#10yrsago — Public Fediverse posts

#10yrsago Pro-democracy reformers win big in Hong Kong’s elections https://globalvoices.org/2016/09/06/hong-kong-voters-elect-pro-democracy-legislators-to-defend-the-citys-autonomy-from-china/

#1yrago Stock buybacks are stock swindles https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/06/computer-says-huh/#invisible-handcuffs

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#10yrsago Sampling bias: how a machine-learning beauty contest awarded nearly all prizes to whites https://web.archive.org/web/20160906154712/https://motherboard.vice.com/read/why-an-ai-judged-beauty-contest-picked-nearly-all-white-winners

#10yrago Warner Bros flags its own website as a piracy portal in copyright takedowns https://torrentfreak.com/warner-bros-flags-website-piracy-portal-160904/

#10yrsago The privacy wars have been a disaster and they’re about to get a LOT worse https://locusmag.com/feature/cory-doctorowthe-privacy-wars-are-about-to-get-a-whole-lot-worse/

#10yrsago Weapons of Math Destruction: invisible, ubiquitous algorithms are ruining millions of lives https://memex.craphound.com/2016/09/06/weapons-of-math-destruction-invisible-ubiquitous-algorithms-are-ruining-millions-of-lives/

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#20yrsago Three-hole punch debut, April 1940 https://web.archive.org/web/20061119140057/https://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/09/06/three-hole-paper-punch-debut/

#20yrsago New Zealand redefines open source as “code you can’t modify” https://memex.craphound.com/2006/09/07/nobel-prize-sperm-bank-human-tragicomedy-about-eugenics/

#20yrsago MSFT quicker to patch DRM than security vulnerabilities https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/09/microsoft_and_f.html

#20yrsago Wikipedia’s dumbest arguments https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Lamest_edit_wars

#10yrsago Why the Pirate Party could end up running Iceland https://web.archive.org/web/20211024071400/https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2016/09/how-internet-pirates-became-political-force-iceland

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#15yrsago Countering the FUD about the “#OrphanWorks” copyright bill (that doesn’t exist) https://maradydd.livejournal.com/374886.html

#15yrsago Cities making #RedLightCameras more profitable by making them less safe https://web.archive.org/web/20080415015522/https://www.leftlanenews.com/six-us-cities-tamper-with-traffic-cameras-for-profit.html

#15yrsago EU forced to release list of objects you’re not allowed to take on planes https://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/10/business/worldbusiness/10iht-checkin.4.11878072.html

#10yrsago Ordered list of credible fictions https://www.wired.com/2013/04/design-fiction-the-design-fiction-slider-bar-of-disbelief/

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#15yrsago #CBC to release TV broadcast as high-quality, no-#DRM #BitTorrent download https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2008/03/cbc-bittorrent-release/

#15yrsago #SequoiaVotingSystems threatens #EdFelten’s #Princeton security research team https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2008/03/17/interesting-email-sequoia/

#10yrsago Sheet music for the #Mario “coin” sound https://web.archive.org/web/20091030172840/http://www.mariopiano.com/mario-sheet-music-coin-sound.html

#10yrsago #CPAC racism panel derailed by audience member who suggests slaves should have been grateful for food, shelter & clothing https://archive.thinkprogress.org/cpac-participant-defends-slavery-at-minority-outreach-panel-it-gave-food-and-shelter-to-blacks-1959db62fa/

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#20yrsago #Vonage reviewed https://www.mindjack.com/gear/vonage.html

#10yrsago Why Tim Berners-Lee is wrong about #DRM in #HTML5 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/blog/2013/mar/12/tim-berners-lee-drm-cory-doctorow

#10yrsago Random House reconsiders and improves the standard contracts in its new ebook imprints https://writerbeware.blog/2013/03/12/random-house-announces-new-terms-at-digital-imprints-hydra-alibi-loveswept-and-flirt/

#10yrsago #LibDems leave over support for secret trials; I resign from the party https://memex.craphound.com/2013/03/12/libdems-leave-over-support-for-secret-trials-i-resign-from-the-party/

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