#5yrsago — Public Fediverse posts

#5yrsago Court rejects TSA qualified immunity https://pluralistic.net/2021/02/24/gwb-rumsfeld-monsters/#junk-touching

#5yrsago The Mauritanian https://pluralistic.net/2021/02/24/gwb-rumsfeld-monsters/#gwb-and-gitmo

#5yrsago EVs as distributed storage grid https://pluralistic.net/2021/02/24/gwb-rumsfeld-monsters/#mobile-batteries

#5yrsago Bossware and the shitty tech adoption curve https://pluralistic.net/2021/02/24/gwb-rumsfeld-monsters/#bossware

#1yrsago How an obscure advisory board lets utilities steal $50b/year from ratepayers https://pluralistic.net/2025/02/24/surfa/#mark-ellis

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#5yrsago Uber for evicting people https://pluralistic.net/2020/09/22/uncivvl/#solidarity-vs-barbarisms

#1yrsago Thinking the unthinkable https://pluralistic.net/2024/09/19/just-stop-putting-that-up-your-ass/#harm-reduction

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#5yrsago Leaked document reveals that Sidewalk Labs’ Toronto plans for private taxation, private roads, charter schools, corporate cops and judges, and punishment for people who choose privacy https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-sidewalk-labs-document-reveals-companys-early-plans-for-data/

#1yrago The impoverished imagination of neoliberal climate "solutions" https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/31/carbon-upsets/#big-tradeoff

#1yrsago Social Security is class war, not intergenerational conflict https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/01/intergenerational-warfare/#five-pound-blocks-of-cheese

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#5yrsago @sarahpinsker’s “Song for a New Day”: outstanding dystopian rock-and-roll novel of rebellion and redemption https://memex.craphound.com/2019/09/23/sarah-pinskers-song-for-a-new-day-outstanding-dystopian-rock-and-roll-novel-of-rebellion-and-redemption/

#5yrsago The lost audiobooks of Roger Zelazny reading the Chronicles of Amber https://memex.craphound.com/2019/09/22/the-lost-audiobooks-of-roger-zelazny-reading-the-chronicles-of-amber/

#1yrsago Apple fucked us on right to repair (again) https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/22/vin-locking/#thought-differently

#1yrago Down in the (link)dumps https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/23/salmagundi/#dewey-102

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#5yrsago Supreme Court greenlights Apple customers’ lawsuit over App Store price-fixing https://www.wired.com/story/supreme-court-apple-decision-antitrust/

#5yrsago Amazon’s monopsony power: the other antitrust white meat https://www.promarket.org/2019/02/15/is-amazon-violating-the-sherman-act/

#5yrsago Trump supporters astonished to learn that the man they gave $20m to “build the wall” has nothing to show for it https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/05/11/group-raised-more-than-million-build-wall-now-some-supporters-want-answers/

#1yrsago Revenge of the Linkdumps https://pluralistic.net/2023/05/13/four-bar-linkage/#linkspittle

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#5yrsago EU to create 350m person biometric database for borders, migration and law enforcement https://www.zdnet.com/article/eu-votes-to-create-gigantic-biometrics-database/

#1yrsago A Collective Bargain https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/23/a-collective-bargain/

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#5yrsago Copyright filters are automatically removing copies of the Mueller Report https://memex.craphound.com/2019/04/20/copyright-filters-are-automatically-removing-copies-of-the-mueller-report/

#5yrsago Noam Chomsky takes ten minutes to explain everything you need to know about the Republican Party in 2019 https://truthout.org/video/chomsky-on-the-perils-of-depending-on-mueller-report-to-defeat-trump/

#1yrsago Company that makes millions spying on students will get to sue a whistleblower https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/20/links-arent-performances/#free-ian-linkletter

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#5yrsago The Chinafication of the internet continues as the UK proposes blocking any service that hosts “illegal” or “harmful” material https://memex.craphound.com/2019/04/09/the-chinafication-of-the-internet-continues-as-the-uk-proposes-blocking-any-service-that-hosts-illegal-or-harmful-material/

#5yrsago How to Do Nothing: Jenny Odell’s case for resisting “The Attention Economy” https://memex.craphound.com/2019/04/09/how-to-do-nothing-jenny-odells-case-for-resisting-the-attention-economy/

#1yrsago How To Make a Child-Safe TikTok https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/09/how-to-make-a-child-safe-tiktok/

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#5yrsago One company bought all the retailers for glasses, used that to force sales of all eyewear companies and jacked up prices 1000% https://www.latimes.com/business/lazarus/la-fi-lazarus-glasses-lenscrafters-luxottica-monopoly-20190305-story.html

#1yrsago Spirit warned investors that merging with Jetblue would be illegal https://pluralistic.net/2023/03/12/they-put-it-in-writing/#that-was-then

#1yrago The Right accuses their critics of the conspiracy they themselves engage in https://pluralistic.net/2023/03/10/teneo/#i-grasp

#1yrago Excuseflation: Monopolists will never let a good emergency go to waste https://pluralistic.net/2023/03/11/price-over-volume/#pepsi-pricing-power

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#5yrsago Insider sources say Apple is shutting its east Texas stores to escape the jurisdiction of America’s worst patent court https://www.macrumors.com/2019/02/22/apple-closing-stores-in-eastern-district-texas/

#1yrsago Fighting the privacy wars, state by state https://pluralistic.net/2023/02/23/state-of-play/#patchwork

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#5yrsago The Curse of Bigness: #TimWu channels #Brandeis on #BigTech (and Big Everything Else) https://memex.craphound.com/2019/01/26/the-curse-of-bigness-tim-wu-channels-brandeis-on-big-tech-and-big-everything-else/

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#5yrsago False Flag: my science fiction story about the future of #CopyrightFilters in an Article 13 Europe https://www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/false-flag/

#5yrsago Arizona realtor surprised to find Canadian “white hat” hacker talking to him through his #SmartDoorbell https://memex.craphound.com/2018/12/17/arizona-realtor-surprised-to-find-canadian-white-hat-hacker-talking-to-him-through-his-smart-doorbell/

#5yrsago Developer who tore down historic San Francisco house ordered to build an exact replica https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/City-requires-property-owner-who-demolished-13467909.php

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#5yrsago Adam Ruins #BigTech: how monopolies, DRM, EULAs, and predatory tactics have delivered our dystopian future https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mid1VvK9Xpg

#5yrsago #TheresaMay faces a no confidence vote today https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2018/12/brexit-tories-launch-no-confidence-vote-against-may.html

#1yrsago Orphaned neurological implants https://pluralistic.net/2022/12/12/unsafe-at-any-speed/#this-is-literally-your-brain-on-capitalism

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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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#10yrsago Cute Girl Network: adorable, illustrated #SkatePunk love-story https://memex.craphound.com/2013/10/13/cute-girl-network-adorable-illustrated-skate-punk-love-story/

#10yrsago #ThomasFriedman: IHOP menu copywriter https://www.somethingawful.com/news/thomas-friedman-metaphors/

#10yrsago Amazon requires publishers to use #Kindle DRM https://memex.craphound.com/2013/10/11/amazon-requires-publishers-to-use-kindle-drm/

#5yrsago Amazon trained a sexism-fighting, resume-screening #AI with sexist hiring data, so the bot became sexist https://www.reuters.com/article/us-amazon-com-jobs-automation-insight/amazon-scraps-secret-ai-recruiting-tool-that-showed-bias-against-women-idUSKCN1MK08G

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#5yrsago FBI will face lawsuit for putting people on the #NoFlyList for refusing to inform on friends https://www.techdirt.com/2018/09/26/court-wont-let-fbi-dodge-lawsuit-removing-american-citizen-no-fly-list-shortly-shortly-after-being-sued/

#5yrsago Mexican forces seize control of entire #AcapulcoPolice department https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/26/americas/mexico-authorities-raid-acapulco-police-force/index.html

#5yrsago #InternetOfShit watch: Honeywell server outage means “smart” thermostats are inaccessible https://www.businessinsider.com/honeywell-iot-thermostats-server-outage-2018-9

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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 All of #PuertoRico loses power https://apnews.com/article/hurricane-maria-puerto-rico-us-news-ap-top-news-hurricanes-f16313a8ccba490c94fd883e43db6bae

#5yrsago #Tesla pulls a #Trump, smears critical press outlet as “extremists” https://arstechnica.com/cars/2018/04/tesla-accused-of-improper-worker-safety-reports-calls-news-site-extremist/

#5yrsago Facebook vs regulation: we exist nowhere and everywhere, all at once https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-privacy-eu-exclusive/exclusive-facebook-to-put-1-5-billion-users-out-of-reach-of-new-eu-privacy-law-idUSKBN1HQ00P

#5yrsago The upside of big tech is Russia vs #Telegram, but the downside is #Cloudflare vs #SESTA https://memex.craphound.com/2018/04/19/the-upside-of-big-tech-is-russia-vs-telegram-but-the-downside-is-cloudflare-vs-sesta/

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#10yrsago Florida polo tycoon has difficulty adopting his 42-y-o girlfriend in order to keep assets away from bio-kids, ex-wife, family of guy he killed in a hit-and-run https://www.loweringthebar.net/2013/03/whats-the-point-of-being-a-polo-tycoon-if-you-cant-adopt-your-girlfriend.html

#10yrsago Zombie houses: 300K+ in America https://www.csmonitor.com/Business/Latest-News-Wires/2013/0328/Zombie-foreclosures-300-000-undead-properties-stalk-ex-owners

#10yrsago Songwriting podcast with #RichardSherman of Disney’s Sherman Brothers https://www.sodajerker.com/episode-38-richard-m-sherman/

#5yrsago Paypal blocks payments for a #WorldSocialists pamphlet about the Iranian opposition https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/03/29/payp-m29.html

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#10yrsago New Brazilian environmental political party based on social networking https://globalvoices.org/2013/03/09/former-brazilian-ministers-new-political-party-mixes-sustainability-social-media/

#5yrsago RIP #KateWilhelm, science fiction great and co-founder of the Clarion Workshop https://www.facebook.com/richard.wilhelm.50/posts/10215208419699356

#5yrsago Singapore, where the government owns most of the land and housing and a stake in most business is the American right’s “capitalist ideal” https://www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2018/03/09/how-capitalist-is-singapore-really/

#1yrsago The SEC must not legitimize fake "#CarbonOffsets" https://pluralistic.net/2022/03/11/a-market-for-flaming-lemons/#money-for-nothing

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#5yrsago Man discovers he has been impersonated on Amazon by a money-launderer selling $555 “books” full of computer-generated word salad https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/02/money-laundering-via-author-impersonation-on-amazon/

#5yrsago Lobbyists release push-poll in an effort to tank #RightToRepair bills and control independent security research https://securityledger.com/2018/02/new-lobbying-group-fights-right-repair-laws/

#5yrsago Why the #VotingAge should be lowered to 16 https://www.eclectablog.com/2018/02/theres-no-good-argument-against-16-year-olds-voting.html

#5yrsago A cybersecurity #StyleGuide https://bishopfox.com/blog/intro-cybersecurity-style-guide

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