Uganda aims to jail all LGBT people with death penalty for ‘aggravated homosexuality’
The new law is one of the harshest in the world against LGBT people with its proponents claiming they simply want to uphold traditional values.
Day: March 23, 2023
Light rail: Install turnstiles
Re: “Seattle’s bleak downtown light-rail stations have nowhere to go but up” [March 19, Local News]: I cannot understand why turnstiles are not installed at light-rail stations for payment of fare as they are in other transit systems and in the Seattle…
Time change: ‘Continuing in standard time is very natural’
Re: “Make standard time permanent” [March 10, Opinion]: I would like to second William F. Shughart II’s Op-Ed. We are already getting used to longer days and are adjusting gradually. Continuing in standard time is very natural; it is the disruption at …
Bug in Google Markup, Windows Photo-Cropping Tools Exposes Removed Image Data
Image-editing tools from Google and Microsoft contain the “aCropalypse” bug, which can reveal information users intentionally removed.
Good luck, California Journalism Preservation Act; farewell Olympia press corps houses
A California legislator is proposing a creative new way to help sustain local new organizations, by collecting a “journalism usage fee” from tech giants.
Exiled opposition leader doesn’t want the world to forget about oppression in Belarus
NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly talks with exiled Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya. After being tried in absentia, she was recently convicted to 15 years in prison on charges of treason.
Uniquely New Orleans mayoral recall effort fails
New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell said a “great weight” has been lifted from her with the failure of a recall petition drive that began in August.
AP sources: Notre Dame closing deal with PSU’s Shrewsberry
Notre Dame is finalizing a deal to make Penn State’s Micah Shrewsberry its new men’s basketball coach, two people with direct knowledge of the situation told The Associated Press.