Weekly Shaarli

All links of one week in a single page.

Week 25 (June 18, 2018)

'It's ours now' - Homeless people take over Bristol city centre park and padlock gates shut - Bristol Live
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“I took one of the homeless guys I know aside in the town centre when I saw him and asked what was going on in St James’s Park and he said ‘We’ve taken it over, it’s ours now, we’ve got it for the people’,” he added.

2007 Boston Mooninite panic - Wikipedia
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The 2007 Boston Mooninite panic occurred on Wednesday, January 31, 2007, after the Boston Police Department and the Boston Fire Department mistakenly identified battery-powered LED placards depicting the Mooninites, characters from the Adult Swim animated television series Aqua Teen Hunger Force, as improvised explosive devices.

The Punk Rock Church That Could Be a Cult
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A little expose of Cleetus Adrian and his church.

Jailed for charging a phone: Under Boulder law, theft of electricity can land citizens in court - Boulder Daily Camera
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Boulder police keep citing homeless people for charging their phones, but District Attorney Michael Dougherty refuses to prosecute the cases.

Little Magazines
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I enjoyed this series on little online magazines -- several of which I read occasionally.

Josiah Warren, The Motives for Communism and What it Led To (1872)
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Warren's lessons from his time with the utopian Owenite commune in New Harmony, Indiana. If I ever compile a list of recommended reading for those interested in intentional communities, this will be included.

French Jogger Accidentally Crossed U.S.-Canada Border, Was Detained for Two Weeks in Washington State
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She was held for two weeks in the Tacoma ICE detention center because she jogged a little bit too far a long a beach.

Make Kids Disappear - I.C.E. on Vimeo
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Indecline defaces a billboard.

Josiah Warren - Wikipedia
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"Josiah Warren (1798 – April 14, 1874) was an individualist anarchist, inventor, musician, printer, and author in the United States. He is regarded by some as the first American anarchist, (though he never used the term himself) and the four-page weekly paper he edited during 1833, The Peaceful Revolutionist, the first anarchist periodical published, an enterprise for which he built his own printing press, cast his own type, and made his own printing plates."

What happens when U.S. border patrol kills — in Mexico?
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"VICE News identified seven cross-border shootings since the agency was founded in 2003 — cases in which Mexican citizens who were in Mexico were killed by CBP officers who were in the U.S. Three of the victims were teenagers. (We identified at least two other cross-border shooting victims who survived. We found no similar incidents along the border with Canada.)"

A sad update about a scissors maker that went viral
Opinion analysis: Court holds that police will generally need a warrant for cellphone location information - SCOTUSblog
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'Finally, in a footnote, he left open the possibility that law-enforcement officials might not need a warrant to obtain cell-site location records for a shorter period of time than the seven days at issue in Carpenter’s case. But what law-enforcement officials do not have, he stressed, is “unrestricted access to a wireless carrier’s database of” cell-site location information.'