#5yrsago @bruces’s VR, Objective Reality, live life as an inert, resentful appliance https://www.wired.com/beyond-the-beyond/2018/08/automata-farm-objective-reality/

#5yrsago Trump wants to kill the #InternationalCriminalCourt to protect US #WarCriminals from prosecution for #Afghan crimes https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/10/trump-administration-to-take-tough-stance-against-the-hagues-icc.html

#5yrsago #BigTech is losing the public’s trust in just the same way that Big #Finance has https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/09/technology/internet-industry-hearings.html

#5yrsago Court nukes #Ontario’s Trumpian government bid to gut #TorontoCityCCuncil https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/judge-ruling-city-council-bill-election-1.4816664

#5yrsago Thanks to a Chinese and Korean fad, California’s wild #succulents are being poached and smuggled to Asia https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/2163157/californias-succulent-smugglers-plant-poachers

#5yrsago The sheriffs who cheered #Trump’s attack on the press have long histories of shady dealings, revealed by the press https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/08/sheriffs-donald-trump-media-scrutiny

#5yrsago Good news: California ends #CashBail! Bad news: It’s been replaced with a black-box #algorithm https://qz.com/1375820/california-just-replaced-cash-bail-with-algorithms

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#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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#10yrsago NSA broke into networks of Brazil’s president; state oil company, Google Brazil, and #SWIFT, for “economic” reasons https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-09-08/u-s-government-spied-on-brazil-s-petrobras-globo-tv-reports

#5yrsago #Motorola patents a robocop #AutonomousCar that brethalyzes, mirandizes you, calls your lawyer and collects your bail https://patents.google.com/patent/US10049419B1/en?oq=10049419

#5yrsago A #PublicBank for LA: instead of sending hundreds of millions to predatory finance, Angelenos’ taxes can fund community development https://whowhatwhy.org/economy/business/banking-on-the-public-option-will-la-lead-the-way-for-people-owned-banks/

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#5yrsago Philadelphia science museum employees accused of stealing $50,000 worth of bugs https://gizmodo.com/insectarium-owner-says-50-000-bug-heist-was-an-inside-1828693359

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#15yrsago Anti-#Scientology YouTube videos censored by the thousands https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/09/massive-takedown-anti-scientology-videos-youtube

#10yrsago Worst-paid Brits risk losing benefits for “not working enough” https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/sep/06/uk-lowest-paid-classed-not-working-enough

#5yrsago It’s been a year since #Equifax doxed America and nothing’s changed https://www.axios.com/2018/09/06/after-equifaxs-mega-breach-nothing-changed-1536241622

#5yrsago The most popular “privacy” tool in Apple’s Mac App Store was stealing users’ browsing history and sending it to China https://objective-see.org/blog/blog_0x37.html

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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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#20yrsago #Doonesbury references masturbation, America’s editors surrender https://web.archive.org/web/20030907031050/http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2003/09/05/trudeau/index_np.html

#15yrsago Britain spends more on cops, locks up more people than any other developed nation https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2008/sep/07/justice.police

#10yrsago 90 percent of #Tor keys can be broken by #NSA: what does it mean? https://memex.craphound.com/2013/09/07/90-percent-of-tor-keys-can-be-broken-by-nsa-what-does-it-mean/

#10yrsago Lego robot that strips #DRM off #Kindle books https://allthingsd.com/20130906/how-a-man-in-austria-used-legos-to-hack-amazons-kindle-e-book-security/

#5yrsago How to: beat Chinese social media image-filtering https://citizenlab.ca/2018/08/cant-picture-this-an-analysis-of-image-filtering-on-wechat-moments/

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#5yrsago This Nov, Florida may reverse a century of mass Black #disenfranchisement https://theintercept.com/2018/09/06/florida-voting-rights-restoration-felons/

#5yrsago 6 days until the EU votes on an extinction-level event for the internet: here’s what they’ll debate https://felixreda.eu/2018/09/copyright-showdown/

#5yrsago IBM developed #NYPD #surveillance tools that let cops pick targets based on #SkinColor https://theintercept.com/2018/09/06/nypd-surveillance-camera-skin-tone-search/

#5yrsago Trump’s Interior Secretary is now blacking out nearly all details of his calendar https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/06/politics/interior-secretary-ryan-zinke-calendars-details-missing/index.html

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#10yrsago RIP, Ann “AC” Crispin http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/015419.html

#10yrsago UK #censorwall bans VPNs https://torrentfreak.com/uk-internet-filter-blocks-vpns-australia-to-follow-soon-130905/

#5yrsago Don’t just fine #BigTech for abuses; instead, cut them down to size https://locusmag.com/2018/09/cory-doctorow-big-tech-we-can-do-better-than-constitutional-monarchies/

#5yrsago LA libraries replace fines for young readers with in-library “read-offs” https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-edu-no-library-fines-20171225-story.html

#5yrsago “#FreeMarket” conservatives, aghast at Big Tech’s hostility, become overnight Roosevelt-style #trustbusters https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/09/doj-we-will-examine-social-media-firms-that-may-be-hurting-competition/

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#5yrsago The Democratic Party is surging thanks to leftist policies, but its leadership are convinced they have to stop it https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-election-progressives/

#5yrsago Prisoners in 17 states are on #strike, demanding an end to prison slavery and basic human justice https://theintercept.com/2018/08/21/prison-strike-2018-attica/

#5yrsago “Bad health care has killed more American artists than I can list” https://austinkleon.com/2018/08/18/single-issue-voter/

#5yrsago Britain is a #MoneyLaunderer’s paradise, Part LXII https://www.buzzfeed.com/janebradley/shell-companies-money-laundering-uk-paul-manafort

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#10yrsago #LOVEINT: #NSA spooks illegally stalking their romantic interests https://www.wsj.com/articles/BL-WB-40005

#10yrsago Why it matters that you can’t own an electronic copy of the #OxfordEnglishDictionary https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/aug/23/oxford-english-dictionary-future-digitally

#5yrsago Law and Order Republicans have suddenly discovered the undeniable injustice of “flipped” prosecution witnesses https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/yes-witnesses-flipping-does-corrupt-justice-but-not-because-theyre-rats/2018/08/23/c88871c4-a71e-11e8-a656-943eefab5daf_story.html

#5yrsago #TSA racially profiles Muslim woman, makes her show her bloody sanitary towel https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/i-may-have-to-quit-harvard--because-the-tsa-wont-stop-searching-me/2018/08/14/0dbdbb72-9a55-11e8-b55e-5002300ef004_story.html

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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 From #Tahrir to Trump: how the internet became the dictators’ home turf https://www.technologyreview.com/2018/08/14/240325/how-social-media-took-us-from-tahrir-square-to-donald-trump/

#5yrsago Apple removes Facebook’s deceptive, surveillant VPN from the App Store https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/22/apple-removes-facebook-onavo-app-from-app-store.html

#5yrsago LA County will switch to all #OpenSource vote-counting machines https://www.latimes.com/politics/essential/la-pol-ca-essential-politics-may-2018-htmlstory.html

#5yrsago Santa Clara fire department: Verizon’s pants are on fire https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/08/fire-dept-rejects-verizons-customer-support-mistake-excuse-for-throttling/

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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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#5yrsago Verizon to fire department: you’re exceeding your bandwidth while you fight wildfires, so we’re throttling you https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/08/verizon-throttled-fire-departments-unlimited-data-during-calif-wildfire/

#5yrsago Here’s the funniest, most scathing, most informative and most useful talk on #AIAndSecurity https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity18/presentation/mickens

#5yrsago #ZephyrTeachout wins the New York Times’s endorsement for Attorney General of New York State https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/19/opinion/zephyr-teachout-new-york-attorney-general.html

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#5yrsago Amazon’s cloud business leads American companies in shifting its electric cost to taxpayers https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-20/amazon-isn-t-paying-its-electric-bills-you-might-be

#5yrsago Touring the haunting ruins of abandoned #SecondLife university campuses https://splinternews.com/we-took-a-tour-of-the-abandoned-college-campuses-of-sec-1793849944

#5yrsago #ElizabethWarren’s anti-#corruption bill bans foreign lobbyists, subjects domestic lobbyists to strong oversight https://theintercept.com/2018/08/21/elizabeth-warren-unveils-radical-anti-corruption-platform/

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#5yrsago The peculiar hazards of #megaprojects https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2424835

#5yrsago The #ClownEgg Register: photos of the painstakingly painted eggs that English clowns stake their faces on https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/8/20/17719884/clown-egg-register-luke-stephenson-helen-champion

#5yrsago How much would #UniversalHealthCare really cost? https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2018/08/calculate-costs-medicareforall-properly.html

#5yrsago 22 states jointly petition the Federal Circuit appeals court to reinstate #NetNeutrality https://web.archive.org/web/20181109180138/https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/ag-schneiderman-files-suit-stop-illegal-rollback-net-neutrality

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#5yrsago #Taiwan’s legal #crowdsourcing tool is working surprisingly well to resolve thorny legislative problems https://www.technologyreview.com/2018/08/21/240284/the-simple-but-ingenious-system-taiwan-uses-to-crowdsource-its-laws/

#5yrsago The true story of #Notpetya: a Russian cyberweapon that escaped and did $10B in worldwide damage https://www.wired.com/story/notpetya-cyberattack-ukraine-russia-code-crashed-the-world/

#5yrsago European lawmaker writes post warning about dangers of automatic #CopyrightFilters, which is taken down by an automatic copyright filter https://www.techdirt.com/2018/08/21/automated-filter-removed-parliament-members-article-warning-about-censorship-automated-filters/

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#10yrsago EFF and #PublicResource fight back against copyrighted, paywalled laws https://www.eff.org/press/releases/publicresourceorg-fights-back-against-copyright-lawsuit

#10yrsago Monster and Chips: fun, gross-out chapter books https://memex.craphound.com/2013/08/21/monster-and-chips-fun-gross-out-chapter-books/

#5yrsago All versions of #Openssh share a critical vulnerability, including embedded code that will never be updated https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/vulnerability-affects-all-openssh-versions-released-in-the-past-two-decades/

#5yrsago Vulnerabilities in smart electric plugs give attackers a staging point for scanning and attacking your whole network https://www.theregister.com/2018/08/21/mcafee_flaws_smartplugs/

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