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@pluralistic@mamot.fr · last week

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Hollywood hospital pays $17,000 in bitcoin to hackers; FBI investigating

Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center paid a $17,000 ransom in bitcoin to a hacker who seized control of the hospital's computer systems and would give back access only when the money was paid, the hospital's chief executive said Wednesday.

The Volokh Conspiracy

There Should Be A Name for This One, Too: - The Volokh Conspiracy

Over at the New York Times, yesterday, Scott Turow and James Shapiro, both of the Authors’ Guild, penned a short piece in defense of stronger copyright law under the title “Would the Bard have Survived the Web?” “Copyright, . . . linking authors, the printing press (and later technologies) and the market, would prove to […]

Cookies Sold by String Dangling From San Francisco Apartment Window

San Francisco entrepreneurs Eve, Kathleen and Clem of Fat Cookies deliver their oven fresh product (baked in their second story apartment) to their

@bwaber@hci.social · 7 days ago

@pluralistic Congratulations! While I'm not sure you'll engage with criticism of this piece given how you framed it, there's a great, methodical breakdown of your problematic LLM section here https://tante.cc/2026/02/20/acting-ethical-in-an-imperfect-world/

Dan 🦺 Deboer

@dandb@mas.to · last week

@pluralistic One of the reasons I like Mastodon is that's so trivially easy to filter out stuff I don't want to see, which is Using Mastodon Right imho.

Kyle Memoir 🍉

@f800gecko@mastodon.online · last week

This is good one.

Readable, informative, thought provoking (my view of AI having been adjusted somewhat in line with inklings I know I'd been having that were given voice here), and a cool look inside a thought factory.

@pluralistic@mamot.fr · last week

@f800gecko Thank you!

@decafbad@troet.cafe · last week

@pluralistic is that you Rover?
Be seeing you 😎

tux0r :openbsd:

@tux0r@layer8.space · last week

@pluralistic Congratulations and a huge thank you for pluralistic!

@pluralistic@mamot.fr · last week

@tux0r Thank you!

@pluralistic@mamot.fr · last week

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@pluralistic@mamot.fr · last week

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Channeling FDR

Working-class economic populism is necessary for both Democrats’ electoral success and the defense of democracy itself. Not many Democrats since FDR have recognized this, but Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is one of the few who does.

The National Interest

The “Enshittification” of NATO

The European experience of dependence on US guarantees in many ways resembles the familiar decline in quality of digital applications.

Socialism is the big tent — w/Avi Lewis

In conversation with Avi Lewis

@pluralistic@mamot.fr · last week

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@pluralistic@mamot.fr · last week

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UPDATED: The HB Gary Email That Should Concern Us All

As I wrote yesterday , there is a leaked email that has gotten surprisingly little attention ...

Lapland theme park brothers convicted of misleading customers

Victor and Henry Mears promised visitors a winter wonderland but offered fairy lights on trees and broken ice rink

Domain Name Wire | Domain Name News

Is Bit.ly Toast if Libya Shuts Down the Internet? - Domain Name Wire | Domain Name News

It’s possible. One of my tweeps just sent me a link to an article questioning what would happen to .ly domain names if Libya decided to “shut down” the internet. It’s a very good question. One of the most popular URL shortening services, bit.ly, uses Libya’s .ly domain name. We can rewind a bit and […]

@pluralistic@mamot.fr · last week

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Hollywood hospital pays $17,000 in bitcoin to hackers; FBI investigating

Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center paid a $17,000 ransom in bitcoin to a hacker who seized control of the hospital's computer systems and would give back access only when the money was paid, the hospital's chief executive said Wednesday.

The Volokh Conspiracy

There Should Be A Name for This One, Too: - The Volokh Conspiracy

Over at the New York Times, yesterday, Scott Turow and James Shapiro, both of the Authors’ Guild, penned a short piece in defense of stronger copyright law under the title “Would the Bard have Survived the Web?” “Copyright, . . . linking authors, the printing press (and later technologies) and the market, would prove to […]

Cookies Sold by String Dangling From San Francisco Apartment Window

San Francisco entrepreneurs Eve, Kathleen and Clem of Fat Cookies deliver their oven fresh product (baked in their second story apartment) to their

@pluralistic@mamot.fr · last week

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Russian bank licences revoked for using hackers to withdraw funds

The Russian Central Bank has revoked licences from some national banks suspected of using or blaming hackers to withdraw funds.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Sneaky Change to the TPP Drastically Extends Criminal Penalties

When the text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) was first released in November last year, it included provisions dictating the kinds of penalties that should be available in cases of copyright infringement. Amongst those provisions, the following footnote allowed countries some flexibility in...

Wisconsin Demonstrates Against Scott Walker’s War on Unions

by Abe SauerYesterday we noted the details of a bill introduced by Wisconsin’s new Tea Party Republican Governor Scott Walker that would increase payments from public sector employees while eliminating collective bargaining powers for unions (including teachers) — while ...

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