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

    #5yrsago Arizona realtor surprised to find Canadian “white hat” hacker talking to him through his #SmartDoorbell memex.craphound.com/2018/12/17

    #5yrsago Developer who tore down historic San Francisco house ordered to build an exact replica sfchronicle.com/bayarea/articl

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    #5yrsago Probing a mysterious network of #dropshippers, evangelicals, crapgadgets, and semi-vacant Manhattan department stores nytimes.com/interactive/2018/1

    #5yrsago Houston’s “inchworm bandits” create performance art while robbing restaurants on their bellies loweringthebar.net/2018/11/inc

    #5yrsago Dutch church holds 27 days of round-the-clock services to protect immigrant family from deportation qz.com/1470153/a-dutch-church-

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    #5yrsago #ScottPruitt is such a colossal asshole that the lobbyists who were bribing him with nearly-free lodgings evicted him cnn.com/2018/04/06/politics/pr

    #5yrsago GOP Congressgangster #RalphNorman does not regret pulling a loaded gun on constituents from “Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense” washingtonpost.com/news/powerp

    #1yrago The Ed Sheeran problem, or, how the record industry got what it asked for pluralistic.net/2022/04/08/oh-

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

    #5yrsago Lawsuit reveals the deadly, out-of-control free-for-all inside Red State America’s #ForProfitPrisons nytimes.com/2018/04/03/us/miss

    #5yrsago To solve America’s housing crisis, build public housing theguardian.com/society/2018/a

    #5yrsago A science fiction writing workshop lexicon bruces.medium.com/a-science-fi

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