#5yrsago — Public Fediverse posts

#5yrsago California’s Right to Repair Bill, killed by Big Ag and Apple, has been reintroduced https://appleinsider.com/articles/19/03/18/california-reintroduces-right-to-repair-bill-after-previous-effort-failed

#5yrsago Sponsor of the “Discouraging Frivolous Lawsuits Act” sues Twitter cow-account for $250 million https://lawandcrime.com/crazy/devin-nunes-sues-twitter-and-devin-nunes-mom-for-a-whopping-250-million/

#5yrsago More Than 130 European Businesses Tell the European Parliament: Reject the #CopyrightDirective https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/03/more-130-european-businesses-tell-european-parliament-reject-copyrightdirective

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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 https://memex.craphound.com/2019/03/13/with-days-to-go-until-the-copyrightdirective-vote-article13s-father-admits-it-requires-filters-and-says-hes-ok-with-killing-youtube/

#5yrsago Gimlet staff announce unionization plan following Spotify acquisition https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/13/18263957/gimlet-media-union-spotify-recognition-podcasts

#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 https://mcmansionhell.com/post/183417051691/in-honor-of-the-college-admissions-scandal

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#5yrsago Charter slashes network spending by $2B, but makes up for it by charging its customers more https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/01/charter-will-spend-less-on-cable-network-in-2019-but-charge-customers-more/

#5yrsago The #FBI invented a fictitious “#AbortionExtremist” movement, then warned local cops about potential acts of domestic terror from it https://jezebel.com/exclusive-fbi-warned-law-enforcement-agencies-of-threa-1832134408

#5yrsago As Macron and Merkel meet to rescue the #CopyrightDirective, the world’s libraries call for its rejection https://www.ifla.org/news/ifla-joins-the-call-for-deletion-of-articles-11-and-13-in-the-eu-copyright-reform/

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#5yrsago Now EVERYBODY hates the new EU #CopyrightDirective https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/01/now-everybody-hates-new-eu-copyright-directive

#1yrago #CareInflation: The inflation no one wants to talk about https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/18/wages-for-housework/#low-wage-workers-vs-poor-consumers

#1yrago #EleanorJanega's "Once and Future Sex": The true, weird, horny history of medieval gender and sex https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/17/ren-faire/#going-medieval

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#15yrsago #NormColeman tries to get #AlFranken ballot tossed because the voter wrote, “Thank you for counting my vote.” https://web.archive.org/web/20081222013855/https://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/12/the_worst_ballot_challenge_of.php

#10yrsago Severed hand grafted to ankle, reattached to wrist a month later https://metro.co.uk/2013/12/16/severed-hand-saved-after-being-attached-to-mans-ankle-4232581/

#10yrsago Secretive #TPP treaty could kill creator’s right to get copyrights back from studios, labels and publishers https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/12/tpps-attack-artists-termination-rights

#5yrsago Livetweeting a toothbrush’s #FirmwareUpdate https://twitter.com/AndrewCrow/status/1074565600083492864

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#15yrsago #NormColeman tries to get #AlFranken ballot tossed because the voter wrote, “Thank you for counting my vote.” https://web.archive.org/web/20081222013855/https://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/12/the_worst_ballot_challenge_of.php

#10yrsago Severed hand grafted to ankle, reattached to wrist a month later https://metro.co.uk/2013/12/16/severed-hand-saved-after-being-attached-to-mans-ankle-4232581/

#10yrsago Secretive #TPP treaty could kill creator’s right to get copyrights back from studios, labels and publishers https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/12/tpps-attack-artists-termination-rights

#5yrsago Livetweeting a toothbrush’s #FirmwareUpdate https://twitter.com/AndrewCrow/status/1074565600083492864

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#15yrsago #NormColeman tries to get #AlFranken ballot tossed because the voter wrote, “Thank you for counting my vote.” https://web.archive.org/web/20081222013855/https://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/12/the_worst_ballot_challenge_of.php

#10yrsago Severed hand grafted to ankle, reattached to wrist a month later https://metro.co.uk/2013/12/16/severed-hand-saved-after-being-attached-to-mans-ankle-4232581/

#10yrsago Secretive #TPP treaty could kill creator’s right to get copyrights back from studios, labels and publishers https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/12/tpps-attack-artists-termination-rights

#5yrsago Livetweeting a toothbrush’s #FirmwareUpdate https://twitter.com/AndrewCrow/status/1074565600083492864

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#15yrsago #NormColeman tries to get #AlFranken ballot tossed because the voter wrote, “Thank you for counting my vote.” https://web.archive.org/web/20081222013855/https://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/12/the_worst_ballot_challenge_of.php

#10yrsago Severed hand grafted to ankle, reattached to wrist a month later https://metro.co.uk/2013/12/16/severed-hand-saved-after-being-attached-to-mans-ankle-4232581/

#10yrsago Secretive #TPP treaty could kill creator’s right to get copyrights back from studios, labels and publishers https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/12/tpps-attack-artists-termination-rights

#5yrsago Livetweeting a toothbrush’s #FirmwareUpdate https://twitter.com/AndrewCrow/status/1074565600083492864

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#15yrsago #NormColeman tries to get #AlFranken ballot tossed because the voter wrote, “Thank you for counting my vote.” https://web.archive.org/web/20081222013855/https://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/12/the_worst_ballot_challenge_of.php

#10yrsago Severed hand grafted to ankle, reattached to wrist a month later https://metro.co.uk/2013/12/16/severed-hand-saved-after-being-attached-to-mans-ankle-4232581/

#10yrsago Secretive #TPP treaty could kill creator’s right to get copyrights back from studios, labels and publishers https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/12/tpps-attack-artists-termination-rights

#5yrsago Livetweeting a toothbrush’s #FirmwareUpdate https://twitter.com/AndrewCrow/status/1074565600083492864

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#5yrsago Company behind the #GrenfellTower fire says it could have been put out with a simple fire extinguisher https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/dec/12/grenfell-cladding-firm-arconic-fire-could-have-been-put-out-with-simple-extinguisher

#5yrsago Clash of the corporate titans: Who’s spending what in Europe’s #CopyrightDirective battle https://memex.craphound.com/2018/12/13/clash-of-the-corporate-titans-whos-spending-what-in-europes-copyright-directive-battle/

#1yrago Web apps could de-monopolize mobile devices https://pluralistic.net/2022/12/13/kitbashed/#app-store-tax

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#5yrsago #TaviGevinson is folding up #Rookie, after seven years: part mediapocalypse, part moving on https://www.rookiemag.com/2018/11/editors-letter-86/">https://www.rookiemag.com/2018/11/editors-letter-86/

#5yrsago #PeakIndifference has arrived: a majority of Republicans say climate change is real https://www.monmouth.edu/polling-institute/reports/MonmouthPoll_US_112918/

#5yrsago The EU took the word “filters” out of the #CopyrightDirective, but it’s still all about filters https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/11/yes-eus-new-copyrightdirective-all-about-filters

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#5yrsago Youtube CEO: it will be impossible to comply with the EU’s new #CopyrightDirective (adios, #Despacito!) https://blog.youtube/inside-youtube/i-support-goals-of-article-13-i-also/

#5yrsago Italian prosecutors have given up on catching the person who hacked and destroyed #HackingTeam https://www.vice.com/en/article/3k9zzk/hacking-team-hacker-phineas-fisher-has-gotten-away-with-it

#5yrsago Wells Fargo: We can’t be sued for lying to shareholders because it was obvious we were lying https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-wells-puffery-20181109-story.html

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#5yrsago #MisterBoneSaw got a standing ovation at #DavosInTheDesert https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/23/business/saudi-conference-khashoggi-killing.html

#5yrsago The stories behind the names on the #HauntedMansion’s tombstones https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVmg9CdIvgs

#1yrago An hour of interwar #Halloween music https://pluralistic.net/2022/10/24/spooky-season/#interwar-ween

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#5yrsago A database of instructions for making different #PaperAirplanes https://www.foldnfly.com/#/1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-2

#5yrsago The American right loves forms, paperwork and other bureaucracy https://www.currentaffairs.org/2018/10/the-cult-of-the-form

#5yrsago EFF just sent this letter to every official negotiating the EU’s #CopyrightDirective https://memex.craphound.com/2018/10/23/eff-just-sent-this-letter-to-every-official-negotiating-the-eus-copyright-directive/

#5yrsago San Francisco spends $3.1m/year on #homeless #toilets and $65m/year cleaning up poop https://missionlocal.org/2018/10/san-francisco-needs-a-marshall-plan-for-toilets/

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#5yrsago NYT: #SaudiArabia’s Prince Charming was #MisterBoneSaw all along https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/14/business/media/reality-saudi-prince-media-narrative.html

#5yrsago Unpacking the US’s “low unemployment”: #StagnantWages, bad jobs, high #incarceration, discouraged workers back in school https://therealnews.com/us-unemployment-rate-hits-50-year-low-what-does-the-number-reveal-and-conceal

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#15yrsago Kids who photograph themselves naked are child pornographers and sex offenders in Ohio https://web.archive.org/web/20081009194301/http://www.newarkadvocate.com/article/20081008/NEWS01/810080302

#15yrsago Reviews of jihadi video-games https://web.archive.org/web/20081011070337/http://arstechnica.com/reviews/games/terrorist-propaganda-games-roundup.ars

#10yrsago #SuperMario fully implemented in #HTML5 https://web.archive.org/web/20131013054247/http://www.fullscreenmario.com/

#10yrsago #ChristopherColumbus: raping, murdering, enslaving, genocidal pedophile https://theoatmeal.com/comics/columbus_day

#5yrsago Not just Europe: EU #CopyrightDirective will censor the world’s internet https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/10/eu-internet-censorship-will-censor-whole-worlds-internet

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#5yrsago Tomorrow is the tenth anniversary of the collapse of 2008 and things are much, much worse https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/financial-crisis-ten-year-anniversary-723798/

#5yrsago Father of the catastrophic #CopyrightDirective reveals he didn’t know what he was voting for https://www.breakit.se/artikel/15418/copyright-directive-confusion-revealed-this-was-kind-of-a-mistake

#5yrsago EU’s top court rules against the UK mass surveillance revealed by #EdwardSnowden https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/sep/13/gchq-data-collection-violated-human-rights-strasbourg-court-rules

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#15yrsago #Olympic logo cops enforce stupid rules with masking tape https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB121885240984946511

#15yrsago #HowardZinn’s “A People’s History of American Empire” graphic novel https://memex.craphound.com/2008/08/18/howard-zinns-a-peoples-history-of-american-empire-graphic-novel/

#5yrsago #SpiderRobinson’s joke https://memex.craphound.com/2018/08/18/spider-robinsons-joke/

#5yrsago #Antivirus maker #Sentinelone uses #copyright claims to censor video of security research that revealed defects in its products https://www.theregister.com/2018/08/18/sentinelone_bsides_copyright_takedown/

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#5yrsago Offering users transparency and privacy is the only way Big Tech can avoid being turned into content cops https://dangillmor.medium.com/why-tech-platforms-should-give-users-more-control-and-how-they-can-do-it-6c6c48ab90c0

#5yrsago The technologies that would make the web more participatory https://medium.com/@anildash/the-missing-building-blocks-of-the-web-3fa490ae5cbc

#5yrsago Eight months ago, #PaneraBread was warned that they were leaking up to 7 million customers’ data. They fixed it yesterday. Kinda. https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/04/panerabread-com-leaks-millions-of-customer-records/

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#5yrsago Dutch panic over infiltration of an apostate #Scientology-alike into education and government https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-43584884

#5yrsago #UnderArmour: hackers stole the data of 150,000,000 #Myfitnesspal users because of course they did https://www.reuters.com/article/us-under-armour-databreach/under-armour-says-150-million-myfitnesspal-accounts-breached-idUSKBN1H532W

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