Our choice in a democratic primary is stark and simple: Bernie Sanders, who has fought for progressive values his entire career, or Hillary Clinton, who says she supports progressive values when it’s politically expedient.
Source: I’m feeling the Bern, in part because I just don’t believe Secretary Clinton. – WIL WHEATON dot NET
Anger at Disney over last year’s hiring of foreign IT workers won’t relent.
Source: Ex-Disney IT workers sue after being asked to train their own H-1B replacements | Ars Technica
“Teach the controversy” is once again dressed up as “academic freedom.”
Source: This year’s first batch of anti-science education bills surface in Oklahoma | Ars Technica
California assembly member Jim Cooper (D-Elk Grove) introduced the legislation, bill 1681, that would require any smartphone manufactured “on or after January 1, 2017, and sold in California after that date” to be “capable of being decrypted and unlocked by its manufacturer or its operating system provider.”
Any smartphone that couldn’t be decrypted on demand would subject a seller to a $2,500 fine.
The voluntary anti-piracy agreement between anti-piracy groups and ISPs in Portugal has resulted in some unusual collateral damage. In addition to hundreds of pirate sites, the blocklist now also targets the website of Carbon Games, an American indie game company.
Source: Portugal’s Piracy Blocklist Censors U.S. Game Developer (Updated) – TorrentFreak
METAIRIE, La. (AP) — Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said Saturday the idea of religious neutrality is not grounded in the country’s constitutional traditions and that God has been good to the U.S. exactly because Americans honor him.
Source: Scalia dismisses concept of religious neutrality in speech
Examining a national database of health insurance claims, researchers found that 91 percent of patients who suffered a nonfatal overdose of prescription opioid painkillers continued getting prescriptions for opioids following the overdose. And, the researchers found, overdose survivors who kept taking high dosages of an opioid—including morphine, oxycodone, and hydrocodone—were twice as likely to have another overdose within two years.
Source: 91% of patients who survive opioid overdose are prescribed more opioids | Ars Technica
Of course, this very same Pete Hoekstra, who long defended NSA surveillance, didn’t seem to have much of an issue when the NSA was spying on anyone other than himself. Just last year, in a debate with Glenn Greenwald, Hoekstra mocked the idea that anyone was upset at the NSA spying on foreign governments and said if there was anything to complain about, it was that the NSA allowed such info to leak
After firing indicted CEO, company now fights to keep shares listed on NASDAQ.
Source: Martin Shkreli’s other pharma company files for bankruptcy | Ars Technica
A top official at Johnson & Johnson dismissed questions about drug price reform debate, saying that the company is “responsible” in pricing its drugs.
Source: Pharma Exec for Maker of $150,000 Cancer Drug Tells Investors Its Pricing Is “Very Responsible”
