In the wake of Aaron Swartz’s suicide last week, Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren of California has posted a newly proposed bill on Reddit that seeks to amend the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. More »
There’s a little known species of Wookiee that is often seen walking out of the ocean, known as Seaweed Wookiees. Okay, that’s a lie, but it would be cool to have ocean dwelling Wookiees that attacked folks on land. For now, all we have is this image from friends of redditor entreprenerds, who assembled this seaweed critter on a beach in Queensland.
It’s pretty cool and I never would have thought that seaweed would have made such good Wookiee fur. And yes, nerds, we are aware that his bandolier is on the wrong shoulder. I must be a super nerd myself, because it was the first thing that I noticed. If it bothers you that much, just do a horizontal transform in Photoshop and you’ll be fine.
It kind of looks like a Chewbacca scarecrow – which I would also like to see. Maybe this guy can help out with my request.
[via Neatorama]
Digital activist and cofounder of Reddit, Aaron Swartz died on Friday after committing suicide according to a relative of Swartz. Along with co-founding Reddit, Swartz was the founder of DemandProgress.org, co-creator of the RSS 1.0 standard at the young age of 14 and was a strong proponent of Internet freedom.
Swartz was arrested in 2011 for accusations of stealing more than 4 million documents from MIT and JSTOR consisting of articles, book reviews and academic partner journals. He would have faced as much as $2 million in fines and as much as 50 years in prison if convicted. Swartz pled not guilty in September of 2012.
The news of Swartz death comes only two days after JSTOR announced that it will be releasing more than 4.5 million articles to the public.
Former Reddit co-owner and founder of DemandProgress, Aaron Swartz committed suicide at the age of 26 in New York City yesterday, according to reports by The Tech. Swartz had been battling criminal charges related to his attempts to make JSTOR archives public and had been facing up to 50 years in prison and $4 million dollars in fines at the time of his death. More »
These days Reddit is an internet behemoth that shapes opinion and rapidly spreads news, but sometimes it’s easy to forget that it only started up in 2005. In this video, founders Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian explain how the site was born. More »
Today in things that will never happen, Republican Representative Darrell Issa has proposed a new bill called the Internet American Moratorium Act (IAMA) that would put a stop to any internet-related lawmaking for the next two years. More »
Four days ago, the rage comic above was posted to Reddit by CappnPoopdeck. It described the true story of her friend, a man who decided to try his ex-girlfriend’s pregnancy test himself. To his surprise and confusion, the results came back positive. Funny? Sure, sort of. But also, Reddit commenters quickly noted, a symptom of a potentially deadly disease. More »
UPDATE 1 (6:03PM EST): There’s another machine in Pennsylvania doing the exact same thing.
This morning, Reddit user centralpavoter posted a video that purported to show a malfunctioning voting machine in Pennsylvania, a key “swing” state. But the most concerning part of the video (embedded after the jump) is that it showed someone repeatedly trying to vote for Obama on a digital touchscreen, but the computer instead locks in a vote for Mitt Romney. This is in the same state that had several long-running court cases surrounding voter intimidation and suppression We got confirmation from MSNBC that the machine was in fact not working, and that it was pulled. Now, Mother Jones is reporting that Matthew Keeler, spokesman for Pennslyvania, said state workers “recalibrated” the machine and it’s back in service. They couldn’t pull the most famous malfunctioning voting machine in America out of service just for today? (more…)
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predditors.tumblr.com is back up! (h/t @jessicakroy, who has a statement from @tumblr forthcoming) More »
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