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Social media influencers fighting against extradition to UK where they face rape, sexual assault and other allegations

Social media influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate will remain in jail at least two more weeks until their next hearing as they fight extradition to the United Kingdom, where the brothers are accused of rape and sex trafficking, a federal judge said on Monday.

US magistrate Lauren Louis set a detention hearing for 13 August to determine whether the Tates should stay in jail or be released during what could be a months-long extradition process.

The brothers were not in court on Monday or required to be there and have remained in jail since making a brief court appearance two days after their 18 July arrest.

The Tates have become among the world’s most polarizing internet personalities with their promotion of wealth, male dominance and misogyny through their social media empire. The new allegations are the latest in a long-running international legal saga involving the Tates that has spanned the US, Britain and Romania. The brothers have repeatedly denied wrongdoing.

Shopify CEO Tobias Lütke, whose company commands a market capitalization near $154 billion, told his social media followers this week that a tax-tiered voting system—one that would strip voting rights from anyone who pays no income tax—would be a “good system.”

That two-word endorsement, dropped into a viral thread, has reignited a debate over wealth, power, and democracy that most Americans thought was settled more than a century ago.

The proposal would invert the founding American principle of “no taxation without representation” into something closer to “no representation without taxation”—and specifically, high taxation. Reactions online split sharply: Some framed it as a provocative thought experiment about aligning fiscal responsibility with political voice, while others called it a naked attempt to legitimize plutocracy by giving billionaires and multimillionaires a formal, multiplied vote over the laws that govern everyone else.

But it also revealed that America is grappling with a political economy debate, as a frozen housing market and an entrenched wealthy baby boomer demographic have many, not just Lütke, arguing that something big needs to change

At this point, their necks practically for the guillotine's blade. They keep reminding us:

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of . . . tyrants.

-Thomas Jefferson in November 13, 1787, letter to William Stephens Smith.

Linux and LibreOffice as daily drivers are used in the Data Protection and Document Managment Department at the Technical University of Vienna in Austria - not because it was ordered from above but because the team decided that those are the correct tools for their job. Other departments in the university administration are now set to follow.

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“The current situation poses an unpredictable risk for users outside the US,” says Christina Thirsfeld [the university's Data Protection Officer]. She therefore decided, on behalf of her department, to shelve the Windows operating system and its associated software and instead make way for a penguin – the Linux operating system (with its emblem, the penguin) would replace Windows, and MS Office would be replaced by LibreOffice: a real-world experiment.

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Christina Thirsfeld encourages people to take the plunge. “Digital sovereignty is a precious asset that we should strive for, even if it may involve a certain loss of convenience or require us to break with old habits. Convenience should not take precedence over digital sovereignty.” The pilot project at the TU Wien has shown that greater digital independence in everyday university life is possible.

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cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/33287215

The bodies were found Friday inside the Grand Haven residence, police said, and the children were 5 to 15 years old.

A man fatally shot his wife and their six children before he set the Michigan home they shared ablaze and turned the gun on himself, authorities said Monday.

Kristopher Karolkiewicz, 47, killed his wife, Amanda, 39, and their children, ages 5 to 15, Ottawa County Sheriff’s Capt. Jake Sparks said at a news conference.

They were found dead after first responders arrived at the home in Grand Haven, on the eastern shore of Lake Michigan, late Friday morning, Sparks said. Autopsies showed all had been shot, he said.

A citizens' initiative regarding Finland's security of supply for critical digital services is progressing to parliament for consideration.

The initiative has garnered the 50,000 statements of support needed in order to be considerd by lawmakers.

According to the initiative's backers, Finland needs to secure its critical digital services, including for elections, social security, taxation and others.

"Finland must ensure that the basic rights of citizens, democracy and national security are not dependent on actors who are under the purview of governments outside the EU/EEA," their website states in English.

The digital sovereignty advocacy group noted that such services, and the critical information they involve, are increasingly being moved into the hands of "big corporations from outside the EU".

"Critical public services and data must be kept in the hands of Finnish and European actors, on servers located in the EU/EEA and built on top of European or open software," the group's website stated.

Earlier this year, the justice ministry announced it had reversed a plan to store election data on cloud servers operated by US tech giant Amazon.

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They called it Apollo G!

Rights groups condemn secrecy surrounding killings and say hurry to execute raises chance of ‘torturous’ deaths

Florida is preparing on Tuesday to carry out the state’s first double execution within a single day since the start of the modern era of the US death penalty in 1976.

Barring last-minute legal intervention, James Duckett, 68, is scheduled to die by lethal injection at noon on Tuesday at Florida state prison near Starke. Six hours later, Dominick Occhicone, 80, faces the same fate.

Should both killings be completed, it would be the first time since 2017 that a death penalty state has conducted more than one execution on the same day. On 24 April 2017 Arkansas administered lethal doses to two prisoners, Jack Jones and Marcel Williams, just three hours apart and amid chaotic scenes that suggested the procedures were botched.

In Florida itself, a review by the Associated Press showed that 1964 was the last time there were multiple judicial killing on a single day.