#10yrsago — Public Fediverse posts

#10yrsago The women held a vote, and you’re not allowed to talk to anyone ever again https://web.archive.org/web/20160908124630/http://ursulav.livejournal.com/1680540.html

#10yrsago Open licenses don’t work for uncopyrightable subjects: 3D printing edition https://michaelweinberg.org/post/150123246460/the-cost-of-a-successful-creative-commons-and-open/

#10yrsago Tomorrow: largest prison strike in US history https://thenib.com/inmates-are-planning-the-largest-prison-strike-in-us-history/

#10yrsago If DRM is so great, why won’t anyone warn you when you’re buying it? https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/sep/08/drm-product-labelling-ftc-electronic-frontier-foundation?CMP=share_btn_tw

#1yrago Fingerspitzengefühl https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/08/process-knowledge/#dance-monkey-dance

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#10yrsago The women held a vote, and you’re not allowed to talk to anyone ever again https://web.archive.org/web/20160908124630/http://ursulav.livejournal.com/1680540.html

#10yrsago Open licenses don’t work for uncopyrightable subjects: 3D printing edition https://michaelweinberg.org/post/150123246460/the-cost-of-a-successful-creative-commons-and-open/

#10yrsago Tomorrow: largest prison strike in US history https://thenib.com/inmates-are-planning-the-largest-prison-strike-in-us-history/

#10yrsago If DRM is so great, why won’t anyone warn you when you’re buying it? https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/sep/08/drm-product-labelling-ftc-electronic-frontier-foundation?CMP=share_btn_tw

#1yrago Fingerspitzengefühl https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/08/process-knowledge/#dance-monkey-dance

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#10yrsago The women held a vote, and you’re not allowed to talk to anyone ever again https://web.archive.org/web/20160908124630/http://ursulav.livejournal.com/1680540.html

#10yrsago Open licenses don’t work for uncopyrightable subjects: 3D printing edition https://michaelweinberg.org/post/150123246460/the-cost-of-a-successful-creative-commons-and-open/

#10yrsago Tomorrow: largest prison strike in US history https://thenib.com/inmates-are-planning-the-largest-prison-strike-in-us-history/

#10yrsago If DRM is so great, why won’t anyone warn you when you’re buying it? https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/sep/08/drm-product-labelling-ftc-electronic-frontier-foundation?CMP=share_btn_tw

#1yrago Fingerspitzengefühl https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/08/process-knowledge/#dance-monkey-dance

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#10yrsago The women held a vote, and you’re not allowed to talk to anyone ever again https://web.archive.org/web/20160908124630/http://ursulav.livejournal.com/1680540.html

#10yrsago Open licenses don’t work for uncopyrightable subjects: 3D printing edition https://michaelweinberg.org/post/150123246460/the-cost-of-a-successful-creative-commons-and-open/

#10yrsago Tomorrow: largest prison strike in US history https://thenib.com/inmates-are-planning-the-largest-prison-strike-in-us-history/

#10yrsago If DRM is so great, why won’t anyone warn you when you’re buying it? https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/sep/08/drm-product-labelling-ftc-electronic-frontier-foundation?CMP=share_btn_tw

#1yrago Fingerspitzengefühl https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/08/process-knowledge/#dance-monkey-dance

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#10yrsago The women held a vote, and you’re not allowed to talk to anyone ever again https://web.archive.org/web/20160908124630/http://ursulav.livejournal.com/1680540.html

#10yrsago Open licenses don’t work for uncopyrightable subjects: 3D printing edition https://michaelweinberg.org/post/150123246460/the-cost-of-a-successful-creative-commons-and-open/

#10yrsago Tomorrow: largest prison strike in US history https://thenib.com/inmates-are-planning-the-largest-prison-strike-in-us-history/

#10yrsago If DRM is so great, why won’t anyone warn you when you’re buying it? https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/sep/08/drm-product-labelling-ftc-electronic-frontier-foundation?CMP=share_btn_tw

#1yrago Fingerspitzengefühl https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/08/process-knowledge/#dance-monkey-dance

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#10yrsago Indian workers staged one of the largest strikes in human history and no one in the USA noticed https://theintercept.com/2016/09/06/indians-staged-one-of-the-largest-strikes-in-history-but-no-one-on-u-s-cable-news-covered-it/

#10yrsago Homeowners’ associations are not allowed to ban drought-tolerant landscaping https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-associations-landscaping-plans-20160831-snap-story.html

#10yrsago Blackballed by machine learning: how algorithms can destroy your chances of getting a job https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/sep/01/how-algorithms-rule-our-working-lives

#10yrsago The US Copyright Office is the poster child for regulatory capture https://web.archive.org/web/20160909001439/https://www.publicknowledge.org/assets/uploads/blog/Final_Captured_Systemic_Bias_at_the_US_Copyright_Office.pdf

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#10yrsago Indian workers staged one of the largest strikes in human history and no one in the USA noticed https://theintercept.com/2016/09/06/indians-staged-one-of-the-largest-strikes-in-history-but-no-one-on-u-s-cable-news-covered-it/

#10yrsago Homeowners’ associations are not allowed to ban drought-tolerant landscaping https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-associations-landscaping-plans-20160831-snap-story.html

#10yrsago Blackballed by machine learning: how algorithms can destroy your chances of getting a job https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/sep/01/how-algorithms-rule-our-working-lives

#10yrsago The US Copyright Office is the poster child for regulatory capture https://web.archive.org/web/20160909001439/https://www.publicknowledge.org/assets/uploads/blog/Final_Captured_Systemic_Bias_at_the_US_Copyright_Office.pdf

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#10yrsago Indian workers staged one of the largest strikes in human history and no one in the USA noticed https://theintercept.com/2016/09/06/indians-staged-one-of-the-largest-strikes-in-history-but-no-one-on-u-s-cable-news-covered-it/

#10yrsago Homeowners’ associations are not allowed to ban drought-tolerant landscaping https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-associations-landscaping-plans-20160831-snap-story.html

#10yrsago Blackballed by machine learning: how algorithms can destroy your chances of getting a job https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/sep/01/how-algorithms-rule-our-working-lives

#10yrsago The US Copyright Office is the poster child for regulatory capture https://web.archive.org/web/20160909001439/https://www.publicknowledge.org/assets/uploads/blog/Final_Captured_Systemic_Bias_at_the_US_Copyright_Office.pdf

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#10yrsago Indian workers staged one of the largest strikes in human history and no one in the USA noticed https://theintercept.com/2016/09/06/indians-staged-one-of-the-largest-strikes-in-history-but-no-one-on-u-s-cable-news-covered-it/

#10yrsago Homeowners’ associations are not allowed to ban drought-tolerant landscaping https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-associations-landscaping-plans-20160831-snap-story.html

#10yrsago Blackballed by machine learning: how algorithms can destroy your chances of getting a job https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/sep/01/how-algorithms-rule-our-working-lives

#10yrsago The US Copyright Office is the poster child for regulatory capture https://web.archive.org/web/20160909001439/https://www.publicknowledge.org/assets/uploads/blog/Final_Captured_Systemic_Bias_at_the_US_Copyright_Office.pdf

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#10yrsago Indian workers staged one of the largest strikes in human history and no one in the USA noticed https://theintercept.com/2016/09/06/indians-staged-one-of-the-largest-strikes-in-history-but-no-one-on-u-s-cable-news-covered-it/

#10yrsago Homeowners’ associations are not allowed to ban drought-tolerant landscaping https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-associations-landscaping-plans-20160831-snap-story.html

#10yrsago Blackballed by machine learning: how algorithms can destroy your chances of getting a job https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/sep/01/how-algorithms-rule-our-working-lives

#10yrsago The US Copyright Office is the poster child for regulatory capture https://web.archive.org/web/20160909001439/https://www.publicknowledge.org/assets/uploads/blog/Final_Captured_Systemic_Bias_at_the_US_Copyright_Office.pdf

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#10yrsago How Hong Kong’s vulnerable, reviled refugee community saved Edward Snowden https://srilankafoundation.org/newsfeed/how-snowden-escaped/

#10yrsago Leaked catalog from UK surveillance arms-dealer full of gadgets sold to US cops https://theintercept.com/2016/09/01/leaked-catalogue-reveals-a-vast-array-of-military-spy-gear-offered-to-u-s-police/

#10yrsago Wells Fargo fires 5,300 employees for opening 2M fake accounts in customers’ names https://web.archive.org/web/20160908200030/https://money.cnn.com/2016/09/08/investing/wells-fargo-created-phony-accounts-bank-fees/index.html

#10yrsago European court rules that making a link can be copyright infringement https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/09/european-copyright-ruling-ushers-new-dark-era-hyperlinks

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#10yrsago How Hong Kong’s vulnerable, reviled refugee community saved Edward Snowden https://srilankafoundation.org/newsfeed/how-snowden-escaped/

#10yrsago Leaked catalog from UK surveillance arms-dealer full of gadgets sold to US cops https://theintercept.com/2016/09/01/leaked-catalogue-reveals-a-vast-array-of-military-spy-gear-offered-to-u-s-police/

#10yrsago Wells Fargo fires 5,300 employees for opening 2M fake accounts in customers’ names https://web.archive.org/web/20160908200030/https://money.cnn.com/2016/09/08/investing/wells-fargo-created-phony-accounts-bank-fees/index.html

#10yrsago European court rules that making a link can be copyright infringement https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/09/european-copyright-ruling-ushers-new-dark-era-hyperlinks

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#10yrsago How Hong Kong’s vulnerable, reviled refugee community saved Edward Snowden https://srilankafoundation.org/newsfeed/how-snowden-escaped/

#10yrsago Leaked catalog from UK surveillance arms-dealer full of gadgets sold to US cops https://theintercept.com/2016/09/01/leaked-catalogue-reveals-a-vast-array-of-military-spy-gear-offered-to-u-s-police/

#10yrsago Wells Fargo fires 5,300 employees for opening 2M fake accounts in customers’ names https://web.archive.org/web/20160908200030/https://money.cnn.com/2016/09/08/investing/wells-fargo-created-phony-accounts-bank-fees/index.html

#10yrsago European court rules that making a link can be copyright infringement https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/09/european-copyright-ruling-ushers-new-dark-era-hyperlinks

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#10yrsago How Hong Kong’s vulnerable, reviled refugee community saved Edward Snowden https://srilankafoundation.org/newsfeed/how-snowden-escaped/

#10yrsago Leaked catalog from UK surveillance arms-dealer full of gadgets sold to US cops https://theintercept.com/2016/09/01/leaked-catalogue-reveals-a-vast-array-of-military-spy-gear-offered-to-u-s-police/

#10yrsago Wells Fargo fires 5,300 employees for opening 2M fake accounts in customers’ names https://web.archive.org/web/20160908200030/https://money.cnn.com/2016/09/08/investing/wells-fargo-created-phony-accounts-bank-fees/index.html

#10yrsago European court rules that making a link can be copyright infringement https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/09/european-copyright-ruling-ushers-new-dark-era-hyperlinks

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#10yrsago How Hong Kong’s vulnerable, reviled refugee community saved Edward Snowden https://srilankafoundation.org/newsfeed/how-snowden-escaped/

#10yrsago Leaked catalog from UK surveillance arms-dealer full of gadgets sold to US cops https://theintercept.com/2016/09/01/leaked-catalogue-reveals-a-vast-array-of-military-spy-gear-offered-to-u-s-police/

#10yrsago Wells Fargo fires 5,300 employees for opening 2M fake accounts in customers’ names https://web.archive.org/web/20160908200030/https://money.cnn.com/2016/09/08/investing/wells-fargo-created-phony-accounts-bank-fees/index.html

#10yrsago European court rules that making a link can be copyright infringement https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/09/european-copyright-ruling-ushers-new-dark-era-hyperlinks

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#20yrsago HOWTO Use sugar to sand away logos on your phone https://web.archive.org/web/20061006153939/http://www.instructables.com/id/EFHU5V6TKYERIE2SMP/?ALLSTEPS

#20yrsago HOWTO Knit a Princess Leia wig https://web.archive.org/web/20061020092941/https://bleuarts.blogspot.com/2006/09/free-pattern-leia-hat.html

#20yrsago Prisoner statue smuggled into Disneyland ride http://www.woostercollective.com/post/breaking-the-story-disneyland-doesnt-want-you-to-know

#15yrsago RIP, Project Gutenberg founder Michael Hart https://web.archive.org/web/20111008024157/http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20103356-264/e-book-pioneer-michael-hart-dies/

#10yrsago Supermaker John Edgar Park shares his bitters recipe https://makezine.com/projects/ultimate-bitters-recipe/

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#20yrsago HOWTO Use sugar to sand away logos on your phone https://web.archive.org/web/20061006153939/http://www.instructables.com/id/EFHU5V6TKYERIE2SMP/?ALLSTEPS

#20yrsago HOWTO Knit a Princess Leia wig https://web.archive.org/web/20061020092941/https://bleuarts.blogspot.com/2006/09/free-pattern-leia-hat.html

#20yrsago Prisoner statue smuggled into Disneyland ride http://www.woostercollective.com/post/breaking-the-story-disneyland-doesnt-want-you-to-know

#15yrsago RIP, Project Gutenberg founder Michael Hart https://web.archive.org/web/20111008024157/http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20103356-264/e-book-pioneer-michael-hart-dies/

#10yrsago Supermaker John Edgar Park shares his bitters recipe https://makezine.com/projects/ultimate-bitters-recipe/

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#20yrsago HOWTO Use sugar to sand away logos on your phone https://web.archive.org/web/20061006153939/http://www.instructables.com/id/EFHU5V6TKYERIE2SMP/?ALLSTEPS

#20yrsago HOWTO Knit a Princess Leia wig https://web.archive.org/web/20061020092941/https://bleuarts.blogspot.com/2006/09/free-pattern-leia-hat.html

#20yrsago Prisoner statue smuggled into Disneyland ride http://www.woostercollective.com/post/breaking-the-story-disneyland-doesnt-want-you-to-know

#15yrsago RIP, Project Gutenberg founder Michael Hart https://web.archive.org/web/20111008024157/http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20103356-264/e-book-pioneer-michael-hart-dies/

#10yrsago Supermaker John Edgar Park shares his bitters recipe https://makezine.com/projects/ultimate-bitters-recipe/

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#20yrsago HOWTO Use sugar to sand away logos on your phone https://web.archive.org/web/20061006153939/http://www.instructables.com/id/EFHU5V6TKYERIE2SMP/?ALLSTEPS

#20yrsago HOWTO Knit a Princess Leia wig https://web.archive.org/web/20061020092941/https://bleuarts.blogspot.com/2006/09/free-pattern-leia-hat.html

#20yrsago Prisoner statue smuggled into Disneyland ride http://www.woostercollective.com/post/breaking-the-story-disneyland-doesnt-want-you-to-know

#15yrsago RIP, Project Gutenberg founder Michael Hart https://web.archive.org/web/20111008024157/http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20103356-264/e-book-pioneer-michael-hart-dies/

#10yrsago Supermaker John Edgar Park shares his bitters recipe https://makezine.com/projects/ultimate-bitters-recipe/

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#20yrsago HOWTO Use sugar to sand away logos on your phone https://web.archive.org/web/20061006153939/http://www.instructables.com/id/EFHU5V6TKYERIE2SMP/?ALLSTEPS

#20yrsago HOWTO Knit a Princess Leia wig https://web.archive.org/web/20061020092941/https://bleuarts.blogspot.com/2006/09/free-pattern-leia-hat.html

#20yrsago Prisoner statue smuggled into Disneyland ride http://www.woostercollective.com/post/breaking-the-story-disneyland-doesnt-want-you-to-know

#15yrsago RIP, Project Gutenberg founder Michael Hart https://web.archive.org/web/20111008024157/http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20103356-264/e-book-pioneer-michael-hart-dies/

#10yrsago Supermaker John Edgar Park shares his bitters recipe https://makezine.com/projects/ultimate-bitters-recipe/

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#10yrsago Singapore will disconnect entire civil service from the internet https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/aug/24/singapore-to-cut-off-public-servants-from-the-internet

#10yrsago They’re making a Twits ale from Roald Dahl’s body-yeast https://web.archive.org/web/20160817154531/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/beer-to-be-made-from-yeast-swabbed-from-roald-dahls-writing-chair-a7195721.html

#10yrsago As America’s temperatures soar, prisoners are dropping dead https://web.archive.org/web/20160825000426/https://theintercept.com/2016/08/24/deadly-heat-in-u-s-prisons-is-killing-inmates-and-spawning-lawsuits/

#5yrsago Are privacy and antitrust on a collision course? https://pluralistic.net/2021/08/24/illegitimate-greatness/#peanut-butter-in-my-antitrust

#5yrsago What kind of emergency is our emergency? https://pluralistic.net/2021/08/23/dont-wanna-spoil-the-surprise/#monocausotaxophilia

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#10yrsago Robert Moses wove enduring racism into New York’s urban fabric https://web.archive.org/web/20160402184527/http://www.hopesandfears.com/hopes/now/politics/216905-the-lingering-effects-of-nyc-racist-city-planning

#10yrsago EFF takes a deep dive into Windows 10’s brutal privacy breaches https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/08/windows-10-microsoft-blatantly-disregards-user-choice-and-privacy-deep-dive

#10yrsago Inside the “sweatshop” terminally ill Britons must call to get benefits https://web.archive.org/web/20160820094907/https://www.theguardian.com/public-leaders-network/2016/aug/20/work-pensions-disability-claim-call-handler-benefits-dwp

#10yrsago How the New York Public Library made ebooks open, and thus one trillion times better https://www.crummy.com/writing/speaking/2015-RESTFest/

#5yrsago Raiders of the lost ARC https://pluralistic.net/2021/08/22/raiders-of-the-lost-arc/

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#20yrsago Goth day at Disneyland photos https://flickr.com/photos/doctorow/tags/batsday/

#20yrsago HOWTO run a successful sf convention room party https://www.nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/how_to_throw_a_1/

#20yrsago Yahoo: Go ahead and remix our brand https://web.archive.org/web/20061111175912/http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000348.html

#10yrsago The Equation Group’s sourcecode is totally fugly https://web.archive.org/web/20160818012451/https://www.cs.uic.edu/~s/musings/equation-group/

#5yrsago Bubble https://pluralistic.net/2021/08/21/podcasting-as-a-visual-medium/#huntr

#1yrago Melissa Mendes's "The Weight" https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/21/weighty/#edie-is-a-badass

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#10yrsago What’s inside a Tiki Bird? https://miehana.blogspot.com/2016/08/fancy-feathers-restoring-tiki-room-birds.html

#5yrsago End of the line for Reaganomics https://pluralistic.net/2021/08/13/post-bork-era/#manne-down

#5yrsago Smart cities are neither, 2021 edition https://pluralistic.net/2021/08/13/post-bork-era/#our-streets

#1yrago Maga's boss class think they are immune to American carnage https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/13/then-they-came-for-me/#boss-politics

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#10yrsago DEA bribes rail/airline employees for tipoffs that lead to warrantless cash seizures https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/2016/08/10/dea-travel-record-airport-seizures/88474282/

#10yrsago Trump is an object lesson in the problems of machine learning https://mathbabe.org/2016/08/11/donald-trump-is-like-a-biased-machine-learning-algorithm/

#5yrsago IRS leaks reveal billions reaped through ultra-wealthy lobbying on the tax bill https://pluralistic.net/2021/08/11/the-canada-variant/#shitty-man-of-history-theory

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#10yrsago Chicago cops switched off bodycams and high-fived after shooting unarmed black teen https://web.archive.org/web/20160807194244/http://www.theroot.com/articles/news/2016/08/chicago-pd-paul-oneal-video/

#10yrsago DoJ to judges: use Tor to protect your internet connection https://web.archive.org/web/20160807025945/http://motherboard.vice.com/read/department-of-justice-official-tells-hundred-federal-judges-to-use-tor

#5yrsago Expectations management pluralistic.net/2021/08/08/expectations-management-part-v/

#5yrsago When your boss wants an AI camera in your bedroom https://pluralistic.net/2021/08/09/computer-says-no/#disciplinary-tech

#5yrsago The 22 Murders of Madison May https://pluralistic.net/2021/08/09/computer-says-no/#existential-crisis

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#10yrsago Stiglitz quits Panama’s official money-laundering panel over internal sabotage https://www.reuters.com/article/us-panama-tax-idUSKCN10G24Z/

#10yrsago BBC will use surveillance powers to sniff Britons’ wifi and find license-cheats https://web.archive.org/web/20160806155022/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/08/05/bbc-to-deploy-detection-vans-to-snoop-on-internet-users/

#10yrsago How and why to short Uber https://qz.com/707947/investors-have-placed-a-one-way-bet-on-uber-which-made-us-want-to-figure-out-a-way-to-short-it

#5yrsago Facebook's official disinformation research portal is a bad joke https://pluralistic.net/2021/08/06/get-you-coming-and-going/#potemkin-research-program

#5yrsago Scammers sell griefers social media banning services https://pluralistic.net/2021/08/06/get-you-coming-and-going/#curse-of-bigness

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#10yrsago Bureaucrats disqualify Hong Kong legislative candidates for insufficient loyalty https://globalvoices.org/2016/08/05/hong-kong-election-officials-disqualify-six-legislative-candidates-for-not-being-loyal-enough-to-china/

#10yrsago The Vlogbrothers guide to voting in every state in the union https://www.youtube.com/c/howtovoteineverystate

#10yrsago Vocal fry, uptalking, nasal: women’s voices can never be “right” https://www.thecut.com/2016/07/female-voice-anxiety-c-v-r.html

#5yrsago Facebook escalates war on accountability https://pluralistic.net/2021/08/05/comprehensive-sex-ed/#quis-custodiet-ipsos-zuck

#5yrsago Drone delivery crashes https://pluralistic.net/2021/08/05/comprehensive-sex-ed/#droned

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#10yrsago Australian media accessibility group raises red flag about DRM in web standards https://hotelsantalya.net/accessiq/news/news/2016-p/08-p/concerns-raised-for-assistive-technology-development-as-w3c-debates-encrypted/

#10yrsago Reminder: the GOP has been attacking veterans and their families for years https://web.archive.org/web/20160803203106/https://crookedtimber.org/2016/08/02/trumps-indecent-proposal/

#10yrsago Isis joins Donald Trump in denouncing Khizr Khan https://web.archive.org/web/20160802161454/https://theintercept.com/2016/08/02/donald-trump-and-islamic-state-agree-no-room-for-people-like-khizr-khan/

#10yrsago Furries don’t have sex in fursuits https://www.ohjoysextoy.com/fursuits-grey-white/

#5yrsago Machine learning sucks at covid https://pluralistic.net/2021/08/02/autoquack/#gigo

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#10yrsago Burying the past in glass coffins: Victoria & Albert museum bans sketching in temporary exhibitions https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/apr/22/va-museum-no-sketching-signs-draconian?CMP=share_btn_tw

#10yrsago Hugo Gernsback’s introduction to the first issue of Amazing Stories, 1926 https://brucesterling.tumblr.com/post/148297242233/a-new-magazine-announced-by-hugo-gernsback

#10yrsago Afterbrexit: Scotland trolls Theresa May by passing laws she has ridiculed https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2016/08/scotland-disses-theresa-may-by-reviving-anti-inequality-law-she-loathes.html

#5yrsago Managing aggregate demand https://pluralistic.net/2021/08/01/managing-aggregate-demand-part-iv/

#1yrago Mattie Lubchansky's 'Simplicity' https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/01/ecosexuality/#nyc-ast

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#10yrsago How to pay no taxes at all! (if you’re Apple, Google or Facebook) https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2016/07/video-guide-to-legal-tax-evasion-with-an-apple-boycott.html

#5yrsago Games Workshop declares war on its customers https://pluralistic.net/2021/07/30/space-marines/#fairy-use-tale

#1yrago Delta's AI-based price-gouging https://pluralistic.net/2025/07/30/efficiency-washing/#medallion-clubbed

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#10yrsago Textiles printed directly from sewer covers https://raubdruckerin.de/

#10yrsago Mexican indigenous groups form co-op phone company to serve 356 municipalities https://globalvoices.org/2016/07/26/so-long-phone-companies-mexicos-indigenous-groups-are-getting-their-own-telecoms/

#5yrsago Surge pricing violates antitrust law https://pluralistic.net/2021/07/26/aggregate-demand/#pure-transfer

#5yrsago Oregon's carbon offsets go up in smoke https://pluralistic.net/2021/07/26/aggregate-demand/#murder-offsets

#5yrsago Charter schools are money laundries https://pluralistic.net/2021/07/26/aggregate-demand/#ed-bezzle

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#15yrsago BitCoin alternative: distributed, but not decentralized cash https://www.links.org/files/distributed-currency.pdf

#10yrsago Bruce Schneier on the coming IoT security dumpster-fire https://web.archive.org/web/20160725221959/https://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-internet-of-things-will-cause-the-first-ever-large-scale-internet-disaster

#10yrsago Our public health data is being ingested into Silicon Valley’s gaping, proprietary maw https://web.archive.org/web/20170917070322/http://www.nature.com/news/stop-the-privatization-of-health-data-1.20268

#5yrsago Amusement parks, crowd control and load-balancing https://pluralistic.net/2021/07/25/now-youve-got-two-problems-part-iii/

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#10yrsago Trump makes it easy to forget what a dumpster fire all the other GOP nomination hopefuls were https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v38/n15/eliot-weinberger/they-could-have-picked

#5yrsago Interop and the Public Interest Internet https://pluralistic.net/2021/07/16/pidgin/#splicers

#1yrago Ellen Ullman's "Close to the Machine" https://pluralistic.net/2025/07/16/beautiful-code/#hackers-disease

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#15yrsago Veeps: Profiles in Insignificance, a look at the bumbling, murdering, drunken idiots (and others) who’ve served as vice-president of the USA https://memex.craphound.com/2009/01/18/veeps-profiles-in-insignificance-a-look-at-the-bumbling-murdering-drunken-idiots-and-others-whove-served-as-vice-president-of-the-usa/

#10yrsago #TimWu on FCC’s #NetNeutrality disaster https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2014/01/14/a-fema-level-fail-the-law-professor-who-coined-net-neutrality-lashes-out-at-the-fccs-legal-strategy/

#10yrsago Random #NSA program generator, with denials https://divergentdave.github.io/nsa-o-matic/

#10yrsago Parfaitzilla: the dessert that ate Japan https://mochihead.tumblr.com/post/31243751745

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#10yrsago @eff files formal objection against #DRM’s inclusion in #HTML5 https://www.eff.org/pages/drm/w3c-formal-objection-html-wg

#10yrsago Survivorship bias and electronic publishing: practically no one is making any money https://web.archive.org/web/20130607203005/https://tobiasbuckell.com/2013/05/27/survivorship-bias-why-90-of-the-advice-about-writing-is-bullshit-right-now/

#5yrsago #ScottPruitt’s #EPA has opened secret backchannels to the climate denial industry to find “scientists” and other “experts” https://apnews.com/article/north-america-ap-top-news-environment-climate-change-politics-64cd37b0503440c0b92e6ca075f87dd4

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#10yrsago #PrendaLaw judge says porno #CopyrightTrolls are frauds, identity thieves; $80K in fines and disbarment pending https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/05/prenda-hammered-judge-sends-porn-trolling-lawyers-to-criminal-investigators/

#10yrago #TheOnion gets hacked by Syrian propagandists, responds with funny article https://www.theonion.com/syrian-electronic-army-has-a-little-fun-before-inevitab-1819574930

#10yrsago #TimWu and I talk networks, policy and the future https://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/future_tense/2013/05/cory_doctorow_joins_tim_wu_for_the_slate_podcast_stranger_than_fiction.html

#10yrsago Nothing Can Possibly Go Wrong: YA graphic novel about robots, romance and school elections https://memex.craphound.com/2013/05/07/nothing-can-possibly-go-wrong-ya-graphic-novel-about-robots-romance-and-school-elections/

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#10yrsago Teaching TCP/IP headers with #legos https://righteousit.wordpress.com/2010/06/27/practical-visual-three-dimensional-pedagogy-for-internet-protocol-packet-header-control-fields/

#10yrsago Future Tense: #NealStephenson and #TimWu talk future, sf and tech https://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/future_tense/2013/04/neal_stephenson_joins_us_for_the_first_stranger_than_fiction_podcast.html

#10yrsago #SOPA’s daddy is now in charge of government science funding, and he hates peer-review https://www.science.org/content/article/us-lawmaker-proposes-new-criteria-choosing-nsf-grants

#5yrsago Hope Larson’s “All Summer Long,” lively YA graphic novel about tween friendships, rock and roll, and being yourself https://memex.craphound.com/2018/05/01/hope-larsons-all-summer-long-lively-ya-graphic-novel-about-tween-friendships-rock-and-roll-and-being-yourself/

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#15yrsago God Save Stan Lee tee https://memex.craphound.com/2008/01/24/god-save-stan-lee-tee/

#15yrsago #FBI whistleblower tells librarians about discriminatory practices and bad procedure at the Bureau https://web.archive.org/web/20080127183738/http://alfocus.ala.org/videos/fbi-whistleblower-answers-questions

#10yrsago #TimWu: “Escape From Tomorrow” doesn’t violate Disney’s copyright https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/its-a-mad-mad-mad-mad-disney-world

#5yrsago EU fines Qualcomm over $1 billion for anti-competitive iPhone deal https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_18_421

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