to get rid of the national anthem that they’re calling racist and anti-black.

“This song is wrong; it shouldn’t have been there, we didn’t have it ’til 1931, so it won’t kill us if it goes away,” said the organization’s president Alice Huffman.

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Boy with rare deadly disease gets whole new skin

LONDON — Doctors treating a critically ill boy with a devastating skin disease used experimental gene therapy to create an entirely new skin for most of his body in a desperate attempt to save his life.

Two years later, the doctors report the boy is doing so well that he doesn’t need any medication, is back in school and even playing soccer.

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Wichita police monitoring Old Town with cameras | The Wichita Eagle

In what many are perceiving as a “Big-Brother” move, officers of the Wichita Police Department no longer need to catch your improper left turn or rolling, incomplete stop in person.

If you are caught making a violation on camera by a staffer who is monitoring Old Town from an office in City Hall, that staffer will call and alert a nearby officer of your violation.

The staffer will provide the officer with your location, a description of your vehicle and what violation you made.

That officer can then pull you over.

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Congress hears ideas on altering clouds to offset climate change. | McClatchy Washington Bureau

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Ever-higher temperatures are melting the ice sheets faster than projected. Sea level is rising. International efforts to reduce greenhouse gases are taking longer than expected. It’s a nightmare scenario that could soon demand an emergency response. What to do?

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Border Patrol losing agents faster than it can hire them - Washington Times

The U.S. Border Patrol is losing agents faster than it can hire them, according to a new audit released Wednesday that said competition with other federal law enforcement and the difficulty of passing a polygraph test have sapped the agency of nearly 2,000 agents it’s supposed to have.

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With Election of Trans, Bi Women, Palm Springs City Council Now Entirely Queer | Advocate.com

The Palm Springs, Calif., City Council now has transgender and bisexual members – and is entirely LGBT or queer.

Lisa Middleton made history as the first openly trans candidate elected to a nonjudicial office in California (Victoria Kolakowski was elected an Alameda County Superior Court judge in 2010). She and Christy Holstege, a bi woman, won the two open seats on the City Council in a field of six candidates in Tuesday’s election. Their election means that the desert city’s council is 100 percent LGBT or queer, according to Equality California, with representation from across the spectrum of those identities.

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Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and Warren Buffett are richer than poorest half of US | Business | The Guardian

The three richest people in the US – Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and Warren Buffett – own as much wealth as the bottom half of the US population, or 160 million people.

Analysis of the wealth of America’s richest people found that Gates, Bezos and Buffett were sitting on a combined $248.5bn (£190bn) fortune. The Institute for Policy Studies said the growing gap between rich and poor had created a “moral crisis”.

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Texting While Crossing The Street? It Could Cost You « CBS Chicago

“Everybody does it and then everybody is irritated when someone else does it. So my total view is I want to look at it. I think it has something to do with peoples own safety,” Mayor Rahm Emanuel said.

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Smallville's Allison Mack 'second in command of sex cult' | Daily Mail Online

Allison Mack, 35, is reportedly second in command of a secret sex cult at the heart of self-help group NXIVM
Mack is perhaps best known for playing Clark Kent's friend Chloe Sullivan on the long-running TV series Smallville 
NXIVM, founded by Keith Raniere brands itself as a self-help group, but former members have said it's really a cult 
Frank Parlato, a former spokesman for NXIVM, revealed on his blog that Mack has been running a secret sorority within the cult that brands women 
The sorority, called DOS, has a master-slave hierarchy where Mack is only second to Raniere in terms of seniority, the blog states
She then presides over a small group of slaves, who in turn must recruit their own set of slaves or else face corporeal punishment
On her personal website, Mack says Raniere has been her mentor for many years 
A spokesman for Mack said the actress is not speaking to the press currently 
Earlier this week, former Dynasty star Catherine Oxenberg met with prosecutors in New York to detail her daughter's experience in the group  

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Sean Parker unloads on Facebook "exploiting" human weakness

Sean Parker, the founding president of Facebook, gave me a candid insider's look at how social networks purposely hook and potentially hurt our brains.

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Future human brains and bodies could be hacked | Web Summit 2017

HUMANS could live in underwater cities and hack our own biology for super hero abilities, according to a multi-millionaire who wants to put a chip in your head.

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Monopoly critics decry ‘Amazon amendment’ | TheHill

Lawmakers put the finishing touches this week on military funding legislation that contains a provision that stands to significantly benefit Amazon.

The amendment, Section 801 of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), would help Amazon establish a tight grip on the lucrative, $53 billion government acquisitions market, experts say.  

The provision, dubbed the “Amazon amendment” by experts, according to an article in The Intercept, would allow for the creation of an online portal that government employees could use to purchase everyday items such as office supplies or furniture.

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How Some Small Banks Are Firing the Fed - WSJ

Bank of the Ozarks wanted to cut costs, so it ditched the Fed.

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Why Campus Rape Tribunals Hand Down So Many 'Guilty' Verdicts | The Weekly Standard

In subsequent court testimony after the accused sued Brown, Rodriguez admitted that she had not considered the accuser’s text messages or other post-incident behavior as having any bearing on the case. The reason, she said, was the hours of training that Brown had provided to prepare her to adjudicate the complaint—training required by the federal government. Rodriguez was specifically told that the impact of trauma on sexual-assault victims often causes them to behave in counterintuitive ways, such as not being able to recount a consistent set of facts or choosing to communicate with (rather than to avoid) the alleged assailant. “I felt like it couldn’t—I couldn’t really put myself in her shoes to understand why she was representing it that way,” explained Rodriguez, “so best not to attempt to judge her behavior.”

But judging the accuser’s behavior, noted U.S. District Judge William Smith, “was precisely her job as a panel member: to interpret the evidence and make factual determinations about it.” He added, “It appears what happened here was that a training presentation was given that resulted in at least one panelist completely disregarding an entire category of evidence”—evidence severely damaging to the accuser’s credibility.

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Public defenders sue over masturbating Chicago jail inmates

CHICAGO (Reuters) - A group of Chicago female public defenders has sued the operator of one of the nation's largest jails and their employer in federal court over sexual harassment by inmates, including masturbation often directed at them.

The lawsuit, filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Chicago by six Cook County public defenders, alleges that more than 200 female defenders and law clerks since 2015 have endured "heinous sexual misconduct" by male inmates in the jail and courtroom holding cells.

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5 Pointz developer broke law by whitewashing buildings, says jury - Curbed NY

Update: A jury has concluded that 5 Pointz developer Jerry Wolkoff violated the law when he whitewashed that buildings without warning, erasing graffiti from dozens of artists. The jury’s findings will serve as a recommendation to the lawsuit’s presiding judge, who will then render a final verdict, reports the New York Times.

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