Dominion Voting Systems Corporation is a company that produces and sells electronic voting hardware and software, including voting machines and tabulators, in Canada and the United States.[1] The company's headquarters are in Toronto, Ontario, where it was founded, and Denver, Colorado.[2] It develops software in offices in the United States, Canada, and Serbia.[3] Dominion produces electronic (e-voting) voting machines, which allow voters to cast their votes electronically as well as optical scanning devices used to tabulate paper ballots... In May 2010, Dominion acquired Premier Election Solutions (formerly Diebold Election Systems, Inc.) from Election Systems & Software (ES&S). ES&S had just acquired Premier from Diebold and was required to sell off Premier by the United States Department of Justice over anti-trust concerns.[25] In June 2010, Dominion acquired Sequoia Voting Systems.[26] In 2018, Dominion was acquired by its management and Staple Street Capital, a private equity firm. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominion_Voting_Systems

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Tantek Celik: 11 days ago I suggested a unified Sent box of everything sent/reacji’d to all Slacks (slack.com) logged-in with the same email. Beyond Slack though, everything you write & send anywhere: txt, chat, email, web. A Universal Outbox of all content you create, including responses. A flat time ordered list of output across mediums. And a source of material to blog. The phrase “Universal Outbox” seemed obvious to describe such a feature, parallel to the idea of a universal inbox that I remember first learning of as a concept from Apple’s AOCE project² in the early 1990s, but called a “single universal mailbox”. Figuring someone must have come up with the idea, I did a web search, and found a minimal wiki page from 2011: UniversalOutbox which did vaguely describe the idea: “a single hub where someone can find all your outbound LifeStreams?” (more)

Dave Winer says I need an outliner to manage my email drafts. In a perfect world I'd be able to plug one in... The ultimate goal is to do all my writing in my favorite writing app, and send pointers to the writing to the other apps, emailers, chat apps, CMSes, there would be only one original, and if I made a change to the original the updates would flow to all the places I sent pointers. (more)

Baldur Bjarnason on Notetaking, Tagged Templates, and How Deno is a Clear Improvement Over Node.js. A while ago, one of my projects (ColophonCards) reached the point where the initial exploratory prototyping had done its job. I’ve figured out an overall technological approach that will be its foundation—and the time came to begin work on its initial version. (more)

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GenZers Say Silicon Valley Is Elitist and Exclusive. Can They Build a New System? For young people, breaking into the cutthroat tech industry — or any industry, really — has become far more difficult during the pandemic. In-person networking events and club meetings are on hold (more)

Ben Hunt: The Grifters, Chapter 3 - Election Prediction. The “scores” and the “announcing” and the game itself are a totally distinct thing from the process and dynamic and the outcome of our most important political institution. And they (538) know it. And yet they sell their game over and over again as if it were the real thing. That’s what makes it a grift. (more)

Tantek Celik: Nineteen years ago last Saturday, Kevin Marks & I introduced microformats at OReillyMedia ETech 2004, building on “semantic (x)html”. We named #microformats only after we had established a pattern of real world examples; even our talk proposal was named RealWorldSemantics, and provided examples in that broader theme. (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: Covid-19 2/16/23: It All Seems Rather Quaint. Executive Summary: Situation continues to slowly improve. Eric Topol even more wrong than usual. All the news is now about AI and Bing instead. It’s going great. (more)

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Fox News stars and executives privately trashed Donald Trump's election fraud claims, court document reveal. The messages, included in a legal filing as part of Dominion Voting System’s $1.6 billion lawsuit against Fox News, showed that Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity, and Laura Ingraham brutally mocked lies being pushed by former President Donald Trump’s camp asserting that the election was rigged. (more)

EXPOSEDbyCMD: How The Koch Brothers Network Hijacked The War On Covid-19. ...as the Omicron variant began to spread, a small liberal arts school on a tree-lined campus in Michigan called Hillsdale College announced it was launching an Academy for Science and Freedom to “educate the American people about the free exchange of scientific ideas. (Note that not all of their points were wrong, even if they were supporting them for the wrong reason. See (2022-12-22) ZviM Covid 12/22/22 Reevaluating Past Options.) (more)

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Prodigy Communications Corporation (Prodigy Services Corp., Prodigy Services Co., Trintex) was an online service from 1984 to 2001 that offered its subscribers access to a broad range of networked services, including news, weather, shopping, bulletin boards, games, polls, expert columns, banking, stocks, travel, and a variety of other features... Prodigy was founded on February 13, 1984, as Trintex, a joint venture between CBS, computer manufacturer IBM, and retailer Sears, Roebuck and Company... By 1990, it was the second-largest (and 1993 the largest)[5] online service provider with 465,000 subscribers, trailing only CompuServe's 600,000.[6] Its headquarters were in White Plains, New York[7] until 2000, when it moved to Austin, Texas. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prodigy_(online_service)

CompuServe (CompuServe Information Service, also known by its initialism CIS) was an American online service provider, the first major commercial one in the world – described in 1994 as "the oldest of the Big Three information services (the others are Prodigy and America Online)."[1] It dominated the field during the 1980s and remained a major influence through the mid-1990s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CompuServe

The Minitel was a videotex online service accessible through telephone lines, and was the world's most successful online service prior to the World Wide Web. It was invented in Cesson-Sévigné, near Rennes in Brittany, France. The service was rolled out experimentally on 15 July 1980[1] in Saint-Malo, France, and from autumn 1980 in other areas, and introduced commercially throughout France in 1982 by the PTT (Postes, Télégraphes et Téléphones; divided since 1991 between France Télécom and La Poste).[2] From its early days, users could make online purchases, make train reservations, check stock prices, search the telephone directory, have a mail box, and chat in a similar way to what is now made possible by the World Wide Web... In 1978, Postes, Télégraphes et Téléphones, the French PTT organisation, began designing the Minitel network. By distributing terminals that could access a nationwide electronic directory of telephone and address information, it hoped to increase use of the country's 23 million phone lines, and reduce the costs of printing phone books and employing directory assistance personnel.[6] Millions of terminals were given for free (officially loans, and property of the PTT) to telephone subscribers. At the time, France was undergoing a vision of socialism, where the state would develop high technology for the benefit of its citizens' lives. The TGV high-velocity trains also resulted from this vision... By early 1986 1.4 million terminals were connected to Minitel, with plans to distribute another million by the end of the year. This was met with opposition from newspapers worried about competition from an electronic network... France Télécom estimated that almost 9 million terminals—including web-enabled personal computers (Windows, Mac OS, and Linux)—had access to the network at the end of 1999, and that it was used by 25 million people (of a total population of 60 million). Developed by 10,000 companies, in 1996, almost 26,000 different services were available.[8] Minitel became a great financial success for the PTT, as using the service cost the 2022 equivalent of 30 euro cent per minute. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minitel (more)

Earth by David Brin (1990) ISBN:055329024X https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_(Brin_novel) (more)