#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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#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 One More For the Road: The Laugh-Out-Loud Cats are back! https://memex.craphound.com/2018/11/30/one-more-for-the-road-the-laugh-out-loud-cats-are-back/

#1yrago #BoozAllen ticketmastered America's public lands https://pluralistic.net/2022/11/30/military-industrial-park-service/#booz-allen

#1yrago All the books I reviewed in 2022 https://pluralistic.net/2022/12/01/bookishness/#2022-in-review

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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 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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#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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#5yrsago #AmericanConservative laments #MarketConcentration and #PrivateProperty as bad for #FreeExpression https://www.theamericanconservative.com/i-was-banned-for-life-from-twitter/

#5yrsago #Missouri voters kill the state’s anti-union law with a massively successful ballot initiative https://www.governing.com/archive/gov-missouri-unions-ballot-primary-janus.html

#1yrsago A modest proposal to fix #contracts https://pluralistic.net/2022/08/10/be-reasonable/#i-would-prefer-not-to

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#5yrsago Colorado cop corrects would-be dog-slaughtering Illinois officer about drug-sniffing after marijuana legalization https://www.420magazine.com/420-news/international-cannabis-news/colorado-cop-debunks-illinois-cops-claim-that-legal-pot-would-lead-to-killing-of-police-dogs/

#5yrsago “#Cocky” romance novelist embarks on a second career as a trademark troll: will romance writing fall from grace? https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/may/08/romantic-novelist-trademarking-of-word-cocky-fameela-hopkins

#5yrsago Nova Scotia premier won’t apologise for libeling teen who discovered massive data breach https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/premier-stephen-mcneil-privacy-breach-freedom-of-information-portal-1.4653474

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#5yrsago Even if governments #backdoor crypto, they still won’t be able to spy on terrorists https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/212.pdf

#5yrsago Lawsuit reveals the deadly, out-of-control free-for-all inside Red State America’s #ForProfitPrisons https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/03/us/mississippi-private-prison-abuse.html

#5yrsago To solve America’s housing crisis, build public housing https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/apr/05/why-we-need-social-housing-in-the-us

#5yrsago A science fiction writing workshop lexicon https://bruces.medium.com/a-science-fiction-workshop-lexicon-the-paragons-iterarion-1996-20752a861896

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