Daily Links #100: More on the Baltimore police corruption trial

• The jaw-dropping fall of an elite Baltimore police unit validates the need for federal oversight. (I wrote about this case a little bit here.)

• San Francisco district attorney’s office to dismiss thousands of current marijuana cases, as well as vacate pot convictions dating back to 1975. Kudos.
  (via @BadAstronomer)

• Days after Florida voters put the issue on the November ballot, a federal judge strikes down the state’s current system that forces felons to undergo an arduous process to recover their voting rights.
  (via Joe.My.God.)

• Canadian federal prisons will now accommodate trans inmates based on how they self-identify.
  (via @cancivlib)

• How to guarantee a massive privacy breach: 1) Pass a terrible law forcing porn sites to verify their visitors’ age. 2) Internet company now requires users to disclose their real names, addresses and birth dates across porn sites. 3) Sit back and wait.
  (via @fark)

• Finally, this video is possibly the best thing humanity will ever produce (and the best advertisement Seattle’s KIRO Radio will ever have):
  (via retweet by @KFILE)

Last night we captured surveillance footage of a vandal trying to break in to one of our employee's vehicles in our parking lot. While the suspect is still at large, we took the liberty to have John Curley give his play-by-play of the incident.

Take a listen 🔊 pic.twitter.com/FYQTiJsTDt

— KIRO Radio 97.3 FM🎙 (@KIRORadio) February 1, 2018

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