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Do you remember what life was like 30 years ago, pre-www, when cyber-utopians heralded the new era of human collaboration and communication to the underworld of social media posts called ‘e-bile’?
Who Invented the Internet?
Who Controls The Internet?
Seven people control the system at the heart of the web: the domain name system, or DNS.
NetHappenings Where Internet Pioneer Gleason Sackmann got things started.
Girls Go CyberStart. The 2019 Girls Go CyberStart program is a series of online challenges that allow students to act as cyber protection agents to solve cybersecurity-related puzzles and explore related topics such as cryptography and digital forensics.
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► NetBSD is a free, fast, secure, and highly portable Unix-like Open Source operating system. It is available for a wide range of platforms, from large-scale servers and powerful desktop systems to handheld and embedded devices.
► @govsatcom Marcus J. Ranum, #Computer and #NetworkSecurity Researcher is now discussing our assumptions about #ComputerSecurity at #govsatcom 2019 #CyberSecurity #Luxembourg
► Amnesty Demands Israel Revoke NSO’s License After Haaretz Report on Firm’s Negotiations With Saudis Israeli Firm’s Spyware Was Used to Track Khashoggi
Never underestimate power, never underestimate fame. And our nation is run on loyalty, whether it be in Congress or your own little home, we’re positively tribal. Being rich and famous does not entitle you to break society’s rules. From time immemorial the wealthy have paid for silence, look at banks and offshore tax accounts.
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How much less California spends on each public school student than other states.
$25.4k per student in NYC, $16.7k in PA and $10.4k here in California.
How do young families keep moving to CA?
Mostly True: You are shocked because the stats are bunk. Look at how much California teachers make (2nd highest in US) and then ask how overall spending could rank 41st? Answer: the 41st stat, like the $10.4k per student stat, has been helpfully “adjusted” to eliminate salary differences.
FALL ENROLLMENT 49,800,148 children
Average Daily Attendance 46,457,525 children
2017 High School Graduates 3,238,440 page 18
AVERAGE SALARY OF INSTRUCTIONAL STAFF 60,206 page 25
AVERAGE SALARY OF TEACHERS 58,479 page 26
How Much Federal Money follows the child out of the public school system into for profit charter follows no rules companies.
PUBLIC SCHOOL REVENUE PER STUDENT IN FALL ENROLLMENT page 29
PERCENTAGE OF COMBINED STATE & LOCAL REVENUE 49.8 page 34
The exceptions start on page 83
example: Enrollment figures only include students attending public schools and do not include those students attending private schools at public expense.
“Revenues generated from lottery have very little or no impact on overall education spending,” said Lucy Dadayan, a senior policy analyst at the Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government, an Albany, New York, think tank. The reason: State legislatures often use the millions of dollars that come in from the lottery as an opportunity to reallocate other funds intended for schools from the state’s general revenue, making the overall education budget barely higher than it was before lottery money was added. “The state legislators added the funding in to the budget, and then they take it out,” said John O’Neil, communications director for the Virginia Education Association, an organization of more than 50,000 teachers and school professionals.
►Public school districts large systems that serve close to or more than 100,000 students have No Chief Privacy Officers.
Who is senior-level official who is responsible for the organization’s privacy policies and data governance in your school district?
Big Education Ape: Oakland, CA: Billionaires Will Convene to Discuss New Plans for Privatizing Public Schools | Diane Ravitch’s blog
Stats already show that Charter Schools do not graduate their students from high school.
Billionaires want all the K12 Department of Education money meant for the common good, the commons, our common wealth for their own pocket. These billionaires want the tax payers money for their own private gain just to enrich themselves.
This has NOTHING to do with the quality of K12 Education.
The big business of selling student information and they do not protect their rights to privacy.
Anonymous at the top of the list
Chan Zuckerberg Foundation
Charles & Helen Schwab Foundation
The Walton Family Foundation
W.K. Kellogg Foundation
Perkins Hunter Foundation (Perkins family wealth started by opium drug running pirates)
The College Board
Michael & Susan Dell Foundation
John & Ann Doerr
Omidyar Network
► THERE ARE NO CHIEF PRIVACY OFFICERS IN K-12 EDUCATION
DO YOU KNOW WHAT YOUR STATE IS COLLECTING ABOUT YOUR CHILD?There isn’t a single school district with a K-12 CPO. In fact, it is still extremely rare for districts to hire even one full-time employee dedicated to privacy.
Student Privacy Bill Protection : No Parental Consent Needed for Data Mining
Anyone who tells you they don’t need privacy because they “have nothing to hide” is a sheep that will enable a total surveillance state. Just don’t do it. Privacies protect our basic human rights.
► : “Screen-grabbed from Facebook: a teacher had her students turn their phone volume up and create a collective record
Alex Stamos on Twitter: “This explains how Facebook plans to monetize a unified, 2 billion user end-to-end encrypted messaging service. I can’t think of a tech project with a more important privacy/safety balancing act than this one. I hope my friends working on it start public discussions on that.
@DanaGoldstein A few months ago I was interviewing a college admissions coach who told me the following about how big of a donation it takes to get a child into an Ivy no questions asked: “There’s a certain magic number. It’s way higher than people think: $10 million.”
“This case is about the widening corruption of elite college admissions through the steady application of wealth combined with fraud,” Andrew Lelling, the U.S. attorney for the District of Massachusetts, said at a news conference. According to Lelling, the ringleader of the scam is William Singer, owner of a college counseling service called Key Worldwide Foundation, who accepted bribes totaling $25 million from parents between 2011 and 2018 “to guarantee their children’s admission to elite schools.”
“The parents are a catalog of wealth and privilege,” Lelling said. “They include, for example, the CEOs of private and public companies, successful securities and real estate investors, two well-known actresses, a famous fashion designer and the co-chairman of a global law firm.”
Also named as defendants in the indictment are Robert Zangrillo, founder and CEO of the private investment firm Dragon Global; Bill Glashan, a businessman and international private equity investor; and Gordon Caplan, a New York attorney.
► Former PIMCO CEO Doug Hodge Named In Fraud Complaint Alongside Aunt Becky From “Full House”
Imagine surviving years of working with Bill Gross only to be taken down by bribing your kid into college. Um, Doug? You do have to talk in code. You’re doing a fraud.
JFC, you’d think a guy who spent that much time with Bill Gross would know how to bullshit properly.
Dreamers and Dropouts: Stories From Stanford, Cradle of Unicorns: The Good and the Bad of Stanford’s Massively Successful Startup Scene
Yes: a flying, jet-powered motorcycle As spec’ed out, the commercial speeder will weigh 231 lbs and be powered by four jet engines fueled with kerosene, diesel or Jet-A fuel. An ultralight version of the speeder will fly 60mph and won’t require a pilot’s license; alternatively, an experimental version of the craft will be able to fly over 150mph, but will require a formal license to fly. That aircraft should also have 30 minutes of flight time with 1200lbs of max thrust and a flight ceiling of 15,000 feet, though JetPack fully admits that most of its customers won’t need that…
Cyberization means it’s not your daddy’s war anymore: Kurdish rebels are exploiting an app to befriend and get information from Turkish soldiers. Reminiscent of the dating apps used by Hamas recently to spy on Israeli soldiers.
NYC Media Lab newletter – https://nycmedialab.org/data/ How AI Will Rewire Us
Nicholas A. Christakis, Sterling Professor of Social and Natural Science at Yale and author of Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society, believes AI is the only general purpose technology (GPT) that will fundamentally change our relations towards each other. If you look at any other GPT – the steam engine, electricity, the internet – these have changed everything around us except our “love, friendship, cooperation, and teaching” – what Christakis calls our evolutionary social suite. In this Atlantic piece, he explores how AI will be the first GPT to affect our social suite. Christakis noticed some peculiar things at his Yale lab. For one, when you include a cheerful bot who admits to occasional mistakes in a group assignment, the humans in the group work better together, vs. groups with bland robots. This holds true in larger experiments, with thousands of participants: “groups with mistake-prone bots consistently outperformed groups containing bots that did not make mistakes”. ~ Joly MacFie
John Gilmore **Copyright seizure approaching** SpaCCS 2019 CFP (10+SIs): The 12th International Conference on Security, Privacy and Anonymity in Computation, Communication and Storage
Don’t submit your paper to this conference! When researchers refuse to
supply their papers to the publishers who extort monopoly fees from
academic librarians, they have found the easiest way to tear down these
monopolies.
If you submit any paper to this conference, you will be forced to assign your entire copyright in the paper to “Springer Nature
Switzerland AG”, now and forever, for their profit and your loss
and the public’s loss (see below).
Jun Feng is a program chair. He should know to warn authors that
the whole conference is a scam on academic authors, which steals their
copyrights in order to extract large fees from academic libraries. But
perhaps he did not mention this because he’s helping to run the scam.
I recommend publishing your work in Open Access conferences and journals in which (1) you are free to retain your copyright and control your rights, and (2) the public is free to read your paper without paying exhorbitant fees to a walled-garden publisher that prevents public access to your scholarship. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_access .
For example, the USENIX
Association runs many respected conferences and does Open Access
publication of their proceedings (https://www.usenix.org/). The Public
Library of Science journals are also Open Access
(https://www.plos.org/). Open access publishing increases your impact,
because all potential readers can actually read your paper. Many
funders and academic institutions *require* that your work be published
with open access, because they have seen how the academic publishing
monopoly has damaged academic libraries (and science in general).
Donald You Can Do Anything #PornStar #Presidency and the Republicans who are all for it.
In bed with the Chinese Communist Party and the Russian Communist Party
#NEVER FORGET The GOP Grab em by the PU**y Party
Media Matters
“The Daily Caller has routinely posted abhorrent stories making fun of reported sexual abuse of children and teenagers by adult women perpetrators. A whole category of posts beginning in 2013 are tagged as “Teacher sex” on the site — more than 100” Tucker Carlson’s right-wing outlet The Daily Caller has long advanced conspiracy theories, recently promoted Pizzagaters and white nationalists, and routinely propped up GOP policies with shoddy online writing, including from notorious plagiarizers. But there is one uniquely horrifying editorial element of this website that it deserves to be tied to forever: The Daily Caller has had a years-long, unchecked fixation with mocking survivors of childhood sexual abuse.
For years, The Daily Caller has routinely posted abhorrent stories making fun of reported sexual abuse of children and teenagers by adult women perpetrators. A whole category of posts beginning in 2013 are tagged as “Teacher sex” on the site — more than 100 in total. Taken together, they suggest that boys and young men cannot be victims of sexual abuse if the reported abuser is an attractive young woman who uses gifts or special treatment as a form of sexual coercion. The “Teacher sex” posts largely follow the same formula:
► Report: GOP Florida Rubdown Tycoon Gave Thousands to Trump, Is Frequent Guest at Mar-a-Lago, and Hangs with POTUS
The woman who founded the massage parlor where Robert Kraft was busted is a major supporter of the president. VANITY FAIR
Cindy Li Yang’s Husband, Zubin Gong, Still Manages the First Spa She Founded. Patriots owner #Robert Kraft was charged in February with soliciting prostitution at the Orchids of Asia Day Spa, which was the second spa Yang opened.
China-born Cindy Li Yang, founder of Florida spa linked to sex trafficking and Robert Kraft prostitution case, attended Donald Trump’s Super Bowl party. Cindy Li Yang, a big donor to Donald Trump, is seen in a selfie posing with the US president. Yang founded a chain of massage parlors that included the Orchids of Asia spa where New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft allegedly received sex services. Yang was not charged in the anti-human-trafficking operation last month that shut down 10 Asian day spas in Florida, none of which are registered to her or her family. Yang’s family still owns several South Florida spas. The family’s Tokyo Day Spa branches have attracted the attention of at least two local police agencies over allegations of prostitution, and are discussed online as places where men can pay for sexual extras.
“If you’re just wanting to get a ‘rub and tug,’ this might be one of the best places in West Palm Beach,” ~ Miami Herald
This photo taken at a NY fundraiser for Trump (December 8, 2017) was published in China Daily, so Cindy Li Yang, Tsinghua Uni alumnus, Cliff Zhonggang Li, and Cindy’s husband, Zubin Gong, seem important in US Chinese circles.
Cliff Zhonggang Li worked for IBM (Boca Raton) as an IT professional after his graduation from Tsinghua University (spys r us) and Florida Atlantic University. He’s been involved in export and software. He is an expert in e-Regulation having been lead architect
“Safari Night Trump Manor Dinner (Jan 25, 2018).” This one is labeled “Founder Gong Zubin and banker Mrs. Elizabeth Trump-Grau (President Trump’s sister).”
“Cindy” Li Yang’s access and association to President Trump and his family now makes sense. China has granted 38 trademarks to Trump for businesses, including massage parlors and escort services. She is a naturalized U.S. citizen from China who started fund-raising for Trump in 2017.
Cindy (Li) Yang, the founder of a chain of spas and massage parlors that have been linked to sex trafficking, also used a consulting business she runs to offer to sell clients access to President Trump and his family at Mar-a-Lago, according to Mother Jones
“Cindy” Li Yang is an officer of two groups with ties to China’s Communist government – including a “non-profit” that she founded that promotes Chinese economic development through access to government and business leaders.
Cindy LiYang, who still owns spas involved in human sex trafficking has pictures of many @MarALago and @GOP events that she attended on her Facebook account. She is very close to many in Trump’s family, administration and his favorite Republican lawmakers.
While Mother Jones’ examination on the website includes critical detail about a New Year’s Eve gala at Mar-a-Lago, a cached version of the website using the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine from August 2018, examined by USA TODAY, also confirms the key points of the magazine’s story.
These were sex slaves. They had no choice. They weren’t earning the money. They lived at the facility. She is a slave owner. A sex slave owner. That was the report in this case. The president sold access at Mar-a-Lago to Chinese business people while his friends are getting serviced. He exposed himself and the country to massive blackmail risk. Surely the IC and FBI are aware of this.
#ClintonCurtis, computer programmer, was asked by a #TomFeeney-connected company Yang to write vote flipping software. He tells the story to Brad Friedman (http://bradblog.com ) in this documentary “Murder, Spies and Voting Lies” [8:00 Yang Enterprises Tom Feeney vote Flipping Software.
@20committee “Several sources tell Cockburn that the Special Counsel has indeed completed his report. It is said to recommend indicting three of President Trump’s children – Don Jr, Ivanka and Eric – as well as his son-in-law, Jared Kushner.”
Don’t be fooled by people who say “meh, they were only selfies’. Just like the Russian NRA money the whole GOP knew exactly who and what Li Yang was.
“Legal dream team” for a misdemeanor rub and tug? Kraft has hired William A. Burck and Jack Goldberger.
lawyer in the George W. Bush White House and had a role in the screening of documents related to Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s recent Supreme Court nomination. Kraft has also hired Jack Goldberger, the Florida lawyer who defended Jeffrey E. Epstein, a wealthy New York financier accused of trafficking underage girls for sex.
“Alan Dershowitz or Kenneth Starr — the brilliant advocates revealed last week as the brains behind convicted sex-trafficker Jeffrey Epstein’s secret sweetheart deal with federal prosecutors in the Southern District of Florida.
Think about it: the eponymous puritan scold behind the Starr Report (largely written by Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh), humiliating Bill Clinton for his sweaty sexual sins. Then in 2008, Starr helped to arrange what a federal judge called a “calculated plan by the prosecutor” to allow billionaire financier Epstein to serve a mere 13 months in a private Palm Beach jail he left daily to visit his office, while keeping the arrangement secret from the teenaged girls who’d been his victims. (Not notifying them was the illegal part.)”
New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft; corporate buyout czar John Childs of Boston-based J.W. Childs Associates; and former Citigroup president and chief operating officer John Havens, the current chairman of Napier Park Global Capital, a Citigroup spinoffin addition to some 160 others, is said to have followed a six-month long multi-jurisdictional statewide investigation of a chain of sex massage parlor masquerading as “day spas” that employed Chinese female U.S. work visa holders as sex workers. WMR can report that Treasure Coast police departments, reminded of the outrage committed by Acosta by a recent three-part series published by The Miami Herald about the Epstein deal, decided to “declare war” on the sex trafficking trade and the involvement in it of big shots who live on the Treasure Coast, including Palm Beach, the location of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago billionaires’ private club.
Florida state corporation records reveal that Orchids of Asia, Inc. was incorporated by Zhang in 2012.
Court weighs unsealing records that could reveal new details of Jeffrey Epstein sex abuse
► Maverick Republican William Weld looks to run against Trump’s ‘malignant narcissism’ yahoo news
► A mysterious payment to Paul Manafort’s lawyer reveals a hidden chapter of Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign
► @YALE #YALE What losers !!!!!!
These people are supposed to be smart right?
Why did it take UNTIL 2019 to have their #1st FIRST discussion about the intersection of #AI #ETHICS AND #SOCIETY?
Everyone else in America has had #AI #ETHICS and #SOCIETY on the front burner for years while #yale wall street money makers could care less.
Yale is are so slow coming to this party that whatever they had to say is just to late.
1st Yale Workshop on AI, Ethics, and Society Friday, April 5, 2019
8:00am to 4:30pm
Yale on York
150 York Street New Haven, CT 06511
The goal of this workshop is to identify and discuss challenges that arise as AI systems are increasingly deployed to control various aspects of modern society and initiate a Yale-wide effort towards an inter-disciplinary approach to problems arising at the interface of AI, ethics, and society.
How slow was this academic institution in their concern for the welfare of the public – so slow that anything they would have to say is is already known from all the other conferences.
► Excellent explanation of how #charter-school expansion harms public schools by @MGardnerKelly. If 20 students across 6 grades leave a public school, it still needs exact same number of teachers, but budget can shrink by over $300,000.
► “Portfolio Model” is just a scheme to kill teacher unions, and another way for private company ownership taking away money from the commons into for profit business pockets. Brought to you by City Fund Organization
Billionaire Netflix CEO, Reed Hastings, has joined with billionaire former Enron executive, John Arnold, to launch an aggressive destroy public education (DPE) initiative. They claim to have invested $100 million each to start The City Fund.
SVCF is a donor directed fund, so Hastings’s fund is dark money with no way of tracking where its tax-free spending is directed. The SVCF 2016 tax form shows Neerav Kingsland earning $253,846 as a Managing Director of the Hastings fund. He was also simultaneously serving as Senior Education Fellow at the Arnold Foundation and was on the board at the California Charter Schools Association.
► The Arizona Republic recently won a Polk Award for its outstanding coverage of charter corruption. Reach the reporter at cr**********@*************ic.com or 602-444-8478 or on Twitter @charrisazrep
Part 1
https://www.azcentral.com/in-depth/news/local/arizona-investigations/2019/03/05/arizona-charter-schools-parents-complaints-objections-find-nowhere-turn-american-leadership-academy/2871812002/
► Accountabaloney Remember, train bills are used when the contents cannot withstand public scrutiny #SB7070 Killing Ed Movie: Real public schools don’t have “wait lists” and don’t use “lotteries”. Real public schools educate all students. Stop rampant expansion of charter schools and let’s focus on funding schools that teach all kids. The ‘wait list’ for #charterschools is a LIE. Used for years to lobby the state for MORE #charterschools (and money) by pro-charter industry. Self-reported. the Turkish Gulen Movement in America has 173 tax payer funded US charter schools. It is run by a cult group originally from Turkey. They are tied to the 2016 coup attempt there. operated by the Sky Foundation Inc. EIN 73-1578930 tax returns
An analysis of federal data by the Education Week Research Center identified 935 public high schools with four-year graduation rates of less than 50 percent in 2016-17
Only 10% of the students in the state of California attend charter schools.Why do their representatives get to police themselves?
The Task force charged with reviewing the charter law and the fiscal impact of charters on public schools has Six members of the 11-member panel are directly connected to the charter industry, including two from the lobbying organization CCSA. Why does the charter industry get to decide whether it is okay for them to drain funds and impose budget cuts on public schools?
Cristina de Jesus, president and chief executive officer, Green Dot Public Schools California (charter chain);
Dolores Duran, California School Employees Association;
Margaret Fortune, California Charter Schools Association board chair; Fortune School of Education, president & CEO;
Lester Garcia, political director, SEIU Local 99 (Local 99 took $100,000 from Eli Broad to oppose Jackie Goldberg, a critic of charters);
Alia Griffing, political director, American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) Council 57;
Beth Hunkapiller, educator and administrator, Aspire Public Schools (charter chain);
Erika Jones, board of directors, California Teachers Association;
Ed Manansala, superintendent, El Dorado County; board president, California County Superintendents Educational Services Association; the El Dorado County Office set up a Special Education Local Plan Area (SELPA) specifically to service students with disabilities in charter schools and wooed charter students away from their local districts; El Dorado supposedly offers services to disabled students enrolled in charter schools who live hundreds of miles away;
Cindy Marten, superintendent, San Diego Unified School District;
Gina Plate, vice president of special education, California Charter Schools Association (charter lobby);
Edgar Zazueta, senior director, policy & governmental relations, Association of California School Administrators (ACSA endorsed Marshall Tuck against Tony Thurmond).
► CNN: Powerful House Judiciary committee sends document requests to #Facebook. “Facebook could soon have another headache on Capitol Hill: Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee have requested documents from the company spanning multiple issues, two sources familiar with the committee’s efforts tell CNN.” #DELETEFACEBOOK
► Joseph J. Simons is running the F.T.C. has urged Congress to expand the F.T.C.’s privacy-enforcement powers and allow it to impose fines more easily, write new rules and hire more experts. He also says the agency should police how all companies and nonprofits — not just technology companies — collect and handle people’s digital data. The Facebook investigation is focused on whether the social network violated a 2011 consent decree in which it promised to protect user data and inform users of changes in how their data was used. #DeleteFacebook. Support Elizabeth Warren Breaking Up Tech Giants Like Amazon and Facebook.
Facebook’s So-Called Pivot to Privacy Is a Diversion
Zuckerberg’s new pledge to create a “privacy-focused platform” sure seems to take a self-servingly narrow view of privacy. Slate
► Meme: Medium is the writing platform of choice for billionaires, billionaire politicians, and anti-billionaire politicians alike.
@ewarren Big Tech spent almost $50 million on lobbying last year. They know they have a lot to lose if Washington starts putting the interests of consumers first. That’s why I’m proposing to break up Facebook, Amazon, and Google to protect consumers and competition. Are you with me?
► Closing the gender gap in the tech industry
Despite efforts from companies and universities, the number of women majoring in computer science is declining. A non-profit is trying to change that by offering coding lessons to girls as early as kindergarten
Did you know that there are http://Code.org professional learning workshops for teachers in North Dakota? Applications are currently open for middle and high school teachers. Apply today!
► Mercedes Schneider is a master at tracking down financial records.
She shows the direct connections between the Sackler’s billions–derived from the sale of OxyContin–and the growth of the charter movement.
The Sacklers rank as the 19th richest family in the United States according to Business Insider. Jonathan Sackler, who has been a board member of Purdue Pharma, and his wife Mary Corson, are significant donors to Governor Gina Raimondo. Raimondo, who has said in the past she supports the Rhode Island lawsuit against Purdue Pharma, has refused to donate or return the donations from the Sacklers. Reuters
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