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#20yrsago Stephen King finishes the Gunslinger books https://memex.craphound.com/2004/10/20/stephen-king-finishes-the-gunslinger-books/

#20yrsago Neal Stephenson’s Slashdot interview https://slashdot.org/story/04/10/20/1518217/neal-stephenson-responds-with-wit-and-humor

#15yrsago Yahoo hires lap-dancers to entertain at its open, inclusive Hack Day event https://simonwillison.net/2009/Oct/19/hackday/

#15yrsago 86-year-old WWII vet on gay marriage: “What do you think I fought for in Omaha Beach?” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrEbJBFWIPk

#10yrsago Mercilessly pricking the bubbles of AI, Big Data, machine learning https://spectrum.ieee.org/machinelearning-maestro-michael-jordan-on-the-delusions-of-big-data-and-other-huge-engineering-efforts

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#10yrsago American businesses devour themselves to enrich the 1% https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2014/10/goldman-makes-it-official-that-the-stock-market-is-manipulated-buybacks-drive-valuations.html

#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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