#5yrsago — Public Fediverse posts

#10yrsago Welcome to Night Vale: scripts and notes from podcasting’s eeriest drama https://memex.craphound.com/2016/09/15/welcome-to-night-vale-scripts-and-notes-from-podcastings-eeriest-drama/

#10yrsago UNH will spend $1M of librarian’s bequest on a football scoreboard https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/09/15/critics-question-spending-librarians-donation-scoreboard

#5yrsago Everything is Always Broken, and That’s Okay https://pluralistic.net/2021/09/15/everything-is-always-broken-and-thats-okay/

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#5yrsago Amazon is actively pitching #FacialRecognition to #ICE https://www.thedailybeast.com/amazon-pushes-ice-to-buy-its-face-recognition-surveillance-tech

#5yrsago Every minute for three months, #GM secretly gathered data on 90,000 drivers’ radio-listening habits and locations https://www.freep.com/story/money/cars/general-motors/2018/10/01/gm-radio-listening-habits-advertising/1424294002/

#5yrsago Apps are using “#SilentNotifications” to track you after you uninstall them https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-22/now-apps-can-track-you-even-after-you-uninstall-them

#5yrsago America has an epidemic of workplace #miscarriages, caused by #PregnancyDiscrimination https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/10/21/business/pregnancy-discrimination-miscarriages.html

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#5yrsago Obama’s policy on Bush’s crimes is how #BrettKavanaugh got to the Supreme Court https://theintercept.com/2018/10/09/brett-kavanaugh-supreme-court-bush-administration/

#1yrsago Billionaire dilettantes vs good Democrats https://pluralistic.net/2022/10/14/competitors-critics-customers/#billionaire-dilletantes

#1yrsago #MedievalTimes invents a modern #UnionBusting tactic https://pluralistic.net/2022/10/14/competitors-critics-customers/#ip

#1yrago How lawyers became sadists https://pluralistic.net/2022/10/15/lex-sadist/#incentives-matter

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#5yrsago A dating website for Trump supporters leaked its customers’ data ON DAY ONE https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/15/donald-daters-a-dating-app-for-trump-supporters-leaked-its-users-data/

#5yrsago #CanadaPensionPlan is long on US #PrivatePrisons and immigrant detention centers https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/12/canada-pension-fund-invests-in-us-immigration-detention-firms

#5yrsago The #CongressionalProgressiveCaucus is (still) awash in corporate money https://theintercept.com/2018/10/14/congressional-progressive-caucus-corporate-pac-money/

#5yrsago Capitalism torched the world, #fascism rose from the ashes https://web.archive.org/web/20181014161843/https://eand.co/how-capitalism-torched-the-planet-and-left-it-a-smoking-fascist-greenhouse-fe687e99f070?gi=f85bd26fe222

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#10yrsago #IETF proposal to #Prism-proof the Internet https://web.archive.org/web/20130914180118/https://www.paritynews.com/2013/09/12/2776/ietf-floats-draft-prism-proof-security-considerations/

#5yrsago Google’s censored Chinese search engine links every search to the user’s phone number https://theintercept.com/2018/09/14/google-china-prototype-links-searches-to-phone-numbers/

#5yrsago Trump threatens to permanently bar Canadian #LegalWeed investors from entering the USA https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-45478939

#5yrsago Chicago is facing its first citywide #HotelStrike since 1903 https://portside.org/2018-09-13/thousands-chicago-workers-are-out-first-citywide-hotel-strike-over-century

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