#5yrsago UC Santa Cruz asks professors to rent their spare rooms to students who couldn’t get housing guarantees https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/uc-santa-cruz-wants-staff-to-rent-rooms-to-students-due-to-lack-of-housing/

#5yrsago Paper #HauntedMansion music box https://haunteddimensions.blogspot.com/2018/09/haunted-dimensions-music-box.html

#1yrago The horrifying tale of a #blockchain-based virtual sweatshop https://pluralistic.net/2022/09/08/torment-nexus/#irl

#1yrago Every billionaire is a factory for producing policy failures https://pluralistic.net/2022/09/08/torment-nexus/#barre-seid

#1yrago Guide to a ripoff-free funeral https://pluralistic.net/2022/09/09/high-cost-of-dying/#memento-mori

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#5yrsago The amendments for the EU’s catastrophic #copyright proposals don’t fix a goddamned thing https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/09/fake-compromises-real-threats-next-weeks-eu-copyright-vote

#5yrsago Tim “#NetNeutrality” Wu on the case for breaking up Facebook https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/4/17816572/tim-wu-facebook-regulation-interview-curse-of-bigness-antitrust

#1yrago How #Audible steals from creators (an Audible exclusive) https://pluralistic.net/2022/09/07/audible-exclusive/#audiblegate

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#1yrago Trump gave #Moderna all the patent-waivers it needed to make a #vaccine https://pluralistic.net/2022/08/24/waivers-for-me-not-for-thee/#vaccine-apartheid

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#5yrsago Data-driven analysis of the total, gratuitous inadequacy of women’s pockets https://pudding.cool/2018/08/pockets/

#5yrsago Facebook will subject all of its users to “#TrustworthinessScores" https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2018/08/21/facebook-is-rating-trustworthiness-its-users-scale-zero-one/

#5yrsago The company you hired to snoop on your kids’ phones uploaded all their data to an unprotected website https://www.vice.com/en/article/9kmj4v/spyware-company-spyfone-terabytes-data-exposed-online-leak

#1yrago #Tory Britain is crashing and burning https://pluralistic.net/2022/08/23/late-stage-thatcherism/#just-dont-be-poor

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#5yrsago Federal officers establish unconstitutional checkpoints on road to Burning Man https://memex.craphound.com/2018/08/22/federal-officers-establish-unconstitutional-checkpoints-on-road-to-burning-man/

#5yrsago Facebook sends man animation featuring cartoon characters dancing on his mother’s grave https://memex.craphound.com/2018/08/22/facebook-sends-man-animation-featuring-cartoon-characters-dancing-on-his-mothers-grave/

#1yrago Google falsely told the police that a father was a molesting his son https://pluralistic.net/2022/08/22/allopathic-risk/#snitches-get-stitches

#1yrago Workplace surveillance is coming for you: #EmpricismWashing as a form of #WageTheft https://pluralistic.net/2022/08/21/great-taylors-ghost/#solidarity-or-bust

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#10yrsago The Internet Police: How Crime Went Online, and the Cops Followed https://memex.craphound.com/2013/08/19/the-internet-police-how-crime-went-online-and-the-cops-followed/

#1yrago The #BusinessRoundtable's #climate plan was killed by its arch-rival, the Business Roundtable https://pluralistic.net/2022/08/19/handmaidens-to-extinction/#deeds-not-words

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#1yrago This weekend, I watched a hacker #jailbreak a #JohnDeere #tractor live on stage https://pluralistic.net/2022/08/15/deere-in-headlights/#doh-a-deere

#1yrago How Democrats could win more elections: Do stuff. Make it timely. Tell people about it. https://pluralistic.net/2022/08/16/do-stuff-talk-about-it/#under-a-bushel

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#15yrsago Y: The Last Man, the triumphal last volume of a fantastic graphic novel https://memex.craphound.com/2008/08/11/y-the-last-man-the-triumphal-last-volume-of-a-fantastic-graphic-novel/

#10yrsago How the #DailyMail invented Britain’s bungling-est spy-agency https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/entries/3662a707-0af9-3149-963f-47bea720b460

#1yrago A dark money group is lying about #Medicare cut https://pluralistic.net/2022/08/11/rope-a-dope/#cowards-and-lies

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#5yrsago A #MachineLearning system trained on scholarly journals could correct #Wikipedia’s gendered under-representation problem https://www.wired.com/story/using-artificial-intelligence-to-fix-wikipedias-gender-problem/

#5yrsago 12% of music industry revenues go to musicians https://consequence.net/2018/08/musician-12-percent-43-billion-revenue/

#5yrsago Facebook throws an extra $10m at #Zuck’s personal security https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-02/protecting-mark-zuckerberg-just-got-more-expensive-for-facebook

#1yrago So You’ve Decided to Unfollow Me https://pluralistic.net/2022/08/08/locus-of-individuation/#publish-then-filter

#1yrago #Epson boobytrapped its #printers https://pluralistic.net/2022/08/07/inky-wretches/#epson-salty

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#5yrsago The UK’s largest #EstateAgency is on the verge of bankruptcy https://wolfstreet.com/2018/08/03/uk-housing-downturn-pushes-biggest-real-estate-agency-with-10000-employees-to-brink-shares-collapse/

#5yrsago America’s big cities are increasingly home to people living in their cars https://www.cbsnews.com/news/more-americans-are-living-in-their-vehicles-amid-high-housing-prices/

#1yrago #Uber's still not profitable: An effective wealth transfer of $2.8 billion from labor to capital in just three months https://pluralistic.net/2022/08/05/a-lousy-taxi/#a-giant-asterisk

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#5yrsago When #ZephyrTeachout is elected New York Attorney General, she’s gonna emolumentize Trump right out of the White House https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/03/nyregion/zephyr-teachout-is-running-for-attorney-general-but-her-real-target-is-trump.html

#5yrsago When should the press pay attention to trolls, lies and disinformation? https://datasociety.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/0-EXEC-SUMMARY_Oxygen_of_Amplification_DS.pdf

#5yrsago #WellsFargo: we stole houses and we’re being investigated for dirty low-income housing credits https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-03/wells-fargo-faces-u-s-probe-on-low-income-tax-credit-purchases

#1yrago A TRAP for workers: Oops, we re-invented #indenture https://pluralistic.net/2022/08/04/its-a-trap/#a-little-on-the-nose

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#5yrsago Wealthy investors are buying Long Beach’s old low-rent buildings and evicting everyone, making them homeless https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-fi-evictions/#

#5yrsago Facebook takes down a legitimate anti-far-right protest page, calls it “inauthentic” https://www.aaronswartzday.org/facebook-mistake-shutitdowndc/

#1yrago The high cost of "self-funded" Democrats: Rich dilletantes will not save us https://pluralistic.net/2022/08/02/oligarchs-r-us/#hooray-for-slugwell

#1yrago "View A SKU": A plan to turn Amazon into a dumb pipe https://pluralistic.net/2022/08/01/dumb-pipes/#original-asin

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#1yrago Spending $200b to relocated doomed communities will save $1T https://pluralistic.net/2022/07/29/managed-retreat/#reality-based-communities

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#1yrago "War Against All Puerto Ricans" https://pluralistic.net/2022/07/27/boricua/#que-viva-albizu

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#5yrsago #JamesComey: A freak of nature with the power to cloud liberals’ minds https://clickhole.com/step-right-up-and-feast-your-eyes-on-the-unfathomable-c-1825329399/

#1yrago #PeterThiel's evil, but he's not an "evil genius": How to criticize self-mythologizing villains https://pluralistic.net/2022/07/28/descartes-was-an-optimist/#ordinary-mediocrity

#1yrago Your computer is tormented by a wicked god: Bootkits are why we can't have nice things https://pluralistic.net/2022/07/28/descartes-was-an-optimist/#uh-oh

#1yrago Dashcam repo: Cruising the streets with a license plate camera to win debt-collector bounties https://pluralistic.net/2022/07/27/boricua/#looking-for-the-joke-with-a-microscope

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#5yrsago EFF has published a detailed guide to #RegulatingFacebook without destroying the internet https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/07/facing-facebook-data-portability-and-interoperability-are-anti-monopoly-medicine

#1yrago Sarah Gailey's "Just Like Home": A haunted house novel that made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up https://pluralistic.net/2022/07/25/can-you-hear-me-now/#crowder-house

#1yrago Why none of my books are available on #Audible: And why Amazon owes me $3,218.55 https://pluralistic.net/2022/07/25/can-you-hear-me-now/#acx-ripoff

#1yrago "A Half-Built Garden": Ruthanna Emrys's stunning First Contact novel https://pluralistic.net/2022/07/26/aislands/#dead-ringers

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#1yrago Boy, gig companies sure hire disastrously sloppy lawyers: $100m flushed down the drain in Massachusetts https://pluralistic.net/2022/06/15/simple-as-abc/#a-big-ask

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#1yrago Adventure Capitalism: A history of “#LibertarianExit” movements https://pluralistic.net/2022/06/14/this-way-to-the-egress/#terra-nullius

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#5yrsago #Tanzania’s independent websites, podcasts and video channels have gone dark as the country’s new #BloggerTax goes into effect https://globalvoices.org/2018/06/13/leading-independent-websites-go-dark-as-tanzanias-blogger-tax-deadline-approaches/

#5yrsago Ranking the most influential computer security papers ever published https://mlsec.org/topnotch/

#1yrago #RegulatoryCapture https://pluralistic.net/2022/06/13/public-choice/#ajit-pai-still-terrible

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#5yrsago Trump won’t stop tearing up official papers so the White House archives employ a staff to tape them back together for the National Archives https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/10/trump-papers-filing-system-635164

#5yrsago British army targeted “stressed” 16-year-olds on exam-results day with Facebook recruitment ads https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/british-army-recruit-soldiers-gcse-results-facebook-twitter-child-soliders-international-a8390961.html

#1yrago The #GeicoSTD story is the new McDonald's #HotCoffee story https://pluralistic.net/2022/06/12/hot-coffee/#mcgeico

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