#robford — Public Fediverse posts

#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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#10yrsago Extorted out of a one-character Twitter ID by a hacker who seized control of #Godaddy domains https://medium.com/@N/how-i-lost-my-50-000-twitter-username-24eb09e026dd

#10yrsago #RobFord sued for jailhouse beating of his ex-brother-in-law https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/toronto/brother-in-law-abused-in-jail-to-keep-quiet-about-rob-fords-drug-use-lawsuit-alleges/article16590910/

#10yrsago Finally, a legal challenge to US #WarrantlessWiretapping that beats the Catch-22 https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/01/in-rare-move-terrorism-suspect-challenges-core-of-warrentless-snooping-law/

#10yrsago Detailed timeline of the #BletchleyPark mess https://freelance.halfacree.co.uk/2014/01/disharmony-at-bletchley-park/

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#10yrsago #NSA collecting unimaginable quantities of mobile phone #LocationData for guilt-by-association data-mining https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-tracking-cellphone-locations-worldwide-snowden-documents-show/2013/12/04/5492873a-5cf2-11e3-bc56-c6ca94801fac_story.html

#10yrsago Democratic lawmakers share a squalorous house in DC https://edition.cnn.com/2013/12/04/politics/real-alpha-house/index.html

#10yrsago #RobFord police document: allegations of heroin use and more https://torontolife.com/category/city/toronto-politics/2013/12/04/new-bombshells-from-police-documents-suggest-rob-ford-may-have-tried-heroin-been-blackmailed/

#10yrsago #NYPD shoot at unarmed man, hit bystanders, charge man for making them shoot https://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/05/nyregion/unarmed-man-is-charged-with-wounding-bystanders-shot-by-police-near-times-square.html?smid=pl-share

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#10yrsago #MiamiGardens police arrest Black man for trespassing 56 times — at the store where he works https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article1957716.html

#10yrsago Court rules that calling an MP “a coward” isn’t a crime https://www.independent.co.uk/student/news/protester-cleared-of-threatening-behaviour-for-calling-hove-mp-a-coward-8937208.html

#10yrsago #RobFord gets a New Yorker cartoon https://www.joeydevilla.com/2013/11/23/rob-fords-appearance-in-a-new-yorker-cartoon/

#5yrsago While serving, Trump’s comms director will get a $7M Fox News bonus for his mishandling of sexual abuse https://thinkprogress.org/bill-shine-fox-news-donald-trump-white-house-communications-director-severance-package-e24734b145c0/

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#20yrsago Send back your MP3s https://web.archive.org/web/20031015045308/https://sendthemback.org/

#10yrsago UK Home Office suffers setback: can’t destroy family by deporting American head-teacher as his British wife begins cancer treatment https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/nov/17/home-office-drops-us-teacher-deportation-threat

#10yrsago #RobFord gives staff $5,000 taxpayer dollars each to stay on https://torontosun.com/2013/11/16/mayor-rob-fords-week-one-for-the-books

#5yrsago Exec who oversaw Google’s failed babykiller projects and cozied up to Saudis quits after employee uprising https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/16/technology/diane-greene-google-cloud.html

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#20yrsago #OwnerOverride: a proposal to fix #TrustedComputing https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7055

#10yrsago #RobFord stripped of powers https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/city-hall/rob-ford-councillors-strip-mayor-of-certain-powers/article_c531a981-ab9a-5818-abef-83dc0ba6cf89.html

#5yrsago #GildedAge watch: America’s firefighting is turning into a two-tier system, with private services for the 1% https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/11/kim-kardashian-kanye-west-history-private-firefighting/575887/

#5yrsago One year later: kids #SmartWatches are still a privacy and security dumpster fire https://www.pentestpartners.com/security-blog/consumer-advice-kids-gps-tracker-watch-security/

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#10yrsago Punk #FreedomOfInformationAccess ninja learns how to beat FBI obfuscation, so they shut him out https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/11/foia-ryan-shapiro-fbi-files-lawsuit/

#10yrsago Massive 1978 Las Vegas fallout shelter https://www.cultofweird.com/architecture/underground-home-las-vegas/

#10yrsago #TPP’s worst evil: making all future copyright reform impossible https://www.techdirt.com/2013/11/14/most-nefarious-part-tpp-proposal-making-copyright-reform-impossible/

#10yrsago #RobFord: $170K/year, 11-3 working day https://www.joeydevilla.com/2013/11/14/one-thing-to-remember-during-this-whole-toronto-mayoral-kerfuffle/

#10yrsago Rob Ford articulates official mayoral cunnilingus policy https://www.joeydevilla.com/2013/11/14/rob-ford-will-ahem-go-down-in-history-with-this-quote/

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#10yrsago Feds subject drug suspect to vaginal/anal probe, X-ray, CT Scan, without a warrant — find nothing https://www.thedailybeast.com/dog-orders-cavity-search-lawsuits-ensue

#10yrsago Business-logic of cooperating with the #NSA has changed https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/11/a-fraying-of-the-public-private-surveillance-partnership/281289/

#10yrsago How much value did your account generate for Twitter? https://newsfeed.time.com/2013/11/07/interactive-this-is-how-much-money-twitter-owes-you/

#10yrsago #RobFord’s exaggerated and imaginary savings to the taxpayers of Toronto https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/city-hall/deconstructing-mayor-rob-fords-fiscal-record/article_8c6e3bf3-bea5-54d8-8e2c-d28b5bfcf631.html

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#20yrsago Economist replies to #JackValenti on #BroadcastFlag http://arnoldkling.com/~arnoldsk/aimst5/valenti.html

#10yrsago New #RobFord video: Laughable Fumblebuck drops a gigaton of F-bombs https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/rob-ford-caught-on-video-in-violent-rant/article_67244e8f-8561-5d4b-8054-c30750f36779.html

#10yrsago Google security engineer on #NSA: “Fuck these guys” https://memex.craphound.com/2013/11/07/google-security-engineer-on-nsa-fuck-these-guys/

#5yrsago AT&T disconnects whole families from the internet because someone in their house is accused of copyright infringement https://memex.craphound.com/2018/11/07/att-disconnects-whole-families-from-the-internet-because-someone-in-their-house-is-accused-of-copyright-infringement/

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#10yrsago Explaining the banned phrases in a Chinese microblogging client https://blockedonweibo.tumblr.com/post/65525907975/the-chinese-keywords-on-messaging-app-lines-bad

#10yrsago #RobFord hired a hacker to nuke the crack-smoking video https://www.vice.com/en/article/dpw89x/rob-fords-office-hired-a-hacker-to-destroy-the-crack-tape

#10yrsago A conversation with #TerryPratchett, author of The Carpet People https://memex.craphound.com/2013/11/05/a-conversation-with-terry-pratchett-author-of-the-carpet-people/

#5yrsago Voting systems in Wisconsin and Kentucky are running FTP. Seriously. https://www.propublica.org/article/file-sharing-software-on-state-election-servers-could-expose-them-to-intruders

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#20yrsago #ChinaMieville on #Tolkien https://web.archive.org/web/20031025054631/https://www.panmacmillan.com/features/china/debate.htm

#15yrsago The Essential #Groucho https://memex.craphound.com/2008/11/03/the-essential-groucho/

#10yrsago Toronto Mayor #RobFord’s polls go up after he’s caught lying about crack-smoking video https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/city-hall/mayor-rob-fords-approval-rating-ticks-upward-with-news-of-crack-video/article_a70fbaa2-eb4c-53ac-b732-d1ed3ab14002.html

#10yrsago Inspired by #Snowden, more #NSA insiders are blowing the whistle https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2013/10/more-nsa-leakers-followed-snowdens-footsteps-whistleblower-lawyer-says/

#10yrsago #RIAA, #BPI websites infringe copyright https://torrentfreak.com/riaa-and-bpi-use-pirated-code-on-their-websites-131102

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#10yrsago Face scrub #MicroBeads are choking the Great Lakes https://web.archive.org/web/20131031103227/http://5gyres.org/posts/2013/10/28/5_gyres_publishes_first_scientific_paper_on_plastic_pollution_in_the_great_lakes/

#10yrsago Toronto cops confirm video of Mayor #RobFord smoking crack and making racist and homophobic remarks https://www.cp24.com/news/extended-coverage-police-have-video-of-ford-court-documents-shed-light-on-investigation-1.1521449

#5yrsago The #dialysis industry just set a #CampaignSpending record to fight California limits on pricing https://theintercept.com/2018/10/31/california-proposition-8-dialysis/

#5yrsago London’s new high-rises: speculators’ #LuxuryFlats designed never to be occupied https://citymonitor.ai/economy/more-expensive-property-london-more-likely-it-be-empty-4312

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#10yrsago Face scrub #MicroBeads are choking the Great Lakes https://web.archive.org/web/20131031103227/http://5gyres.org/posts/2013/10/28/5_gyres_publishes_first_scientific_paper_on_plastic_pollution_in_the_great_lakes/

#10yrsago Toronto cops confirm video of Mayor #RobFord smoking crack and making racist and homophobic remarks https://www.cp24.com/news/extended-coverage-police-have-video-of-ford-court-documents-shed-light-on-investigation-1.1521449

#5yrsago The #dialysis industry just set a #CampaignSpending record to fight California limits on pricing https://theintercept.com/2018/10/31/california-proposition-8-dialysis/

#5yrsago London’s new high-rises: speculators’ #LuxuryFlats designed never to be occupied https://citymonitor.ai/economy/more-expensive-property-london-more-likely-it-be-empty-4312

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#10yrsago Face scrub #MicroBeads are choking the Great Lakes https://web.archive.org/web/20131031103227/http://5gyres.org/posts/2013/10/28/5_gyres_publishes_first_scientific_paper_on_plastic_pollution_in_the_great_lakes/

#10yrsago Toronto cops confirm video of Mayor #RobFord smoking crack and making racist and homophobic remarks https://www.cp24.com/news/extended-coverage-police-have-video-of-ford-court-documents-shed-light-on-investigation-1.1521449

#5yrsago The #dialysis industry just set a #CampaignSpending record to fight California limits on pricing https://theintercept.com/2018/10/31/california-proposition-8-dialysis/

#5yrsago London’s new high-rises: speculators’ #LuxuryFlats designed never to be occupied https://citymonitor.ai/economy/more-expensive-property-london-more-likely-it-be-empty-4312

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#10yrsago Face scrub #MicroBeads are choking the Great Lakes https://web.archive.org/web/20131031103227/http://5gyres.org/posts/2013/10/28/5_gyres_publishes_first_scientific_paper_on_plastic_pollution_in_the_great_lakes/

#10yrsago Toronto cops confirm video of Mayor #RobFord smoking crack and making racist and homophobic remarks https://www.cp24.com/news/extended-coverage-police-have-video-of-ford-court-documents-shed-light-on-investigation-1.1521449

#5yrsago The #dialysis industry just set a #CampaignSpending record to fight California limits on pricing https://theintercept.com/2018/10/31/california-proposition-8-dialysis/

#5yrsago London’s new high-rises: speculators’ #LuxuryFlats designed never to be occupied https://citymonitor.ai/economy/more-expensive-property-london-more-likely-it-be-empty-4312

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#10yrsago Face scrub #MicroBeads are choking the Great Lakes https://web.archive.org/web/20131031103227/http://5gyres.org/posts/2013/10/28/5_gyres_publishes_first_scientific_paper_on_plastic_pollution_in_the_great_lakes/

#10yrsago Toronto cops confirm video of Mayor #RobFord smoking crack and making racist and homophobic remarks https://www.cp24.com/news/extended-coverage-police-have-video-of-ford-court-documents-shed-light-on-investigation-1.1521449

#5yrsago The #dialysis industry just set a #CampaignSpending record to fight California limits on pricing https://theintercept.com/2018/10/31/california-proposition-8-dialysis/

#5yrsago London’s new high-rises: speculators’ #LuxuryFlats designed never to be occupied https://citymonitor.ai/economy/more-expensive-property-london-more-likely-it-be-empty-4312

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#20yrsago @eff's #TrustedComputing white-paper https://web.archive.org/web/20031004073707/https://www.eff.org/Infra/trusted_computing/20031001_tc.php

#10yrsago Toronto cops bust Mayor #RobFord’s fixer/muscle/driver/dealer https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/city-hall/mayor-rob-ford-s-friend-sandro-lisi-who-sought-video-one-of-two-arrested-in/article_845c0feb-b9a0-5d1f-a411-aa18a6ddf58e.html

#10yrsago Porno #CopyrightTroll #JohnSteele accused of identity theft — by his mother-in-law https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/10/prendas-john-steele-accused-of-identity-theft-by-his-own-mother-in-law/

#10yrsago Asteroid named after Randall “#XKCD” Munroe https://blog.xkcd.com/2013/09/30/asteroid-4942-munroe/

#10yrsago HOWTO make $200,000 off of the above-inflation USPS postage hike https://qz.com/128329/a-step-by-step-guide-to-profiting-off-the-3-cent-hike-on-us-postage-stamps

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In 1998, the dead-eyed Romneyoid Premier of Ontario #MikeHarris "amalgamated" Toronto with its suburbs, putting it at the mercy of car-addled out-of-towners in an act of gerrymandering that all-but-guaranteed that city residents' political choices would be swamped by suburbanites who could be convinced to vote for laughable Tory bumblefucks like #RobFord.

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#15yrsago Swedes take to the street to fight #DomesticSpying https://politics.slashdot.org/story/08/06/17/0126243/wiretapping-law-sparks-rage-in-sweden

#15yrsago How Canada’s DMCA will criminalize everyday Canadians https://web.archive.org/web/20080618192040/https://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/3041/125/

#10yrsago Men in Toronto Mayor #RobFord crack photo arrested in gang sweep https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2013/06/14/dixon_road_raids_help_complete_infamous_rob_ford_photo.html

#10yrsago #NSA admits it listens in on US phone calls and reads US emails without a warrant https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/nsa-spying-flap-extends-to-contents-of-u-s-phone-calls/

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#5yrsago This viral campaign video for a progressive New York Democratic primary challenger cost less than $10K and spread like wildfire #AOC https://theintercept.com/2018/06/05/ocasio-cortez-new-york-14th-district-democratic-primary-campaign-video/

#5yrsago It’s really easy to steal your cellphone number, and that’s a gateway to stealing everything else https://www.consumerreports.org/scams-fraud/cell-phone-account-fraud/

#5yrsago #RobFord’s brother is running for Ontario Premier, but Rob Ford’s widow is suing him for stealing millions from the family https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/doug-ford-faces-multimillion-dollar-lawsuit-1.4691378

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#10yrsago #Toronto Mayor #RobFord about to lose his job coaching high-school football? https://www.thestar.com/news/city_hall/2013/03/29/rob_ford_mayor_cancels_meeting_with_toronto_catholic_board_to_discuss_his_coaching_future.html

#10yrsago When US money was nice to look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:US-$10-LT-1901-Fr.114.jpg

#10yrsago #ATMSkimming comes to non-ATM payment terminals in train stations, etc https://krebsonsecurity.com/2013/03/cash-claws-fake-fascias-tampered-tickets/

#10yrsago Lessons learned from #YouTube’s $300M “Original Channel” fund https://web.archive.org/web/20130330055859/http://edwardspoonhands.com/post/46305605617/lessons-learned-from-youtubes-300m-hole

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