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#5yrsago — Public Fediverse posts

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    #10yrsago DEA bribes rail/airline employees for tipoffs that lead to warrantless cash seizures eu.usatoday.com/story/news/201

    #10yrsago Trump is an object lesson in the problems of machine learning mathbabe.org/2016/08/11/donald

    #5yrsago IRS leaks reveal billions reaped through ultra-wealthy lobbying on the tax bill pluralistic.net/2021/08/11/the

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    #10yrsago Trump makes it easy to forget what a dumpster fire all the other GOP nomination hopefuls were lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v38/n15/el

    #5yrsago Interop and the Public Interest Internet pluralistic.net/2021/07/16/pid

    #1yrago Ellen Ullman's "Close to the Machine" pluralistic.net/2025/07/16/bea

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    #5yrsago With days to go until the #CopyrightDirective vote, #Article13’s father admits it requires filters and says he’s OK with killing Youtube memex.craphound.com/2019/03/13

    #5yrsago Gimlet staff announce unionization plan following Spotify acquisition theverge.com/2019/3/13/1826395

    #5yrsago McMansion Hell tours the homes of the “meritocratic” one-percenters who allegedly bought their thickwitted kids’ way into top universities in the college admissions scandal mcmansionhell.com/post/1834170

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    #5yrsago Charter slashes network spending by $2B, but makes up for it by charging its customers more arstechnica.com/information-te

    #5yrsago The #FBI invented a fictitious “#AbortionExtremist” movement, then warned local cops about potential acts of domestic terror from it jezebel.com/exclusive-fbi-warn

    #5yrsago As Macron and Merkel meet to rescue the #CopyrightDirective, the world’s libraries call for its rejection ifla.org/news/ifla-joins-the-c

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    #5yrsago Youtube CEO: it will be impossible to comply with the EU’s new #CopyrightDirective (adios, #Despacito!) blog.youtube/inside-youtube/i-

    #5yrsago Italian prosecutors have given up on catching the person who hacked and destroyed #HackingTeam vice.com/en/article/3k9zzk/hac

    #5yrsago Wells Fargo: We can’t be sued for lying to shareholders because it was obvious we were lying latimes.com/business/hiltzik/l

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