#10yrsago @eff files formal objection against #DRM’s inclusion in #HTML5 https://www.eff.org/pages/drm/w3c-formal-objection-html-wg

#10yrsago Survivorship bias and electronic publishing: practically no one is making any money https://web.archive.org/web/20130607203005/https://tobiasbuckell.com/2013/05/27/survivorship-bias-why-90-of-the-advice-about-writing-is-bullshit-right-now/

#5yrsago #ScottPruitt’s #EPA has opened secret backchannels to the climate denial industry to find “scientists” and other “experts” https://apnews.com/article/north-america-ap-top-news-environment-climate-change-politics-64cd37b0503440c0b92e6ca075f87dd4

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#5yrsago Prominent #AI researchers call the entire field “alchemy” https://www.science.org/content/article/ai-researchers-allege-machine-learning-alchemy

#5yrsago Scandal-haunted #ScottPruitt’s staffers are shopping dirt on Ryan Zinke to create a distraction https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/05/epa-leaks/559607/

#5yrsago Tech conferences are relocating from the USA to Canada to attract attendees and speakers who don’t want to come to Trump’s America https://financialpost.com/technology/tech-conferences-moving-north-as-trump-policies-turn-off-attendees

#1yrago The eye-glazing scam of #MedicareDrugPlans https://pluralistic.net/2022/05/04/house-always-wins/#are-you-on-drugs

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#5yrsago #ScottPruitt can’t answer a yes-or-no question to save his life (or even his ass) https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/26/17286684/scott-pruitt-hearings-epa-congress-ethics-scandals-questions

#1yrago Laura Jean McKay's "The Animals in That Country": A brilliant debut novel of too much understanding https://pluralistic.net/2022/04/27/im-a-backdoor-man/#doolittle

#1yrago How police backdoors for online services let sextortionists target children https://pluralistic.net/2022/04/27/im-a-backdoor-man/#pedo-backdoor

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But while Obama and other "normal" pols sketched their corruption with a fine-tipped pen, making the overall shape hard to discern, Trump scrawled large, crude, unmissable figures with a fisted Sharpie. Remember #ScottPruitt, the disgraced Trump #EPA who wanted to abolish the EPA? Pruitt was was such a colossal asshole that even the lobbyists who'd been bribing him with free housing actually *evicted him*:

https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/06/politics/pruitt-trump/index.html

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#5yrsago #ScottPruitt is such a colossal asshole that the lobbyists who were bribing him with nearly-free lodgings evicted him https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/06/politics/pruitt-trump/index.html

#5yrsago GOP Congressgangster #RalphNorman does not regret pulling a loaded gun on constituents from “Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense” https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2018/04/06/lawmaker-pulls-out-loaded-gun-during-meeting-with-constituents/

#1yrago The Ed Sheeran problem, or, how the record industry got what it asked for https://pluralistic.net/2022/04/08/oh-why/#two-notes-and-running

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#AndrewWheeler wants to convince us that he is a more moderate, ethical leader for the #EPA than his predecessor #ScottPruitt. Don't be fooled. Sign to block his confirmation as @EPA chief: https://act.credoaction.com/sign/reject-wheeler-epa-2 via @CREDOMobile #politics #USofA

#AndrewWheeler wants to convince us that he is a more moderate, ethical leader for the #EPA than his predecessor #ScottPruitt. Don't be fooled. Sign to block his confirmation as @EPA chief: https://act.credoaction.com/sign/reject-wheeler-epa via @CREDOMobile #politics #environment #USofA

I may be missing something here but isn't having a coal industry lobbyist run the #EPA about as scandalous in itself as anything #ScottPruitt did? #UpIsDown #BlackIsWhite