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#5yrsago Notices at Intel press event seem to say attending photographers must assign copyright to all pictures and videos to the company? https://web.archive.org/web/20200616222543/http://mitchwagner.com/2019/04/02/video-consent-notice-posted-discreetly-in-a-couple-of-places-on-the-walls-at-the-intel-press-analyst-event-today/

#5yrsago Patagonia tells banks and oil companies that they can no longer buy co-branded vests https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/katienotopoulos/patagonia-power-vest-policy-change

#5yrsago Talking about Radicalized with the CBC: Privilege, atavism, techno-realism and seizing the means of information https://www.cbc.ca/books/cory-doctorow-on-radicalized-the-problem-with-superheroes-and-writing-speculative-fiction-in-a-jaded-world-1.5080939

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#10yrsago Expiration Day: YA coming of age novel about robots and the end of the human race https://memex.craphound.com/2014/04/01/expiration-day-ya-coming-of-age-novel-about-robots-and-the-end-of-the-human-race/

#5yrsago Internal files reveal how US law enforcement classes anti-fascists as fascists, and actual fascists as “anti-anti-fascists” https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/apr/01/intelligence-law-enforcement-report-leftwing-terrorists-charlottesville

#5yrsago Wells Fargo is looking for a new CEO https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/01/investing/wells-fargo-ceo-tim-sloan/index.html

#5yrsago The strange tale of Runescape’s Communist republic https://thespinoff.co.nz/pop-culture/29-03-2019/free-armour-trimming-the-communist-revolution-inside-runescape

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#5yrsago Slovakia’s first woman president is an anti-corruption, pro-immigrant environmental campaigner https://www.kgou.org/world/2019-03-31/the-erin-brockovich-of-slovakia-is-elected-the-countrys-first-female-president

#5yrsago The weird grift of “sovereign citizens”: where UFOlogy meets antisemitism by way of Cliven Bundy and cat-breeding https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/29/business/sovereign-citizens-financial-crime.html

#5yrsago Citing transphobic policies, 172+ googlers call for removal of Heritage Foundation from Google’s “Advanced Technology External Advisory Council” https://medium.com/@against.transphobia/googlers-against-transphobia-and-hate-b1b0a5dbf76

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#5yrsago America’s best mobile carrier is also the first phone company to back Right to Repair legislation https://www.vice.com/en/article/eveezj/a-cell-phone-carrier-breaks-with-big-telecom-announces-support-for-right-to-repair-legislation

#5yrsago Small stickers on the ground trick Tesla autopilot into steering into opposing traffic lane https://keenlab.tencent.com/en/whitepapers/Experimental_Security_Research_of_Tesla_Autopilot.pdf

#5yrsago Banksy’s art authentication system displays top-notch cryptographic nous https://reprage.com/posts/2019-03-25-how-banksy-authenticates-his-work/

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#5yrsago The Boston Globe on breaking up Big Tech falls into the trap of tech exceptionalism https://memex.craphound.com/2019/03/31/the-boston-globe-on-breaking-up-big-tech-falls-into-the-trap-of-tech-exceptionalism/

#1yrago Flickr to copyleft trolls: drop dead https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/01/pixsynnussija/#pilkunnussija

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#10yrsago Big Data Kafka: US Government Watchlists and the secrecy whose justification is a secret https://www.aclu.org/sites/default/files/assets/watchlist_briefing_paper_v3.pdf

#5yrsago Alex Jones’s deposition over his role in the harassment of Sandy Hook parents is a total shitshow https://www.huffpost.com/entry/we-got-alex-jones-deposition-video-it-was-a-predictable-disaster_n_5c9d06fae4b03218ee1ca133

#5yrsago Oklahoma Republicans introduce bill forcing doctors to warn abortion patients about the existence of an imaginary “reversible abortion” https://theintercept.com/2019/03/29/oklahoma-bill-abortion-reversal/

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#5yrsago The Chinese Communist Party’s newspaper has spun out an incredibly lucrative censorship business https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/29/business/tech/censorship-pays-chinese-communist-party-newspaper-expands-lucrative-online-scrubbing-business/

#5yrsago War criminal and snowflake Erik Prince cancels Beloit College talk after student protests, threatens lawsuit https://web.archive.org/web/20190401223159/https://beloitcollegeroundtable.com/2019/03/28/scheduled-speech-from-erik-prince-shut-down-after-protests/

#5yrsago After the Parkland shooting, NRA official reached out to Sandy Hook denier to discuss possibility that it was an anti-gun conspiracy https://www.huffpost.com/entry/exclusive-nra-sandy-hook-hoaxer-parkland-shooting_n_5c8aa54de4b03e83bdbe59eb

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#5yrsago How hedge funds, Goldman Sachs, and corrupt executives used Gymboree’s chaotic bankruptcy to cash out while destroying the careers of loyal employees https://theintercept.com/2019/03/25/gymboree-bankruptcy-severance-scam/

#5yrsago Study finds 95% of all Bitcoin trading volume is fake, designed to lure in ICOs https://web.archive.org/web/20190401033546/https://go.technologyreview.com/134-fake-bitcoin-trading

#5yrsago Sting operation: the NRA explains to white nationalist Australian political party how to deflect gun control calls after a massacre https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/3/26/how-to-sell-a-massacre-nras-playbook-revealed

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#5yrsago Millennials are killing McMansions https://web.archive.org/web/20190920074507/https://www.businessinsider.com.au/millennials-vs-baby-boomers-big-houses-real-estate-market-problems-2019-3

#1yrago What comes after neoliberalism? https://pluralistic.net/2023/03/28/imagine-a-horse/#perfectly-spherical-cows-of-uniform-density-on-a-frictionless-plane

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#10yrsago UK tax authority used anti-terror law to spy on whistleblower who disclosed sweetheart deal for Goldman Sachs https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/mar/24/hmrc-criticised-mps-terror-law-tax-whistleblower-hodge

#5yrsago Article 13 will wreck the internet because Swedish MEPs accidentally pushed the wrong voting button https://medium.com/@emanuelkarlsten/sweden-democrats-swedish-social-democrats-defeat-motion-to-amend-articles-11-13-731d3c0fbf30

#5yrsago An end-run around Citizens United: passing state laws that ban rewarding campaign donors with political favors https://bribestop.us

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#5yrsago Record companies sue Charter because providing high-speed internet contributes to piracy https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/03/music-labels-sue-charter-complain-that-high-internet-speeds-fuel-piracy/

#1yrago Silicon Valley Noir https://pluralistic.net/2023/03/26/silicon-valley-noir/

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#5yrsago London developer makes last-minute changes to lock poor kids out of “communal” playground https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/mar/25/too-poor-to-play-children-in-social-housing-blocked-from-communal-playground

#5yrsago Peak Indifference: are we reaching climate’s denial/nihilism tipping point? https://www.wired.com/story/peak-indifference-on-climate-change/

#5yrsago Rebooting UUCP to redecentralize the net https://web.archive.org/web/20190324140104/https://uucp.dataforge.tk/

#5yrsago The Vessel: a perfect symbol for the grifter capitalism of New York City’s privatized Hudson Yards “neighborhood” https://thebaffler.com/latest/fuck-the-vessel-wagner

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#10yrsago Unless companies pay, their Facebook updates reach 6% of followers https://time.com/34025/the-free-marketing-gravy-train-is-over-on-facebook/

#5yrsago #10yrsago Unless companies pay, their Facebook updates reach 6 percent of followers https://time.com/34025/the-free-marketing-gravy-train-is-over-on-facebook/ https://web.archive.org/web/20190323163700/https://xychelsea.is/?page_id=28

#5yrsago Man stole $122m from Facebook and Google by sending them random bills, which the companies dutifully paid https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/lithuanian-pleads-guilty-to-stealing-100-million-from-google-facebook/

#5yrsago Video from the Radicalized launch with Julia Angwin at The Strand https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbdgdH8ksaM

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#5yrsago Unnamed stalkerware company left gigabytes of sensitive personal info unprotected on the web and can’t be reached to fix it https://www.vice.com/en/article/j573k3/spyware-data-leak-pictures-audio-recordings

#5yrsago Philadelphia city council candidate says his secret AI has discovered disqualifying fraud in the nominations of 30 out of 33 candidates https://www.inquirer.com/politics/clout/council-at-large-petition-challenges-devon-cade-allan-domb-nick-miccarelli-20190322.html

#5yrsago After fatal crash, Boeing reverses sales policy that locked out some safety features unless airlines paid for an upgrade https://apnews.com/article/140576a8e9d4449eae646c8c479fdc3a

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#5yrsago Two arrested for hiding cameras in motel rooms and charging for access to livestreams https://edition.cnn.com/2019/03/20/asia/south-korea-hotel-spy-cam-intl/index.html

#1yrago Mass tech worker layoffs and the soft landing https://pluralistic.net/2023/03/21/tech-workers/#sharpen-your-blades-boys

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#10yrsago Gamestop as a fee-free, convenient banking institution https://kottke.org/14/03/the-first-national-bank-of-gamestop

#5yrsago IBM supplied surveillance gear to Davao while Duterte was mayor and cheering on the city’s police-linked death-squads https://theintercept.com/2019/03/20/rodrigo-duterte-ibm-surveillance/

#5yrsago Health industry lobbyists are posing as “ordinary citizens who don’t want Medicare for All” https://splinternews.com/look-at-these-absolutely-ordinary-americans-who-hate-me-1833380461

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#5yrsago The story of how Buffalo’s oldest, best-established Black neighborhood was literally wiped off the map is a perfect parable about systemic bias https://onezero.medium.com/how-googles-bad-data-wiped-a-neighborhood-off-the-map-80c4c13f1c2b

#5yrsago China’s “pawn shops” have loaned $43B, mostly secured by real-estate https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-12/china-is-said-to-scrutinize-43-billion-pawn-shop-lending-boom

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#5yrsago The latest Right to Repair battle: fake, corporate co-option of Right to Repair measures https://www.wired.com/story/right-to-repair-co-opt/

#1yrago Big Business can't stop its illegal, fantastically lucrative gossiping https://pluralistic.net/2023/03/16/compulsive-cheaters/#rigged

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#5yrsago Letterlocking: the long-lost art of using paper-folding to foil snoops https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-did-people-do-before-envelopes-letterlocking

#5yrsago Self-insurer Walmart flies its sick employees to out-of-state specialists to avoid local price-gougers https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/14/walmart-sends-employees-to-top-hospitals-out-of-state-for-treatment.html

#5yrsago Big Chemical says higher pollution levels are safe in West Virginia because residents don’t drink water, and are so fat that poisons are diluted in their bodies https://washingtonmonthly.com/2019/03/14/the-real-elitists-looking-down-on-trump-voters/

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#5yrsago Walt Disney’s Frozen Head: a science fiction movie secretly shot at Walt Disney World https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FYuVU0E7D0

#5yrsago Facebook and Big Tech are monopsonies, even when they’re not monopolies https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-not-monopoly-but-should-broken-up/

#5yrsago A detailed analysis of American ER bills reveals rampant, impossible-to-avoid price-gouging https://www.vox.com/health-care/2018/12/18/18134825/emergency-room-bills-health-care-costs-america

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#5yrsago With days to go until the #CopyrightDirective vote, #Article13’s father admits it requires filters and says he’s OK with killing Youtube https://memex.craphound.com/2019/03/13/with-days-to-go-until-the-copyrightdirective-vote-article13s-father-admits-it-requires-filters-and-says-hes-ok-with-killing-youtube/

#5yrsago Gimlet staff announce unionization plan following Spotify acquisition https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/13/18263957/gimlet-media-union-spotify-recognition-podcasts

#5yrsago McMansion Hell tours the homes of the “meritocratic” one-percenters who allegedly bought their thickwitted kids’ way into top universities in the college admissions scandal https://mcmansionhell.com/post/183417051691/in-honor-of-the-college-admissions-scandal

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#15yrsago Android Calling Card: slash your long-distance bills without having to dial a zillion numbers https://memex.craphound.com/2009/03/10/android-calling-card-slash-your-long-distance-bills-without-having-to-dial-a-zillion-numbers/

#10yrsago Guardian Cities: how Hackney council let developers demolish the startups of “Silicon Roundabout” https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2014/mar/10/slow-death-of-silicon-roundabout

#5yrsago The eminently electable Bernie Sanders enjoys strong support from African-Americans and young people https://www.businessinsider.in/First-time-voters-for-Bernie-Sanders-dont-care-about-his-age-say-he-speaks-to-what-matters-to-them-and-wouldve-voted-for-him-in-2016/articleshow/68328211.cms

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#5yrsago A recursive plaque honoring the installation of a plaque honoring the installation of a plaque honoring the installation of… https://readtheplaque.com/plaque/the-toronto-recursive-history-project

#5yrsago Universal Studios is chipping their soda cups to limit refills https://twitter.com/tinymediaempire/status/1103062313182085121

#5yrsago Former Archbishop of Canterbury cheers on students who are walking out to demand action on climate change https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/mar/10/rowan-williams-school-pupil-climate-protests

#5yrsago Defect in car security system aids carjackers, thieves https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZUQmJMuf8c

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#5yrsago The eminently electable Bernie Sanders enjoys strong support from African-Americans and young people https://www.businessinsider.in/First-time-voters-for-Bernie-Sanders-dont-care-about-his-age-say-he-speaks-to-what-matters-to-them-and-wouldve-voted-for-him-in-2016/articleshow/68328211.cms

#5yrsago Trump’s FCC relies on telcos to self-police anti-robocall measures and they’re planning on gutting existing regs, so John Oliver is robocalling the whole FCC every 90 minutes https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/03/john-oliver-fights-robocalls-by-robocalling-ajit-pai-and-the-fcc/

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#5yrsago Beninese musician/activist/genius Angélique Kidjo has released a tribute to Talking Heads’ Remain in Light and IT. IS. FUCKING. AMAZING. https://www.kidjo.com/remain-in-light

#5yrsago Offshore illegal GOP campaign megadonors receive record FEC fines after The Intercept reveals their crimes https://theintercept.com/2019/03/11/intercept-investigation-leads-to-record-fines-over-foreign-campaign-contributions/

#5yrsago What ephemeral messaging is good for https://memex.craphound.com/2019/03/12/what-ephemeral-messaging-is-good-for/

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