#5yrsago The @internetarchive's massive repository of scanned books will help Wikipedia fight the disinformation wars https://web.archive.org/web/20191031041755/https://blog.archive.org/2019/10/29/weaving-books-into-the-web-starting-with-wikipedia/

#5yrsago With “OK boomer,” millennials are killing intergenerational resentment https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/29/style/ok-boomer.html

#5yrsago Facebook sues notorious spyware company NSO Group for 1,400 attacks on diplomats, journalists, dissidents, and government officials https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-cyber-whatsapp-nsogroup/whatsapp-sues-israels-nso-for-allegedly-helping-spies-hack-phones-around-the-world-idUSKBN1X82BE/

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#5yrago Kindness and Wonder: Mr Rogers biography is a study in empathy and a deep, genuine love for children https://memex.craphound.com/2019/10/29/kindness-and-wonder-mr-rogers-biography-is-a-study-in-empathy-and-a-deep-genuine-love-for-children/

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#5yrsago 70% of millennials would vote for a socialist https://victimsofcommunism.org/annual-poll/2019-annual-poll/

#5yrsago Davos in the Desert is back, and banks and hedge fund managers are flocking to Mister Bone-Saw’s side https://www.bbc.com/news/business-50219035

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#10yrsago Opsec, Snowden style https://web.archive.org/web/20141028183511/https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/10/28/smuggling-snowden-secrets/

#5yrsago Elizabeth Warren proposes a 4-year ban on government officials going to work for “market dominant” companies https://medium.com/@teamwarren/breaking-the-political-influence-of-market-dominant-companies-8ff27e99ada0

#5yrsago Behind the scenes, “plain” text editing is unbelievably complex and weird https://lord.io/text-editing-hates-you-too/

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#5yrsago Indigenous elder on Sidewalk Labs’s Toronto consultation: “like being given blankets and gun powder and whisky to trade for our participation” https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/indigenous-elder-slams-hollow-and-tokenistic-consultation-by-sidewalk-labs/article_450e40c2-69b4-53a4-b17d-f094be005b43.html

#5yrsago The penniless hero of the ransomware epidemic has written more decryptors than anyone else https://www.propublica.org/article/the-ransomware-superhero-of-normal-illinois

#5yrsago The top FBI lawyer who tried to force Apple to backdoor its crypto now says working crypto is essential to public safety and national security https://memex.craphound.com/2019/10/28/the-top-fbi-lawyer-who-tried-to-force-apple-to-backdoor-its-crypto-now-says-working-crypto-is-essential-to-public-safety-and-national-security/

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#5yrsago Samsung satellite crashes in family’s yard https://www.wzzm13.com/article/news/weird/satellite-lands-in-michigan-yard/69-8ea9d127-83a7-4729-9f20-6b79bbf77a11

#5yrsago Les gilets noirs: a French protest movement defending migrants’ rights https://theintercept.com/2019/10/27/france-black-vests-gilets-noirs/

#5yrsago Navy Yard worker outed by Unicorn Riot is indicted for lying to the FBI about his white nationalist group memberships https://www.inquirer.com/news/vanguard-america-unite-the-right-fred-arenas-mccormick-foley-20191025.html

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#5yrsago New Hampshire state Rep John Potucek kills Right to Repair bill: “cellphones are throwaways…just get a new one” https://www.vice.com/en/article/lawmaker-kills-repair-bill-because-cellphones-are-throwaways/

#1yrago Amazon Alexa is a graduate of the Darth Vader MBA https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/26/hit-with-a-brick/#graceful-failure

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#5yrsago “Affordances”: a new science fiction story that climbs the terrible technology adoption curve https://slate.com/technology/2019/10/affordances-cory-doctorow-sf-story-algorithmic-bias-facial-recognition.html

#5yrsago Nearly all Americans’ taxes will go down under Medicare for All https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/oct/25/medicare-for-all-taxes-saez-zucman

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#1yrago Bad King Richard got rich by exploiting workers at King's Faire https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/25/huzzah/#bad-king-richard

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#5yrsago An important, elegant thought experiment on content moderation regulation https://twitter.com/Klonick/status/1186718183513907202

#1yrago Microincentives and Enshittification https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/24/cursed-bigness/#incentives-matter

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#15yrsago Awful 1962 marriage textbook speaks out against feminism, communism and interracial dating https://www.amalah.com/photos/when_you_marry/index.html

#10yrsago UK Tories propose life sentences for using a computer to “damage the economy” https://www.theguardian.com/law/2014/oct/23/computer-users-damage-national-security-face-jail

#5yrsago BBC launches a Tor hidden service mirror to help people evade their countries’ censoring firewalls https://web.archive.org/web/20191025120544/https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3083006/bbc-news-tor-dark-web-site

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#5yrsago Equifax used “admin/admin” as login and pass for an unencrypted server full of your personal data https://finance.yahoo.com/news/equifax-password-username-admin-lawsuit-201118316.html

#5yrsago Margaret Atwood’s “The Testaments”: a long-awaited Handmaid’s Tale sequel fulfills its promise https://memex.craphound.com/2019/10/22/margaret-atwoods-the-testaments-a-long-awaited-handmaids-tale-sequel-fulfills-its-promise/

#1yrago In defense of bureaucratic competence https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/23/getting-stuff-done/#praxis

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#5yrsago Hospital staff hang a banner celebrating the transfer of their “mischievous tyrant” boss https://twitter.com/OmoGbajaBiamila/status/1184715636406128640

#5yrsago Ernst and Young subjected women employees to “training” about keeping the company’s men happy https://www.huffpost.com/entry/women-ernst-young-how-to-dress-act-around-men_n_5da721eee4b002e33e78606a

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#5yrsago Bernie supporters are the most diverse of any Democratic presidential contender https://prospect.org/politics/aoc-endorsement-queens-rally-sanders-movement/

#5yrsago When the HR department is a robotic phrenologist: “face-scanning algorithm” gains popularity as a job-applicant screener https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/10/22/ai-hiring-face-scanning-algorithm-increasingly-decides-whether-you-deserve-job/

#5yrsago Japanese robot hotel chain ignored repeated warnings that its in-room “bed-facing” robots could be turned into spy devices https://web.archive.org/web/20191023135234/https://www.tokyoreporter.com/business/robot-hotel-operator-announces-modification-to-prevent-hacks-by-guests/

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#5yrsago The wonderful You Must Remember This podcast returns to tell the secret history of Disney’s most racist movie, Song of the South http://www.youmustrememberthispodcast.com/episodes/2019/10/21/six-degrees-of-song-of-the-south-episode-1-disneys-most-controversial-film

#5yrsago A visual history of Soviet anti-religious artwork https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2019/oct/23/down-with-god-how-the-soviet-union-took-on-religion-in-pictures

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#10yrsago The dirty secret of Google’s self-driving cars https://slate.com/technology/2014/10/google-self-driving-car-it-may-never-actually-happen.html

#5yrsago Educational spyware company to school boards: hire us to spy on your kids and we’ll help you sabotage teachers’ strikes https://qz.com/1318758/schools-are-using-ai-to-track-what-students-write-on-their-computers

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#1yrago The internet's original sin https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/21/the-internets-original-sin/

#1yrago Amazon’s bestselling “bitter lemon” energy drink was bottled delivery driver piss https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/20/release-energy/#the-bitterest-lemon

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#5yrsago A shrewd guess about the Haunted Mansion's mysterious Squeaky Door Ghost https://longforgottenhauntedmansion.blogspot.com/2019/10/the-squeaky-door-ghost.html

#5yrsago Rep Katie Porter: an Elizabeth Warren protege and single mom who destroys bumbling, mediocre rich guys in Congressional hearings https://newrepublic.com/article/155268/house-representative-katie-porter-schools-ben-carson-orea-jamie-dimon

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#5yrsago The Catalan independence movement is being coordinated by an app designed for revolutions https://www.wired.com/story/barcelonia-riots-catalonia-protests-news/

#5yrsago Yahoo Groups archivists despair as Verizon blocks their preservation efforts ahead of shutdown https://web.archive.org/web/20141018140923/https://modsandmembersblog.wordpress.com/for-the-press-2/

#5yrsago Griefer terrorizes baby by taking over their Nest babycam…again https://www.siliconvalley.com/2019/10/18/the-voice-from-our-nest-camera-threatened-to-steal-our-baby/

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#10yrsago WATCH: top Scientologists heaping abuse on apostate https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EG70fhg0wL4

#10yrsago American cities, ranked by conservatism https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/88528

#10yrsago LISTEN: Run DMC meets Danny Elfman (spooky!) https://soundcloud.com/dj_bc/the-king-of-halloween-run-dmc

#5yrsago Why we should ban facial recognition technology everywhere https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/17/opinion/facial-recognition-ban.html

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