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“Legal Corner: Apple’s “notarisation” – blocking software freedom of developers and users!” — via FSFE
https://fsfe.org/news/2025/news-20251105-01.en.html

London-based Lawhive, whose lawyers and AI tools help individuals and SMBs automate legal tasks, raised a $60M Series B, after a $40M Series A in December 2024 (Jeremy Kahn/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/02/05/lawhive-ai-law-firm-startup-series-b-ventu…

Exclusive: Lawhive, a startup using AI to reimagine the general practice law firm, raises $60 million in new venture capital funding
The company is expanding rapidly in the U.S. with its technology-centric vision of the general practice law firm

"Regardless of the legal speed limit, your Buick must be operated at
speeds faster than 85 MPH (140kph)."
-- 1987 Buick Grand National owners manual.

In 2025, 126 media industry people were killed globally, the US had 170 reports of assaults on journalists, and Trump's government increasingly attacked media (David Bauder/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/press-freedom-2025-me…

A rough year for journalists in 2025, with a little hope
By most measures, 2025 was a rough year for those who care about freedom of the press. It's likely to be the deadliest year on record for journalists and media workers across the world. The number of assaults on reporters spiked in the United States. As is by now familiar, the ranks of people working as journalists continues to thin. The president of the United States continues to berate many who ask him questions, sometimes in harshly personal terms. Outside of name-calling, the second term of…

#journalism #rights #usa

U.S. Press Freedom Tracker
The U.S. Press Freedom Tracker is a project that aims to comprehensively document press freedom incidents in the United States — such as the arrests of journalists, seizures of their equipment, interrogations and searches at the U.S. border, subpoenas to testify about sources, leak prosecutions and physical attacks. The Press Freedom Tracker documents cases across the country, involving national, state and local authorities.

Advancing American Freedom Hires Former Heritage Foundation Legal, Economic and Data Directors (Julia Jensen/Advancing American Freedom)
https://advancingamericanfreedom.com/advancing-american-freedom-hires-former-heritage-foundation-legal-economic-and-data-directors/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251222/p93#a251222p93

Minnesota’s coalition is demanding:
1: ICE must leave Minnesota now.
2: Renee Good’s killer, Jonathan Ross, must be held legally accountable.
3: No additional federal funding for ICE in the upcoming budget.
“These are moral common sense for a state that values truth, freedom, and life.”
https://

The washer went kaput late on Dec. 30th. Fortunately, a local store was open to buy a replacement. Unfortunately, the holidays mean the replacement won't be delivered until Jan 5th. 🧺
Can't wait to see the broken #appliance hauled away with 2025, and to welcome their well-functioning replacements.🤞
#hopes #newYear

Panel talking about dark markets on nostr.
Nostr can be quite anonymous and encrypted and connected to payment via bitcoin. Can it therefore do Silk Road? Allow anonymous markets?
Nobody wants to publicly advocate for selling illegal drugs, but yeah, sure, people could do that. There's even protocol types for market places.
Relay owners might get into legal issues if they are forwarding illegal market listings. But this is true in general, there are also illegal images and even illegal text.
Nostr relays and Devs might find themselves in legal trouble anyway, due to the general legal crackdowns on internet requiring age proof and id on websites obstensively to protect kids. These are freedoms we all need to fight for. Perhaps brains will drain to more free jurisdictions? Devs move to where open development is legal? Not the panel at least. They want to say at home.
#nostr #nostrshire #darkMarkets

Day of Truth and Freedom
https://skywriter.blue/pages/did:plc:a4wzpl7hpxvvntj6hatvuhlw/post/3mczfkmy5ec2v