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  • Morning Docket: 12.29.21
    Morning Docket

    Morning Docket: 12.29.21

    * A working-from-home benefit is that you can keep an eye on your young ones. Better than having Alexa doing the babysitting. [Business Insider]

    * Louisiana doctors will be prescribing flower come Jan 1. Gotta get greens in your diet somehow. [KALB]

    * Keeping tabs on liberty can be difficult. Here’s a summary of voting rights and voting wrongs that will color 2022. [NYT]

    * In New Jersey, a mom’s sentence for killing her son was overturned after judges ruled the jury had no idea what the hell they were doing. [NBC]

    * Arizona legal paraprofessionals are on the way to do good work at more affordable rates. Talk about raising the bar. [Santa Fe New Mexican]

  • Morning Docket: 10.29.21
    Morning Docket

    Morning Docket: 10.29.21

    * Two Nazis handed a 9-year sentence for trying to pop off race war. Happy Friday! [Forbes]

    * Amazon faces discrimination lawsuit because it doesn’t cater enough to white straight men. Somebody clue the beginning to this Eminem song I guess. [Law360]

    * Iowa’s Pro Bono Society shows love to 56 students who empowered their communities. THANK YOU! [UIowa]

    * SCOTUS will be hearing oral argument on SB8’s enforcement mechanism on November 1st. It has to have a chilling effect on something, at least. [KHN]

    * $13 Million marijuana conspiracy involving cops is the talk of Franklin County, Maine. I wonder if the business involved infused butter for lobsta rolls. [WGME]

  • Morning Docket: 09.27.21
    Morning Docket

    Morning Docket: 09.27.21

    * William Shatner is going to space. For real this time. [Finance.Yahoo]

    * Amazon has to disclose the algorithm they use to track their workers from A to Z. [InterestingEngineering]

    * Even the surveillance state is worried about getting surveilled. Maybe I should get a VPN. [Wired]

    * What? You mean to tell me the thing with face recognition and 24/7 audio capturing doesn’t stop tracking my data when I ask it to?! [WaPo]

    * Smells like chamois cream: cyclist uses GPS to show his rendition of Nirvana’s Nevermind cover. [The Guardian]

  • Morning Docket: 09.22.21
    Morning Docket

    Morning Docket: 09.22.21

    * A six-point memo detailing how to overthrow the 2020 election directed at Mike Pence was discovered and circulated. My hunch is that the first point was to walk up to Joe Biden and tell him “You’re Fired.” [Esquire]

    * Principal’s contract is not renewed because he dared to suggest systemic racism is a thing. [The Daily Beast]

    * Texas AG goes to court over right for people to deadname their employees. This is just a goofy employment law hypo, right? [LGBTQ Nation]

    * Amazon doesn’t care if you smoke(d) weed and will be lobbying for its legalization. Will they change their slogan to “Toke hard, Have fun”? [CNBC]

    * There has been a new addition to the X that Y’s itself list — a chair! Related, I am now keenly aware that I don’t remember the last time I’ve cleaned my chairs.  [The First News]