#10yrsago — Public Fediverse posts

#10yrsago Autocratic regimes systematically deny internet access to opposition ethnic groups https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aaf5062

#10yrsago Leaked Stingray manual shows how easy warrantless mass surveillance can be! https://web.archive.org/web/20160912203446/https://theintercept.com/2016/09/12/long-secret-stingray-manuals-detail-how-police-can-spy-on-phones/

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#10yrsago IoT malware exploits DVRs, home cameras via default passwords https://securityaffairs.com/50929/malware/linux-mirai-elf.html

#10yrsago Oppps.ru: patient zero in Russia’s fake news epidemic https://globalvoices.org/2016/09/12/how-fake-stories-reported-in-russias-news-media-regularly-fool-everyone/

#10yrsago It’s really easy for fired, dirty cops to walk into a new police job in a new town https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/11/us/whereabouts-of-cast-out-police-officers-other-cities-often-hire-them.html

#10yrsago Donald Trump used $20K worth of charitable donations to buy a 6′ tall painting of Donald Trump https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-donald-trump-retooled-his-charity-to-spend-other-peoples-money/2016/09/10/da8cce64-75df-11e6-8149-b8d05321db62_story.html

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#15yrsago Judge: copyright troll showed “staggering chutzpah” in sending its own subpoenas to ISPs https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/09/judge-sanctions-copyright-troll-attorney

#10yrsago Why Facebook’s “It’s too hard” excuse for Vietnam war photo takedown is bullshit https://web.archive.org/web/20160914214543/http://tinyletter.com/danhon/letters/s3e27-it-s-difficult

#10yrsago A socialist wrote the Pledge of Allegiance, which used to be accompanied by Nazi salutes https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/rules-about-how-to-address-us-flag-came-about-because-no-one-wanted-to-look-like-a-nazi-180960100/?no-ist

#1yrago Hate the player AND the game https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/10/say-their-names/#object-permanence

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#20yrsago RIP, #WholeEarthReview https://web.archive.org/web/20040202031838/https://www.worldchanging.com/archives/000338.html

#15yrsago Media helped create the financial meltdown https://web.archive.org/web/20090125204013/http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/01/23/the_medias_role_in_the_financial_crisis/

#15yrsago #MontyPython’s free web video increased DVD sales by 23,000 percent https://mashable.com/archive/youtube-boost-sales

#15yrsago #NationalFilmBoard of Canada puts its archives online, free https://www.nfb.ca/explore-all-films/

#10yrsago #AnimalPlanet’s “nature” shows: whistleblowers detail crimes, animal cruelty, fakery https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/01/animal-abuse-drugs-call-of-the-wildman-animal-planet/

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#15yrsago New York Public Library joins #FlickrCommons https://web.archive.org/web/20081220071905/http://drupal02.nypl.org/blogs/2008/12/16/nypl-joins-flickr-commons

#10yrsago Google yanks vital Android privacy feature https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/12/google-removes-vital-privacy-features-android-shortly-after-adding-them

#10yrsago #CopyrightX: Harvard’s ground-breaking #MOOC on copyright law https://web.archive.org/web/20131214032640/http://copyx.org/

#10yrsago Amnesty petition to release #ChelseaManning https://web.archive.org/web/20131221031616/http://takeaction.amnestyusa.org/siteapps/advocacy/ActionItem.aspx?c=6oJCLQPAJiJUG&b=6645049&aid=520439

#10yrsago #Arapahoe teacher on survival and resilience https://thefischbowl.blogspot.com/2013/12/scar-tissue.html

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#10yrsago Face scrub #MicroBeads are choking the Great Lakes https://web.archive.org/web/20131031103227/http://5gyres.org/posts/2013/10/28/5_gyres_publishes_first_scientific_paper_on_plastic_pollution_in_the_great_lakes/

#10yrsago Toronto cops confirm video of Mayor #RobFord smoking crack and making racist and homophobic remarks https://www.cp24.com/news/extended-coverage-police-have-video-of-ford-court-documents-shed-light-on-investigation-1.1521449

#5yrsago The #dialysis industry just set a #CampaignSpending record to fight California limits on pricing https://theintercept.com/2018/10/31/california-proposition-8-dialysis/

#5yrsago London’s new high-rises: speculators’ #LuxuryFlats designed never to be occupied https://citymonitor.ai/economy/more-expensive-property-london-more-likely-it-be-empty-4312

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#10yrsago Audio memoir of original #Imagineer, with free sex-and-drugs excerpt! https://memex.craphound.com/2013/08/16/audio-memoir-of-original-disney-imagineer-with-free-sex-and-drugs-excerpt/

#5yrsago 1,000 Googlers sign petition opposing Google’s plan to launch a censored Chinese search engine https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/16/technology/google-employees-protest-search-censored-china.html

#5yrsago Chicago police data reveals how #DirtyCops spread #corruption like a disease https://theintercept.com/2018/08/16/chicago-police-misconduct-social-network/

#5yrsago Billionaire making a bid for Democratic Florida Governor nomination invested millions in #PuertoRicanDebt https://theintercept.com/2018/08/16/jeff-greene-florida-puerto-rico-debt/

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#15yrsago California Supreme Court: #NonCompete clauses are not enforceable https://workforce.com/news/non-compete-agreements-going-going-gone

#15yrsago #Pacemakers can be remotely pwned https://venturebeat.com/security/defcon-excuse-me-while-i-turn-off-your-pacemaker/

#15yrsago Working #Medeco high-security keys can be whittled out of plastic https://www.wired.com/2008/08/medeco-locks-cr/

#10yrsago HOWTO bake nested, hemispherical cakes https://cakecrumbs.me/2013/08/01/spherical-concentric-layer-cake-tutorial/

#10yrsago Audiobook memoir of Disney #Imagineering legend #RollyCrump: More Cute Stories https://itskindofacutestory.com/?p=102

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#15yrsago California Supreme Court: #NonCompete clauses are not enforceable https://workforce.com/news/non-compete-agreements-going-going-gone

#15yrsago #Pacemakers can be remotely pwned https://venturebeat.com/security/defcon-excuse-me-while-i-turn-off-your-pacemaker/

#15yrsago Working #Medeco high-security keys can be whittled out of plastic https://www.wired.com/2008/08/medeco-locks-cr/

#10yrsago HOWTO bake nested, hemispherical cakes https://cakecrumbs.me/2013/08/01/spherical-concentric-layer-cake-tutorial/

#10yrsago Audiobook memoir of Disney #Imagineering legend #RollyCrump: More Cute Stories https://itskindofacutestory.com/?p=102

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#15yrsago California Supreme Court: #NonCompete clauses are not enforceable https://workforce.com/news/non-compete-agreements-going-going-gone

#15yrsago #Pacemakers can be remotely pwned https://venturebeat.com/security/defcon-excuse-me-while-i-turn-off-your-pacemaker/

#15yrsago Working #Medeco high-security keys can be whittled out of plastic https://www.wired.com/2008/08/medeco-locks-cr/

#10yrsago HOWTO bake nested, hemispherical cakes https://cakecrumbs.me/2013/08/01/spherical-concentric-layer-cake-tutorial/

#10yrsago Audiobook memoir of Disney #Imagineering legend #RollyCrump: More Cute Stories https://itskindofacutestory.com/?p=102

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#15yrsago California Supreme Court: #NonCompete clauses are not enforceable https://workforce.com/news/non-compete-agreements-going-going-gone

#15yrsago #Pacemakers can be remotely pwned https://venturebeat.com/security/defcon-excuse-me-while-i-turn-off-your-pacemaker/

#15yrsago Working #Medeco high-security keys can be whittled out of plastic https://www.wired.com/2008/08/medeco-locks-cr/

#10yrsago HOWTO bake nested, hemispherical cakes https://cakecrumbs.me/2013/08/01/spherical-concentric-layer-cake-tutorial/

#10yrsago Audiobook memoir of Disney #Imagineering legend #RollyCrump: More Cute Stories https://itskindofacutestory.com/?p=102

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#15yrsago California Supreme Court: #NonCompete clauses are not enforceable https://workforce.com/news/non-compete-agreements-going-going-gone

#15yrsago #Pacemakers can be remotely pwned https://venturebeat.com/security/defcon-excuse-me-while-i-turn-off-your-pacemaker/

#15yrsago Working #Medeco high-security keys can be whittled out of plastic https://www.wired.com/2008/08/medeco-locks-cr/

#10yrsago HOWTO bake nested, hemispherical cakes https://cakecrumbs.me/2013/08/01/spherical-concentric-layer-cake-tutorial/

#10yrsago Audiobook memoir of Disney #Imagineering legend #RollyCrump: More Cute Stories https://itskindofacutestory.com/?p=102

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#10yrsago Florida polo tycoon has difficulty adopting his 42-y-o girlfriend in order to keep assets away from bio-kids, ex-wife, family of guy he killed in a hit-and-run https://www.loweringthebar.net/2013/03/whats-the-point-of-being-a-polo-tycoon-if-you-cant-adopt-your-girlfriend.html

#10yrsago Zombie houses: 300K+ in America https://www.csmonitor.com/Business/Latest-News-Wires/2013/0328/Zombie-foreclosures-300-000-undead-properties-stalk-ex-owners

#10yrsago Songwriting podcast with #RichardSherman of Disney’s Sherman Brothers https://www.sodajerker.com/episode-38-richard-m-sherman/

#5yrsago Paypal blocks payments for a #WorldSocialists pamphlet about the Iranian opposition https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/03/29/payp-m29.html

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#10yrsago More on the impact of UK #PressRegulation on blogs, websites, tweeters, social media https://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/mar/19/bloggers-libel-fines-press-regulation

#10yrsago #BrianKrebs talks to hacker who may have #SWATted him and attacked Wired’s Mat Honan https://krebsonsecurity.com/2013/03/the-obscurest-epoch-is-today/

#10yrsago In-depth explanation of @eff’s courtroom victory over the #FBI’s “#NationalSecurityLetters” https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/03/depth-judge-illstons-remarkable-order-striking-down-nsl-statute

#10yrsago Tavi “Style Rookie” Gevison on strong female characters and being a young feminist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6osiBvQ-RRg

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