#5yrsago — Public Fediverse posts

#10yrsago Singapore will disconnect entire civil service from the internet https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/aug/24/singapore-to-cut-off-public-servants-from-the-internet

#10yrsago They’re making a Twits ale from Roald Dahl’s body-yeast https://web.archive.org/web/20160817154531/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/beer-to-be-made-from-yeast-swabbed-from-roald-dahls-writing-chair-a7195721.html

#10yrsago As America’s temperatures soar, prisoners are dropping dead https://web.archive.org/web/20160825000426/https://theintercept.com/2016/08/24/deadly-heat-in-u-s-prisons-is-killing-inmates-and-spawning-lawsuits/

#5yrsago Are privacy and antitrust on a collision course? https://pluralistic.net/2021/08/24/illegitimate-greatness/#peanut-butter-in-my-antitrust

#5yrsago What kind of emergency is our emergency? https://pluralistic.net/2021/08/23/dont-wanna-spoil-the-surprise/#monocausotaxophilia

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#10yrsago Robert Moses wove enduring racism into New York’s urban fabric https://web.archive.org/web/20160402184527/http://www.hopesandfears.com/hopes/now/politics/216905-the-lingering-effects-of-nyc-racist-city-planning

#10yrsago EFF takes a deep dive into Windows 10’s brutal privacy breaches https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/08/windows-10-microsoft-blatantly-disregards-user-choice-and-privacy-deep-dive

#10yrsago Inside the “sweatshop” terminally ill Britons must call to get benefits https://web.archive.org/web/20160820094907/https://www.theguardian.com/public-leaders-network/2016/aug/20/work-pensions-disability-claim-call-handler-benefits-dwp

#10yrsago How the New York Public Library made ebooks open, and thus one trillion times better https://www.crummy.com/writing/speaking/2015-RESTFest/

#5yrsago Raiders of the lost ARC https://pluralistic.net/2021/08/22/raiders-of-the-lost-arc/

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#20yrsago Goth day at Disneyland photos https://flickr.com/photos/doctorow/tags/batsday/

#20yrsago HOWTO run a successful sf convention room party https://www.nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/how_to_throw_a_1/

#20yrsago Yahoo: Go ahead and remix our brand https://web.archive.org/web/20061111175912/http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000348.html

#10yrsago The Equation Group’s sourcecode is totally fugly https://web.archive.org/web/20160818012451/https://www.cs.uic.edu/~s/musings/equation-group/

#5yrsago Bubble https://pluralistic.net/2021/08/21/podcasting-as-a-visual-medium/#huntr

#1yrago Melissa Mendes's "The Weight" https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/21/weighty/#edie-is-a-badass

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#10yrsago What’s inside a Tiki Bird? https://miehana.blogspot.com/2016/08/fancy-feathers-restoring-tiki-room-birds.html

#5yrsago End of the line for Reaganomics https://pluralistic.net/2021/08/13/post-bork-era/#manne-down

#5yrsago Smart cities are neither, 2021 edition https://pluralistic.net/2021/08/13/post-bork-era/#our-streets

#1yrago Maga's boss class think they are immune to American carnage https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/13/then-they-came-for-me/#boss-politics

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#10yrsago DEA bribes rail/airline employees for tipoffs that lead to warrantless cash seizures https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/2016/08/10/dea-travel-record-airport-seizures/88474282/

#10yrsago Trump is an object lesson in the problems of machine learning https://mathbabe.org/2016/08/11/donald-trump-is-like-a-biased-machine-learning-algorithm/

#5yrsago IRS leaks reveal billions reaped through ultra-wealthy lobbying on the tax bill https://pluralistic.net/2021/08/11/the-canada-variant/#shitty-man-of-history-theory

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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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#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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#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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#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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#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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