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Teen charged in Nova Scotia government breach says he had ‘no malicious intent’ | CBC News

missalsfromiram:

This is evil. A teenager in Nova Scotia faces up to 10 years in prison for typing a URL into an address bar. This news article was the original source but this site offers a more concise write-up (with all the same info that’s in the CBC article):

A 19 year old in Nova Scotia wanted to learn more about the provincial teachers’ dispute, so he filed some Freedom of Information requests; he wasn’t satisfied with the response so he decided to dig through other documents the province had released under open records laws to look for more, but couldn’t find a search tool that was adequate to the job.

He noticed that the URL for the response to his request ended with a long number, and by changing that number (by adding or subtracting from it), he could access other public documents published by the government in response to public requests.

So he wrote a one-line program to grab all the public records, planning on searching them once they were on his hard-drive. On Wednesday morning, 15 police officers raided his home, terrorising his family (including his very young siblings – they scooped one of his younger brothers up as he was walking home from school, arresting him on the street) and seizing all the family’s electronics, including the phone and computer his father depends on for his livelihood. The young man now faces criminal charges and possible jail-time.

The reason for the raid and the arrests? The government had unwisely uploaded private, confidential documents to its open directory of public open records, and so they are charging this teen with improperly accessing these confidential documents.

I find that the CBC article, while containing all the same info, is excessively credulous towards the Nova Scotia government’s framing of the issue. E.g.:

19-year-old says he believed documents were ‘free to just download’ from province’s FOIPOP web portal

…They were free to download.

Teen charged in Nova Scotia government breach says he had ‘no malicious intent’ | CBC News

tilthat:

TIL that when Leopold Trouvelot was attempting to breed a better silkworm using Gypsy moths, several of the moths escaped from his home, and within ten years, the insect had denuded the vegetation in the neighborhood, and that’s how the Gypsy moth infestation across North-Eastern America began.

via ift.tt

Fake!Ally Anon messages in my inbox

aegipan-omnicorn:

Three times in the last week – *Two* times today (within moments of each other), I’ve received anonymous messages advocating the murder of all abled people, each time on days when I write posts critical of institutional ableism.

I’ve blocked them, but the messages have only been disappearing one by one. So whoever’s doing it is posting from multiple accounts.

I was just going to ignore them, and starve them of attention, like snuffing out a candle. But then, I realized that if they’re sending me messages, they might be sending them to others, too, in which case, a public warning and shaming is in order. So I’m only going to say this once:

If this anon (yes, it is just one) is trying to flatter me, they’re doing it wrong.

Maybe they’re trying to impress, by demonstrating how strongly I’ve persuaded them of my point of view. But social justice doesn’t work like that.

First of all: You don’t combat one “supremacy” by trading it in for another. You work to dismantle it, piece by piece, like a Lego model. Then, you take all those pieces and build something better – something different than the picture on the box.

And, frankly? The rhetoric of oppressing one group in order to raise up another? Well, that sounds to me like the rhetoric favored by alt-right broflakes.

And second, here’s something we in the Disability Community have been saying forever (at least, longer than this anon has been alive): No able-bodied person is able-bodied forever. There is no “us” vs. “them.”

If this anon is trying to goad me into replying to their asks, and thus letting them onto the dashes of my followers, so they can have something to screen cap, and make it look like I advocate violence…

Then they are doing that wrong, too.

Good night, kid. you’re wasting your time.

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umbriss:

Wow that’s some bullshit?

How to be a shitty parent

how is this shitty parenting if i tell you to be home at a certain time you better be there. Shit my mom would have been out looking for me.

Right? How is this shitty at all?? If i tell you to be home at a certain time you better be there or else you aren’t allowed in the home. I care about my kids safety so much I’ll endanger them when they dont listen to me.

i do not have the energy to explain why this is a shitty thing to do but yeah it’s shit

I do! If you’re gonna be a vindictive little shit to your kids, you shouldn’t be having them. Having abusive parents like the ones up here fucked up my perception of love and affection. 

I got locked out of the house all the time just like this poor kid. Do you know how fucking cold it gets at night? NO because you’re cushy and comfortable behind those decorated glass doors! I slept in 30

°F weather. I was on the swim team so I had to wake up and run with the team at 5 am then go to class. I’d wake up with frozen hair and bugs crawling on me. I’d start crying and it would rain fucking cold water. I had no friends in the neighborhood to go to. I’m still somewhat scared of the dark. 

There’s wild animals and predatory strangers and shit out there. You’re gonna put your fucking CHILD in that situation and FAIL to be their guardian at one of the most important times of day just because they made it home late? Kids make fucking mistakes, and if you aren’t prepared for that, you shouldn’t even have pets. You’re not a caretaker, you’re a lazy abusive perfectionist snot. I’d kick your ass if you were my neighbor and I saw you pulling this shit! No joke!

My roommate talks all the time about how if her kids mess around she’d smack them around, but she and a LOT of other people do not understand that punishments like those are abuse. They fuck your kid up for life.

If you leave a kid out in the cold they’re more likely to get into more trouble/danger to keep warm anyway. Who’s gonna take your kid into their home? Do you even give a shit what happens to them? No because you wanted to play god and get back at someone who is still developing. Be a fucking adult.

Your kid is not  a robot. It’s so shitty these parents have done this kind of stuff before and have NOT given the kid a blanket. 

Neglect is the chronic inattention or omission on the part of the care giver to provide for the basic emotional and/or physical needs of the child, including food, clothing, nutrition, adequate supervision, health, hygiene, safety, medical and psychological care and education. Emotionally neglected children do not receive the necessary psychological nurturance to foster their own growth and development. The consequences of neglect can be very serious, particularly for young children. The child who does not receive adequate emotional, cognitive and physical stimulation, physical care and nutrition may experience lags in development. These lags in development may be irreversible.

SOME FORMS OF ABUSE & NEGLECT:

*Rejection, ignorance and isolation

*A lack of shelter

*Emotional neglect or lack of supervision

*Deliberate locking children out of the house

So if you think pulling this childish bullshit is ok, I will break into your house and steal whatever funds it takes to care for your child. I’ll fight you in the morning because you’re a garbage human being.

Stop teaching your damn kid they’re worthless. YOU made them.

 Stop being your child’s enemy, start being their actual fucking caretaker.

Just so y’all know… in the state of Texas, this is grounds for me to call CPS on your ass.  

And I will, too.

Same in Illinois and I fucking will.  

TBH all the people coming out in support of locking kids outside for missing curfew need to just not have kids

Reminder that one of the victims of Ted Bundy (the serial killer) was locked out of her house because of missing curfew, and he offered his “help.”

This can get your child KILLED.

Also, not everyone chooses to get home late.

There may be traffic, or an accident of some kind, or they may simply have a shit sense of time or direction.

I hope that these parents got called out and arrested for child abuse.

Also people in the comments saying that “y’all wouldn’t survive in a poc household”: stop normalizing child abuse as a cultural or racial thing. If you let your children sleep outside like they’re a fucking dog you won’t be able to pull out the “this is how poc raise their kids” in court when I call the cops on your abusive ass

If you seriously think child abuse is a part of “PoC” culture (whatever the fuck that means, since apparently a korean is the same as a south african and a mexican lol), then you may want to seriously think about how racist you are.

i got locked out by accident a couple times when i missed curfew – parents zoned out on their bedtime routine and forgot i wasn’t already in bed asleep – and the second time i had to ring the doorbell and wake them up to let me in, they got me my own key. because the thought of me not being able to get inside scared the hell out of them, even if i was in trouble for being late. for being late, my punishment was extra chores. because my parents weren’t fucking psychopaths.

oh, and to the people saying “if the kid can’t follow the rules they obviously don’t want to live here,” your conclusion is bullshit and you need to rethink your parenting strategy pronto. although it’s probably already too late for your children. they WILL need therapy their entire lives.

the reason i was always missing curfew was because of executive dysfunction. i’d be watching a movie at a friend’s house and everything else would cease to exist for me. i literally could not remember to check the time – hell, i wouldn’t even notice i had to go to the bathroom unless someone else paused the movie. if my friends got a wild hair to marathon the whole star wars trilogy i would have no clue it was 3am until their parents came down to the basement going “wtf guys??”

teenagers in general are bad at keeping track of background obligations like watching the time, and if they’ve got any kind of neurological disability – or are just stressed out, which most teens are, and stress causes executive dysfunction even in neurotypicals – it’s going to be even harder.

if you think endangering your child’s health is an appropriate punishment for absentmindedness, you are a shitty, shitty parent. there’s no excuse for that. i don’t care how angry or upset you are, and neither does fucking CPS. you forfeit your right to take care of another human being because you have completely failed at making their wellbeing a greater priority than your mood.

 

#child abuse  #i’m really angry at this
  #teens are walking explosions   #they can’t help it    #if you can’t handle it
  #then it’s on you as a parent  #don’t take it out on them
                                               
       
   

My sense of time was absolute fucking shit as a teenager. I literally could not parse ‘11pm’ into ‘wait shit I should go home’. So do you know what my parents did? 

They gave me a prepaid mobile so they could always get hold of me and made sure that I had extra keys for the front door in case I lost one.

If you lock your kid outside not only will I report you to CPS, I will take them into my home, let them sleep in my bed, cook them eggs for breakfast, walk them home and punch you in the fucking face.

A-FUCKING-MAN

Source: distinguishedbaloney

PSA

soilrockslove:

you-suck-ulents:

botanyshitposts:

-theres a succulent species called Conophytum burgeri

–it looks like a lump

-when it flowers it looks like this:

-its native to south africa and is endangered 

-you can read more about it in a book called Dumpling and his wife (??????)

-that is all

This should be a Pokémon

Konijiphyta / The Rainbow-Making Plant Pokemon

Typical forme (above) – Grass/Water

Blossoming forme – Grass/Psychic (or perhaps Grass/Fairy, I haven’t quite decided yet)

Konijiphyta live in dry and rocky deserts in remote areas of the world.  In their typical form they can be hard to tell apart from the quartz pebbles they live among – until the light hits them!  Then they scatter rainbows all around them!

Because of the water they have stored within them to adapt to desert conditions, their body acts like a raindrop – breaking the light into all of it’s colors.  The eyes on their surface are actually remnants of an older time and not able to see anymore – they always keep them closed.  Their true eyes are deep in their bodies and can analyze the various spectra that come to them – which allows them to tell how much moisture is in the air and what kind of gems are in the rocks around them.  Sometimes they can even predict how soon rain will come!

If they want to move (which is rarely) they can pull their roots into themselves and roll like a ball.

When it is exposed to any sort of nectar – it thinks there might be other flowers around and enters it’s blossoming form!  In this form it changes it’s type and puts out a large flower.  The colors of the flower are taken from the colors it has seen so far in it’s life.  Those who smell the honey-like scent of the flower can get glimpses of the rainbows it’s eyes have seen recently and understand what they mean.

When in it’s blossoming form, the Konijiphyta is no longer able to roll freely, so it turns two of it’s roots into small legs.  These cannot necessarily move far, but can be quite fast in short distances.

Most of them live elsewhere, but there are some that live on the Alolan Islands on bare slopes of volcanoes or in rocky patches!

riyahrocks:

the-real-eye-to-see:

Because you can not rewrite our history, because we remember everything

ok but i read the article and some of the others and how did they not know about the room before they built a bathroom in it?? LIke hmmm a dark and damp room with a stove but no windows? That happens to be atatched to good ol’ Tommy J’s? SEEMS LIKE A GREAT PLACE TO PUT A BATHROOM