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Binding can involve persuading one’s colleagues (or fellow congregationists or union members) behind closed doors to withdraw their support from leaders who abuse their constitutional power. For example, Ohio National Guard members recently have been communicating with each other through encrypted group chats, discussing their concerns about — and even unwillingness to participate in — politicized deployments. Binding tends to be less visible than breaking, but it is no less important. These tactics complement each other well: Insiders can quietly organize colleagues, gather information on the government’s abuses, and strategize about incentives and potential wedges within specific pillars. Meanwhile, outsiders can draw public attention and escalate pressure.

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Dialogue and engagement with specific elements of pillars can increase the likelihood of defections. This was a key strategy of the Otpor movement in Serbia, which actively fraternized with state security forces as part of a broad-based movement to remove autocrat Slobodan Milosevic from power.

What I find incredibly alarming is how many people who are in positions of power and authority refuse to look critical at all on this matter. We're continuing to see it pushed across the education sphere, including (particularly of concern to me) in matters of school finance.

Consider what a 70% failure rate looks like for school budgeting.

In our experimentation, exploitation of this vulnerability had high fidelity, with a near 100% success rate and can be leveraged to a full remote code execution. The attack vector is unauthenticated and remote, requiring only a specially crafted HTTP request to the target server. It affects the default configuration of popular frameworks.

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Both companies are advising admins and developers to upgrade React and any dependencies that rely on it.

The second thing limitarianism requires is that we reduce class seg-regation. We must do so because it will directly help to restore and nurture democracy, in particular democratic citizenship. Class integration creates a culture of empathy for people from different walks of life and generates more opportunities for cross-class friendship. It is easy to vote for a neoliberal government that will impose austerity measures on the most vulnerable if you don't know any poor or vulnerable people, and believe that they are poor because they are lazy, or that they have somehow blown the opportunities that society may have given them.

At 10:27 pm, Yoon formally declared martial law in a televised address to the nation. Upon returning to the reception room, Yoon reportedly asked to be served “something to drink,” before casually remarking that “declaring martial law is no big deal. It was a piece of cake.”

The National Assembly passed the resolution demanding an end to martial law at 1:03 am. That was not enough to stop Yoon, however. Yoon once again called Lee Jin-woo at 1:13 am to say, “Apparently, 190 lawmakers were in the chamber. That being said, we can’t confirm that there were actually 190 of them. Even if the declaration has been lifted, it doesn’t matter; I can declare martial law a second or even a third time. Keep going with your operation.”

The clearest example of this is the emergence and growth of the platform economy, whereby workers are required to be available to deliver food or do other work if and when they are called upon by consumers via the platform. This is heralded as allowing people to work as and when they want, but would more accurately be termed a contemporary form of day labor. It might be a good way for a young person to earn some extra cash while they are studying and living with their parents, but it does not provide the basis for an adult to raise a family in decent living conditions. In the meantime, the owners of these new platforms, as well as the owners of the companies with employees-turned-flex-workers, have become multimillionaires and billionaires.