#15yrsago ACTA leaks — again https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2010/07/acta-so-transparent-the-text-still-has-to-be-leaked/

#15yrsago Photo-documenting the real Toronto backgrounds from Scott Pilgrim https://www.flickr.com/photos/25096269@N04/albums/72157624312642335/

#15yrsago Penn Jillette on artistic satisfaction and magic https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/7881171/Penn-and-Teller-interview.html

#15yrsago Mountains of putrid fat scraped off the sewer-walls beneath Leicester Square https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/walls-of-fat-removed-from-london-s-sewers-2025528.html

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* Apple’s Browser Engine Ban Persists, Even Under the DMA https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/apples-browser-engine-ban-persists-even-under-the-dma/

* Auditors can’t save carbon offsets https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ady4864 (h/t Slashdot)

* A course on political analysis based on these social media posts https://www.superpunch.net/2025/07/a-course-on-political-analysis-based-on.html

* The Media's Pivot to AI Is Not Real and Not Going to Work https://www.404media.co/the-medias-pivot-to-ai-is-not-real-and-not-going-to-work/

* Banking the Unbanked* https://fintechdystopia.com/chapters/chapter3.html

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* Who Goes MAGA? https://www.techdirt.com/2025/07/08/who-goes-maga/

* Using Signal groups for activism https://micahflee.com/using-signal-groups-for-activism/ (h/t Bruce Schneier)

* What To Do When You See ICE in Your Neighborhood https://theintercept.com/2025/07/12/ice-neighborhood-watch-la/

* Fintech Dystopia https://fintechdystopia.com/

* Wet Leg: Moisturizer https://wetleg.bandcamp.com/album/moisturizer

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* What's Going on Online https://www.ninetiesinternet.com/

* State Department Wants to Know Student Visa Applicants’ Myspace Accounts https://theintercept.com/2025/07/01/trump-student-visa-social-media/

* The bug in the letter, part 2 https://www.robinsloan.com/lab/bug-in-the-letter-2/

* Turns Out Appeasing Trump Only Emboldened Him https://prospect.org/politics/2025-07-03-trump-prosecution-law-felonies-fascism/

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#15yrsago ACLU: America is riddled with politically motivated surveillance https://www.aclu.org/files/assets/Spyfiles_2_0.pdf

#15yrsago Toronto cops justify extreme G20 measures with display of LARPing props, weapons from unrelated busts https://web.archive.org/web/20100702002151/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/toronto/weapons-seized-in-g20-arrests-put-on-display/article1622761/

#15yrsago Copyright best practices for communications scholars https://web.archive.org/web/20100628005458/http://centerforsocialmedia.org/fair-use/related-materials/codes/code-best-practices-fair-use-scholarly-research-communication

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* FCC will allow prison phone gougers years of ripoffs https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2024/07/18/fcc-vote/

* Mitch Kapor finally completes MIT Master's after 45-year detour https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/30/mitch_kapor_mba/

* Ted Chiang on Superintelligence and Its Discontents https://lithub.com/ted-chiang-on-superintelligence-and-its-discontents-in-j-d-beresfords-innovative-work-of-early-20th-century-science-fiction/ (h/t Kottke)

* AI warnings are the hip new way for CEOs to keep workers afraid of losing jobs https://edition.cnn.com/2025/06/18/business/ai-warnings-ceos (h/t Ed Zitron)

* Wikipedia:WikiProject AI Cleanup/AI catchphrases https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_AI_Cleanup/AI_catchphrases

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#15yrsago G20 police used imaginary law to jail harass demonstrators and jailed protestors in dangerous and abusive “detention center” https://memex.craphound.com/2010/06/29/g20-police-used-imaginary-law-to-jail-harass-demonstrators-and-jailed-protestors-in-dangerous-and-abusive-detention-center/

#15yrsago Canada repeating Britain’s dirty copyright legislation process https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2010/jun/29/canada-copyright-digital-economy

#15yrsago London cops enforce imaginary law against brave, principled teenaged photographer https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/officers-claim-they-don-t-need-law-to-stop-photographer-taking-pictures-2012827.html

#15yrsago Globe and Mail journalist arrested and kettled at G20 Toronto https://web.archive.org/web/20100630110103/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/g8-g20/toronto/caught-in-the-storm-penned-in-at-queen-street/article1621255/

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#20yrsago Anti-DRM badges https://web.archive.org/web/20050701004506/http://nootropic.blogspot.com/2005/06/gallery-of-drm-related-antipixel.html

#15yrsago ACLU: America is riddled with politically motivated surveillance https://www.aclu.org/files/assets/Spyfiles_2_0.pdf

#15yrsago Toronto cops justify extreme G20 measures with display of LARPing props, weapons from unrelated busts https://web.archive.org/web/20100702002151/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/toronto/weapons-seized-in-g20-arrests-put-on-display/article1622761/

#15yrsago Copyright best practices for communications scholars https://web.archive.org/web/20100628005458/http://centerforsocialmedia.org/fair-use/related-materials/codes/code-best-practices-fair-use-scholarly-research-communication

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* How Bezos and Sánchez’s Venetian Bacchanal Delivered a Pitch-Perfect Ad for Socialism https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-jeff-bezos-and-lauren-sanchezs-venetian-bacchanal-delivered-a-pitch-perfect-ad-for-socialism/ (h/t Metafilter)

* Facebook’s Enshittification Continues Apace by Penalizing Link Posts https://opus.ing/posts/facebooks-enshittification-continues-apace-penalizing-link-posts (h/t Roz Doctorow)

* Law and Technology: A Methodical Approach https://global.oup.com/academic/product/law-and-technology-9780197526149

* Stop Destroying Videogames https://eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#/screen/home

* Fall '25 Fiction & Nonfiction Preview: Politics & Current Events https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/new-titles/adult-announcements/article/98114-fall-2025-fiction-nonfiction-preview-politics-current-events.html

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* What's a democratic socialist? https://coreyrobin.com/2025/06/26/what-is-a-democratic-socialist/

* Republicans flagged more often than Dems for sharing misinformation on X’s Community Notes https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2502053122 (h/t Marginal Revolution)

* Emergency decontamination tool for Chemical Crowd Control Agent (CCCA) exposure and app for protestor mobilization https://nedc.mesausa.org/team/california-2025/ (h/t Ray Gulick)

* Promises The Trump Phone Would Be ‘Made In USA’ Lasted 1/100th Of A Scaramucci https://www.techdirt.com/2025/06/27/promises-the-trump-phone-would-be-made-in-usa-lasted-1-100th-of-a-scaramucci/

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* Vaccine Recommendations Backed by Science https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-vaccine-recommendations-backed-by-science-in-these-handy-charts/ (h/t Kottke)

* John Hodgman Knows Where the Sewage-Treatment Plant Should Go https://www.curbed.com/article/interview-john-hodgman-joy-of-zoning-livestream-simcity2013.html

* Zohran did not win because of TikTok and podcasts https://www.usermag.co/p/zohran-did-not-win-because-of-tiktok-and-podcasts-social-media

* How Uber Became A Cash-Generating Machine https://len-sherman.medium.com/how-uber-became-a-cash-generating-machine-ef78e7a97230 (h/t DSHR)

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* "Hey Google" https://thisecommercelife.com/blogs/comics/hey-google

* The Rise And The Fall Of The Mail Chute https://hackaday.com/2025/06/25/the-rise-and-the-fall-of-the-mail-chute/

* Bezos Wedding Guests Given Monogrammed Plastic Bottles To Urinate In During Ceremony https://theonion.com/bezos-wedding-guests-given-monogrammed-plastic-bottles-to-urinate-in-during-ceremony/

* NPR staffers pick their favorite fiction reads of 2025 so far https://www.npr.org/2025/06/25/nx-s1-5356144/fiction-books-summer-2025

* Inside the UFC Settlement Fighters Actually Deserve https://leftsideofthev.substack.com/p/knockout-victory-inside-the-ufc-settlement

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* Jailbroken: A Story of Corporate Overreach, Police Abuse of Power, and Modern Tech https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-selfpublished-author-spread-his-story

* Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser – The Blockbuster to End All Blockbusters https://nordiclarp.org/2025/06/20/star-wars-galactic-starcruiser-the-blockbuster-to-end-all-blockbusters/

* MIT student prints AI polymer masks to restore paintings in hours https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/mit-student-prints-ai-polymer-masks-to-restore-paintings-in-hours/

* Congress, Now More Than Ever, Our Nation Needs Your Cowardice https://theonion.com/letter-to-congress/

* Dems’ Crypto Schemers Have Entered The Chat https://www.levernews.com/dems-crypto-schemers-have-entered-the-chat/?utm_source=buffer&utm_medium=social-link&utm_campaign=social-link-buffer

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#20yrsago Software patents are bad for coders like literary patents would be for writers https://web.archive.org/web/20050622023635/http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/comment/story/0,12449,1510566,00.html

#20yrsago WIPO Development Agenda meeting docs photographed and posted https://web.archive.org/web/20051127092845/http://homes.eff.org/~renbucholz/wipo/

#20yrsago Dear Kansas: Why stop at “Intelligent Design?” What about Spaghetti Monsters? https://web.archive.org/web/20050626010148/http://www.venganza.org/

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#15yrsago Canadian Heritage Minister declares war on copyright reformers https://web.archive.org/web/20100626073040/http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/5138/125/

#15yrsago Bruce Sterling’s Shareable.net story about astroturfer gulag https://www.shareable.net/the-exterminators-want-ad/

#15yrsago Corruption: FCC’s closed-door meetings on open Internet https://web.archive.org/web/20100626222659/http://blog.broadband.gov/?entryId=518087

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#15yrsago Original Pac-Man sketches https://www.control-online.nl/2010/06/22/iwatani-toont-gamesgeschiedenis-in-meest-pure-vorm/

#15yrsago Viacom v Internet: round one to Internet https://memex.craphound.com/2010/06/23/viacom-v-internet-round-one-to-internet/

#15yrsago A Canadian author’s perspective on “radical extremism” and copyright https://memex.craphound.com/2010/06/23/a-canadian-authors-perspective-on-radical-extremism-and-copyright/

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#20yrsago Beloved Toronto singing cowboy/mayoral candidate Ben Kerr, RIP https://www.blogto.com/city/2005/06/ben_kerr_a_toronto_legend_passes_away/

#20yrsago Heinlein’s house https://web.archive.org/web/20050625235954/http://www.heinleinsociety.org/rah/history/bonnydoon1.html

#20yrsago Banned Nepali radio station transmits via megaphone https://reliefweb.int/report/nepal/banned-air-nepal-news-radio-hits-streets

#20yrsago Queen Liz: Sony remotes are too hard to use https://web.archive.org/web/20050815080728/http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/index.cfm?email&NewsID=11914

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* Corporate Lawlessness Comes Next https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/corporate-lawlessness-comes-next

* Deconstructing Housing https://democracyjournal.org/magazine/76/deconstructing-housing/

* What Happens When Private Equity Owns Your Kid’s Day Care https://jacobin.com/2025/04/private-equity-day-care-childcare/

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