#10yrsago China routinely tortures human rights lawyers https://www.businessinsider.com/amnesty-international-report-on-torture-2015-11

#10yrsago Fordite: a rare mineral only found in old Detroit auto-painting facilities https://miningeology.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-most-amazing-rocks.html

#10yrsago Facebook won’t remove photo of children tricked into posing for neo-fascist group https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-34797757

#5yrsago Big Car wants to pump the brakes on Right to Repair https://pluralistic.net/2020/11/13/said-no-one-ever/#r2r

#1yrago America's richest Medicare fraudsters are untouchable https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/13/last-gasp/#i-cant-breathe

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#10yrsago China routinely tortures human rights lawyers https://www.businessinsider.com/amnesty-international-report-on-torture-2015-11

#10yrsago Fordite: a rare mineral only found in old Detroit auto-painting facilities https://miningeology.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-most-amazing-rocks.html

#10yrsago Facebook won’t remove photo of children tricked into posing for neo-fascist group https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-34797757

#5yrsago Big Car wants to pump the brakes on Right to Repair https://pluralistic.net/2020/11/13/said-no-one-ever/#r2r

#1yrago America's richest Medicare fraudsters are untouchable https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/13/last-gasp/#i-cant-breathe

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#10yrsago Startup uses ultrasound chirps to covertly link and track all your devices https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/11/beware-of-ads-that-use-inaudible-sound-to-link-your-phone-tv-tablet-and-pc/

#10yrsago Cop who unplugged his cam before killing a 19-year-old girl is rehired https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/11/cop-fired-for-having-lapel-cam-turned-off-a-lot-reinstated-to-force/

#10yrsago Hospitals are patient zero for the Internet of Things infosec epidemic https://web.archive.org/web/20151113050443/https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2015-hospital-hack/

#10yrsago Ol’ Dirty Bastard’s FBI files https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2015/nov/13/ol-dirty-bastard-fbi-files/

#10yrsago I-Spy Surveillance Books: a child’s first Snoopers Charter https://scarfolk.blogspot.com/2015/11/i-spy-surveillance-books.html

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#10yrsago Startup uses ultrasound chirps to covertly link and track all your devices https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/11/beware-of-ads-that-use-inaudible-sound-to-link-your-phone-tv-tablet-and-pc/

#10yrsago Cop who unplugged his cam before killing a 19-year-old girl is rehired https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/11/cop-fired-for-having-lapel-cam-turned-off-a-lot-reinstated-to-force/

#10yrsago Hospitals are patient zero for the Internet of Things infosec epidemic https://web.archive.org/web/20151113050443/https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2015-hospital-hack/

#10yrsago Ol’ Dirty Bastard’s FBI files https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2015/nov/13/ol-dirty-bastard-fbi-files/

#10yrsago I-Spy Surveillance Books: a child’s first Snoopers Charter https://scarfolk.blogspot.com/2015/11/i-spy-surveillance-books.html

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#15yrsago Tim Wu on the new monopolists: a “last chapter” for The Master Switch https://web.archive.org/web/20151214010555/https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704635704575604993311538482

#15yrsago Man at San Diego airport opts out of porno scanner and grope, told he’ll be fined $10K unless he submits to fondling https://johnnyedge.blogspot.com/2010/11/these-events-took-place-roughly-between.html

#10yrsago 100 useful tips from a bygone era https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/search/index?q=gallaher++how+to+do+it#/?scroll=18

#10yrsago Copyfraud: Anne Frank Foundation claims father was “co-author,” extends copyright by decades https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/14/books/anne-frank-has-a-co-as-diary-gains-co-author-in-legal-move.html

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#15yrsago Tim Wu on the new monopolists: a “last chapter” for The Master Switch https://web.archive.org/web/20151214010555/https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704635704575604993311538482

#15yrsago Man at San Diego airport opts out of porno scanner and grope, told he’ll be fined $10K unless he submits to fondling https://johnnyedge.blogspot.com/2010/11/these-events-took-place-roughly-between.html

#10yrsago 100 useful tips from a bygone era https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/search/index?q=gallaher++how+to+do+it#/?scroll=18

#10yrsago Copyfraud: Anne Frank Foundation claims father was “co-author,” extends copyright by decades https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/14/books/anne-frank-has-a-co-as-diary-gains-co-author-in-legal-move.html

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#10yrsago Edward Snowden’s operational security advice for normal humans https://theintercept.com/2015/11/12/edward-snowden-explains-how-to-reclaim-your-privacy/

#10yrsago Not (just) the War on Drugs: the difficult, complicated truth about American prisons https://jacobin.com/2015/03/mass-incarceration-war-on-drugs/

#10yrsago Britons’ Internet access bills will soar to pay for Snoopers Charter https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/nov/11/broadband-bills-increase-snoopers-charter-investigatory-powers-bill-mps-warned

#10yrsago How big offshoring companies pwned the H-1B process, screwing workers and businesses https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/11/us/large-companies-game-h-1b-visa-program-leaving-smaller-ones-in-the-cold.html?_r=0

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#15yrsago Tractor sale gone bad ends with man eating own beard https://web.archive.org/web/20101113200759/http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40136299

#10yrsago San Francisco Airport security screeners charged with complicity in drug-smuggling https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/three-san-francisco-international-airport-security-screeners-charged-fraud-and

#10yrsago Female New Zealand MPs ejected from Parliament for talking about their sexual assault https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/11/new-zealand-female-mps-mass-walkout-pm-rapists-comment

#10yrsago Councillor who voted to close all public toilets gets a ticket for public urination https://uk.news.yahoo.com/councillor-cut-public-toilets-fined-094432429.html#1snIQOG

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#10yrsago House GOP defends the right of racist car-dealers to overcharge people of color https://mathbabe.org/2015/11/11/republicans-would-let-car-dealers-continue-racist-practices-undeterred/

#10yrsago UK Snooper’s Charter “would put an invisible landmine under every security researcher” https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/11/the-snoopers-charter-would-devastate-computer-security-research-in-the-uk/

#5yrsago Interactive UK covid omnishambles explorer https://pluralistic.net/2020/11/11/omnishambles/#serco

#1yrago General Strike 2028 https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/11/rip-jane-mcalevey/#organize

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#20yrsago Sony will stop shipping infectious CDs — too little, too late https://www.vaildaily.com/news/sony-halts-production-of-music-cds-with-copy-protection-scheme/

#15yrsago We Won’t Fly: national aviation opt-out day in protest of TSA porno scanner/genital grope “security” https://web.archive.org/web/20101111201035/https://wewontfly.com/

#10yrsago Green tea doesn’t promote weight loss https://www.cochrane.org/evidence/CD008650_green-tea-weight-loss-and-weight-maintenance-overweight-or-obese-adults

#10yrsago The DoJ won’t let anyone in the Executive Branch read the CIA Torture Report https://www.techdirt.com/2015/11/11/doj-has-blocked-everyone-executive-branch-reading-senates-torture-report/

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#10yrsago The Four Horsemen of Gentrification: Brine, Snark, Brunch, Whole Foods https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the-four-horsemen-of-gentrification

#10yrsago America’s airlines send planes to El Salvador, China for service by undertrained technicians https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/11/airplane-maintenance-disturbing-truth

#10yrsago Google releases critical AI program under a free/open license https://www.wired.com/2015/11/google-open-sources-its-artificial-intelligence-engine/

#10yrsago UK law will allow secret backdoor orders for software, imprison you for disclosing them https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/11/snoopers-charter-uk-govt-can-demand-backdoors-give-prison-sentences-for-disclosing-them/

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#15yrsago UK security chief upset at being asked to surrender banned items at Heathrow https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/terror-chief-tries-to-board-plane-260577

#10yrsago All smart TVs are watching you back, but Vizio’s spyware never blinks https://www.propublica.org/article/own-a-vizio-smart-tv-its-watching-you

#10yrsago Gallery of the Soviet Union’s most desirable personal computers https://www.rbth.com/multimedia/pictures/2014/04/07/before_the_internet_top_11_soviet_pcs_35711

#10yrsago Future Forms: beautifully curated collection of space-age electronics https://www.future-forms.com/
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#15yrsago UK security chief upset at being asked to surrender banned items at Heathrow https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/terror-chief-tries-to-board-plane-260577

#10yrsago All smart TVs are watching you back, but Vizio’s spyware never blinks https://www.propublica.org/article/own-a-vizio-smart-tv-its-watching-you

#10yrsago Gallery of the Soviet Union’s most desirable personal computers https://www.rbth.com/multimedia/pictures/2014/04/07/before_the_internet_top_11_soviet_pcs_35711

#10yrsago Future Forms: beautifully curated collection of space-age electronics https://www.future-forms.com/
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#10yrsago Unevenly distributed future: America’s online education systemhttps://medium.com/@cshirky/the-digital-revolution-in-higher-education-has-already-happened-no-one-noticed-78ec0fec16c7

#10yrsago Chelsea Manning’s statement for Aaron Swartz Day 2015 https://www.aaronswartzday.org/chelsea-manning-2015/

#10yrsago Unevenly distributed futures: Hong Kong’s amazing towershttps://www.peterstewartphotography.com/Portfolio/Stacked-Hong-Kong

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#15yrsago RIP, Robbins Barstow, godfather of the home movie revival https://amateurism.wordpress.com/2010/11/09/robbins-barstow-1919-2010/

#15yrsago Math papers with complicated, humbling titles https://web.archive.org/web/20101113223106/http://www.daddymodern.com/top-five-utterly-incomprehensible-mathematics-titles-at-arxiv-org/

#15yrsago Shirky: Times paywall is pretty much like all the other paywalls http://shirky.com/weblog/the-times-paywall-and-newsletter-economics/

#10yrsago 10,000 wax cylinders digitized and free to download https://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/index.php

#10yrsago The Economist’s anti-ad-blocking tool was hacked and infected readers’ computers https://www.theverge.com/2015/11/6/9681124/pagefair-economist-malware-ad-blocker

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#10yrsago Paid Patriotism: Pentagon spent millions bribing sports teams to recognize military service https://www.huffpost.com/entry/defense-military-tributes-professional-sports_n_5639a04ce4b0411d306eda5e

#10yrsago Spy at will! FCC won’t force companies to honor Do Not Track https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/11/fcc-wont-force-websites-to-honor-do-not-track-requests/

#10yrsago TPP will let banks write their own regulations and stick taxpayers with the bill https://theintercept.com/2015/11/06/ttp-trade-pact-would-give-wall-street-a-trump-card-to-block-regulations/

#10yrsago Typewriter portraiture, the strange story of 1920s ASCII art https://web.archive.org/web/20151108220746/https://pictorial.jezebel.com/the-typewriter-ascii-portraits-of-classic-hollywood-and-1738094492

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#10yrsago Paid Patriotism: Pentagon spent millions bribing sports teams to recognize military service https://www.huffpost.com/entry/defense-military-tributes-professional-sports_n_5639a04ce4b0411d306eda5e

#10yrsago Spy at will! FCC won’t force companies to honor Do Not Track https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/11/fcc-wont-force-websites-to-honor-do-not-track-requests/

#10yrsago TPP will let banks write their own regulations and stick taxpayers with the bill https://theintercept.com/2015/11/06/ttp-trade-pact-would-give-wall-street-a-trump-card-to-block-regulations/

#10yrsago Typewriter portraiture, the strange story of 1920s ASCII art https://web.archive.org/web/20151108220746/https://pictorial.jezebel.com/the-typewriter-ascii-portraits-of-classic-hollywood-and-1738094492

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