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Burrito Now, Pay Later
Liquid Lunches And The Serious Case for BNPL Securitization
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 8,148 posts.
Society, Policy & Culture
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Not a three-year-old chimney sweep (2022)
This footage has gone viral online with the claim that it shows an 3 year old chimney sweep on the job: Millions of people saw the footage, shared it online an were upset by it, as they should be&#…
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The dark side of account bans
I recently lost my Facebook account for two months, and was significantly cut off from certain aspects of society during that time. This is the dark side of account bans.
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How friction is being redistributed in today's economy
AI Chatbots, Newark, and the West Village Girls
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How to start a school with your friends
We've taught over 100 classes to over 1000 students 🤓
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Mississippi Can't Possibly Have Good Schools
And yet it does. Are we ready to deal?
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Possibly a Serious Possibility
How 'lurking weasel' phrases skewed Cold War intelligence
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No Instagram, no privacy
This means that I am oblivious to all of my friends’ fun broadcasted on Instagram. I don’t feel pressured either to update the abstract audience of everyone I ever connected with online, on where I am, what I am doing or who I am hanging out with.
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How Obama’s BlackBerry got secured (2013)
A weblog about Signals Intelligence, Communications Security and top level telecommunications equipment
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Brian Eno's Theory of Democracy
Organizing and generating variety in politics
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“An independent journalist” who won't remain nameless
Too many legacy outlets still refuse to credit indie journos. Enough is enough.
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Accountability Sinks
Accountability engineering in institution design
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Mac app launches slowed by malware scan (2024)
I've always attributed slow Xcode launches to Xcode simply sucking, but I've noticed that the FileMerge app frequently launches slowly too. When this happens, the app can take a dozen bounces in the Dock before finally opening. FileMerge resides in the folder Xcode.app/Contents/Applications/ within the Xcode bundle…
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Judge rules Apple executive lied under oath, makes criminal contempt referral
Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers rebuked the phone giant, opened the app store, and made a criminal contempt referral to an Apple executive for lying under oath. Plus, a bad antitrust bill goes down.
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How the US defense secretary circumvents official DoD communications equipment
A weblog about Signals Intelligence, Communications Security and top level telecommunications equipment
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Someone at YouTube needs glasses
Opened YouTube and was greeted with this abomination:
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I can't pay rent because devs just don't care
Rent's due today, thank heavens I just got paid. I don't set up standing orders, got burned once with unarranged overdraft fees, that wasn't a good mont...
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My sourdough starter has twins
A couple of years ago, I participated in a study of the HealthFerm Citizen Science group in …
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Knowledge-based society, my ass
I've studied the effects of electromagnetic fields on patients with carotid stent implants during my PhD. I've never talked with any patient nor seen any such medical devices even to this day, fifteen years later.
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East German Stasi Tactics – Zersetzung (2021)
A look at the experiences of activists in East Germany (GDR) dealing with Stasi informants and infiltration before the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
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We need more optimistic science fiction
We cannot create a better world if we cannot imagine it.
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The coming knowledge-work supply-chain crisis
"Humans. Here they are. Bottleneck, bottleneck. Hi, good to see you. And some of you are terrified. You're going to be even bigger bottlenecks." - Tyler Cowen
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Mark Zuckerberg personally lost the Facebook antitrust case
It's damned hard to prove an antitrust case: so often, the prosecution has to prove that the company intended to crush competition, and/or that they raised prices or reduced quality because they knew they didn't have to fear competitors.
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I wrote a book called “Crap Towns”. It seemed funny at the time
In 2003, I wrote a book called Crap Towns. It seemed funny at the time. But plenty of people say it would not be possible to publish it today. Is that a problem?
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Reading RSS content is a skilled activity
I've long had a fraught relationship with ToDo lists, because they're very much a double edged sword, but I'm convinced that much of the problem is t ...
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Street address errors in Google Maps
(or actually they do, but they don’t use this knowledge effectively)Update, April 26, 2025: the address fix for W 6th Ave is live, mostly. Going forward I wish that Google Maps would make it harder…
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Manufactured consensus on x.com
How algorithm-driven influence quietly replaces genuine discourse with engineered popularity.