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Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr  ·  activity timestamp last week
#10yrsago “I hope the Chinese aren’t collating the Ashley Madison data with their handy federal list of every American with a security clearance.” -Bruce Sterling https://brucesterling.tumblr.com/post/127151439198/man-those-are-some-savage-vigilantes-i-hope

#10yrsago Google covertly lobbied against net neutrality in India https://www.medianama.com/2015/08/223-google-iamai-net-neutrality-india/

#5yrsago Boeing fixes the 737 Max problem https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/20/dubious-quantitative-residue/#737-8

#5yrsago College Covid app is a security dumpster-fire https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/20/dubious-quantitative-residue/#thick-description

#5yrsago The Mail https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/20/dubious-quantitative-residue/#franked

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@pluralistic@mamot.fr replied  ·  activity timestamp last week
#1yrago Nalo Hopkinson's "Blackheart Man" https://pluralistic.net/2024/08/20/piche/#cynchin

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@pluralistic@mamot.fr  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago
#10yrsago Jeb Bush: the NSA isn’t spying on us enough https://web.archive.org/web/20150819062605/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jeb-bush-nsa_55d39f5fe4b055a6dab1d777?utm_hp_ref=tw&kvcommref=mostpopular

#5yrsago Austerity breeds Nazis https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/19/a-band-apart/#austerity

#5yrsago Yale admin: "Prepare for death" https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/19/a-band-apart/#boola-boola

#5yrsago Hedge fund won't return Citi's accidental $175m deposit https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/19/a-band-apart/#keepsies

#5yrsago Spikey https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/19/a-band-apart/#listen-up

#5yrsago Orwell prize winner trapped in orwellian nightmare https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/19/a-band-apart/#fuck-the-algorithm

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Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago
#5yrsago Thomas Hawk's Talking Heads https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/19/a-band-apart/#talkingheads

#5yrsago Amazon's Monopoly Tollbooth https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/19/a-band-apart/#amazon-tollbooth

#1yrago Corporate Bullshit https://pluralistic.net/2024/08/19/apologetics-spotters-guide/#narratives

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@pluralistic@mamot.fr  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago
#10yrsago German chefs can claim copyright over the arrangement of food on plates https://www.techdirt.com/2015/08/17/germany-says-taking-photos-food-infringes-chefs-copyright/

#10yrsago Massive Star Wars lands coming to Disneyland and Walt Disney World https://web.archive.org/web/20150815230427/http://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2015/08/star-wars-themed-lands-coming-to-walt-disney-world-and-disneyland-resorts/

#10yrsago America’s “worst voting machines” dropped in Virgina (at last) https://www.wired.com/2015/08/virginia-finally-drops-americas-worst-voting-machines/

#5yrsago No one wants an H1B visa https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/17/aura-of-benevolence/#crickets

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@pluralistic@mamot.fr replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

#5yrsago Amazon bans podcasts that criticize Amazon #https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/16/combat-wheelchairs/#nondisparagement

#5yrsago Combat Wheelchairs https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/16/combat-wheelchairs/#combat-wheelchairs

#5yrsago How to Argue With a Racist https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/16/combat-wheelchairs/#race-realism

#5yrsago Self-driving cars are bullshit https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/16/combat-wheelchairs/#car-wreck

#1yrago MIT libraries are thriving without Elsevier https://pluralistic.net/2024/08/16/the-public-sphere/#not-the-elsevier

#1yrago "Disenshittify or Die" https://pluralistic.net/2024/08/17/hack-the-planet/#how-about-a-nice-game-of-chess

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@pluralistic@mamot.fr  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

#20yrago PC disguised as a set of encyclopedia volumes https://www.mini-itx.com/projects/encyclomedia/

#20yrago Nobel economist on harm lurking in copyright monopolies https://web.archive.org/web/20060217023906/http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_16-8-2005_pg5_12

#15yrsago Heinlein biography: LEARNING CURVE – the secret history of science fiction https://memex.craphound.com/2010/08/16/heinlein-memoir-learning-curve-the-secret-history-of-science-fiction/

#5yrsago Amazon bans podcasts that criticize Amazon #https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/16/combat-wheelchairs/#nondisparagement

#5yrsago Combat Wheelchairs https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/16/combat-wheelchairs/#combat-wheelchairs

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@pluralistic@mamot.fr replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago
#5yrsago How to Argue With a Racist https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/16/combat-wheelchairs/#race-realism

#5yrsago Self-driving cars are bullshit https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/16/combat-wheelchairs/#car-wreck

#1yrago MIT libraries are thriving without Elsevier https://pluralistic.net/2024/08/16/the-public-sphere/#not-the-elsevier

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@pluralistic@mamot.fr  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago
#20yrsago Babies on the no-fly list https://web.archive.org/web/20050910182032/https://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/n/a/2005/08/15/national/w115806D06.DTL&type=printable

#10yrsago AT&T was the NSA’s enthusiastic top surveillance partner https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/16/us/politics/att-helped-nsa-spy-on-an-array-of-internet-traffic.html

#10yrsago Miami police union smears woman who posted video of cop beating handcuffed suspect in police cruiserhttps://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/police-union-smears-woman-who-posted-video-of-police-beating-on-facebook-7823262

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@pluralistic@mamot.fr replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago
#10yrago Pre-crime: DHS admits that it puts people on the no-fly list based on “predictive assessment” https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/aug/10/us-no-fly-list-predictive-assessments

#5yrsago AI, 1A and Citizens United https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/15/wish-youd-share/#clearview-1a

#1yrago Apple vs the "free market" https://pluralistic.net/2024/08/15/private-law/#thirty-percent-vig

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@pluralistic@mamot.fr  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago
#10yrsago Transgenic mouse company pays academics who cite them in papers https://www.badscience.net/2015/08/so-this-company-cyagen-is-paying-authors-for-citations-in-academic-papers/

#10yrsago Australian court hands copyright trolls their own asses https://torrentfreak.com/dallas-buyers-club-ruling-devastates-copyright-trolling-down-under-150814/

#10yrsago Student suspended for tweeting two words will get to sue his school, police chief https://www.techdirt.com/2015/08/14/school-police-chief-must-face-lawsuit-brought-student-suspended-10-days-tweeting-actually-yes/

#5yrsago Maidan in Belarus https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/14/shock-doctrine/#walkaway

#5yrsago NYC Street View, WPA edition https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/14/shock-doctrine/#wpa-nyc

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@pluralistic@mamot.fr replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago
#5yrsago NYC homeless lose bathroom access https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/14/shock-doctrine/#everybody-poops

#5yrsago The CARES Shock Doctrine https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/14/shock-doctrine/#shock-doctrine

#1yrago The one weird monopoly trick that gave us Walmart and Amazon and killed Main Street https://pluralistic.net/2024/08/14/the-price-is-wright/#enforcement-priorities

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@pluralistic@mamot.fr  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago
#5yrsago Trump's Solicitor General says bribery is legal https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/12/failed-state/#backhanders-r-us

#5yrsago Payday lenders are CFPB's pandemic aid https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/12/failed-state/#cfpb-quislings

#5yrsago Sorting machines snatched from post offices https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/12/failed-state/#machine-breakers

#5yrsago Marvel's $0.10 mini-comics https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/12/failed-state/#tiny-heroes

#5yrsago Failed State https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/12/failed-state/#chris-brown

#5yrsago Mexico's terrible copyright is in trouble https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/12/failed-state/#viva-mexico

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@pluralistic@mamot.fr replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago
#1yrago The paradox of choice screens https://pluralistic.net/2024/08/12/defaults-matter/#make-up-your-mind-already

#1yrago Madeline Ashby's 'Glass Houses' https://pluralistic.net/2024/08/13/influencers/#affective-computing

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@pluralistic@mamot.fr  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago
#15yrsago Last Musketeer: whimsical, dreamlike, delightful comic https://memex.craphound.com/2010/08/08/the-last-musketeer-whimsical-dreamlike-delightful-comic/

#15yrsago Resistance: YA comic about the kids who served in the French resistance https://memex.craphound.com/2010/08/09/resistance-ya-comic-about-the-kids-who-served-in-the-french-resistance/

#5yrsago Test-proctoring software worsens systemic bias https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/09/just-dont-have-a-face/#algorithmic-bias

#5yrsago Commercial real-estate's looming collapse https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/09/just-dont-have-a-face/#systemic-risk

#1yrago "Carbon neutral" Bitcoin operation founded by coal plant operator wasn't actually carbon neutral https://pluralistic.net/2024/08/09/terawulf/#hunterbrook

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@pluralistic@mamot.fr replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago
#1yrago Private equity rips off its investors, too https://pluralistic.net/2024/08/08/sucker-at-the-table/#clucks-definance

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@pluralistic@mamot.fr  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

Hey look at this

* Free 3D models of every D&D monster https://www.patreon.com/cw/mz4250 (h/t Maxiemumdamage)

* Enough is enough—I dumped Google’s worsening search for Kagi https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/08/enough-is-enough-i-dumped-googles-worsening-search-for-kagi/ (h/t Stef)

* AI disagreements https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/ai-disagreements

* An Abundance of Sleaze: How a Beltway Brain Trust Sells Oligarchy to Liberals https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/an-abundance-of-sleaze-how-a-beltway

* Fintech Dystopia: Won’t somebody please think of the innovation? https://fintechdystopia.com/chapters/chapter6.html

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@pluralistic@mamot.fr replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago
#15yrsago Last Musketeer: whimsical, dreamlike, delightful comic https://memex.craphound.com/2010/08/08/the-last-musketeer-whimsical-dreamlike-delightful-comic/

#15yrsago Resistance: YA comic about the kids who served in the French resistance https://memex.craphound.com/2010/08/09/resistance-ya-comic-about-the-kids-who-served-in-the-french-resistance/

#5yrsago Test-proctoring software worsens systemic bias https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/09/just-dont-have-a-face/#algorithmic-bias

#5yrsago Commercial real-estate's looming collapse https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/09/just-dont-have-a-face/#systemic-risk

#1yrago "Carbon neutral" Bitcoin operation founded by coal plant operator wasn't actually carbon neutral https://pluralistic.net/2024/08/09/terawulf/#hunterbrook

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@pluralistic@mamot.fr  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago
#20yrsago Charlie Stross, Hugo winner https://web.archive.org/web/20050810024249/http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2005/08/07/#hugo-thing

#10yrsago Veiny, slick silicone ovipositors https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkfFZnK5W9s

#10yrsago A treadmill for Slinky toys, for your infinite Slinky-torturing pleasure https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dinVcBEDhQ

#10yrsago The Princess and the Pony, from Kate “Hark a Vagrant” Beaton https://memex.craphound.com/2015/08/07/the-princess-and-the-pony-from-kate-hark-a-vagrant-beaton/

#5yrsago Free the law https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/08/turkeys-for-christmas-party/#recap

#5yrsago Google bans anticompetitive vocabularies https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/08/turkeys-for-christmas-party/#newspeak

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@pluralistic@mamot.fr replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago
#5yrsago Peter Thiel was right https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/08/turkeys-for-christmas-party/#christmas-voting-turkeys

#1yrago The Google antitrust remedy should extinguish surveillance, not democratize it https://pluralistic.net/2024/08/07/revealed-preferences/#extinguish-v-improve

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@pluralistic@mamot.fr  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago
#10yrsago Why privacy activists and economists should be on the same side https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2640607

#10yrsago Universal Music’s anti-piracy ads reached new heights of crazypants gore https://www.techdirt.com/2015/08/06/universal-musics-anti-piracy-ads-even-crazier-than-you-can-imagine/

#10yrsago UK govt wants your opinion on sending file-sharers to jail for 10 years https://web.archive.org/web/20150905144030/https://www.openrightsgroup.org/campaigns/copyright-enforcement-consultation

#10yrsago Robert Charles Wilson’s The Affinities: when science changes everything https://memex.craphound.com/2015/08/06/robert-charles-wilsons-the-affinities-when-science-changes-everything/

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@pluralistic@mamot.fr replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago
#5yrsago California DMV's $50m/year data selloff https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/07/tired-of-winning/#you-are-the-product

#5yrsago Novartis's $678m bribery scandal https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/07/tired-of-winning/#novartis

#5yrsago US plummets below Russia and Mexico in global misery index https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/07/tired-of-winning/#usa-usa-usa

#5yrsago Satanic Abortions cut through unconstitutional abortion laws https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/07/tired-of-winning/#thyself-is-thy-master

#5yrsago Restore the Office of Technology Assessment https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/07/tired-of-winning/#ota

#1yrago Circular battery self-sufficiency https://pluralistic.net/2024/08/06/with-great-power/#comes-great-responsibility

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@pluralistic@mamot.fr  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago
#10yrsago India’s porn ban collapses in less than 48 hours https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-33783539

#10yrsago Parenting and the Internet: the smarter, missing third way https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/aug/05/what-is-missing-from-the-kids-internet

#10yrsago Idaho court strikes down anti-whistleblower “ag-gag” law https://www.acluidaho.org/en/news/idaho-ag-gag-law-ruled-unconstitutional-federal-court

#10yrsago Actual questions from my Green Card questionnaire https://memex.craphound.com/2015/08/05/actual-questions-from-my-green-card-questionnaire/

#10yrsago Germany’s top prosecutor fired for bringing “treason” charge against Netzpolitik https://web.archive.org/web/20150807201032/https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/world/article/German-prosecutor-accuses-gov-t-of-meddling-in-6423563.php

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@pluralistic@mamot.fr replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago
#5yrsago Qanon is magical thinking https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/05/behavioral-v-contextual/#magical-thinking

#5yrsago Trump wants to force you to invest in failing fossil fuel companies https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/05/behavioral-v-contextual/#crybabies

#5yrsago Cori Bush triumphs in Missouri https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/05/behavioral-v-contextual/#cori-bush

#5yrsago Qanon is an ARG https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/05/behavioral-v-contextual/#adrian-hon

#5yrsago GE's billion dollar tax-fraud https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/05/behavioral-v-contextual/#ge-fraud

#5yrsago Contextual ads can save media https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/05/behavioral-v-contextual/#contextual-ads

#1yrago Leveraged buyouts are not like mortgages https://pluralistic.net/2024/08/05/rugged-individuals/#misleading-by-analogy

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@pluralistic@mamot.fr  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago
#20yrsago Telco that blocked union site also blocked 766+ other sites https://web.archive.org/web/20050807000417/http://www.opennetinitiative.net/bulletins/010/

#20yrsago Chevron being sued in US for hiring Nigerian death squads https://web.archive.org/web/20050812002406/http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/12285441.htm

#20yrsago Airport security wand delivers debilitating shocks https://web.archive.org/web/20051226123609/http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7777&feedId=online-news_rss20

#15yrsago Shades of Milk and Honey: Kowal’s debut novel is a drawing-room romance with magic and art https://memex.craphound.com/2010/08/02/shades-of-milk-and-honey-kowals-debut-novel-is-a-drawing-room-romance-with-magic-and-art/

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#5yrsago Galaksija https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/02/ventilator-202/#Galaksija

#1yrago The reverse-centaur apocalypse is upon us https://pluralistic.net/2024/08/02/despotism-on-demand/#virtual-whips

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#20yrsago Anti-software-patent site taken down by software patent advocates https://web.archive.org/web/20051025080342/https://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=656

#20yrsago One 3 min MP3 = 5’9″ high stack of punchcards https://web.archive.org/web/20050804025015/http://www.ypsidixit.com/blog/archives/2005/08/remember_punch.html

#20yrsago German Harry Potter fan-translation in 45 hours https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/aug/01/books.harrypotter

#10yrsago Re-recording the 1969 “Story and Song of the Haunted Mansion” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbJRoi92Ilo

#5yrsago Populism is good for your health https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/01/set-healthy-boundaries/#healthy-populism

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#5yrsago The Tree Who Set Healthy Boundaries https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/01/set-healthy-boundaries/#boundaries

#5yrsago A deep dive into Mexico's new copyright law https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/01/set-healthy-boundaries/#la-ley

#5yrsago Grace is going home https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/01/set-healthy-boundaries/#grace-freed

#1yrago Why is this Canadian university scared of you seeing its Privacy Impact Assessment? https://pluralistic.net/2024/08/01/eruditio-libertas-est/#streisand-v-linkletter

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#10yrsago Google diversity boss promised “UK’s first women’s history museum,” built a Jack the Ripper “museum” https://www.standard.co.uk/culture/exhibitions/museum-which-promised-to-celebrate-east-end-women-now-devoted-to-jack-the-ripper-10423690.html

#5yrsago Challenge questions suck https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/31/hall-of-famer/#favorite-food

#5yrsago Apple's internal Right to Repair fight https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/31/hall-of-famer/#e-waste-apple

#5yrsago Self-bricking medical device https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/31/hall-of-famer/#bricked-exogen

#5yrsago Mexico's copyright vs self-determination and national sovereignty https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/31/hall-of-famer/#necensuraninadados

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#5yrsago I'm being inducted into the Canadian SF/F hall of fame https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/31/hall-of-famer/#hall-of-famer

#1yrago The largest campaign finance violation in US history https://pluralistic.net/2024/07/31/greater-fools/#coinbased

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#20yrsago Homeland Security radio-tags foreign visitors https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/08/rfid_cards_for.html

#20yrsago Pix from today’s photog-mob at the unphotographable 1 Bush St building https://www.flickr.com/photos/avantgame/sets/668574/

#20yrsago The copyfight and international development https://web.archive.org/web/20050802001155/http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/003214.html

#5yrsago Interop to the rescue https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/30/roto-en-mexico/#interop-competition

#5yrsago Why sweat smells https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/30/roto-en-mexico/#no-sweatski

#5yrsago Solar heroin https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/30/roto-en-mexico/#solar-heroin

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#5yrsago Google destroys yet more smart-glasses https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/30/roto-en-mexico/#focals#5yrsago Mexico's new copyright vs cybersecurity https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/30/roto-en-mexico/#ciberseguridad

#1yrago An open copyright casebook, featuring AI, Warhol and more https://pluralistic.net/2024/07/30/open-and-shut-casebook/#stop-confusing-the-issue-with-relevant-facts

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#5yrsago Where "software" comes from https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/29/break-em-up/#word-nerd

#5yrsago Bitcoin is not a socialist's ally https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/29/break-em-up/#bitcoinism

#5yrsago The Internet Archive defends online libraries https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/29/break-em-up/#cdl

#5yrsago No consequences for police violence at BLM actions https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/29/break-em-up/#impunity

#5yrsago Let's force Big Tech to interoperate https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/29/break-em-up/#beyond-breakups

#5yrsago Unauthorized Meat https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/29/break-em-up/#mellow-brown

#5yrsago Break 'Em Up https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/29/break-em-up/#break-em-up

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#1yrago A profoundly stupid case about video game cheating could transform adblocking into a copyright infringement https://pluralistic.net/2024/07/29/faithful-user-agents/#hard-cases-make-bad-copyright-law

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#10yrsago Darth Vibrader: a Vader mannequin made from sex toys https://www.huffpost.com/entry/porn-star-kayla-jane-danger-builds-sex-toy-darth-vader-nsfw_n_55afdbc3e4b0a9b948535810

#10yrsago How .uk came to be (and why it’s not .gb) https://web.archive.org/web/20150910044243/https://30yearsof.uk/the-birth-of-uk-an-oral-history-ab3ebc0e499f

#5yrsago Mass market book sales surge https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/24/software-is-cake-too/#massmarket

#5yrsago Private equity doesn't create value, it destroys it https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/24/software-is-cake-too/#looters

#5yrsago Changes coming to UK's feudal "leaseholds https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/24/software-is-cake-too/#neofeudalism

#5yrsago Facebook's morale problem https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/24/software-is-cake-too/#eichmanns-and-oppenheimers

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#5yrsago 401(k)s are a scam https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/25/derechos-humanos/#are-there-no-poorhouses

#5yrsago Central London property prices tank https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/25/derechos-humanos/#innit

#5yrsago US copyright is a disaster for Mexico https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/25/derechos-humanos/#hecho-en-mexico

#1yrago AI's productivity theater https://pluralistic.net/2024/07/25/accountability-sinks/#work-harder-not-smarter

#1yrago FTC vs surveillance pricing https://pluralistic.net/2024/07/24/gouging-the-all-seeing-eye/#i-spy

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#20yrsago Canadian telco that blocked union websites is breaking all kinds of laws https://web.archive.org/web/20051028181259/http://www.michaelgeist.ca/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=914&Itemid=85&nsub=

#20yrsago Damning Sony payola memos: “I’m a whore this week” https://somafm.com/payola/payola2.pdf

#15yrsago What “curated computing” can and can’t deliver https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2010/jul/27/curated-computing-environment-apps-choice

#15yrsago UK govt proposes volunteer “police reserve” https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2010/jul/26/cameron-budget-cuts-diy-policing

#15yrsago Street-Fighting Math: down and dirty guide to approximation and problem-solving https://web.archive.org/web/20100605090020/https://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=12156

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#15yrsago EFF wins enormous victory against DRM: legal to jailbreak iPhones, rip DVDs for mashup videos https://memex.craphound.com/2010/07/26/eff-wins-enormous-victory-against-drm-legal-to-jailbreak-iphones-rip-dvds-for-mashup-videos/

#5yrsago Lovely video review for Poesy the Monster Slayer https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/26/fierce-slayer/#fierce-poesy

#5yrsago Green Growth https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/26/fierce-slayer/#green-growth

#1yrago Fintech bullies stole your kid's lunch money https://pluralistic.net/2024/07/26/taanstafl/#stay-hungry

#20yrsago How Craigslist changed NYC https://web.archive.org/web/20050727011010/http://www.newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/news/people/columns/intelligencer/12348/

#20yrsago Game-modder rips into anti-modder US politicos https://web.archive.org/web/20050728003228/https://illspirit.com/press_release.html

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#20yrsago Would you give a fiver a month for a UK tech/civil liberties org? https://web.archive.org/web/20050726235521/http://www.pledgebank.com/rights

#15yrsago The comics Bill Watterson sent to Berkeley Breathed https://web.archive.org/web/20100728151135/https://tvbarn.com/tv-barn/comic-con-2010/

#15yrsago Interview: Ian McDonald’s research secrets revealed https://web.archive.org/web/20100726181934/http://www.cclapcenter.com/2010/07/an_interview_with_ian_mcdonald.html

#5yrsago BLM footage censored by copyright bots https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/23/circuit-split/#dolphins-in-tuna-nets

#5yrsago Where Will Everyone Go https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/23/circuit-split/#migration-models

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#5yrsago Canadian judge invalidates Safe Third Country Agreement https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/23/circuit-split/#kids-kages-kanada

#1yrago Holy CRAP the UN Cybercrime Treaty is a nightmare https://pluralistic.net/2024/07/23/expanded-spying-powers/#in-russia-crime-cybers-you

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