pluralistic, 7 months ago

#20yrsago Dashboard cig lighters are the new cup-holders https://money.cnn.com/2003/11/04/pf/autos/lighters/index.htm

#10yrsago #Regex Runner: a game to teach regular expressions to kids https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fs2ZchTUEvQ

#5yrsago #Unisyn voting machine manual instructs election officials to use and recycle weak passwords https://memex.craphound.com/2018/11/06/unisyn-voting-machine-manual-instructs-election-officials-to-use-and-recycle-weak-passwords/

#5yrsago Steganographically hiding secret messages in fake fingerprints https://memex.craphound.com/2018/11/06/steganographically-hiding-secret-messages-in-fake-fingerprints/

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pluralistic, 7 months ago

#5yrsago Australia’s 2015 copyright censorship system has failed, so they’re adding (lots) more censorship https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/11/sopaau-australia-testbed-worlds-most-extreme-copyright-blocks

#5yrsago Senator Wyden proposes 20 prison sentences for CEOs who lie about data collection and protection https://www.vice.com/en/article/8xjwjz/sen-ron-wyden-introduces-bill-that-would-send-ceos-to-jail-for-violating-consumer-privacy

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pluralistic, 7 months ago

#5yrsago Rob Ford-o-Lantern https://web.archive.org/web/20140128131045/https://twitter.com/RobboMills/status/396037274736934912/photo/1

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pluralistic, 7 months ago

#5yrsago #BramStoker’s reference materials for #Dracula discovered at the London Library https://www.londonlibrary.co.uk/dracula

#1yrago #Adobe steals your color https://pluralistic.net/2022/10/28/fade-to-black/#trust-the-process

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pluralistic, 7 months ago

#5yrsago Felons, Nazis: Michigan is occupied by an army of 3,000 armed, unregulated “#PoliceReservists” https://www.freep.com/story/news/investigations/2018/10/24/mcoles-michigan-reserve-cops/1353397002/

#1yrago Substituting economics for politics is a failure https://pluralistic.net/2022/10/27/economism/#what-would-i-do-if-i-were-a-horse

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pluralistic, 7 months ago

#5yrsago The #CopyrightOffice’s #DMCA-defanging is nice, but man, there are: So. Many. Hoops to jump through https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-wins-dmca-exemption-petitions-tinkering-echos-and-repairing-appliances-new

#5yrsago Chicagoans can actually play “Machine Learning President,” the election RPG https://www.polygon.com/2018/10/25/18010142/machine-learning-president-2020-election-larp

#5yrsago China Telecom has been using poisoned internet routes to suck up massive amounts of US and Canadian internet traffic https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1050&context=mca

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pluralistic, 7 months ago

#5yrsago Using science to fine-tune your #FakeBlood recipe https://www.wired.com/story/water-flour-syrup-dye-mastering-the-elements-of-fake-blood/

#1yrago #Uline's billions fund #VoterSuppression https://pluralistic.net/2022/10/26/boxed-in/#bircher-jr

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pluralistic, 7 months ago

#5yrsago Rep #SteveKing spent $18,000 at private GOP club, sent taxpayers the bill https://theintercept.com/2018/10/24/steve-king-spending-expense-account-taxpayer-private-club/

#5yrsago State surveillance company leaked its own data, its customers’ data, and its customers’ victims’ data https://www.vice.com/en/article/vbka8b/wolf-intelligence-leak-customer-victim-data-online

#5yrsago Facebook’s former security head: making Facebook moderate content will cement its dominance https://www.technologyreview.com/2018/10/23/139334/facebooks-ex-security-boss-asking-big-tech-to-police-hate-speech-is-a-dangerous-path/

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pluralistic, 7 months ago

#5yrsago The new #Pixel phone has a bizarre, obscure “opt out” #ArbitrationWaiver https://memex.craphound.com/2018/10/21/the-new-pixel-phone-has-a-bizarre-obscure-opt-out-arbitration-waiver/

#1yrago Backdooring a summarizerbot to shape opinion https://pluralistic.net/2022/10/21/let-me-summarize/#i-read-the-abstract

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pluralistic, 8 months ago

#5yrsago $100 bills outnumber $1s, and they’re stuffed in our mattresses https://qz.com/1395050/there-are-now-more-100-bills-than-1-bills-in-the-world

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pluralistic, 8 months ago

#5yrsago Facebook's #SpamFilter blocked the most popular articles about its 50m user breach https://memex.craphound.com/2018/09/29/facebooks-spam-filter-blocked-the-most-popular-articles-about-its-50m-user-breach/

#1yrago #Porn on #Tumblr is a complicated subject https://pluralistic.net/2022/09/29/go-nuts-show-nuts/#chokepoints

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pluralistic, 8 months ago

#20yrsago Feds snooping on Scotch distilleries for fear of #ChemicalWeapons conversions https://web.archive.org/web/20031008174312/http://www.thescotsman.co.uk/index.cfm?id=1070422003

#10yrsago Insurance industry pricing #ClimateRisk as a dead certainty https://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/15/business/insurers-stray-from-the-conservative-line-on-climate-change.html

#5yrsago Guy recreates #Disneyland’s Fantasyland in his basement https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZc6Aslo8Qc

#5yrsago Lies programmers believe about calendars https://yourcalendricalfallacyis.com

#5yrsago Detailed look at Google’s secret, censored, spying Chinese search tool https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-45653035

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pluralistic, 8 months ago

#5yrsago UK Tories created a secret anti-#Corbyn Twitter army, which promptly attacked Theresa May https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexspence/these-leaked-messages-show-how-tory-hq-used-a-twitter-army

#1yrago #FederalistSociety v #CorporatePersonhood: Corporations don't have #FirstAmendment rights except when they're making political donations, refusing to bake cakes, or blocking birth control https://pluralistic.net/2022/09/27/freeze-peach/#paxton

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pluralistic, 8 months ago

#15yrsago Corrupted Science: the history, cause, effect and state of #BadScience https://memex.craphound.com/2008/09/22/corrupted-science-the-history-cause-effect-and-state-of-bad-science/

#10yrsago #ChaosComputerClub claims it can unlock #Iphones with fake fingers/cloned fingerprints https://www.ccc.de/en/updates/2013/ccc-breaks-apple-touchid

#5yrsago Anonymous stock-market manipulators behind $20B+ of “mispricing” can be tracked by their writing styles https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3198384

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pluralistic, 8 months ago

#20yrsago #DeweyDecimal bullies go after theme hotel https://web.archive.org/web/20030901000000*/http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/ny-bc-ny--deweydecimaldefen0920sep20,0,3455241.story?coll=ny-ap-regional-wire</a.

#15yrsago #Publishing’s crises (incompletely) explained https://nymag.com/news/media/50279/

#10yrsago #DragonCon cosplayers who dressed up as Marriott carpet get a cease-and-desist for their fabric offering https://www.dailydot.com/parsec/fandom/marriott-hotel-carpet-cosplay-legal-action/

#5yrsago Search the databases of Trump political appointees’ resumes and discover their undisclosed #ConflictsOfInterest https://projects.propublica.org/trump-town/staffers/category/resumes

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pluralistic, 9 months ago

#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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pluralistic, 9 months ago

#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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pluralistic, 9 months ago

#5yrsago #CatholicLeague insists that it’s only #rape when #priests “penetrate” children https://web.archive.org/web/20180819033638/http://www.patheos.com/blogs/progressivesecularhumanist/2018/08/catholic-league-on-predatory-priests-its-not-rape-if-the-child-isnt-penetrated/

#5yrsago Criminals have perfected the art of taking over dead peoples’ online accounts https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2018/03/the-digital-entropy-of-death-what-happens-to-your-online-accounts-when-you-die

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pluralistic, 9 months ago

#5yrsago Excellent advice for new #LawStudents https://www.popehat.com/2018/08/16/some-friendly-advice-to-new-law-students/

#5yrsago Award-winning security research reveals a host of never-seen, currently unblockable web-tracking techniques https://wholeftopenthecookiejar.com/static/tpc-paper.pdf

#5yrsago How a civic hacker used open data to halve tickets at Chicago’s most confusing parking spot https://mchap.io/using-foia-data-and-unix-to-halve-major-source-of-parking-tickets.html

#5yrsago Truthful security disclosures should always be legal. Period. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/08/telling-truth-about-defects-technology-should-never-ever-ever-be-illegal-ever

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pluralistic, 10 months ago

#5yrsago Now that telcos have “abandoned rural America,” the only broadband comes from cable monopolies https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/07/comcast-or-charter-is-the-only-25mbps-choice-for-68-million-americans/

#5yrsago Leaked documents reveal Google’s plan to create a censored search engine for the Chinese market https://theintercept.com/2018/08/01/google-china-search-engine-censorship/

#5yrsago California home-buyers are increasingly reliant on parental gifts to afford their down-payments https://www.kpcc.org/news/2018/07/31/85109/where-do-people-get-money-to-buy-california-homes/

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pluralistic, 10 months ago

#5yrsago The worse your town was hit by #austerity, the more likely you were to vote for #Brexit https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/research/centres/cage/manage/publications/381-2018_fetzer.pdf

#5yrsago Trump wants to hand a $100,000,000,000 tax cut to the super-rich, without Congressional approval https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/30/us/politics/trump-tax-cuts-rich.html

#5yrsago The paradox of good government: the best stuff works well and is thus unnoticeable (and therefore easy to sell off) https://www.wired.com/story/the-danger-of-invisible-government-deeds/

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pluralistic, 10 months ago

#5yrsago Student blocks deportation of Afghan asylum-seeker by refusing to sit and let the plane take off https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/25/swedish-student-plane-protest-stops-mans-deportation-afghanistan

#5yrsago FB forced to drop “feature” that let advertisers block Black people, old people and women https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/24/17609178/facebook-racial-dicrimination-ad-targeting-washington-state-attorney-general-agreement

#5yrsago A/B testing tools have created a golden age of shitty statistical practices https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3204791

#5yrsago Rockstar: a programming language whose code takes the form of power ballads https://github.com/dylanbeattie/rockstar

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pluralistic, 10 months ago

#5yrsago #Liberaltarianism: Silicon Valley’s emerging ideology of “disruption with economic airbags” https://www.wired.com/story/political-education-silicon-valley/

#5yrsago Court orders carriers to remotely brick phones that have been smuggled into prisons https://apnews.com/article/ccd7b6429a7f43228f88c17ca469c92c

#5yrsago Voice assistants suck (empirically) https://www.nngroup.com/articles/intelligent-assistant-usability/

#5yrsago Illinois’s “anti-corruption” Republican governor handed out $300,000 in cash at a campaign rally https://www.politico.com/story/2018/07/23/illinois-governor-rauner-cash-giveaway-736244

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pluralistic, 10 months ago

#5yrsago America’s economic growth has come from subprime borrowing by the poorest 60% https://web.archive.org/web/20180724011828/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-economy-consumers-insight/mortgage-groupon-and-card-debt-how-the-bottom-half-bolsters-u-s-economy-idUSKBN1KD0EM

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pluralistic, 10 months ago

#5yrsago As Chinese #P2PLending #bubble bursts, “investors” mob Chinese sports-stadiums used as temporary processing centers https://www.ft.com/content/75e75628-8b27-11e8-bf9e-8771d5404543

#5yrsago Important victory in Public Resource’s tireless fight to make the law free for everyone https://www.techdirt.com/2018/07/20/appeals-court-tells-lower-court-to-consider-if-standards-incorporated-into-law-are-fair-use-could-have-done-more/

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