#5yrsago T-Mobile: because we have a (stupid) trademark on one magenta shade, no one can use pink in their logos https://adage.com/article/digital/t-mobile-says-it-owns-exclusive-rights-color-magenta/2212556

#5yrsago Two years ago, Juli Briskman was fired for flipping off the Trump motorcade; now she’s been elected as a Virginia county supervisor https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/the-cyclist-who-flipped-off-trumps-motorcade-is-running-for-public-office/2018/09/11/c12cc2d2-b5dc-11e8-a7b5-adaaa5b2a57f_story.html

#1yrago Amazon is a ripoff https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/06/attention-rents/#consumer-welfare-queens

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#15yrsago EU kills 3-strikes proposal (yay!) but all is not well (eek!) https://www.laquadrature.net/en/2009/11/05/Europe-only-goes-half-way-in-protecting-internet-rights/

#15yrsago The Secret Science Alliance and the Copycat Crook: inspirational kids’ science comic https://memex.craphound.com/2009/11/05/the-secret-science-alliance-and-the-copycat-crook-inspirational-kids-science-comic/

#10yrsago EFF leadership change: Cindy Cohn to head organization https://www.eff.org/press/releases/cindy-cohn-become-effs-new-executive-director-2015

#10yrsago 1980 D&D ad asserts that RPGs are woman-friendly https://twitter.com/JonBolds/status/518044059240124417

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#5yrsago After decades of corporate theft, Spinal Tap is finally getting paid by Universal https://variety.com/2019/biz/news/spinal-tap-universal-music-settle-copyright-dispute-1203393300/

#5yrsago Jeannette Ng was right: John W Campbell was a fascist https://locusmag.com/2019/11/cory-doctorow-jeannette-ng-was-right-john-w-campbell-was-a-fascist/

#5yrsago “Christian” hospital charges its own nurse $900,000 for her premature baby https://www.propublica.org/article/how-one-employer-stuck-a-new-mom-with-a-bill-for-her-premature-baby

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#10yrsago 21K Kansans’ votes will be suppressed this election https://www.kansas.com/news/politics-government/article3504228.html

#10yrsago Pianist wants bad review taking down under EU “right to be forgotten” rules https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2014/10/31/pianist-asks-the-washington-post-to-remove-a-concert-review-under-the-e-u-s-right-to-be-forgotten-ruling/

#10yrsago My grandmother, the poisoner https://web.archive.org/web/20141105041851/https://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/my-gandma-the-poisoner-0000474-v21n10

#5yrsago White supremacists record video at the new, bulletproof Emmett Till memorial sign https://edition.cnn.com/2019/11/03/us/emmett-till-memorial-white-supremacist-group-video/index.html

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#10yrsago Mechwarrior dad/baby costume https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIln1LTtvzc

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#10yrsago UK cultural institutions leave their WWI cases empty to protest insane copyright https://web.archive.org/web/20141105051638/http://www.cilip.org.uk/cilip/news/campaign-free-our-history-reform-copyright

#10yrsago FBI secretly seeking legal power to hack any computer, anywhere https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/oct/29/fbi-powers-hacking-computers-surveillance

#10yrsago 42 rich white people account for 1/3 of Super PAC spending https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/whos-buying-midterm-elections-bunch-old-white-guys/

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#10yrsago Secret recording of corporate lobbyist is a dirty-tricks playbook https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/31/us/politics/pr-executives-western-energy-alliance-speech-taped.html

#10yrsago NZ Trade Minister: we keep TPP a secret to prevent “public debate” https://www.techdirt.com/2014/10/31/new-zealands-trade-minister-admits-they-keep-tpp-documents-secret-to-avoid-public-debate/

#5yrsago Blizzard’s corporate president publicly apologizes for bungling players’ Hong Kong protests, never mentions Hong Kong https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/1/20944022/blizzard-blizzcon-hearthstone-china-hong-kong-response-j-allen-brack

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#10yrsago Hungary cancels proposed Internet tax in the face of mass opposition https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-29846285

#10yrsago David Graeber and Thomas Piketty on whether capitalism will destroy itself https://thebaffler.com/odds-and-ends/soak-the-rich

#10yrsago USPS usage declines, but sloppy postal surveillance is way, way up https://www.politico.com/story/2014/06/snail-mail-snooping-safeguards-not-followed-108056

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#10yrsago 100K Hungarians march against Internet tax https://www.vice.com/en/article/huge-internet-tax-protests-galvanize-government-opposition-in-hungary/

#10yrsago Dissecting the arguments of liberal apologists for Obama’s surveillance and secret war https://nationalinterest.org/feature/big-brother’s-liberal-friends-11515

#10yrsago Potato-chip surveillance: once you start, you just can’t stop https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/27/stasi-style-outrages-low-spies-stoop-mi5

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#10yrsago Profile of MITSFS, MIT’s 65-year-old science fiction club https://web.archive.org/web/20141023191938/http://www.technologyreview.com/article/531401/60000-books-and-a-few-toy-bananas/

#10yrsago Malware authors use Gmail drafts as dead-drops to talk to bots https://www.wired.com/2014/10/hackers-using-gmail-drafts-update-malware-steal-data/

#10yrsago Verizon’s new big budget tech-news site prohibits reporting on NSA spying or net neutrality https://www.dailydot.com/debug/verizon-sugarstring-us-surveillance-net-neutrality/

#10yrsago Every artist’s “how I made it” talk, ever https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_F9jxsfGCw

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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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#10yrsago Profile of MITSFS, MIT’s 65-year-old science fiction club https://web.archive.org/web/20141023191938/http://www.technologyreview.com/article/531401/60000-books-and-a-few-toy-bananas/

#10yrsago Malware authors use Gmail drafts as dead-drops to talk to bots https://www.wired.com/2014/10/hackers-using-gmail-drafts-update-malware-steal-data/

#10yrsago Verizon’s new big budget tech-news site prohibits reporting on NSA spying or net neutrality https://www.dailydot.com/debug/verizon-sugarstring-us-surveillance-net-neutrality/

#10yrsago Every artist’s “how I made it” talk, ever https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_F9jxsfGCw
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#10yrsago Who is Gamergate? Analysis of 316K tweets https://medium.com/message/72-hours-of-gamergate-e00513f7cf5d

#10yrsago The Peripheral: @GreatDismal vs William Gibson https://memex.craphound.com/2014/10/28/the-peripheral-william-gibson-vs-william-gibson/

#10yrsago Thousands of Americans got sub-broadband ISP service, thanks to telcoms shenanigans https://web.archive.org/web/20141030214728/https://www.measurementlab.net/static/observatory/M-Lab_Interconnection_Study_US.pdf

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#15yrsago US Department of Defense adopts “open source guidelines” https://powdermonkey.blogs.com/powdermonkey/2009/10/department-of-defense-new-guidance-on-open-source-software.html

#15yrsago Brit business secretary promises to punish accused file-sharers’ families with Internet disconnection by 2011 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2009/oct/28/mandelson-date-blocking-filesharers-connections

#10yrsago @2600 magazine profiled in the New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/print-magazine-hackers

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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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#15yrsago Italian politician sues 4000+ YouTube commenters https://web.archive.org/web/20091030044651/http://www.antoniodipietro.com/en/2009/10/we_will_defend_you_all_from_cu.html

#15yrago Terrified London cops spending millions gathering useless intelligence on peaceful protestors https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/libertycentral/2009/oct/26/police-protest-data-protection

#10yrsago Edward Snowden interviewed by Lawrence @lessighttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_Sr96TFQQE

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#20yrsago Build a $100 GNU/Linux machine https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/04/10/25/2337253/how-cheap-can-a-pc-be

#15yrsago On the literary and scholarly awesomeness of the timezone file https://blog.jonudell.net/2009/10/23/a-literary-appreciation-of-the-olsonzoneinfotz-database/

#10yrsago Canadian MPs improvised spears to fight off shooter while PM Harper hid in the closet https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-attack-mps-fashioned-spears-while-harper-hid-in-closet/article21278580/

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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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#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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#15yrsago Barclay’s terrible bank-security https://web.archive.org/web/20091028154706/http://www.links.org/?p=772

#15yrago Spectator throws out public safety, embraces sensationalism and AIDS denialism https://www.badscience.net/2009/10/aids-denialism-at-the-spectator/

#15yrsago Booklife: a guide to a sane, productive writerly life https://memex.craphound.com/2009/10/22/booklife-a-guide-to-a-sane-productive-writerly-life/

#10yrsago Carl Hiaasen’s “Skink No Surrender” https://memex.craphound.com/2014/10/22/carl-hiaasens-skink-no-surrender/

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