Both Lifshin and Olds said the Mayday site was saved so quickly by high-caliber engineers who worked for free because many engineers care deeply about open source and support Lessig. The Harvard Law School professor is a well-known political activist who in addition to fighting for campaign finance reform devotes a lot of time to the issues of copyright and net neutrality.
The Super PAC has recently managed to secure support from a number of Silicon Valley heavyweights. Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, Union Square Ventures managing partner Fred Wilson, PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman have all joined the campaign
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UPWORTHY: A Hollywood Actor Who’s Had Enough Of Our Broken Government Is Actually Doing Something About It (VIDEO)
Maybe you’re a Joseph Gordon-Levitt fan or maybe not, but what he’s talking about in the video is something the vast majority of Americans desperately want: a government that actually works for the people.
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The Good Fight: Lawrence Lessig, Aaron Swartz, and the Super PAC to end Super PACs
What if you’re doing the wrong thing with your life? That’s what a 20-year-old Aaron Swartz asked Lawrence Lessig. In response, Lessig transformed his career, ending the work on Internet law that had made him famous and turning his sights on the impossible-seeming fight against money in politics.
On this wrenching, fascinating episode of The Good Fight, Lessig tells his story, lays out his plan, and explains how Mayday emerged from the desperation Lessig felt after Aaron Swartz’s tragic suicide in 2013.
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The Register: Web moguls ask YOU to stump up big money to STOP big money from winning in Washington
In an irony-laden crowdsourcing venture called Mayday, web entrepreneurs including Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, Paypal co-founder Peter Thiel and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffmann are hoping to solve the “big money problem” in US politics.
“In 2012, 132 Americans funded 60 per cent of the Super PAC money raised in that election cycle,” Lessig said. “That number will go up in 2014. Imagine it goes up by a factor of 250. Even then, the funders of these Super PACs will represent no more than .01 per cent of America.
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TechCrunch: Silicon Valley Moguls Push For Campaign Finance Reform
The industry contributed more than $51.3 million to PACs, parties and candidates, which is not far behind the gas and oil industry’s $56.6 million worth of contributions. Let’s not forget the industry’s role in some major super PACs, such as Mark Zuckerberg’s FWD.us. And Napster co-founder Sean Parker has been making large political donations for years.
If Mayday PAC actually focuses as Lessig says on electing candidates based on their campaign finance platforms, it could create reforms in Washington.
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Newsweek: Mayday PAC - The Super PAC Built to Destroy Super PACs
According to Lessig, Silicon Valley is uniquely positioned to change the power of wealth in American politics. Unlike the finance or energy industries, Silicon Valley has yet to mature to the point where it seeks to boost profit through legislative reforms.
In some sense, Mayday’s approach seems paradoxical: taking money from one major industry and pitting it against another (the devil you know, and all that). But as Lessig points out, Mayday isn’t aimed specifically at pro-Silicon Valley legislation, like that pertaining to visas or net neutrality. “That wouldn’t be a very principled or interesting PAC,” he says. “The only thing the Mayday PAC is trying to do is get legislation passed to change the way elections are funded.”
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Latest.com: Harvard Professor Creates Crowdfunded Super PAC to Destroy Super PACs
According to an interview with VICE, Lessig was one of the people behind the publication of the Congressperson’s daily schedule, which blocked out four hours per day for fundraising. Lessig said, “members of Congress were like, ‘What the hell? Why am I here? I didn’t want to become a telemarkter.’”
In fact, Lessig says this is why the latest Congress has been the most unproductive of our history, because while it is very difficult to pass legislation, it can be very easy to block it. The corruption doesn’t come in these legislators writing bills for their donors – that’s what lobbyists do – it is in their ability to block legislation their donors don’t like.
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NBC News: Tech Moguls Raise Cash to Fight Washington’s ‘Big Money Problem’
A group of influential Internet moguls aim to fix what they refer to as the “big money problem” in Washington politics by, well, raising cash. Forming a Super Political Action Committee (PAC) called Mayday, the executives hope to raise $12 million by the midterm elections in November in hopes of supporting candidates who are committed to changing how elections are financed.
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Boing Boing: Joseph Gordon-Levitt wants YOU to support Mayday.US and fight Congressional corruption - VIDEO
Joseph Gordon-Levitt has recorded this video message endorsing the MAYDAY.US super PAC, through which Lawrence Lessig and supporters are raising $5 million in small-money donations to elect lawmakers who will promise meaningful reforms of campaign finance law to curtail the undue influence of money on politics.
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Talking Points Memo: Launching A Super PAC To Fight Super PACs
The core problem with our democracy today is that we have outsourced the funding of campaigns to the tiniest fraction of the 1 percent. As congressmen spend between 30 and 70 percent of their time raising campaign cash, they focus their efforts on no more than 150,000 Americans.
The cost of the 2014 pilot was estimated at $12 million. And so on May 1, we launched an experiment to see whether we could raise money through a Kickstarter campaign for at least half. We set an initial goal of $1 million in 30 days. Insiders thought this was impossible, but with the help of 13,000 supporters, with a median contribution of just $50, we crossed the $1 million mark in 13, not 30, days.
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CrowdFund Insider: The Woz Lends Voice to Crowdfunding Super Pac Mayday
Cultural icon Steve Wozniak, part of the magic behind the founding of Apple, has spoken up in support of the Mayday PAC founded by Harvard Professor Lawrence Lessig.
Lessig and his co-conspirators want to crowdfund their very own, non-partisan Super Pac to fight fire with fire. They already nailed their first goal of raising $1 million and now they want to raise $5 million – by the 4th of July.
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Slashdot: Steve Wozniak Endorses Lessig’s Mayday Super PAC - VIDEO
Steve Wozniak, co-found of Apple Computer, has come out to endorse Lawrence Lessig’s MAYDAY PAC in an animated audio recording. Mayday.US, (formerly MayOne.US) is Lessig’s crowd-funded (citizen-funded!), kick-started Super PAC to end all Super PACs. In the video, Wozniak points out that we’re never going to get anywhere on issues important to the Internet community and technology advocates if we don’t fix the root cause of corruption
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Truth-Out: 99 Rise on the Move: The Occupation of Sacramento
The 99 Rise California March for Democracy is out to demonstrate that money can be kicked out of politics and ordinary people can make it happen. The march departed Los Angeles on May 17, 2014 and will arrive in the state capital, Sacramento, on June 22 with plans to occupy the Capitol building if their demands are not met. As they march through central California, they combat disempowerment by speaking practically about what can be done to get money out of politics.
99 Rise is working with over 30 different organizations, including Move On, Dream Defenders, Wolf PAC, San Francisco Green Party and several Occupy groups, and has been endorsed by Noam Chomsky, Lawrence Lessig, Dolores Huerta and several other individuals.
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Valley Wag: Q&A with Larry Lessig on Why You Should Have Faith in Silicon Valley
The story of how a young programmer named Aaron Swartz convinced celebrated academic Lawrence Lessig that no political progress could be made without first reforming campaign finance is now part of Silicon Valley lore. In May, Lessig launched a radical initiative to address the issue: MAYDAY, a SuperPAC that secured funding from two Silicon Valley billionaires in order to curtail the influence of big money.
“It makes me sick to imagine the amount of time [presidential candidates] spend raising money, but the institutional [issue] we have to do something about quite dramatically is Congress. Because Congress is increasingly an institution that spends all of its time in the business of raising money as opposed to the business of trying to figure out what the right thing to do is.”
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Policy Innovations: Of Moonshots and Slingshots
Is it still possible for a government to move against the market to favor society? The May Day PAC established by Lawrence Lessig takes the stance that U.S. electoral politics are entirely controlled by corporate interests due to the realities of campaign financing: Politicians who do not attract lavish spending by corporations and wealthy individuals simply cannot succeed under the current rules.
The situation may be considerably more complex than that (the Republican-Democrat split in America is as much cultural as political), but legitimate questions can certainly be asked about the ability of the U.S. government to go against U.S. business interests.
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The Atlantic: Campaign-Finance Reform Has to Be Cross-Partisan
The vast majority of Americans–more than 90 percent in recent polls–believe it “important” to “reduce the influence of money in politics.” But is the business model of the reformers actually consistent with winning reform?
This is the fair but hard question raised by the strategy planned by Senate Democrats this summer to force a vote on New Mexico Senator Tom Udall’s proposed constitutional amendment to give Congress the power “to regulate the raising and spending of money” in elections. Forty-three Senate Democrats have cosponsored the resolution. Zero Republicans have. Zero is the same number of Republicans who have joined any of the proposed constitutional amendments now floating about in Congress to, as they are described, “reverse Citizens United.”
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Salon: Cronies, corruption and cash: Lawrence Lessig on why we need a super PAC to end all super PACs
This week, Salon called up Lessig in order to discuss some of the details of the Mayday PAC and the vexing problem of money and democracy in America more generally. We also touched on Eric Cantor’s recent shocking defeat and how inequality causes political polarization. Our conversation is below and has been edited for clarity and length.
The aim of the super PAC is to win a Congress committed to fundamental reform by 2016. Fundamental reform in the way elections are funded. To do that, we want to run a pilot in 2014 in five districts to demonstrate that this issue matters to voters and to put Congress on notice in 2016 that we’ll be back in a much bigger way.
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Huffington Post: How to Tell If Your Member of Congress Is a Crony Capitalist
It’s a big-money game that has made Americans cynical about politics. A 2011 Global Strategy Group poll found that 71 percent of Republicans and 81 percent of Democrats believed that “money buys results in Congress.”
Elected officials are so dependent on raising this cash that they have become “shape shifters,” in the words of Harvard Law professor Larry Lessig: “They constantly adjust their views in light of what they know will help them to raise money.”
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Daily KOS: Americans Can Do Anything
Amending the Constitution sounds audacious. Particularly when a proposed amendment to guarantee women equal rights failed. But it can be done. It has been done. Recently too.
And more. They’ve even got the backing of some rich people. On May 1, Lawrence Lessig, director of the Edmond J. Safra Center on Ethics at Harvard, launched the Mayday PAC, which is a super PAC to end all super PACs.
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Seacoast Online: We voters have more power than we realize
Be encouraged! Even though 96 percent of voters agree that money is a problem in politics (they’re right), 91 percent don’t believe it can be fixed (they’re wrong). We voters have more power than we think we do! On Tuesday, a congressional primary race in Virginia was won by a newcomer to politics who raised just over $200,000 for his campaign. His losing opponent (the incumbent) raised over $5 million.
In his book “Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress – and a Plan to Stop It,” Lawrence Lessig proposes nonpartisan plans to end it. It’s a 300-page book, but let me wet your appetite with one paragraph from page 266. “First, we convert the first $50 dollars that each of us contributes to the Federal Treasury into a voucher. Call it a ‘democracy voucher.’ Each voter is free to allocate his or her democracy voucher as he or she wishes. Maybe $50 to a single candidate. Maybe $25 each to two candidates. Maybe $10 each to five candidates. The only requirement is that the candidate receiving the voucher must opt into the system.
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Huffington Post: To End School Shootings, Tackle Government Corruption
But the sad reality is that we’re not going to get more gun control until we’ve fixed a deeper, more pervasive problem: political corruption. I’m not talking about “money exchanged under the table” corruption, but rather what Harvard Professor Larry Lessig terms “dependence corruption” – the totally legal dependence that our elected officials have upon the powerful interests that make (and, crucially, break) their campaigns.
This is the cold, hard reality: Any member of Congress who supports gun control legislation today faces a tidal wave of NRA money aimed squarely at kicking them out of office. In the 2012 federal election cycle, the NRA spent nearly $20 million to defeat politicians – both Democrats and Republicans – who voted in favor of gun regulations, and to elect politicians who championed unfettered access to guns.
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Sacramento Bee: Marchers against ‘big money’ politics reach Merced on way to Sacramento
Activists marching from Los Angeles to Sacramento to oppose “big money corruption” in political campaigns reached Merced on Wednesday.
About a dozen people are making the entire march, and they are usually joined by local supporters as they trek north, Newkirk said. The march has also had notable participants like political activist Lawrence Lessig and United Farm Workers co-founder Dolores Huerta.
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Venture Beat: Can crowdfunding end the corrupt influence of money in U.S. politics? $1.5M in donations say yes.
The MAYDAY.US fund is being billed as the “super PAC to end super PACs” because its main purpose is to install only new congressional members that want to get rid of this kind of unchecked spending.
MAYDAY.US raised $1 million in its first two weeks from over 12,800 individual contributors. MAYDAY.US told VentureBeat once this first goal was met, it saw large donations from a handful of influential technology business leaders,
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Tech Dirt: Crowdfund Our Way To Reducing The Influence Of Money In Politics
Larry Lessig’s MAYDAY.US. And, yes, we already wrote about this at the beginning of May when the first phase launched, and again when it hit the $1 million goal – and then secured the second million in matching funds. However, the project has now moved into phase two, where the goal is to raise (and match) $5 million, instead of just $1 million. Already it’s around half a million dollars, so there’s a long way to go, but it’s a good start.
And, once again, the goal here is to raise this total of $12 million ($1 million + $1 million match in May, and then $5 million + $5 million match in June) as a test for a much larger effort. I’ve seen too many overly cynical folks say “$12 million isn’t enough to change politics.” And you’re right. But that’s not the goal. This is $12 million to be used in specific races as a proof of concept for a much larger moonshot.
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The Boston Globe: Amanda Palmer pledges support for Mayday PAC
Singer Amanda Palmer, who knows a thing or two about raising money, is helping Harvard professor Lawrence Lessig in his bid to create a “super PAC to end all super PACs.” Monday, Palmer, armed with a ukulele, is doing an interactive online conversation/concert on www.wizeo.me. The performance is a benefit for Mayday PAC, a group begun by Lessig and GOP media strategist Mark McKinnon in hopes of raising $12 million that could be used to target candidates opposed to inhibiting the political influence of wealthy donors.
Palmer, who has a wildly devoted following, used the crowd-funding website Kickstarter to raise $1.2 million to finance her last CD and tour. Mayday PAC already has some deep-pocketed patrons, including TED curator Chris Anderson, LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, and Brad Burnham, managing partner of Union Square Ventures, which has funded the likes of Twitter, Kickstarter, and Tumblr.
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Editorial: A &RSQUO;Star Wars’ program for super PACs
A Harvard law professor who is pushing a U. S. constitutional convention has told Illinois lawmakers there are built-in protections against extremes. During a committee hearing, State Rep. Scott Drury (D-Highwood) asked, “These delegates … can say, we think that the best way to address Citizens United is to get rid of the First Amendment – is that a possibility that can come out of this convention?”
Lawrence Lessig agreed it’s possible, and then posed a question of his own: “Can you imagine 38 states ratifying that? And, I would suggest, it’s impossible to imagine that there wouldn’t be at least 13 of them that would stop that amendment.”
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Alton Daily News: Professor Pushes for Constitutional Convention
A Harvard law professor who is pushing a U. S. constitutional convention has told Illinois lawmakers there are built-in protections against extremes. During a committee hearing, State Rep. Scott Drury (D-Highwood) asked, “These delegates … can say, we think that the best way to address Citizens United is to get rid of the First Amendment – is that a possibility that can come out of this convention?”
Lawrence Lessig agreed it’s possible, and then posed a question of his own: “Can you imagine 38 states ratifying that? And, I would suggest, it’s impossible to imagine that there wouldn’t be at least 13 of them that would stop that amendment.”
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Boing Boing: Jason Alexander endorses the anti-corruption Mayday PAC
Brian says, “Jason Alexander (of stage, screen & Seinfeld) has decided to endorse the Mayday PAC.” Mayday.US is the super PAC that Lawrence Lessig founded to fight campaign finance corruption by raising money to send politicians to Congress if they’ll promise to get the money out of politics.
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Gawker: Lawrence Lessig Is Here to Talk About Money, Politics, and Democracy
Harvard law professor and public intellectual extraordinaire Lawrence Lessig has a bold idea: raising money in order to take money out of politics. He’s here to answer your questions about his plan to start a super PAC with the express purpose of destroying super PACs, and saving democracy.
“We want to spend big money to end the influence of big money,” Lessig has said. “Ironic, I get it. But embrace the irony. Because with enough of us, we can easily build a Super PAC bigger and more effective than the Super PACs of the billionaires.”
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The Daily Beast: Our New SuperPAC Is Going to Change American Politics for $12 Million
“Impossible.” As the Army used to say, “The difficult we do immediately, the impossible takes a little longer.” And while we’re not opposed to impossible campaigns, we believe it critical that this movement to “restore democracy” also try the merely “difficult.” For long before two-thirds of Congress will propose an amendment to the Constitution and three-quarters of the states will ratify it, Congress could radically change the way campaigns are funded, through a simple majority vote.
This is the hard work that Congress should do. It’s easy to hold hearings on resolutions that everyone knows will fail. It takes leadership to force debate on ideas that no one believes can pass–but must pass. That’s the leadership that Lyndon Johnson demonstrated, both in the Senate in 1957, and as President, when he forced a reluctant South to finally accept equal rights. That’s the leadership that this nation needs again, but that, in the grandstanding of D.C. partisanship, seems truly “impossible.”
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CNN: What I’m reading: The core problem with our democracy
“[T]his, we believe, is the core problem with our democracy today: that we have outsourced the funding of campaigns to the tiniest fraction of the 1 percent,” write Lawrence Lessig and Mark McKinnon in the Daily Beast. “As members of Congress spend between 30 percent and 70 percent of their time raising campaign cash, they focus their efforts on no more than 150,000 Americans – 0.05 percent of the population, about the same number who are named Lester. And for SuperPACs, the numbers are even tinier. In the 2012 election cycle, 132 Americans contributed 60 percent of the SuperPAC money spent in all races. Congress has become dependent upon this tiny slice of the 1 percent, but in no conceivable way does this tiny fraction represent America.”
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MSNBC: All In With Chris Hayes (VIDEO)
Chris Hayes talks to the man behind a new type of super PAC, one that aims to return some sanity to campaign financing…and maybe just end this whole super PAC thing.
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TownHall.com: The Game is Rigged, Regardless of Who’s in Charge
There’s too much money in politics, right? Lawrence Lessig has a new plan to solve an old problem. He wants to end money’s outsize influence on the political process, which subverts democracy and drowns out the masses to do the bidding of the well-to-do few.
Campaign finance reform comes down to arguing about who gets to decide who gets to be umpire of a game which is, at its core, rigged. And it’s rigged in favor of the rich. Electoral politics is mostly cage matches in the gladiator arena they use to distract us. It’s the circus, and entitlements are the bread.
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Concord Monitor: Take the battle against big money to the candidates
Big money flowing into our elections is moving us ever further from Lincoln’s ideal: government of the people, for the people and by the people. This problem is not new, but what had been a tide is becoming a flood. With each campaign, our elected officials grow more dependent on big donations from special interests and less dependent on us, their constituents.
We’ve reached a tipping point for reform. The Great Recession that began in 2007 exposed government and private institutions as deeply flawed and unable to protect ordinary people. The Supreme Court, contrary to common sense and the beliefs of most Americans, has declared that corporations are people and that enormous spending by a billionaire on politics is speech legally equivalent to actual speech by an ordinary citizen.
Lessig and other leaders of this fight acknowledge it is a tough one. But they have reminded me that when millions of Americans across the political spectrum get riled up and demand change, Congress will listen and will act, and in due course, so will the Supreme Court.
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Huffington Post Live: VIDEO
Coverage on Professor Lessig’s efforts, starts at 12:00
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Sunlight Foundation Blog: National News Section
The Mayday PAC, set up to fight the influence of big money in politics, has raised a lot of money from small donors…but it has also raised more than $1 million (and hopes to raise at least $5 million more) from a few large donors. The large donors, many of them tech entrepreneurs, are matching funds raised in smaller chunks.
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Connecticut Post Blog: Super PAC whose mission is to lessen the influence of big money in politics by targeting congressional candidates opposed to campaign finance reform
If successful, Mayday PAC would go from inception to a war chest of over $12 million in just 60 days. That money will then fund campaigns in five congressional districts yet to be announced, targeting candidates that oppose campaign finance reform. It is part of a two election cycle plan to hold candidates accountable to voters on the issue of money in politics and win a Congress committed to enacting campaign finance reform by 2016. If successful in the 2014 cycle, the effort would be expanded for the 2016 elections.
 People “commit” by pledging a contribution anywhere between $5 and $10,000, and their commitment is collected only if the Mayday PAC reaches its fundraising target by its deadline.
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Politico: Mayday PAC secures matching pledges
The PAC raised $1 million in grass-roots donations in its first 13 days in existence and has now set a $5 million target by July 4. If Mayday PAC reaches that goal, Lessig and McKinnon have lined up the support of a handful of wealthy donors – mostly from Silicon Valley – to kick in an additional $5 million in matching funds.
If the renewed push is successful, the PAC would have a $12 million war chest for the 2014 cycle. Though that is a modest sum in the world of big-money politics, the PAC would invest in five targeted congressional races. The campaigns have yet to be announced or determined.
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CrowdFund Insider: Super PAC Created to “End All SuperPACs” Launches Phase 2 after Meeting 1st Crowdfunding Goal
If you happen to care about things like non-rich people having a say in who holds federal office, you should really go make your pledge to Mayday right now. But since I suspect most readers are pretty skeptical at this point, let me take you through the completely hard-boiled, non-utopian case for supporting the project, which roughly amounts to the following: Mayday, or something like it, turns out to be our last best hope for reducing the massively outsized influence of the 1 percent over public policy.
I arrive at this conclusion by way of some simple armchair-Marxist analysis, which holds that no significant reform can happen unless some very powerful, very rich interest group decides it has a stake in it. Health care reform had the insurance companies; Wall Street reform had deep-pocketed financial institutions, who saw an opportunity to kneecap their less-regulated competitors.
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Washington Post: Tech leaders back super PAC aimed at curbing big money in politics
A group of high-wattage technology entrepreneurs and investors have donated six-figure checks to a super PAC aimed at curtailing the influence of big money in politics, bringing new financial firepower to the fight over election spending.
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The New Republic: The One Way to Harness Silicon Valley’s Self-Interest for the Good of the Country
If you happen to care about things like non-rich people having a say in who holds federal office, you should really go make your pledge to Mayday right now. But since I suspect most readers are pretty skeptical at this point, let me take you through the completely hard-boiled, non-utopian case for supporting the project, which roughly amounts to the following: Mayday, or something like it, turns out to be our last best hope for reducing the massively outsized influence of the 1 percent over public policy.
I arrive at this conclusion by way of some simple armchair-Marxist analysis, which holds that no significant reform can happen unless some very powerful, very rich interest group decides it has a stake in it. Health care reform had the insurance companies; Wall Street reform had deep-pocketed financial institutions, who saw an opportunity to kneecap their less-regulated competitors.
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PR Newswire: Crowd-Funded Super PAC Created to "End All SuperPACs" Launches Phase 2 after Meeting Initial Fundraising Goal
“The influence of big money over our political process is worse than it’s ever been, and it’s evident from the complete dysfunction in Washington,” said Professor Lawrence Lessig. “Mayday PAC’s success will prove that there are enough people willing to invest in sending Congress the message that it is time for fundamental campaign finance reform.” Mark McKinnon adds, “We want a government that works for all of us, not simply the wealthy who bankroll campaign contributions and Super PACs.”
 People “commit” by pledging a contribution anywhere between $5 and $10,000, and their commitment is collected only if the Mayday PAC reaches its fundraising target by its deadline.
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Huffington Post: Tech Titans From Both Parties Get Behind Super PAC To End All Super PACs
The Mayday PAC, launched on May 1, announced a crowd funding plan to raise $12 million to back supporters of publicly financed elections in 2014. If people help raise $1 million, with contributions of $10,000 or less, in one month, Lessig said wealthy supporters would kick in another $1 million. The group raised its first $1 million by the middle of May.
The big supporters providing the matching $1 million include LinkedIn CEO Reid Hoffman, venture capitalist and PayPal co-founder and president of Thiel Capital Peter Thiel, TED curator Chris Anderson, Union Square Ventures partners Brad Burnham and Fred Wilson, Women’s Entrepreneurial Festival co-founder Joanne Wilson, and Schooner Capital founder Vin Ryan.
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The Atlantic: A Real Step to Fix Democracy
In January, Gallup found that Americans from across the political spectrum picked the failure of “government” as the top problem facing America today. The vast majority link that failure to the influence of money in politics. Yet more than 90 percent of us don’t see how that influence could be reduced. Washington won’t fix itself, so who else could fix it?
It turns out the framers of our Constitution thought about this problem precisely. Two days before the Constitution was complete, they noticed a bug. In the version they were considering, only Congress could propose amendments to the Constitution. That led Virginia’s George Mason to ask, what if Congress itself was the problem?
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Fast Company: Want Money Out Of Politics? Put Some Money Into Politics With Lawrence Lessig’s Super PAC
“In 2016, number one, there will be fewer fights that we have to have, because people will get on the right side of this issue just out of fear,” Lessig says. “And number two, we’ll have a whole bunch of people more interested in investing, because they see a potential return here.”
“[Vouchers] would radically change the business model of fundraising overnight,” Lessig says. “You would not have candidates spending their time talking to the tiniest fraction of the 1%. They’d be thinking about the ways to attract a wide range of contributions from everybody who has a voucher.”
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LA Times: Harvard professor’s ’super PAC ‘aims to end power of ’super PACs’
Is it possible to create a “super PAC” that would end the power of super PACs by drawing enough Americans into the system to limit the influence of big money in politics? And is it possible to get voters excited about a subject as dry as campaign finance? Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig is leading a crusade to answer both those questions with a yes.
If the Mayday PAC is able to take out five members of Congress this cycle “who are on the wrong side of this issue,” Lessig said, “then when 2016 comes around, magically a whole bunch of members of Congress would be on the right side of this issue, and we would have a narrower range of people that we would have to be going after, and we would have very good data
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The Huffington Post: The Super PAC To End All Super PACs Gets Off To A Super Start
WASHINGTON – On May 1, Harvard professor Lawrence Lessig launched what he calls a “super PAC to end all super PACs.” Lessig, one of a new breed of campaign finance reformers, wants to change the corrupted system by which politicians now raise money for their campaigns.
The irony is to get money out of politics, reformers must raise money of their own. On that measure, Lessig’s new organization has gotten off to a super start.

Call it Lawrence Lessig’s “money bomb.” It’s an ingenious plan to make the drive for small-dollar publicly funded elections a central issue in 2016. With a little luck, the Harvard law professor’s idea could help save the republic.
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Moyers & Company: "Lawrence Lessig Has a ‘Moonshot’ Plan to Halt Our Slide Toward Plutocracy"
Harvard’s Lawrence Lessig, the crusader for campaign finance reform, feels that his fellow reformers don’t think big or boldly enough to inspire the kind of grassroots campaign that might break elite donors’ strangle hold on America’s political system.
In a recent piece in The Atlantic, Lessig argues that public cynicism about the prospect of deep reform actually working is the only thing keeping widespread outrage at our slide toward plutocracy in check. And he thinks that only a “moonshot” campaign – an ambitious, collective, national effort “unlike anything they’ve seen before” – can “crack this cynicism” and usher in a more democratic system.
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Time: Campaign Finance Reformer Launches Super PAC to End Super PACs
Mayday PAC was already 8 percent of the way toward its goal by Thursday afternoon with more than $75,000 pledged and nearly 31 days left to reach its target.
To say Mayday PAC faces an uphill fight is an understatement. Proponents of serious campaign finance reform face strong opponents in both parties, and the Supreme Court and lower courts have issued rulings in recent years striking down or throwing into doubt a wide array of restrictions on political spending.
If the idea behind Mayday PAC sounds absurd, that’s by design. Cynicism and defeatism about government run so deep through American politics, Lessig believes, that the only way to “crack this cynicism” is with an idea so exceedingly ambitious–a “moonshoot,” he calls it–that people might be roused to get behind it.
“We must show Americans something unlike anything they’ve seen before,” Lessig <a style=”color: #0c97d2;”href=”http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/04/campaign-finance-and-the-nihilist-politics-of-resignation/360437/”>writes</a>.
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ThinkProgress: Anti-Dark Money Activist Lawrence Lessig Launches A Super PAC To End Super PACs
<a href=”http://www.princeton.edu/~mgilens/Gilens%20homepage%20materials/Gilens%20and%20Page/Gilens%20and%20Page%202014-Testing%20Theories%203-7-14.pdf”target=”_blank”>Recent studies</a> have found that wealthy Americans’ influence over politics has grown significantly over the past few decades. Just a few hours after the launch, the Super PAC had raised nearly $50,000 – 5 percent of its $1 million goal.
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PolicyMic: There’s a New “Super PAC to End All Super PACs” – And It Could Radically Change Politics
So far, it’s working. In just a few days, with hardly any publicity, they’ve managed to raise over $350,000 dollars with a short-term goal of $1 million.
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MSNBC: Ronan Farrow Daily, 5/06/2014
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Upworthy: A Brilliant Plan To Give Billionaires Who Try To Buy U.S. Elections A Taste Of Their Own Medicine
How bad has the money-in-politics situation gotten? A new study by researchers at Princeton and Northwestern universities found that, and I’m quoting directly here: “When the preferences of economic elites and the stands of organized interest groups are controlled for, the preferences of the average American appear to have only a minuscule, near-zero, statistically non-significant impact upon public policy.”
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Huffington Post: A Brilliant Plan To Give Billionaires Who Try To Buy U.S. Elections A Taste Of Their Own Medicine
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I just ran into this and was confused about why it worked:
import measure_theory.borel_space universe u open measure_theory variables {α β: Type u} instance fn_space.measurable_space [m₁ : measurable_space α] [m₂ : measurable_space β] [ topological_space α] [topological_space β] : measurable_space (α → β) := borel (α → β)
If I remove the topological_space
instances, Lean complains that it doesn't know how to find an instance of topological_space (α → β)
. So if I leave them on, somehow it is finding that instance on its own. Is this because of the compact_open
topology? (But isn't that only for the subtype of continuous functions from(α → β)
?
Ah. set_option trace.class_instances true
says that Pi.topological_space
is the culprit.
Right. A -> B can be regarded as a product of B's over A, so for lots of structures (groups, topological spaces etc) A -> B inherits a structure from B. For topological groups this results in a gotcha -- asking that G -> G -> G is continuous makes sense but is not what you want, you lose the topology on the middle G.
Also related: why is Lean happy with this?
instance set.measurable_space [m : measurable_space α] : measurable_space (set α) := ⊤
Even ⊥
works. I'm very confused.
I don't know what a measurable space is, but I guess measurable_space
is a lattice, and top
is probably the space where every set has infinite measure or something like that.
unlike what its name suggests, measurable spaces don't actually need a measure
it's just a sigma algebra
That's why they're measurable and not measured.
Yes it's just the sigma algebra. So why does top
do it? I was expecting something like the powerset of alpha
.
yes it is the powerset
Oooh the powerset is top
for the lattice of set inclusions?
right
Incidentally the topology on a -> b doesn't depend on the topology on a at all, which I guess is the most natural choice if you really consider all functions. So topological_space a isn't contributing anything in your original example.
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Nope (although Kin has been on the road). Upcoming week: Hermosa Beach.
At the end of every year, I always take stock in the technologies that I use, the ones I no longer use. (I update my passwords, etc in the process.) If there is a theme to 2014, it’s that I’ve ditched a lot of apps. I no longer use Foursquare. I no longer use Facebook.  I’ve been a paid user since May 2010, but it’s time to move on. I’ve exported all my files, storying most of them in Dropbox. I’ve moved a lot of notes to GitHub.
I signed up for Blocktogether; it joins Blockbot as crucial Twitter apps. Heh, I have some 3500 people blocked on Twitter now, which is probably one of the things that’s helped me not quit Twitter this year. And speaking of Twitter, I took ThinkUp for a test drive. The insights it emails are neat, and I like to support the work of folks like Gina Trapani and Anil Dash – so I ponied up for a membership.
25 years ago this week, I saw Alice Cooper play at Wembley Stadium. It remains one of the greatest rock shows I’ve ever seen. And the encore of “School’s Out” my first religious experience.


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My name is Frederic Mohr, I work as an information security officer and I write about everything that seems noteworthy to me. So you might find workarounds or tutorials on my blog, but also project documentation, gadget reviews or anything else that comes to my mind. Even though I want to focus on information security, it might happen that you stumble across a Minecraft video or something similar that has somehow found its way onto my blog.
I think this is the best place to thank everyone, whose blog has enlightened me, or simply helped me finding the solution to an annoying problem . Also to all the users in countless boards who where not afraid to ask or to busy to answer all these question, saving me tons of time and frustration – especially to the people at all the great stackexchange.com sites (stackoverflow, security, etc.).
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The german Datenschutzerklärung and the english privacy policy are two totally different pages on the same matter (privacy), which I both don't like. Both pages are created using one of those many generators and therefore are limited in fitting this site. That's why I want to say a few words (no legal statements, but mere comments) on how I want to handle privacy here.
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- Hackito Ergo Sum: Paris, France
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SET-UP, THE (director: Robert Wise; screenwriters: From poem by Joseph Moncure March/Art Cohn; cinematographer: Milton Krasner; cast: Robert Ryan (Bill "Stoker" Thompson), Audrey Totter (Julie Thompson), George Tobias (Tiny), Alan Baxter (Little Boy), Wallace Ford (Gus), Percy Helton (Red), Hal Fieberling (Tiger Nelson), Archie Leonard (Blindman), Dwight Martin (Glutton), James Edwards (Luther Hawkins), Darryl Hickman (Shanley), David Clarke (Gunboat Johnson), Edwin Max (Danny), Lynn Millan (Bunny), 1949)
Reviewed by Dennis Schwartz
This is one of the top fight films ever made, along with Raging Bull and Body and Soul. It is reportedly the role Robert Ryan, the college boxing whiz liked the best, and the one he probably gave his best performance in. It is the only boxing film developed from a poem. It was fleshed out into a screenplay by boxing aficionado Art Cohn. The director, Robert Wise, wanted to use the ring for a metaphor about the corrupt world, using the innocence of a boxer against those in the business who tried to make him take a dive. Wise captured the mood of the smoked-filled arena, the fans' reactions, and the dirtiness of the boxing world. The dark streets of Los Angeles, the brutality of the sport, and the seedy hotels where the struggling boxers reside, were photographed in a gritty manner, giving the film its noir look.
Stoker (Ryan) is a 35-year-old washed-up fighter. He is on the card for tonight's fight at the Paradise City arena, a second-rate boxing venue. His wife Julie (Totter) can't stand to see him fight any more, so she waits for him back in the seedy hotel, though he is hoping she shows up to watch him. Becoming restless, she wanders the streets that are filled with arcades, bars, and chop suey places. She stops on a bridge to watch the passing trolleys below and then listens intently to a radio ringside report of the boxing match coming from a newspaper stand, and is relieved to find that it was not her husband who was knocked out.
Tiny (Tobias), Stoker's manager, has arranged with the underlings of a notorious gangster, Little Boy (Baxter), to fix the four round fight after the second round. After receiving fifty dollars for the fix, he decides not to tell Stoker, figuring he couldn't beat the much younger fighter, Tiger Nelson (Hal), anyway. His cut man, veteran character actor with the high-pitched, squeaky voice, Red (Percy), who is told by Tiny that he got thirty dollars for the fix, receives his cut of ten dollars but thinks it is mistake not to tell Stoker about the fix.
The film looks as if it is being shot in real time, as Stoker awaits in the dressing room, exchanging good-natured barbs with the other boxers present and listening to their nervous chatter. They are all dreamers, filled with their own apprehensions and wants, men caught in a world where they have little chance of succeeding, but that million to one shot to make it to the top is what motivates them.
The boxing scenes looked real. Stoker feeling he could win, goes all out, even as his face is pummeled. The crowd was made up of an assortment of fans, some there to wager, others to eat and enjoy themselves, some getting a kick out of the mayhem seen, and a blind man- having his pal give him a detailed description of the fight- just loving the violence. After the third round, Little Boy's cronies realized they had been double-crossed, as Stoker was holding his own, refusing to go down. At this point, Tiny tells his fighter the fix is in. But it is too late, Stoker's pride makes him want to win the fight, as he proceeds to knock out Tiger.
Confronted in the dressing room by the gangsters, trapped alone in an empty dark arena, as Tiny and Red have fled, the boxer runs into an alley, where the gang beats him and breaks his hands with a brick so that he'll never box again. This turns out to be a blessing in disguise for Julie, who calls for an ambulance for her noble husband. She asks his forgiveness for not attending the fight, then assures him that they "both won tonight."
Ryan's performance gives this film the human drama the other great boxing movies just couldn't deliver. His drive to win despite knowing what that victory will ultimately mean and the noble way he handles himself, provides this film with an insiders look into the boxer's virile nature and the foolish pride he has in winning.
The Set-Up was one of the few films ever made in which narrative time and screen time are the same-72 minutes. Wise brought in former boxing professional John Indrisano to make sure the choreographed fight scenes were realistic. Wise, striving for realism above all, visited the boxing places around the Long Beach area, basing the boxing fans chosen for the film on the same type of people he saw while attending those matches.
REVIEWED ON 2/22/2000 GRADE: A-
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3月18日晚上，豆瓣网友 K 发表了这样一条广播：
一天早晨，格里高尔·萨姆沙从不安的睡梦中醒来，发现自己小区被封了。
当我看到首页有人转发这条的时候，立刻意识到它蕴藏的巨大荒诞性。我甚至不知道这句话所引用的梗具体来自哪一部小说，但我明白，这种「名著中的人物在中国」的反差将带来绝佳的创作可能。
考虑了快半小时（看书太少，流下不学无术的眼泪），我写下了自己的投稿：
人们通知树上的男爵下来做核酸。柯希莫拒绝了。
他从樱桃树跳到橄榄树，又跳到栗树上，远远地消失在了森林里。社区组织了一万名志愿者对那片森林进行了拉网式搜索，终于将柯希莫 •迪 • 隆多给架到子检测点。
注：有关其他创作的相关收集可见一条豆瓣动态引发的“疫情文学”复兴
这条引来了大概大几十条转发，遂在一天后随着原广播被和谐而湮灭。
我写道：
那条疫情防控名著改编大赏（果然）被和谐了。
——或者说，这件因戏谑荒诞时事开启的大型群体行为艺术由这可预期的消失补完了它最后的拼图，让整个不到一天的事件成了一次快闪。
以为整件事就将止步于此，没想到3月28号收到了一封豆邮，对方表示是NPR的记者，想针对这件事对我进行采访。
——这太酷了吧，你要问我我有什么想说的我可不困了.jpg
随后在第二天午后我们就通过电话完成了不到10分钟的采访。（然后我花了大概半小时平复紧张的心情（
这篇采访在4月14号放了出来，名为<Chinese writers borrow from Western classics to illustrate life in the age of COVID>，是一段7分钟的短播客。这时候和接受采访时的3月29日比起来，许多更加不可思议的事情发生了，绝对比一万个志愿者抓做测试更离谱。
另外，看了下发表出来的内容，我觉得经过编辑老师的翻译之后，比我表达的原话更有文采=v=
……
FENG: For others, adapting their own pandemic literature is a way to blow off steam in a safe way. Jon Zhang, a Beijing-based software engineer, is a writer who falls into this school. He started reading, in his spare time while working from home, “The Baron In The Trees” by Italo Calvino, a philosophical fable extolling liberty.
JON ZHANG: (Through interpreter) And I started thinking that Cosimo the baron is a character who’s rebelling against social restrictions and looking for freedom, something particularly meaningful to contemplate in China’s current reality. If a character like the baron were to live in China now, what would he do?
柯希莫男爵是文学史上经典的反抗社会规训与追求自由的人物形象，这在当今中国的社会现实下有特别的对照意义。如果「树上的男爵」这样的人物生活在当今的中国，他会遭遇些什么？
FENG: In Calvino’s telling, Cosimo manages to create a free life for himself for decades in the treetops of the Italian countryside. He succeeds in breaking free of his aristocratic family. Zhang’s story ends a bit differently.
ZHANG: (Through interpreter) People told the baron in the tree to come down and do a PCR test. Cosimo refused. He jumped from the cherry tree to the olive tree, then to the chestnut tree and disappeared into the forest far away. So the community officials organized 10,000 volunteers to conduct a search of the forest, and finally, they dragged Cosimo to the test site.
FENG: Zhang says writing pandemic fiction is an act of protest against the dozens of PCR tests the local government’s required him to do and the repetitive lockdowns he’s endured. Fiction, he believes, is the best way to illustrate the absurdity of life in the age of COVID.
ZHANG: (Through interpreter) What I want to satirize are these ossified, bureaucratic COVID-containment policies.
FENG: And he imagines himself during long stretches of boredom by imagining what the writers of yesteryear who he imitates would think if they lived a day in his shoes in China.
ZHANG: (Through interpreter) I think they would find my reality preposterous and the way we do things abnormal.
FENG: However, Jon normally keeps these thoughts to himself. That’s why he writes in private - because in fiction, anything is fair game.
Emily Feng, NPR News, Beijing.


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10/4/2018
Bisexuality is being attracted to genders that are the same and different than mine or yours. Bisexuality is awesome. Not that I chose to be a bisexual, but it certainly has its benefits. The dating pool is doubled, the rate of scoring is doubled. I walk around with hearts in my eyes for anyone I think is attractive. I love that I’m bi. I’m extremely prideful and accepting about my sexuality. But, my sexuality wasn’t something I was honest or comfortable with myself about for years.
Coming out to yourself is an intricate situation, for anyone. It forces you to come to terms with parts of your identity that are repressed, ignored and maybe even loathed. Coming out as a bisexual can be even more difficult. Society lives in a world of black and white. Many people are uncomfortable or confused by the gray section — where everything can get messy and nuanced. Identity expansion can be intimidating to navigate.
My personal advice is to listen to yourself. If you are questioning — bisexual, lesbian or asexual — is to trust yourself. If kissing girls is a thought that you can even consider, that probably means more than you think it does. Be curious.  In a setting where you are comfortable, the worst that can happen is you don’t like something, so you don’t do it anymore, and the best situation? Well, you might just really enjoy yourself.
I also recommend activities that encourage self-reflection. This could be journaling your thoughts and feelings, meditation or even poetry. It will give you a sense of clarity, and you can revisit old experiences for identity growth.
Don’t forget that identity development takes time and patience. Understanding yourself is a process. Self awareness is an asset that comes with perseverance and dedication. Remember to always be loving and kind towards yourself.
Even after coming out and feeling secure in my sexuality, the validity of it is still constantly questioned.  Some days it feels like I am fighting to be believed, and it is hurtful. Even more though, it is invalidating. It’s important to remember when you’re feeling isolated, no one is alone and someone will understand you.
Here are some great resources for my fellow bisexual friends out there. You can also talk to a trusted friend or stop by the LGBT Center, located in 354 Baker Center, Athens. Bi-Local is a community supporting the visibility of bisexuals based in Columbus, bilocal614.org. Bi-Local is open to bisexuals, pansexuals and nonmonosexualities, and it hosts meetings every second Thursday of the month at Bossy Grrl’s Pin Up Joint, located on 2598 N. High Street in Columbus.
There are plenty of online resources available as well, but here are a few that I highly recommend. The Bisexual Resource Center, biresource.org, is a community devoted to serving the bisexual community. The website provides global research and resources for nonmonosexualities.
The Trevor Project, thetrevorporject.org, is a leading national organization serving crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to the queer community and questioning people under 25.
GLSEN, glsen.org, is an organization with the mission to create an impervious and inclusive academic environment for the LGBT community.
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| Package | Description |
|---|---|
| org.apache.commons.configuration2 |
The Configuration main package.
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| org.apache.commons.configuration2.builder |
This package contains the implementations of configuration builder classes used to create new
Configuration objects. |
| org.apache.commons.configuration2.interpol |
A package with helper classes used for interpolation (variable substitution).
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| Modifier and Type | Class and Description |
|---|---|
class |
ConfigurationLookup
A specialized implementation of the
Lookup interface which uses a Configuration object to resolve
variables. |
| Modifier and Type | Method and Description |
|---|---|
void |
Configuration.installInterpolator(Map<String,? extends Lookup> prefixLookups,
Collection<? extends Lookup> defLookups)
Creates and installs a new
ConfigurationInterpolator for this Configuration based on the passed in
arguments. |
void |
Configuration.installInterpolator(Map<String,? extends Lookup> prefixLookups,
Collection<? extends Lookup> defLookups)
Creates and installs a new
ConfigurationInterpolator for this Configuration based on the passed in
arguments. |
void |
AbstractConfiguration.installInterpolator(Map<String,? extends Lookup> prefixLookups,
Collection<? extends Lookup> defLookups)
Creates and installs a new
ConfigurationInterpolator for this Configuration based on the passed in
arguments. |
void |
AbstractConfiguration.installInterpolator(Map<String,? extends Lookup> prefixLookups,
Collection<? extends Lookup> defLookups)
Creates and installs a new
ConfigurationInterpolator for this Configuration based on the passed in
arguments. |
void |
AbstractConfiguration.setDefaultLookups(Collection<? extends Lookup> lookups)
Adds all
Lookup objects in the given collection as default lookups (i.e. |
void |
AbstractConfiguration.setPrefixLookups(Map<String,? extends Lookup> lookups)
Registers all
Lookup objects in the given map at the current ConfigurationInterpolator of this
configuration. |
| Modifier and Type | Method and Description |
|---|---|
T |
BasicBuilderProperties.setDefaultLookups(Collection<? extends Lookup> lookups)
Adds additional default
Lookup objects (i.e. |
BasicBuilderParameters |
BasicBuilderParameters.setDefaultLookups(Collection<? extends Lookup> lookups)
Adds additional default
Lookup objects (i.e. |
T |
BasicBuilderProperties.setPrefixLookups(Map<String,? extends Lookup> lookups)
Sets additional
Lookup objects for specific prefixes for this configuration object. |
BasicBuilderParameters |
BasicBuilderParameters.setPrefixLookups(Map<String,? extends Lookup> lookups)
Sets additional
Lookup objects for specific prefixes for this configuration object. |
| Modifier and Type | Class and Description |
|---|---|
class |
ConstantLookup
Looks up constant fields in classes.
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class |
DummyLookup
A simple dummy
Lookup implementation. |
class |
EnvironmentLookup
Deprecated.
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class |
ExprLookup
Lookup that allows expressions to be evaluated.
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class |
SystemPropertiesLookup
Deprecated.
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| Modifier and Type | Method and Description |
|---|---|
protected Lookup |
ConfigurationInterpolator.fetchLookupForPrefix(String prefix)
Obtains the lookup object for the specified prefix.
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Lookup |
DefaultLookups.getLookup()
Returns the standard
Lookup instance of this kind. |
static Lookup |
ConfigurationInterpolator.nullSafeLookup(Lookup lookup)
Utility method for obtaining a
Lookup object in a safe way. |
| Modifier and Type | Method and Description |
|---|---|
Collection<Lookup> |
InterpolatorSpecification.getDefaultLookups()
Returns a collection with the default lookups.
|
List<Lookup> |
ConfigurationInterpolator.getDefaultLookups()
Returns a collection with the default
Lookup objects added to this ConfigurationInterpolator . |
static Map<String,Lookup> |
ConfigurationInterpolator.getDefaultPrefixLookups()
Returns a map containing the default prefix lookups.
|
Map<String,Lookup> |
ConfigurationInterpolator.getLookups()
Returns a map with the currently registered
Lookup objects and their prefixes. |
Map<String,Lookup> |
InterpolatorSpecification.getPrefixLookups()
Returns a map with prefix lookups.
|
| Modifier and Type | Method and Description |
|---|---|
void |
ConfigurationInterpolator.addDefaultLookup(Lookup defaultLookup)
Adds a default
Lookup object. |
static Lookup |
ConfigurationInterpolator.nullSafeLookup(Lookup lookup)
Utility method for obtaining a
Lookup object in a safe way. |
void |
ConfigurationInterpolator.registerLookup(String prefix,
Lookup lookup)
Registers the given
Lookup object for the specified prefix at this instance. |
boolean |
ConfigurationInterpolator.removeDefaultLookup(Lookup lookup)
Removes the specified
Lookup object from the list of default Lookup s. |
InterpolatorSpecification.Builder |
InterpolatorSpecification.Builder.withDefaultLookup(Lookup lookup)
Adds the given
Lookup object to the list of default lookups. |
InterpolatorSpecification.Builder |
InterpolatorSpecification.Builder.withPrefixLookup(String prefix,
Lookup lookup)
Adds a
Lookup object for a given prefix. |
| Modifier and Type | Method and Description |
|---|---|
void |
ConfigurationInterpolator.addDefaultLookups(Collection<? extends Lookup> lookups)
Adds all
Lookup objects in the given collection as default lookups. |
void |
ConfigurationInterpolator.registerLookups(Map<String,? extends Lookup> lookups)
Registers all
Lookup objects in the given map with their prefixes at this ConfigurationInterpolator . |
InterpolatorSpecification.Builder |
InterpolatorSpecification.Builder.withDefaultLookups(Collection<? extends Lookup> lookups)
Adds the content of the given collection to the default lookups managed by this builder.
|
InterpolatorSpecification.Builder |
InterpolatorSpecification.Builder.withPrefixLookups(Map<String,? extends Lookup> lookups)
Adds the content of the given map to the prefix lookups managed by this builder.
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The literature ITSELF was hostile m'dude. Hostile literature is covered in most company HR policies. How are you so ignorant of this? https://t.co/7cTRdOWldn
— Twink Peaks (@RealDorianDawes) August 8, 2017
Sowieso nicht lol
Anyone angry about Google firing that guy: don’t worry, they’ve probably let a thousand other bigots off the hook, you’re fine
— Aanand (@aanand) August 8, 2017
I want to say I'm glad but knowing Silicon Valley I'm also sure this guy will not be jobless for long.
— DISTURBED SHINJI (@der_Grobi) August 8, 2017
Watch him end up at Oculus. https://t.co/2Ak6Zl9GbE
Unsurprising to see that the theme on HN today is "misogynist now-ex-google-employee is a hero". This comment takes the cake: pic.twitter.com/WmSgWNMTej
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— Ashley Feinberg (@ashleyfeinberg) August 8, 2017
Debate fascists, don't no-platform them!
— DISTURBED SHINJI (@der_Grobi) August 8, 2017
The Google guy may stink, but don't fire him!

You don't see the centrist liberals of the world rising to defend them, do you? No, it's just when a guy writes Mein Kampf for GoogleDocs
— Twink Peaks (@RealDorianDawes) August 8, 2017
This is the a good opportunity to look at some reactions to James Damore’s “sexist memo”
If I were to award annual prizes, then I think I had a clear winner for at least one of them, every year. The political left is just at the top of the game when it comes to being unself-aware.
A Google employee is talking about Google’s political agenda. It’s quite interesting.
This is basically a follow up from the last post. An Iowan student newspaper published an article about privilege
I think I’m starting to understand why I loathe the “other left”.
Reading this artcile by Reuters something weird came up.
It’s such a shame I can almost never recommend German Cabaret to my internation friends. Some of it manages to be the perfect mix of humour and critique on the ruling class.
Latvia isn’t gonna sign a new convention combating violence against women and domestic violence interesting. The reasoning is a bit weird for me, but not unreasonable. What’s really odd, is the convention itself. I’m just gonna pick out some parts that strike me as strange, not everything in the 37 pages.
I kinda presume everyone is familiar with the term and its meaning already. It’s one of the most famous strategies for leading a nation, a strategy to shift the attention of the general population away from politics by distracting them with each other.
This article is basically a follow up on this article and this tweet as well as the discussion to that tweet afterwards. Here I want to clarify why this tweet is just wrong.
Finally gonna write about the importance of proper education here. There are two things to clarify here. First the reasons why education is the single most important department to invest to. Secondly what’s “proper education” at least in my opinion. (I’m gonna use “high school” as equivalent for the German abitur here, since it’s pretty close. It’s basically the qualification to study at university.)
So before I talk about how education should be, I want to write down how mine was. This is gonna be off the heart, so it’s a bit of a change.
It’s finally time to talk about freedom of speech. It’s the fundamental basis of our democratic systems as it gives us the power to further strive as a whole. Our systems are builded on the fact, that we can discuss anything on a reasonable level or at least that’s how it should be. Hence why it’s crucial to not make any cuts on this freedom at all, otherwise it’s just gonna come back at us.
And a completely misleading title.
“I don’t feel save anymore. Why don’t they do anything?” That’s it, we vote CDU.
So while browsing Twitter I see more and more tweets about artists wanting some credit for their work in one way or another. Even though I’m far from an artist, I can totally understand that. But it’s still a matter of how much.
So PewDiePie released a new video on the WSJ. He said it means war and he meant it or so it seems for now. Great doing WSJ, like other conservative media, your annual income goes down, so you try new ways. Paywalls don’t work apparently, what a surprise to anyone who just uses the next hit on Google for the same article, because there isn’t much different among the headlines anyway. Yeah, when everyone copies each other, a pwaywall will do wonders.
So I’ve noticed foreigners are pretty confused by Germanys political landscape and rightfully so. First I’m gonna introduce the parties a bit, then some recent history, you’ll understand my reason for doing so then.
Newspapers have declined
Somehow whenever it comes to Trump, things start to get weird.
We did it guys! We’ve finally arrived in the era after Trump!
Fucking hilarious (German)
For my first post I thought I’d go with something easy, so why not anonymity? I’m a big advocator of free speech, putting it above pretty much anything else. Without it healthy discussions wouldn’t be able to exist, people wouldn’t be able to test their thoughts and it’s vital for progression if you ask me. Jordan Peterson is a very good representative of this stance and he’s definitely worth checking out. But I’ll probably post my own thoughts on it as well at some point. For now I’d rather want to talk about the basis of free speech: Platforms to express it or rather their qualitative differences. In other words anonymity vs pseudonymity vs clear names.
So this commences my own first blog, let’s see how it’ll work out and if any read this. It’s purpose is basically for me to vent out and produce some texts, albeit I’d be happy if some folks follow it regularly and spread it. That said, I’m kinda eager to write every now and then, hopefully for everyone who comes to like it, my enthusiasm won’t cool down too quickly. Or I run out of ideas to write about. But seeing the world and its people heat up with every day passing, becoming more and more extreme while name-calling everyone else either left or right, I don’t see that happening any time soon. On the other hand I’m scared to repeat myself over and over again.


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| size_t artvision_instanton::ImageYUV::width |
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Get the dimensions of the image.
| Image ImageYUV::Y |
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Gets a view to Y plane.
The returned Image share and retain the image buffer.
The documentation for this class was generated from the following files:
- /bitrise/src/Source/AR6/InstantOn/include/AR6/InstantOn/framework/image_yuv.h
- /bitrise/src/Source/AR6/InstantOn/framework/image_yuv.cpp


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{% extends 'base.html' %} {% from 'shared/macros.html' import paginate, display_search_form, search_results, video_item with context %} {% if search %} {% set title=_('Video Search Results') %} {% else %} {% set title=_('Videos') %} {% endif %} {% block page_title %}{{ title }}{% endblock %} {% block content %}
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Cut to Fly
Black.
My fingers weave through the mess of my hair, smoothening the strands and arguing with the tangles. Poking against the knots until slowly and silently, they come undone.
Looped.The way it’s always been. Dark, narrow alleys twisting and turning down corners, leading up to a single green hairband coiled in place. A map of my years spent growing. From crawling to walking. Velcro to laces. Short hair to long. It’s not just a crown meant to adorn, but a relic meant to represent who I am and why.
Silver.Gleaming scissors inching towards me. A blur of metal underneath the white barbershop light, growing fuzzier by the minute as my vision is blinded by my tears. Seconds turn into ages, while my trembling fingers long to weave through my hair one last time, instead of being imprisoned behind the cold plastic of the barber’s cape. Every tangle is now a blessing, every knot is a gift. Every strand is a memory I desperately cling onto, wishing to spend another minute with the thing that knows me the best: my long, dark, Indian hair.
Snip.SnipAnd the strangled silence is slashed to pieces, like the clumps of black gently touching the ground. Inch after inch. Comfort after comfort. The most painless piece of me, the most coveted, the most loved -- clearly hurts the most. My mind, scattered with the dark masses on the blue tiles, struggles to collect words.
“They fell like birds,” I thought. A strange phrase, but something true. Maybe I want my hair to have wings. To land gently on the ground. To reach the barbershop floor in a flurry of feathers, silently waving to me as I cry. As everyone else, from the makeup-caked hair stylists to my own mother, watches.
Posters.Lining the glossy windows. Some of them advertise lipstick and gleaming brunettes, and others scream in capital letters about the latest blow dryer available at my nearest Walgreens. And one poster in the corner, with the image of a child, hospital-bed ridden, who dreams of hair. Her eyes are small, and yet she looks like she has seen much more than anyone else. I stare at her image as the barber places my clumps of hair into a plastic bag, all the while assuring me that short hair is “just totally the new style.”
Maybe.A word, a step in another direction altogether. My tears crust along the brims of my eyes, and I remember the feathers. The hair. The ground. And the poster.
“Maybe, they fell like birds,” I say to myself, shrugging off the barber’s cape and emerging someone different. The girl in the poster smiles, and I find hope in a thick plastic bag handed to me. “Maybe they fell like birds, so that someone else could fly.”


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9-year-old boy catches massive blue catfish in New Mexico
by EndPlayELEPHANT BUTTE, N.M. (AP) - He caught a fish "this" big. No, really.
A 9-year-old New Mexico boy landed a 42-pound (19-kilogram) blue catfish Sunday evening while fishing in the Elephant Butte Reservoir.
Kris Flores said his son, Alex, made the big catch by himself and shattered dad's record of reeling in a 36-pound (16-kilogram) fish.
Flores says the fourth grader named the fish Wailord after the Pokemon character. The father says his son released the fish back into the reservoir after taking some photos and videos.
The biggest fish ever reportedly caught in Elephant Butte history was 78 pounds (35 kilograms).
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This story corrects a previous version to say the boy named the fish Wailord after the Pokemon character, not Whale Lord. It also corrects the spelling of Pokemon.


Frustration over British Airways delays caused by ‘technical issue’
The most delayed Heathrow arrivals were more than 12 hours behind schedule.
British Airways passengers have expressed their frustration after hundreds of flights were disrupted due to a “technical issue”.
Aircraft around the world were grounded for several hours due to the glitch.
Some 97 flights to and from Heathrow were more than 45 minutes late, and two were cancelled.
A further 17 Gatwick flights were also delayed by the same length of time.
Stephanie Donovan’s flight from the US city of Orlando to Gatwick on Wednesday night was delayed by four hours after the pilot told passengers he was unable to access his flight plan due to the system failure.
She told the PA news agency that “nothing seemed to be communicated very well” and claimed British Airways “tried to keep it quiet regarding refreshment vouchers which people were entitled to”.
She added: “Most people we spoke to were flying with BA for the first time and we have all said we wouldn’t fly with them again.”
Ross Midlane was due to fly from Gatwick to Orlando but woke up on Thursday morning to learn his flight was cancelled.
He said “the information was poor” and there was “no explanation” about why the aircraft was grounded.
British Airways initially switched him to a flight from Heathrow, but as he was preparing to catch a bus to the west London airport he was re-booked onto a Virgin Atlantic flight from Gatwick.
“The guy on customer service was excellent and really fast and helpful,” he said. “Just glad to have a seat.”
The most delayed Heathrow arrivals were from Pittsburgh, USA and Beijing, China. Both were more than 12 hours behind schedule.
A spokeswoman for British Airways said: “Our teams are working hard to resolve a technical issue which is affecting some of our flights, and we have rebooked customers on to alternative flights and offered hotel accommodation where they have been unable to continue their journeys last night.
“We are very sorry for the disruption to their travel plans.
“We plan to operate a full flight schedule today.”
Customers were urged to check ba.com for latest flight information.
The airline has suffered a series of systems failures in recent months.
In August, an IT glitch caused the cancellation of more than 100 flights and disrupted the travel plans of tens of thousands of passengers.
Rory Boland, editor of Which? Travel magazine, said: “This is the latest in a long line of British Airways technical glitches causing delays and cancellations and yet again it’s thousands of passengers who are paying the price – left tired, frustrated and with a lack of information and assistance from the airline.
“BA must do the right thing and reroute passengers as quickly as possible, using other airlines where necessary, as well as informing customers facing disruption about their entitlement to compensation.”


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