#10yrsago You’re only an “economic migrant” if you’re poor and brown https://historyned.blog/2015/09/09/the-wandering-academic-or-how-no-one-seems-to-notice-that-i-am-an-economic-migrant/

#10yrsago Pre-mutated products: where did all those “hoverboards” come from? https://memex.craphound.com/2015/11/29/pre-mutated-products-where-did-all-those-hoverboards-come-from/

#10yrsago Millennials are cheap because they’re broke https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/12/millennials-arent-saving-money-because-theyre-not-making-money/383338/?utm_source=SFFB

#5yrsago Attack Surface in the New York Times https://pluralistic.net/2020/11/30/selmers-train/#times

#5yrsago RÄT https://pluralistic.net/2020/11/30/selmers-train/#honey-morello

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#10yrsago Vtech breach dumps 4.8m families’ information, toy security is to blame https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/11/when-children-are-breached-inside-the-massive-vtech-hack/

#10yrsago A Canadian teenager used America’s militarized cops to terrorize women gamers for years https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/29/magazine/the-serial-swatter.html?_r=0

#10yrsago What the 1980s would have made of the $5 Raspberry Pi https://www.wired.com/beyond-the-beyond/2015/11/raspberry-pi-five-bucks-us/

#10yrsago Workaholic Goethe wished he’d been better at carving out time for quiet reflection https://www.wired.com/beyond-the-beyond/2015/11/the-aged-herr-goethe-never-had-enough-time-for-himself/

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#15yrsago Molecular biologist on the dangers of pornoscanners https://web.archive.org/web/20101125192455/https://myhelicaltryst.blogspot.com/2010/11/tsa-x-ray-backscatter-body-scanner.html

#15yrsago Wunderkammerer front room crammed with nooks https://web.archive.org/web/20101125184317/http://mocoloco.com/fresh2/2010/11/23/villa-j-by-marge-arkitekter.php

#15yrsago Delightful science fiction story in review of $6800 speaker cable https://www.amazon.com/review/R3I8VKTCITJCX6/ref=cm_cr_dp_perm?ie=UTF8&ASIN=B000J36XR2&nodeID=172282&tag=&linkCode=

#15yrsago German Pirate Party members strip off for Berlin airport scanner protest https://web.archive.org/web/20101129043459/https://permaculture.org.au/2010/11/26/full-monty-scanner-or-enhanced-pat-down-the-only-options/

#10yrsago Dolphin teleportation symposium: now with more Eisenhowers! https://twitpic.com/3aqqa0

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#10yrsago The last quarter-century of climate talks explained, in comics form https://web.archive.org/web/20151126142914/http://www.nature.com/news/the-fragile-framework-1.18861

#10yrsago The Paradox: a secret history of magical London worthy of Tim Powers https://memex.craphound.com/2015/11/26/the-paradox-a-secret-history-of-magical-london-worthy-of-tim-powers/

#1yrago Bossware is unfair (in the legal sense, too) https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/26/hawtch-hawtch/#you-treasure-what-you-measure

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#10yrsago Party like it’s 1998: UK government bans ripping CDs — again https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/11/thanks-to-the-music-industry-it-is-illegal-to-make-private-copies-of-music-again/

#10yrsago Devastating technical rebuttal to the Snoopers Charter https://www.me.uk/IPBill-evidence1.pdf

#10yrsago AIDS-drug-gouging hedge-douche reneges on promise to cut prices for Daraprim https://www.techdirt.com/2015/11/25/turing-refuses-to-lower-cost-daraprim-hides-news-ahead-thanksgiving-holiday/

#10yrsago US credit union regulator crushed Internet Archive’s non-predatory, game-changing bank https://blog.archive.org/2015/11/24/difficult-times-at-our-credit-union/

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#20yrsago TSA makes flier remove body jewelry https://web.archive.org/web/20051129025951/https://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/s_397618.html

#20yrsago Microsoft caught subverting UN process, censoring FOSS references https://web.archive.org/web/20051128030303/https://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/linuxunix/0,39020390,39238443,00.htm

#15yrsago Zimbabwean law will put legislation, parliamentary gazette, etc, under state copyright https://web.archive.org/web/20101129133649/https://www.theindependent.co.zw/local/28907-general-laws-bill-inimical-to-democracy.html

#10yrsago Steiff Japan’s centaur teddybears http://www.steiff-shop.jp/2007w_ltd/037351_seet.html

#10yrsago Woman adds vaginal yeast to sourdough starter, Internet flips out https://web.archive.org/web/20180808194241/https://anotherangrywoman.com/2015/11/25/baking-and-eating-cuntsourdough/

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#20yrsago Transformers costumes that turn into cars and jets https://web.archive.org/web/20051127021810/http://www.marksprojects.com/costumestrans.htm

#15yrsago London police brutally kettle children marching for education https://web.archive.org/web/20101126000126/http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/laurie-penny/2010/11/children-police-kettle-protest

#15yrsago Kremlinology with Rupert Murdoch: what do the Times paywall numbers mean? https://www.theguardian.com/technology/blog/2010/nov/25/times-paywall-cory-doctorow

#10yrsago Ifixit is the new Justice League of America and Kyle Wiens is its Superman https://web.archive.org/web/20151125125009/https://motherboard.vice.com/read/how-to-fix-everything

#5yrsago Random Penguin to buy Simon & Schuster https://pluralistic.net/2020/11/25/the-peoples-amazon/#merger-to-monopoly

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#10yrsago J Edgar Hoover was angry that the Boy Scouts didn’t thank him effusively enough https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2015/nov/24/j-edgar-hoover-insults/

#10yrsago WTO rules against US dolphin-safe tuna labels because they’re unfair to Mexican fisheries https://theintercept.com/2015/11/24/wto-ruling-on-dolphin-safe-tuna-labeling-illustrates-supremacy-of-trade-agreements/

#10yrsago Shamrock shake: Pfizer’s Irish “unpatriotic loophole” ducks US taxes https://arstechnica.com/science/2015/11/with-160-billion-merger-pfizer-moves-to-ireland-and-dodges-taxes/

#5yrsago Talking interop on EFF's podcast https://pluralistic.net/2020/11/24/zawinskiian-carcination/#comcom

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#10yrsago Cultural appropriation? Hindu nationalists used yoga as an anti-colonialist export https://web.archive.org/web/20151124030935/http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2015/11/university_canceled_yoga_class_no_it_s_not_cultural_appropriation_to_practice.html

#10yrsago Leaked recording: pollution lobbyists discuss exploiting Syrian refugee crisis https://theintercept.com/2015/11/24/lobbyists-refugee-crisis/

#10yrsago Dell apologizes for preinstalling bogus root-certificate on computers https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/11/dell-apologizes-for-https-certificate-fiasco-provides-removal-tool/

#10yrsago Veronica Belmont on being overtaken by a meme https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTThblbbnkM

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#10yrsago Randall Munroe does a Q&A with stick-figure comics https://time.com/4116921/randall-munroe-draws-his-own-conclusions/

#10yrsago On the grotesque obsession with accomplished women’s fertility https://harpers.org/archive/2015/10/the-mother-of-all-questions/?single=1

#10yrsago How browser extensions steal logins & browsing habits; conduct corporate espionage https://labs.detectify.com/security-guidance/chrome-extensions-google-is-tracking-you/

#10yrsago Activist tricked into 6-year relationship with undercover cop tells her story https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/nov/20/lisa-jones-girlfriend-of-undercover-police-office-mark-kennedy-interview

#5yrsago An Especially Cursed House https://pluralistic.net/2020/11/22/especially-cursed/#mcmansion-hell

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#15yrsago Rock-Paper-Scissors-Lizard-Spock explained in 32 seconds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJKHFPBwDRA

#15yrsago TSA looks at Adam Savage’s junk, misses his two 12″ razor blades https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3yaqq9Jjb4

#10yrsago What’s inside a “Hello Barbie” surveillance toy? https://www.somersetrecon.com/blog/2015/11/20/hello-barbie-security-part-1-teardown

#10yrsago J Edgar Hoover loved Efrem Zimbalist’s “FBI” https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2015/nov/23/efrem-zimbalist-fbi-file/

#10yrsago Blankets: New edition of Craig Thompson’s graphic masterpiece https://memex.craphound.com/2015/11/23/blankets-new-edition-of-craig-thompsons-graphic-masterpiece/

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#10yrsago Alan Moore’s brilliantly bonkers lost 1980s Star Wars comics https://web.archive.org/web/20151122232854/https://www.techtimes.com/tags/alan-moores-star-wars

#10yrsago The secret history of the Haunted Mansion’s hall of changing paintings https://longforgottenhauntedmansion.blogspot.com/2015/11/the-changing-portrait-hall-that-never.html

#10yrsago England: You have four days to reply to the secret consultation on the NHS’s future https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/nov/19/nhs-mandate-england-consulation-deadline

#10yrsago Southwest Airlines surrenders to racists, refuses boarding to Arab-American passengers https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/national-international/philly-pizza-shop-owner-profiled-southwest-airlines/89976/

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#15yrsago Who owns your mortgage, the mind-croggling flowchart edition https://web.archive.org/web/20101118032158/https://www.zerohedge.com/article/just-when-you-thought-you-knew-something-about-mortgage-securitizations

#15yrsago When did you choose to be straight? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJtjqLUHYoY

#15yrsago Dear airlines: goodbye https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2010/11/dear-airline-im-leaving-you/66750/

#15yrsago How TSA screeners feel about junk-touching https://web.archive.org/web/20140928131617/https://flyingwithfish.boardingarea.com/2010/11/18/tsa-enhanced-pat-downs-the-screeners-point-of-view/

#10yrsago Yahoo blocks some users from accessing email until they turn off ad-blocking https://web.archive.org/web/20151121172408/https://consumerist.com/2015/11/20/use-adblock-and-yahoo-may-block-you-from-reading-your-e-mail/

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#10yrsago Alan Moore’s advice to unpublished authors https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuaWu2uhmRQ

#10yrsago Private funding of public services is bankrupting the UK https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/nhs/11748960/The-PFI-hospitals-costing-NHS-2bn-every-year.html

#10yrsago The US government turned down Anne Frank’s visa application https://www.reuters.com/article/2007/02/14/us-annefrank-letters-idUSN1430569220070214/#HmyajvjLmsX2tVYf.97

#10yrsago Seriously, try “view source” on google.com https://xkcd.com/1605/#10yrsago Caterpillar’s heavy vehicles are killswitched subprime computers on wheels https://web.archive.org/web/20151119160616/https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-11-19/caterpillar-depression-has-never-been-worse-it-has-cunning-plan-how-deal-it

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#10yrsago If the Paris attackers weren’t using cryptography, the next ones will, and so should you https://insidesources.com/new-york-times-article-blaming-encryption-paris-attacks/

#10yrsago Zero: the number of security experts Ted Koppel consulted for hysterical cyberwar book https://www.techdirt.com/2015/11/19/ted-koppel-writes-entire-book-about-how-hackers-will-take-down-our-electric-grid-never-spoke-to-any-experts/

#10yrsago How a paid FBI informant created a terror plot that sent an activist to jail for 9 years https://theintercept.com/2015/11/19/an-fbi-informant-seduced-eric-mcdavid-into-a-bomb-plot-then-the-government-lied-about-it/

#10yrsago Google steps up to defend fair use, will fund Youtubers’ legal defenses https://publicpolicy.googleblog.com/2015/11/a-step-toward-protecting-fair-use-on.html?m=1

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#10yrsago Watching paint dry: epic crowfunded troll of the UK film censorship board https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/charlielyne/make-the-censors-watch-paint-drying?ref=video

#10yrsago CEOs are lucky, tall men https://hbr.org/2015/11/are-successful-ceos-just-lucky

#10yrsago America’s CEOs and hedge funds are starving the nation’s corporations to death https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-buybacks-cannibalized/

#10yrsago EU official: all identified Paris attackers were from the EU https://web.archive.org/web/20151116223023/https://thinkprogress.org/world/2015/11/16/3722838/all-paris-attackers-identified-so-far-are-european-nationals-according-to-top-eu-official/

#10yrsago The Web is pretty great with Javascript turned off https://www.wired.com/2015/11/i-turned-off-javascript-for-a-whole-week-and-it-was-glorious/

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#15yrsago Chris McKitterick pirates his own book https://mckitterick.livejournal.com/653743.html

#15yrsago Chinese woman kidnapped to labor camp on her wedding day over sarcastic re-Tweet https://web.archive.org/web/20120609051421/http://voices.washingtonpost.com/blog-post/2010/11/chinese_twitter_sentence_a_yea.html

#15yrsago RuneScape devs refuse to cave in to patent trolls https://web.archive.org/web/20101119012943/http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/31597/UKBased_RuneScape_Dev_Jagex_Wins_Patent_Infringement_Lawsuit.php

#10yrsago Manhattan DA calls for backdoors in all mobile operating systems https://web.archive.org/web/20151120003032/https://manhattanda.org/sites/default/files/11.18.15 Report on Smartphone Encryption and Public Safety.pdf

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#10yrsago DRM in TIG welders https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6mlr_MX2VI

#10yrsago We treat terrorism as more costly than it truly is https://timharford.com/2015/11/nothing-to-fear-but-fear-itself/

#10yrsago David Cameron capitulates to terror, proposes Britain’s USA Patriot Act https://web.archive.org/web/20151117154831/https://thestack.com/security/2015/11/16/cameron-draft-investigatory-powers-bill-timetable-paris/

#5yrsago Storage Wars https://pluralistic.net/2020/11/17/u-stor-it/#nyc

#5yrsago Cross-Media Sci-Fi with Amber Benson and John Rogers https://pluralistic.net/2020/11/17/u-stor-it/#asl

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