pluralistic, 6 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

#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

#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, 8 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

#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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pluralistic, 9 months ago

#15yrsago Scamorama: book explains how to get into #scambaiting as a hobby https://memex.craphound.com/2008/08/15/scamorama-book-explains-how-to-get-into-scambaiting-as-a-hobby/

#10yrsago #NSA leaks trigger steep rise in ad/third-party-cookie blocking https://www.adweek.com/performance-marketing/study-nsa-scandal-still-setting-privacy-alarm-bells-among-consumers-151835/

#10yrsago On slagging off other writers’ books https://floggingbabel.blogspot.com/2013/08/on-my-refusal-to-mock-my-brothers-and.html

#10yrsago Decoding NSA doublespeak https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/08/guide-deceptions-word-games-obfuscations-officials-use-mislead-public-about-nsa

#10yrsago Dear airline execs: crowing about new fees and price hikes before your merger makes the DoJ mad https://consumerist.com/2013/08/14/past-statements-about-moneymaking-mergers-returning-to-bite-airline-execs-in-the-behind/

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pluralistic, 9 months ago

#10yrsago #NYPD #StopAndFrisk procedure ruled unconstitutional https://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/13/nyregion/stop-and-frisk-practice-violated-rights-judge-rules.html

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pluralistic, 9 months ago

#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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pluralistic, 9 months ago

#20yrsago #Linksys using #GPL code, not releasing modifications https://web.archive.org/web/20031008144210/http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/3580

#15yrsago Public Knowledge’s “#SelectableOutputControl” video https://publicknowledge.org/soc-in-context/

#10yrsago Google flips on @NetNeutrality: all pirates want to be admirals https://www.wired.com/2013/07/google-neutrality/

#10yrsago Cyber-crooks mail heroin to @briankrebs https://krebsonsecurity.com/2013/07/mail-from-the-velvet-cybercrime-underground/

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pluralistic, 9 months ago

#10yrsago Bribery: pro-#NSA Congressional voters got twice the defense industry campaign contributions https://www.wired.com/2013/07/money-nsa-vote/

#10yrsago NSA college recruiting ad, 1976 https://www.flickr.com/photos/joeholmes/9384778371/lightbox/

#10yrsago NV court marshal sexually assaults woman, then arrests her for complaining while judge looks on https://web.archive.org/web/20130726035500/https://www.8newsnow.com/story/21557505/cover-up-alleged-in-clark-clark-family-court

#10yrsago Zero tolerance schools and cops: kids are not perps https://www.techdirt.com/2013/07/26/zero-tolerance-policies-put-students-hands-bad-cops/

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pluralistic, 10 months ago

#10yrsago Hating #Millennials – the prejudice you’re allowed to boast about https://www.cnn.com/2013/07/09/opinion/bors-millenial-comic-strip

#5yrsago #TrademarkTroll who claims to own “Dragon Slayer” now wants exclusive rights to book covers where someone is holding a weapon https://memex.craphound.com/2018/07/19/trademark-troll-who-claims-to-own-dragon-slayer-now-wants-exclusive-rights-to-book-covers-where-someone-is-holding-a-weapon/

#5yrsago London luxury housing market bubble bursts: 39% of sales last quarter were to deep discount wholesalers making bulk buys https://app.ft.com/content/99072e92-8a6b-11e8-bf9e-8771d5404543.html

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pluralistic, 10 months ago

#15yrsago Pedo-crazed parents call father a “pervert” for photographing his own children at a park https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1035315/Father-branded-pervert--photographing-children-public-park.html

#10yrsago #Saga: visually stunning, sweet and exciting #SpaceOpera comic from Brian “Y: The Last Man” Vaughan https://memex.craphound.com/2013/07/15/saga-visually-stunning-sweet-and-exciting-space-opera-comic-from-brian-y-the-last-man-vaughan/

#5yrsago #BenCarson wants to raise rents on #PublicHousing tenants by 300%+, attacking elderly, people with disabilities and working poor https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/social-issues/ben-carson-says-hes-raising-rents-to-put-poor-americans-to-work--but-in-the-district-the-majority-are-either-elderly-or-disabled-or-already-work/2018/07/13/b85866a0-8127-11e8-b658-4f4d2a1aeef1_story.html?noredirect=on

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pluralistic, 10 months ago

#10yrsago Lunch with the Financial Times https://www.ft.com/content/9a344ea2-e8af-11e2-aead-00144feabdc0#axzz2YuWbWNsa

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pluralistic, 10 months ago

#10yrsago The Littlest Pirate King https://memex.craphound.com/2013/07/11/the-littlest-pirate-king/

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pluralistic, 11 months ago

#10yrsago Turkish EU minister: protesters will be treated as terrorists https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/police-to-consider-protesters-in-istanbuls-taksim-square-terror-organization-members-minister-48875

#5yrsago Adventure House: the sequel to the #HauntedMansion that never was https://passport2dreams.blogspot.com/2018/06/marc-davis-adventure-house.html

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