#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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#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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#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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#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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#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 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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#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 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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#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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#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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#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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#15yrsago UK regulator turns over Internet policing standards to movie, record industries https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/ofcoms-code-does-not-comply-with-digital-economy-act/

#10yrsago Comcast’s top lobbyist insists he isn’t a lobbyist https://www.techdirt.com/2015/07/22/comcast-really-wants-me-to-stop-calling-their-top-lobbyist-top-lobbyist/

#10yrsago Once again: Crypto backdoors are an insane, dangerous idea https://web.archive.org/web/20150724155241/http://motherboard.vice.com/en_uk/read/a-golden-key-for-encryption-is-mythical-nonsense

#10yrsago RIP, EL Doctorow https://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/22/books/el-doctorow-author-of-historical-fiction-dies-at-84.html

#5yrsago Kentucky AG sues top GOP donors https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/22/stimpank/#kentucky

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#10yrsago Los Angeles is selling off some very odd lots, including a sidewalk corner https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-redevelopment-property-sale-20150718-story.html

#10yrsago Rare look at how big business defends “Investor State Dispute Settlements” https://www.techdirt.com/2015/07/20/eu-proposes-to-reform-corporate-sovereignty-slightly-us-think-tank-goes-into-panic-mode/

#5yrsago Dems vote to fund more DHS invasions of US cities https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/20/no-mask-no-service/#enablers

#5yrsago Grifters started the anti-mask movement https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/20/no-mask-no-service/#dorr-brothers

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Hey look at this

* Here Comes the Sun https://billmckibben.substack.com/p/shameless-self-promotion

* Elon Musk’s Neuralink filed as ‘disadvantaged business’ before being valued at $9 billion https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/17/elon-musks-neuralink-says-owned-by-disadvantaged-persons-in-filing.html (h/t JWZ)

* The Met Collection https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection (h/t Henry Farrell)

* The Number Go Up Rule: Why America Refuses to Fix Anything https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/the-number-go-up-rule-why-america

* Amazon Ring Cashes in on Techno-Authoritarianism and Mass Surveillance https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/07/amazon-ring-cashes-techno-authoritarianism-and-mass-surveillance

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#15yrsago Vatican: ordaining women is as bad as raping children from the pulpit https://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/16/world/europe/16vatican.html?_r=1

#10yrsago Disney World after humanity’s demise https://www.deviantart.com/eledoremassis02/gallery/34539438/life-after-disney-photo-manipulation

#10yrsago UK schools’ “anti-radicalisation” software lets hackers spy on kids https://web.archive.org/web/20150714144952/https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2015/07/14/child-surveillance-vulnerability/

#5yrsago What's in Blueleaks https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/16/text-adventures-resurgent/#blueleaks

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#10yrsago Laura Poitras sues the US Government to find out why she was repeatedly detained in airports https://theintercept.com/2015/07/13/laura-poitras-sues-u-s-government-find-repeatedly-stopped-border/

#5yrsago PE's three kids in a trenchcoat fraud https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/15/3-frauds-in-a-trenchcoat/#fraud

#5yrsago Biden's $2T climate plan https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/15/3-frauds-in-a-trenchcoat/#gnd-lite

#5yrsago McKinsey waxes fat off coronavirus failures https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/15/3-frauds-in-a-trenchcoat/#failing-up

#5yrsago Spain has been an NSO customer since 2015 https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/15/3-frauds-in-a-trenchcoat/#homage-to-catalonia

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#5yrsago California goes antitrust on Google https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/14/poesy-the-monster-slayer/#feeling-lucky-punk

#5yrsago Big Oil can have you locked up https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/14/poesy-the-monster-slayer/#privilege-private-law

#5yrsago Target workers strike over chickenization https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/14/poesy-the-monster-slayer/#stay-on-target

#5yrsago Free "extended preview" of the third Little Brother book https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/14/poesy-the-monster-slayer/#masha-masha-masha

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#10yrsago US Customs and Border Protection: America’s largest, most corrupt police force https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-border-patrol-20150630-story.html#page=1

#5yrsago Snowden on Little Brother https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/01/bossware/#omnibus

#5yrsago Sun Ra's syllabus https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/01/bossware/#sun-ra

#5yrsago Invigilation CEO doxes student https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/01/bossware/#moral-exemplar

#5yrsago Big Cop's corporate armorers https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/01/bossware/#charitable-laundering

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#5yrsago NYC housing lottery favors the least-needy https://pluralistic.net/2020/06/29/female-furies/#market-failure

#5yrsago Facebook and Trump collaborate on rule-rigging https://pluralistic.net/2020/06/29/female-furies/#fb-hearts-dt

#5yrsago How to break up Google https://pluralistic.net/2020/06/29/female-furies/#braygoog

#5yrsago Female Furies https://pluralistic.net/2020/06/29/female-furies/#apokolips-now

#5yrsago Bailouts should come with strings attached https://pluralistic.net/2020/06/28/kings-shilling/#tanstaafl

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#20yrsago Brazil to US pharma co: slash AIDS drug prices or lose patent https://web.archive.org/web/20190918065156/https://www.ft.com/content/816699fe-e50a-11d9-95f3-00000e2511c8

#20yrsago Hilary Rosen: Killing Napster didn’t bring market control https://web.archive.org/web/20050629010724/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/theblog/archive/hilary-rosen/the-wisdom-of-the-court-_3259.html

#15yrsago Canadian cops’ history of agents provocateurs and the G20 https://memex.craphound.com/2010/06/27/canadian-cops-history-of-agents-provocateurs-and-the-g20/

#15yrsago Stiglitz: spending cuts won’t cure recession https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/osborne-s-first-budget-it-s-wrong-wrong-wrong-2011501.html

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