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    #5yrsago Charter slashes network spending by $2B, but makes up for it by charging its customers more arstechnica.com/information-te

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

    #5yrsago As Macron and Merkel meet to rescue the #CopyrightDirective, the world’s libraries call for its rejection ifla.org/news/ifla-joins-the-c

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    #5yrsago Regardless of political affiliation, over-65s are most likely to share “fake news” (and there’s not much fake news, and it’s largely right-wing) theverge.com/2019/1/9/18174631

    #5yrsago #ElChapo went down because his sysadmin sold him out gizmodo.com/the-feds-cracked-e

    #1yrago The learned helplessness of #PeteButtigieg pluralistic.net/2023/01/10/the

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    #5yrsago The UK’s company registry finally prosecuted someone for setting up a fraudulent company, but it’s a #whistleblower who told them he did it twitter.com/OliverBullough/sta

    #5yrsago Nova Scotia filled its public Freedom of Information Archive with citizens’ private data, then arrested the teen who discovered it cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia

    #5yrsago #AjitPai made Elizabeth Pierce his “broadband advisor,” and now she’s been arrested for a $250,000,000 fraud theverge.com/2018/4/16/1724501

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    #5yrsago American banks’ secret #subprime exposure stretches into the billions wolfstreet.com/2018/04/11/how-

    #5yrsago Wisconsin clears the way for #Foxconn by bulldozing working peoples’ homes and paying them pennies on the dollar beltmag.com/blighted-by-foxcon

    #5yrsago Between Trump, #AjitPai and a GOP Congress, there’s never been a better time for a terrible Sprint/T-Mobile merger techdirt.com/2018/04/11/compet

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    #5yrsago Peter & Ernesto: A Tale of Two Sloths memex.craphound.com/2018/04/10

    #5yrsago You can unscramble the hashes of humanity’s 5 billion email addresses in ten milliseconds for $0.0069 freedom-to-tinker.com/2018/04/

    #5yrsago #TrumpHotel employee guide: no swearing, no sexually suggestive gestures, and DO NOT hire your family! thedailybeast.com/trump-hotel-

    #5yrsago The Congressjerks who will grill Zuckerberg this week are a rogue’s gallery of FB donation recipients usatoday.com/story/news/politi

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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 #AltLabor: new, ungovernable red-state labor movements, led by teachers theweek.com/articles/764828/te

    #5yrsago #Waze turned the nearly undriveable, fifth-steepest hill in America into a disaster-strewn major thoroughfare latimes.com/local/california/l

    #5yrsago #Facebook is unfixable. We need a nonprofit, public-spirited replacement. nytimes.com/2018/04/03/opinion

    #5yrsago #FCC refuses public records request about #AjitPai’s monumentally unfunny “comedy” videos vice.com/en/article/gymdn7/fcc

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    #5yrsago Even the telco industry thinks #AjitPai is an asshole for maiming #Lifeline, a broadband subsidy for poor Americans techdirt.com/2018/04/03/fcc-bo

    #5yrsago Analysis of all the elections since Trump produces no clear answers on the class and suburban/urban correlates of flippability fivethirtyeight.com/features/b

    #5yrsago #AlexJones falsely accused a guy of being the Parkland school shooter, so now he’s being sued for more than $1,000,000 thedailybeast.com/falsely-accu

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    #20yrsago #RudyRucker reviews #WilliamGibson wired.com/2003/02/logomancer/

    #5yrsago Elite Baltimore police unit robbed with impunity, sold guns and drugs, loaned guns and armor to civilians sent to commit robberies nytimes.com/2018/02/06/us/balt

    #5yrsago Trump wants to cap lifetime #Medicaid benefits, even for disabled people, the chronically ill, and people with Alzheimer’s mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-

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