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@pluralistic@mamot.fr · activity timestamp 12 hr. ago

#10yrsago Robert Moses wove enduring racism into New York’s urban fabric https://web.archive.org/web/20160402184527/http://www.hopesandfears.com/hopes/now/politics/216905-the-lingering-effects-of-nyc-racist-city-planning

#10yrsago EFF takes a deep dive into Windows 10’s brutal privacy breaches https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/08/windows-10-microsoft-blatantly-disregards-user-choice-and-privacy-deep-dive

#10yrsago Inside the “sweatshop” terminally ill Britons must call to get benefits https://web.archive.org/web/20160820094907/https://www.theguardian.com/public-leaders-network/2016/aug/20/work-pensions-disability-claim-call-handler-benefits-dwp

#10yrsago How the New York Public Library made ebooks open, and thus one trillion times better https://www.crummy.com/writing/speaking/2015-RESTFest/

#5yrsago Raiders of the lost ARC https://pluralistic.net/2021/08/22/raiders-of-the-lost-arc/

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Raiders of the lost ARC

The Enterprise Media Distribution Platform At The End Of This Book

the Guardian

I'm a DWP call handler and have no time to care about your disability claim

When you cry down the phone I feel like crying too, but if I speak to you for longer than 23 minutes and go off-script I risk losing my job

Electronic Frontier Foundation

With Windows 10, Microsoft Blatantly Disregards User Choice and Privacy: A Deep Dive

Microsoft had an ambitious goal with the launch of Windows 10: a billion devices running the software by the end of 2018. In its quest to reach that goal, the company aggressively pushed Windows 10 on its users and went so far as to offer free upgrades for a whole year. However, the company’s...

Hopes&Fears

The lingering effects of NYC's racist city planning

While changing hearts and minds is essential for the end of racism, the infrastructure of cities will also have to be altered in order to have meaningful progress.

#5yrsago #10yrsago

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@pluralistic@mamot.fr · activity timestamp 12 hr. ago

Born on technology's third base: Material forces shape life-chances.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/117136533182049636

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@pluralistic@mamot.fr · activity timestamp 12 hr. ago

Hey look at this

* Does copyright protect your AI-generated content in Europe? Let’s find out https://euobserver.com/232898/interview-does-copyright-protect-your-ai-generated-content-in-europe-lets-find-out/

* FTC Says It Will Enforce Surveillance Pricing. It Won’t. https://prospect.org/2026/08/21/ftc-says-it-will-enforce-surveillance-pricing-it-wont/

* Why shaming people about AI slop isn’t enough to stop Big AI https://www.anildash.com/2026/08/21/ai-slop-and-shame/

Why shaming people about AI slop isn’t enough to stop Big AI - Anil Dash

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

EUobserver

[Interview] Does copyright protect your AI-generated content in Europe? Let’s find out

Intellectual property and copyright laws were developed to protect what people make. So what happens when a machine ‘makes’ something? Or when it is involved in making something? Who owns what a machine makes? How much human input is needed to make machine-generated content ‘human’? EUobserver sat down with copyright scholar Daniel Gervais to find out.

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Cory Doctorow

@pluralistic@mamot.fr · activity timestamp 12 hr. ago

#25yrsago Glue anything to anything https://www.thistothat.com/

#20yrsago No unions in iPod City https://web.archive.org/web/20061123003816/https://www.wired.com/news/columns/0,71629-0.html?tw=wn_index_2

#15yrsago Credit scores are bullshit https://web.archive.org/web/20111013005626/https://a.wholelottanothing.org/2011/08/credit-scores-are-bullshit.html

#15yrsago RIP, Jack Layton https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-14618943

#15yrsago William Gibson on cities and the future https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/gibson-interview-cities-in-fact-and-fiction/

#10yrsago Bronx cops can steal anything they want by calling it “evidence” https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/08/how-police-use-a-legal-gray-area-to-rob-suspects-of-their-belongings/495740/

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Scientific American

Cities in Fact and Fiction: An Interview with William Gibson

Author of the cyberpunk novel Neuromancer, William Gibson talks about the relationship between his fiction and the contemporary urban landscape

BBC News

Jack Layton, Canadian opposition leader, dies aged 61

Jack Layton, who led Canada's left-leaning NDP to become the official opposition in May's elections, dies aged 61 after a second bout of cancer.

A Whole Lotta Nothing: Credit Scores are Bullshit

A couple years ago as I was getting a credit report from Experian (I was about to buy a new car and wondered where I stood credit-wise), I signed up for one of their monthly tracking features. I justified this...

Wired News: IPod Factories: No Unions

This to That (Glue Advice)

How to glue this to that

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@pluralistic@mamot.fr · activity timestamp 12 hr. ago

#10yrsago EFF takes a deep dive into Windows 10’s brutal privacy breaches https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/08/windows-10-microsoft-blatantly-disregards-user-choice-and-privacy-deep-dive

#10yrsago How the New York Public Library made ebooks open, and thus one trillion times better https://www.crummy.com/writing/speaking/2015-RESTFest/

#5yrsago Raiders of the lost ARC https://pluralistic.net/2021/08/22/raiders-of-the-lost-arc/

https://pluralistic.net

Raiders of the lost ARC

The Enterprise Media Distribution Platform At The End Of This Book

the Guardian

I'm a DWP call handler and have no time to care about your disability claim

When you cry down the phone I feel like crying too, but if I speak to you for longer than 23 minutes and go off-script I risk losing my job

Electronic Frontier Foundation

With Windows 10, Microsoft Blatantly Disregards User Choice and Privacy: A Deep Dive

Hopes&Fears

The lingering effects of NYC's racist city planning

While changing hearts and minds is essential for the end of racism, the infrastructure of cities will also have to be altered in order to have meaningful progress.

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