#5yrsago — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #5yrsago, aggregated by home.social.
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#5yrsago Past Performance is Not Indicative of Future Results https://pluralistic.net/2021/03/29/efficient-markets-hypothesis/#statistical-inference
#5yrsago Big Salmon's aquaturf https://pluralistic.net/2021/03/29/efficient-markets-hypothesis/#aquaturf
#5yrsago Noble Lies https://pluralistic.net/2021/03/29/efficient-markets-hypothesis/#masks-and-trade
#5yrsago Monopoly so fragile https://pluralistic.net/2021/03/29/efficient-markets-hypothesis/#too-big-to-sail
#1yrago #RedForEd rides again in LA https://pluralistic.net/2025/03/29/jane-mcalevey/#trump-is-a-scab
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"However, inflation control as we do it today is inefficient. Moreover, it is inhumane. In many countries, authorities target a rate of unemployment that they think will not cause inflation (NAIRU). In Kelton’s vivid words, this policy 'uses people as human shields against inflation'."
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#5yrsago The tactical evolution of #HongKongProtests: bolted-down barricades and calling out businesses https://memex.craphound.com/2019/10/22/the-tactical-evolution-of-hongkongprotests-bolted-down-barricades-and-calling-out-businesses/
#5yrsago Equifax used “admin/admin” as login and pass for an unencrypted server full of your personal data https://finance.yahoo.com/news/equifax-password-username-admin-lawsuit-201118316.html
#5yrsago Margaret Atwood’s “The Testaments”: a long-awaited Handmaid’s Tale sequel fulfills its promise https://memex.craphound.com/2019/10/22/margaret-atwoods-the-testaments-a-long-awaited-handmaids-tale-sequel-fulfills-its-promise/
#1yrago In defense of bureaucratic competence https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/23/getting-stuff-done/#praxis
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#5yrsago In Kansas’s poor, sick places, hospitals and debt collectors send the ailing to debtor’s prison https://features.propublica.org/medical-debt/when-medical-debt-collectors-decide-who-gets-arrested-coffeyville-kansas
#5yrsago Want a ride in a Lyft? Just sign away your right to sue if they kill, maim, rape or cheat you https://memex.craphound.com/2019/10/16/want-a-ride-in-a-lyft-just-sign-away-your-right-to-sue-if-they-kill-maim-rape-or-cheat-you/
#5yrsago #RedForEd rebooted: Chicago’s teachers are back on strike https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/union-strike-chicago-teachers/
#1yrago One of America's most corporate-crime-friendly bankruptcy judges forced to recuse himself https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/16/texas-two-step/#david-jones
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#5yrsago How F Scott Fitzgerald conjugated the verb “To cocktail” https://www.openculture.com/2015/06/f-scott-fitzgerald-conjugates-to-cocktail.html
#5yrsago When Trump’s #TaxScam meant that affluent people no longer had to use the paid version of Turbotax, Turbotax started charging poor people, disabled people, students and elderly people https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-tax-law-threatened-turbotax-profits-started-charging-disabled-unemployed-and-students#164493
#5yrsago Tennessee police to drug users: don’t flush your dope or you’ll create “meth gators” https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/tennessee-police-warn-locals-not-flush-drugs-fear-meth-gators-n1030291
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#10yrsago 50,000 march against austerity in London, BBC doesn’t notice https://tompride.wordpress.com/2014/06/21/bbc-and-press-ignore-massive-demonstration-against-austerity-in-london/</a
#5yrsago Texas Instrument’s post-#taxscam budget for financial engineering is $5B — triple its budget for actual engineering https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2019/06/23/thanks-uncle-sam-after-tax-cuts-texas-instruments-spent-5-billion-on-stock-three-times-more-than-rd/
#5yrsago Man-Eaters Volume Two: Fleshing out the world where girls turn into lethal werepanthers when they get their periods https://memex.craphound.com/2019/06/23/man-eaters-volume-two-fleshing-out-the-world-where-girls-turn-into-lethal-werepanthers-when-they-get-their-periods/
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#5yrsago How @eff's @evacide plans to destroy the stalkerware industry https://www.wired.com/story/eva-galperin-stalkerware-kaspersky-antivirus/
#5yrsago After years of insisting that DRM in HTML wouldn’t block open source implementations, Google says it won’t support open source implementations https://memex.craphound.com/2019/04/03/after-years-of-insisting-that-drm-in-html-wouldnt-block-open-source-implementations-google-says-it-wont-support-open-source-implementations/
#5yrsago After months of insisting that #Article13 doesn’t require filters, top EU Commissioner says “Article 13 requires filters” https://memex.craphound.com/2019/04/03/after-months-of-insisting-that-article13-doesnt-require-filters-top-eu-commissioner-says-article-13-requires-filters/
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#5yrsago More than 100,000 Europeans march against #Article13 https://netzpolitik.org/2019/weit-mehr-als-100-000-menschen-demonstrieren-in-vielen-deutschen-staedten-fuer-ein-offenes-netz/
#5yrsago Procedurally generated infinite CVS receipt https://codepen.io/garrettbear/pen/JzMmqg
#5yrsago British schoolchildren receive chemical burns from “toxic ash” on Ash Wednesday https://metro.co.uk/2019/03/08/children-end-hospital-burns-heads-toxic-ash-wednesday-ash-8868433/
#5yrsago DCCC introduces No-More-AOCs rule https://theintercept.com/2019/03/22/house-democratic-leadership-warns-it-will-cut-off-any-firms-who-challenge-incumbents/
#1yrago The "small nonprofit school" saved in the SVB bailout charges more than Harvard https://pluralistic.net/2023/03/23/small-nonprofit-school/#north-country-school
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#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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#10yrsago Guardian Cities: how Hackney council let developers demolish the startups of “Silicon Roundabout” https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2014/mar/10/slow-death-of-silicon-roundabout
#10yrsago Snowden at SXSW: immediate impressions https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/mar/11/edward-snowden-sxsw-nsa-internet
#5yrsago Why #Article13 inevitably requires filters https://communia-association.org/2019/03/05/final-x-ray-article-13-dangerous-legislative-wishful-thinking/
#5yrsago Leaked Chinese database of 1.8 million women includes a field indicating whether they are “BreedReady” https://twitter.com/0xDUDE/status/1104482014202351616
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#5yrsago History is made: petition opposing the EU’s #Article13 internet censorship plan draws more signatures than any petition in human history https://www.change.org/p/european-parliament-stop-the-censorship-machinery-save-the-internet
#5yrsago The People’s Republic of Walmart: how late-stage capitalism gives way to early-stage fully automated luxury communism https://memex.craphound.com/2019/03/05/the-peoples-republic-of-walmart-how-late-stage-capitalism-gives-way-to-early-stage-fully-automated-luxury-communism/
#5yrsago BATHDOOM: A Doom level based on a terrible bathroom remodel https://twitter.com/dietinghippo/status/1102153605899927556
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#15yrsago Amusement park offers surveillance footage of you as a souvenir https://web.archive.org/web/20090401000000*/https://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1198732.ece
#10yrsago Report from Trustycon: like RSA, but without the corruption https://www.cnet.com/news/privacy/trustycons-rsa-conference-rebels-promise-more-to-come/
#10yrsago King no longer claims to own “candy,” still claims it owns “saga” https://www.techdirt.com/2014/02/26/king-backs-off-ridiculously-broad-candy-trademark-will-still-be-obnoxious-other-ways/
#5yrsago #FixItAlready: @eff's wishlist for fixing tech’s worst privacy and security choices https://fixitalready.eff.org/#/
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@eff @neilhimself
#5yrsago Artist #NanGoldin leads protests at the #Guggenheim and the Met over their reputation-laundering of the #Sacklers’ opioid epidemic fortunes https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/nan-goldin-leads-a-protest-at-the-guggenheim-against-the-sackler-family#5yrsago Addressing inequality is foreign policy, not domestic https://crookedtimber.org/2019/02/11/democracy-and-inequality-as-a-global-policy-agenda/
#1yrago After Ohio rail disaster, #Buttigieg is silent on restoring the safety standards Trump repealed https://pluralistic.net/2023/02/11/dinah-wont-you-blow/#ecp
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#5yrsago Barefoot Engineers: rural women from Malawi, trained as #solar engineers, who are #electrifying their remote villages https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/gallery/2019/feb/11/barefoot-engineers-malawi-solar-power-in-pictures
#5yrsago Amazon just bought mesh wifi company Eero. Oh, great. https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/12/18221441/amazon-buying-eero-disappointing
#5yrsago A short list of “all the bad things” about Uber and Lyft https://usa.streetsblog.org/2019/02/04/all-the-bad-things-about-uber-and-lyft-in-one-simple-list
#5yrsago The #WPA’s horseback #librarians https://historydaily.org/female-librarians-on-horseback
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#5yrsago After promising health care execs that #MedicareForAll was dead, #Pelosi’s team plans toothless pharma deal https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2019/02/pelosi-advisor-proposes-non-binding-arbitration-road-lowering-drug-prices.html
#5yrsago Netherlands court strikes down Dutch grifter’s #patent claim over Ethiopia’s ancient staple grain #teff https://qz.com/africa/1545111/ethiopias-teff-flour-is-no-longer-patented-as-a-dutch-invention
#5yrsago Bank lobbyists are scared to meet with #AOC because she might humiliate them on Twitter later https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-banks-aoc/banks-weigh-whether-to-embrace-or-avoid-progressive-firebrand-ocasio-cortez-idUSKCN1PV27N/
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#5yrsago After promising health care execs that #MedicareForAll was dead, #Pelosi’s team plans toothless pharma deal https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2019/02/pelosi-advisor-proposes-non-binding-arbitration-road-lowering-drug-prices.html
#5yrsago Netherlands court strikes down Dutch grifter’s #patent claim over Ethiopia’s ancient staple grain #teff https://qz.com/africa/1545111/ethiopias-teff-flour-is-no-longer-patented-as-a-dutch-invention
#5yrsago Bank lobbyists are scared to meet with #AOC because she might humiliate them on Twitter later https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-banks-aoc/banks-weigh-whether-to-embrace-or-avoid-progressive-firebrand-ocasio-cortez-idUSKCN1PV27N/
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#5yrsago After promising health care execs that #MedicareForAll was dead, #Pelosi’s team plans toothless pharma deal https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2019/02/pelosi-advisor-proposes-non-binding-arbitration-road-lowering-drug-prices.html
#5yrsago Netherlands court strikes down Dutch grifter’s #patent claim over Ethiopia’s ancient staple grain #teff https://qz.com/africa/1545111/ethiopias-teff-flour-is-no-longer-patented-as-a-dutch-invention
#5yrsago Bank lobbyists are scared to meet with #AOC because she might humiliate them on Twitter later https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-banks-aoc/banks-weigh-whether-to-embrace-or-avoid-progressive-firebrand-ocasio-cortez-idUSKCN1PV27N/
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#5yrsago #Juul’s strategy for success: target children, steadily ramp up nicotine levels https://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/28/6/623
#5yrsago Swedes are entitled to six months’ leave to start a business, look after a sick relative, or study https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20190206-swedens-surprising-rule-for-time-off
#5yrsago Leak reveals that hundreds of bounty hunters have had access to super-fine-grained mobile location data for years https://www.vice.com/en/article/43z3dn/hundreds-bounty-hunters-att-tmobile-sprint-customer-location-data-years
#1yrago The Collective Intelligence Institute https://pluralistic.net/2023/02/07/full-stack-luddites/#subsidiarity
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#5yrsago Fox News blames schools teaching “fairness” for support for a tax on the super-rich https://www.reddit.com/r/LateStageCapitalism/comments/annfs6/fox_news_blames_public_support_of_wealth_tax/
#1yrago Bruce Schneier's "A Hacker's Mind" https://pluralistic.net/2023/02/06/trickster-makes-the-world/#power-play
#1yrago Higher #InterestRates increase both the #MonetarySupply and #inflation https://pluralistic.net/2023/02/04/if-i-was-a-horse/#friedman-was-a-dolt
#1yrago Small Government https://pluralistic.net/2023/02/05/small-government/
#1yrago When Facebook came for your battery, FeudalSecurity failed https://pluralistic.net/2023/02/05/battery-vampire/#drained
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#5yrsago One of pharma’s most notorious gougers is going bankrupt, but 2019 is a banner year for #shkreli-grade pharma price-hikes https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/02/infamous-pharma-company-declares-bankruptcy-after-3900-price-hike/
#5yrsago Chasing down the list of potential #Predpol customers reveals dozens of cities that have secretly experimented with “#PredictivePolicing” https://www.vice.com/en/article/d3m7jq/dozens-of-cities-have-secretly-experimented-with-predictive-policing-software
#5yrsago Amazon is using purchase data to sell targeted ads, which is creepy, but not because they’ve invented a #MindControl ray https://memex.craphound.com/2019/02/06/amazon-is-using-purchase-data-to-sell-targeted-ads-which-is-creepy-but-not-because-theyve-invented-a-mind-control-ray/
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#10yrsago Toronto Mayor #RobFord ticketed, allegedly for public intoxication, in Vancouver https://globalnews.ca/news/1122528/breaking-rob-ford-reportedly-ticketed-in-vancouver-for-jaywalking/
#10yrsago @neilhimself reads “Green Eggs and Ham” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKh_WOfxkA4
#5yrsago After #MeToo, whole industries have been blacklisted by insurers for sexual harassment liability coverage https://theintercept.com/2019/02/02/workplace-harassment-insurance-metoo/
#5yrsago Women weren’t excluded from early #ScienceFiction: they were erased https://www.wired.com/2019/02/geeks-guide-history-women-sci-fi/
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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 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 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 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 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 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 German Minister of Justice to receive the largest EU petition in history, opposing #Article13 of the Copyright Directive https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwj-hDvJWM8
#1yrago How Facebook's #RealNames policy helps Cambodia's thin-skinned dictator terrorize dissenters https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/25/nationalize-moderna/#hun-sen
#1yrago The public paid for "#Moderna's" #vaccine, and now we're going to pay again (and again and again) https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/25/nationalize-moderna/#herd-immunity
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#5yrsago “Slow #multitasking” is the good kind of multitasking https://www.ted.com/talks/tim_harford_a_powerful_way_to_unleash_your_natural_creativity/transcript
#5yrsago Even as Google was making nice during employee walkout, it was secretly asking the Trump administration to ban email #LaborOrganizing https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-24/google-urged-the-u-s-to-limit-protection-for-activist-workers
#5yrsago Denver’s legendary #TatteredCover bookstore “breaks up” with #Audible https://www.tatteredcover.com/dear-audible
#5yrsago Emboldened by the LA teachers’ “blue state” victory, Denver’s teachers declare strike https://www.democracynow.org/2019/1/23/a_blue_state_teacher_rebellion_denver
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#5yrsago #Davos audience erupts in uneasy laughter at mention of #AOC’s proposal for a 70% tax on income over $10,000,000 https://www.cnn.com/business/live-news/davos-2019-live-updates/h_2e61fb5a7c8252de33a30ec4afecdc18
#5yrsago #PeakIndifference: “extreme weather events” drive record US acceptance of #ClimateChange as an immediate problem https://memex.craphound.com/2019/01/24/peak-indifference-extreme-weather-events-drive-record-us-acceptance-of-climate-change-as-an-immediate-problem/
#5yrsago #SecretService #ChallengeCoin commemorates unpaid labor during the #shutdown https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/23/politics/challenge-coins-secret-service-government-shutdown/index.html
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#5yrsago English and Welsh #Ramblers have seven years left to catalogue the nation’s footpaths, or they will be absorbed into private lands https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-the-uk/the-search-for-englands-forgotten-footpaths
#5yrsago A list of all the #booze in #Casablanca (surprisingly long!) https://www.wired.com/beyond-the-beyond/2019/01/booze-gin-joints-crazy-world/
#1yrago Walking the Plank https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/22/walking-the-plank/
#1yrago #Eggflation is just more price-gouging https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/23/cant-make-an-omelet/#keep-calm-and-crack-on
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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 An archive of Freedom, #PaulRobeson and Louis Burnham’s radical Harlem newspaper https://web.archive.org/web/20190123223255/http://dlib.nyu.edu/freedom/
#5yrsago Unsealed court documents reveal that Facebook knew kids were being tricked into spending thousands of dollars on their parents’ credit cards https://revealnews.org/blog/a-judge-unsealed-a-trove-of-internal-facebook-documents-following-our-legal-action/
#5yrsago Why charter schools are the flashpoint for the LA #TeachersStrike https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2019/01/rising-tide-teacher-strikes-finally-exposing-corrupt-charter-school-agenda.html
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#5yrsago Even the rightsholders think Europe’s #Article13 is a mess, call for an immediate halt in negotiations https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/01/even-rightsholders-think-europes-article-13-mess-call-immediate-halt-negotiations
#5yrsago AOC’s debut speech on the Congressional floor: “It is not normal to shut down the government when we don’t get what we want.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-No5ClLS1W8
#5yrsago Vermont official fact-checks mobile carriers’ coverage maps, proves they’re lying like crazy https://www.vermontpublic.org/vpr-news/2019-01-16/state-official-went-roaming-around-vermont-to-test-cell-coverage-claims
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#5yrsago McGingerbread Hell: bakers celebrate #McMansionHell with delicious monster houses https://mcmansionhell.com/post/181789811736/2018-mcgingerbread-hell-competition-winners
#5yrsago #Bird Scooter tried to censor my Boing Boing post with a legal threat that’s so stupid, it’s a whole new kind of wrong https://memex.craphound.com/2019/01/11/bird-scooter-tried-to-censor-my-boing-boing-post-with-a-legal-threat-thats-so-stupid-its-a-whole-new-kind-of-wrong/
#1yrago Deena Mohamed's 'Shubiek Lubiek' https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/11/your-wish/#is-my-command
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#10yrsago Chronology of Canadian Tories’ war on science libraries https://scienceblogs.com/confessions/2014/01/10/the-canadian-war-on-science-a-chronological-account-of-chaos-consolidation-at-the-department-of-fisheries-oceans-libraries
#5yrsago #Vizio exec: we’d have to charge a premium on “dumb” TVs to make up for the money we’ll lose by not spying on you https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/7/18172397/airplay-2-homekit-vizio-tv-bill-baxter-interview-vergecast-ces-2019
#5yrsago #BigData’s “theory-free” analysis is a statistical malpractice https://www.wired.com/story/the-exaggerated-promise-of-data-mining/
#5yrsago Court strikes down Iowa’s unconstitutional #AgGag law https://shadowproof.com/2019/01/10/iowa-ag-gag-law-aimed-at-suppressing-journalism-against-agribusiness-is-ruled-unconstitutional/
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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) https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/9/18174631/old-people-fake-news-facebook-share-nyu-princeton
#5yrsago #ElChapo went down because his sysadmin sold him out https://gizmodo.com/the-feds-cracked-el-chapos-encrypted-communications-net-1831595734
#1yrago The learned helplessness of #PeteButtigieg https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/10/the-courage-to-govern/#whos-in-charge
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#5yrsago Whistleblower: #AmazonRing stores your doorbell and home video feeds unencrypted and grants broad “unfettered” access to them https://theintercept.com/2019/01/10/amazon-ring-security-camera/
#5yrsago #PatentTrolls celebrate as Trump’s new rules breathes fresh life into parasitic grifter capitalism https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/01/software-patents-poised-to-make-a-comeback-under-new-patent-office-rules/2/
#5yrsago Why the hell do we continue to believe the carriers’ promises to respect our privacy? https://www.vice.com/en/article/nepx5x/we-could-easily-stop-location-data-scandals-but-we-cower-to-lobbyists-instead
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#5yrsago Someone’s finally going to jail over the #PanamaPapers: a Turkish journalist who reported true facts from them https://www.theguardian.com/news/2019/jan/09/journalist-pelin-unker-sentenced-to-jail-in-turkey-over-paradise-papers-investigation
#5yrsago A history of the sprawling personality clashes over #RSS https://www.vice.com/en/article/a3mm4z/the-rise-and-demise-of-rss
#5yrsago American towns survive by fining poor people, and use #DebtorsPrisons to make them pay https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/08/magazine/cities-fine-poor-jail.html
#5yrsago LA school district prepares for #TeachersStrike with army of expensive scabs https://www.latimes.com/local/education/la-me-edu-teachers-strike-staffing-20190107-story.html
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#10yrsago Jaunty, Xmassy #steampunk assemblage clock sculpture https://memex.craphound.com/2013/12/21/jaunty-xmassy-steampunk-assemblage-clock-sculpture/
#10yrsago Royal Society appoints a #Wikipedian-in-Residence https://wikimedia.org.uk/2013/12/royal-society-appoints-wikimedian-in-residence/
#10yrsago Prisoner on literary censorship in #GuantanamoBay https://www.newstatesman.com/uncategorized/2013/12/why-russell-brand-banned-gitmo
#5yrsago Syracuse cops falsely accuse man of rectal dope-stashing and take him to hospital for nonconsensual anal probe; now he must pay $4600 for the procedure https://www.syracuse.com/crime/2018/12/syracuse-cops-push-st-joes-to-probe-mans-rectum-for-drugs-what-country-are-we-living-in.html
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#5yrsago The audiophile #MQA format really doesn’t have #DRM, but that doesn’t mean it’s not on the toxic rainbow of locked tech https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/12/closed-proprietary-felonious-toxic-rainbow-locked-technology
#5yrsago The latest Facebook scandal might explain why Amazon wrongfully banned book-reviewers https://gizmodo.com/amazon-and-facebook-reportedly-had-a-secret-data-sharin-1831192148
#5yrsago Inside the funny accounting that lets the money-losing #fracking industry claim to be profitable https://www.desmog.com/2018/12/18/fracking-finances-record-oil-production-fuzzy-math/
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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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#10yrsago Getting your head around the #Pentagon’s titanic, enormous, unauditably large budget https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/12/pentagon-budget-deal-charts-cuts/
#5yrsago Trump’s scandal-haunted Interior Secretary #RyanZinke is out https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46580094
#5yrsago Trump’s acting Chief of Staff in 2016: Trump is a “terrible human being” https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-next-chief-of-staff-called-him-a-terrible-human-being-just-before-he-was-elected-president?ref=scroll
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#5yrsago #YellowVests stand for and against many contradictory things, but are united in opposition to oligarchy https://memex.craphound.com/2018/12/14/yellow-vests-stand-for-and-against-many-contradictory-things-but-are-united-in-opposition-to-oligarchy/
#5yrsago Mass protests and parliamentary chaos in Hungary over “slave labour” law https://memex.craphound.com/2018/12/14/mass-protests-and-parliamentary-chaos-in-hungary-over-slave-labour-law/
#5yrsago Europe’s #RightToRepair movement is surging — and winning https://www.vice.com/en/article/9k487p/protesters-are-slowly-winning-electronics-right-to-repair-battles-in-europe
#5yrsago After chaos, the EU’s plan to censor the internet takes a huge step backwards https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/12/facing-criticism-all-sides-eus-terrible-copyright-amendments-stumble-new-year
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#5yrsago #YellowVests stand for and against many contradictory things, but are united in opposition to oligarchy https://memex.craphound.com/2018/12/14/yellow-vests-stand-for-and-against-many-contradictory-things-but-are-united-in-opposition-to-oligarchy/
#5yrsago Mass protests and parliamentary chaos in Hungary over “slave labour” law https://memex.craphound.com/2018/12/14/mass-protests-and-parliamentary-chaos-in-hungary-over-slave-labour-law/
#5yrsago Europe’s #RightToRepair movement is surging — and winning https://www.vice.com/en/article/9k487p/protesters-are-slowly-winning-electronics-right-to-repair-battles-in-europe
#5yrsago After chaos, the EU’s plan to censor the internet takes a huge step backwards https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/12/facing-criticism-all-sides-eus-terrible-copyright-amendments-stumble-new-year
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#5yrsago #YellowVests stand for and against many contradictory things, but are united in opposition to oligarchy https://memex.craphound.com/2018/12/14/yellow-vests-stand-for-and-against-many-contradictory-things-but-are-united-in-opposition-to-oligarchy/
#5yrsago Mass protests and parliamentary chaos in Hungary over “slave labour” law https://memex.craphound.com/2018/12/14/mass-protests-and-parliamentary-chaos-in-hungary-over-slave-labour-law/
#5yrsago Europe’s #RightToRepair movement is surging — and winning https://www.vice.com/en/article/9k487p/protesters-are-slowly-winning-electronics-right-to-repair-battles-in-europe
#5yrsago After chaos, the EU’s plan to censor the internet takes a huge step backwards https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/12/facing-criticism-all-sides-eus-terrible-copyright-amendments-stumble-new-year
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#5yrsago #YellowVests stand for and against many contradictory things, but are united in opposition to oligarchy https://memex.craphound.com/2018/12/14/yellow-vests-stand-for-and-against-many-contradictory-things-but-are-united-in-opposition-to-oligarchy/
#5yrsago Mass protests and parliamentary chaos in Hungary over “slave labour” law https://memex.craphound.com/2018/12/14/mass-protests-and-parliamentary-chaos-in-hungary-over-slave-labour-law/
#5yrsago Europe’s #RightToRepair movement is surging — and winning https://www.vice.com/en/article/9k487p/protesters-are-slowly-winning-electronics-right-to-repair-battles-in-europe
#5yrsago After chaos, the EU’s plan to censor the internet takes a huge step backwards https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/12/facing-criticism-all-sides-eus-terrible-copyright-amendments-stumble-new-year
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#5yrsago #YellowVests stand for and against many contradictory things, but are united in opposition to oligarchy https://memex.craphound.com/2018/12/14/yellow-vests-stand-for-and-against-many-contradictory-things-but-are-united-in-opposition-to-oligarchy/
#5yrsago Mass protests and parliamentary chaos in Hungary over “slave labour” law https://memex.craphound.com/2018/12/14/mass-protests-and-parliamentary-chaos-in-hungary-over-slave-labour-law/
#5yrsago Europe’s #RightToRepair movement is surging — and winning https://www.vice.com/en/article/9k487p/protesters-are-slowly-winning-electronics-right-to-repair-battles-in-europe
#5yrsago After chaos, the EU’s plan to censor the internet takes a huge step backwards https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/12/facing-criticism-all-sides-eus-terrible-copyright-amendments-stumble-new-year
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#10yrsago #BunnieHuang explains the nuts-and-bolts of getting stuff made in #Shenzhen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qwhe0RWDMvE
#5yrsago Facebook gave third party developers access to 6.8 million users’ private photos https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-photo-api-bug-millions-users-exposed/
#5yrsago Rudolph’s Revenge, by Mr Werewolf https://www.artstation.com/artwork/Q5vJ8
#5yrsago #AugmentedReality and machine empathy: another great sf story from @Gaileyfrey https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/12/short-story-about-choice-age-wearables/577732/
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