Recent posts
View all
Dream Job Alert: Media Relations Director for EFF
powered by Surfing Waves We’ve got an amazing opportunity for a senior media relations person to join the EFF team. Right now, we are hiring for a Media Relations Director role, a leadership role that oversees and directs EFF’s press strategy and engagement. Join EFF and help explain to journalists and the world why civil liberties matter so much for the future of technology and society. Apply today . We are open to many different types of candidates for this role. We are especially interested in meeting peopl…
World Health Organization Opposes Travel Bans Purportedly Imposed to Protect Against ‘Omicron’
powered by Surfing Waves Omicron is the newly named type of coronavirus that governments are using to spread fear and to impose new restrictions on people’s activities in the name of protecting “public health.” Among those new restrictions, national governments are banning the entry of people who have been in certain countries. For, example, United States President Joe Biden unilaterally declared on Friday (no congressional approval sought or obtained) that most people, with exceptions for US citizens and some o…
World Health Organization Opposes Travel Bans Purportedly Imposed to Protect Against ‘Omicron’
powered by Surfing Waves Omicron is the newly named type of coronavirus that governments are using to spread fear and to impose new restrictions on people’s activities in the name of protecting “public health.” Among those new restrictions, national governments are banning the entry of people who have been in certain countries. For, example, United States President Joe Biden unilaterally declared on Friday (no congressional approval sought or obtained) that most people, with exceptions for US citizens and some o…
Our Patent Review System is Ten Years Old. It’s Time to Make It Stronger.
powered by Surfing Waves The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) grants more than 300,000 patents each year. Some of those patent grants represent genuine new inventions, but many of them don’t. On average, patent examiners have about 18 hours to spend on each application. That’s not enough time to get it right. Thousands of patents get issued each year that never should have been issued in the first place. This is a particular problem in software , which is a bad fit for the patent system . That’s why…
World Health Organization Opposes Travel Bans Purportedly Imposed to Protect Against ‘Omicron’
powered by Surfing Waves Omicron is the newly named type of coronavirus that governments are using to spread fear and to impose new restrictions on people’s activities in the name of protecting “public health.” Among those new restrictions, national governments are banning the entry of people who have been in certain countries. For, example, United States President Joe Biden unilaterally declared on Friday (no congressional approval sought or obtained) that most people, with exceptions for US citizens and some o…
World Health Organization Opposes Travel Bans Purportedly Imposed to Protect Against ‘Omicron’
powered by Surfing Waves Omicron is the newly named type of coronavirus that governments are using to spread fear and to impose new restrictions on people’s activities in the name of protecting “public health.” Among those new restrictions, national governments are banning the entry of people who have been in certain countries. For, example, United States President Joe Biden unilaterally declared on Friday (no congressional approval sought or obtained) that most people, with exceptions for US citizens and some o…
What You Can Learn On a Long Walk to American Girl
powered by Surfing Waves “You Are Here.” Anyone who’s read a map at a shopping mall is familiar with the phrase. In my case, either I’m incapable of figuring out these maps, or too lazy to. I’d rather ask how to find whatever it is I’m looking for, only to ask again. The nice thing with the truly big stores in malls is that no map is required. Signage throughout any shopping center points customers to the large commercial names. They’re never difficult to find. That they’re easy to locate is tell…
Restore the Libertarian Brand
powered by Surfing Waves A recent op-ed in the Los Angeles Times points out that while undergraduate students “largely reject the Republican Party, they are not supportive of the Democrats either.” The article goes on to state that a “a huge opportunity exists for whichever party is wise enough to pay attention to the growing number of Gen Zers in college today.” The authors of the op-ed are Jeremi Sur, a professor of public affairs and history at the University of Texas at Austin, and Samuel J. Abrams, a professor of poli…
Democracy Demands Transparency
powered by Surfing Waves Have you noticed that many Democrats today are not particularly democratic? Oh, they want everyone, and then some, to vote, but that is where their conception of democracy seems to end. President Biden wants to tamp down on conspiracy theories , but this more by surveilling the public than making the government transparent and accountable. The banner of one of the party’s leading newspapers, the Washington Post , has asserted that since 2017 that “democracy dies in darkness.”…
Social Plugin