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About a month ago, we reported that Nevada (with a healthy dose of lobbying by Google) was considering legislation that would effectively legalize self-driving cars in that state. Today, Assembly Bill No. 511 passed, granting the Department of Transportation the authorization to draft a set of regulations and rules governing autonomous cars. Pop goes the champagne in Mountain View.
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We are releasing hundreds of private intelligence bulletins, training manuals, personal email correspondence, names, phone numbers, addresses and passwords belonging to Arizona law enforcement. We are targeting AZDPS specifically because we are against SB1070 and the racial profiling anti-immigrant police state that is Arizona.
The documents classified as "law enforcement sensitive", "not for public
distribution", and "for official use only" are primarily related to border
patrol and counter-terrorism operations and describe the use of informants to
infiltrate various gangs, cartels, motorcycle clubs, Nazi groups, and protest
movements.Every week we plan on releasing more classified documents and embarassing
personal details of military and law enforcement in an effort not just to reveal
their racist and corrupt nature but to purposefully sabotage their efforts to
terrorize communities fighting an unjust "war on drugs".Hackers of the world are uniting and taking direct action against our common
oppressors - the government, corporations, police, and militaries of the world.
See you again real soon! ;Dvia boingboing.netThe Anouncement on Twitter and, of course, the 446MB torrent for download.
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The advice got Wintermute thinking. What was the most valuable compound they could make with the toolkit of synthetic biology? Some research came up with a few candidates including a few very sophisticated cancer drugs. But another compound was up there in monetary terms: LSD. The value by weight was astronomical.
Wintermute and his colleagues had a good laugh about that. But the more they looked into it, the more interesting - and viable - the drug looked. Around 20 tonnes of lysergic acid, a precursor of LSD, are made each year and turned into real medicines, such as nicergoline, a treatment for dementia. The drug is purified from big vats of fungus (which make the compound naturally) using technology developed decades ago.
With the tools of synthetic biology, Wintermute thought they might do better. The ergot fungus takes lysergic acid and turns it into a huge variety of exotic molecules. They could mix and match biological pathways from different species of ergot fungus and make potentially new drug molecules. They might even come up with a next generation dementia drug.
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This is one of my favorite music videos as of late. The whimsical glitch and crazy hair nail the vibe.
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The Books, my favorite musical group in existence, has just released recordings of their Daytrotter Session. For those not in the know, Daytrotter Sessions are small studio recordings that are done at The Horseshack in Rock Island, Illinois. Many famous musicians and artists have recorded there before - from Bela Fleck to Matisyahu to Tokyo Police Club. The simple, analog nature of the recordings lend an amazingly unique and low-fidelity sound that brings out the heart of the music. And this short session by The Books is no exception.
I really enjoy the clarity of the vocals on these tracks - especially Smells Like Content, which has some of my favorite lyrics. The album is free for download, so please go and do so. -
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via i.imgur.comReligion - it's all fun and games until someone gets raped. Then, you better fucking marry your rapist. Also, interracial marriages are an abomination - just like gay sex and shaving your beard.
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Amazingly well done, but not really Mr. Herzog. There is also a hilarious Winnie The Pooh reading and another of the classic story Madeline.
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