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‘You’re remembered for the rules you break’: OceanGate CEO who was piloting the Titan admitted in 2021 that the sub’s construction had ‘broken some rules’ ( fortune.com )

“I’d like to be remembered as an innovator,” he said, speaking from the interior of one of OceanGate’s submersibles. “I think it was [famous American General Douglas] MacArthur that said, ‘You’re remembered for the rules you break.’”...

‘We Never Stopped Applying Pressure’: IBEW railroad workers win four short-notice, three convertible sick days ( www.ibew.org )

While President Joe Biden was calling on Congress in November to pass legislation to implement the agreement, he stressed that he would continue to encourage the railroads to guarantee paid sick time for their employees....

James Cameron reacts sub implosion: 'I'm struck by the similarity of the Titanic disaster itself' ( www.youtube.com )

Film director James Cameron has expertise in designing and testing these submersibles, and he has many criticisms of the design of the sub that imploded, and of the hubris of the CEO who ignored repeated safety warnings from the diving community. He also mentions that the sub seems to have been attempting to resurface when it...

LexisNexis Is Selling Your Personal Data to ICE So It Can Try to Predict Crimes ( theintercept.com )

The legal research and public records data broker LexisNexis is providing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement with tools to target people who may potentially commit a crime – before any actual crime takes place, according to a contract document obtained by The Intercept. LexisNexis then allows ICE to track the purported...

“Supporting the war is now a Russian citizen’s constitutional duty”: Legal experts on Russia’s Constitutional Court June 21 ruling ( web.archive.org )

A recent ruling by Russia’s Constitutional Court supporting the legality of a law on “discrediting the army” is in fact a constitutional coup d'etat. The judges have proclaimed that the supreme value of the Constitution is no longer the individual, and his or her rights and freedoms, but the state. The approval of the...

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