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Shanghai video overwhelms Chinese censor, gets 400M views
A peek behind the curtain into the struggles of the Chinese censorship office
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 8,148 posts.
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Some of the forces blocking new ideas in science
Some of the forces blocking really new ideas in science
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No one expects young men to do anything and they are responding by doing nothing
Garbage in garbage out
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The candy stores of Oxford Street
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A simple explanation of how money moves around the banking system (2013)
Twitter went mad last week because somebody had transferred almost $150m in a single Bitcoin transaction. This tweet was typical: There was much comment about how expensive or difficult this would …
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Crypto, the Left and Technofeudalism
Rare is the person who could expertly comment – in a single interview! – on the rise of NFTs and their origins in the virtual worlds of gaming, the logic of the emerging regime of techno-feudalism, and the folly of El Salvador’s Bitcoin-heavy negotiating tactics with the IMF. Luckily, we have found this person in […]
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EU DSA: Industry and government interests prevail over citizens’ digital rights
After 16 hours of discussion, negotiators from the European Parliament and EU governments have just made deal on a new EU Digital Services Act. Pirate Party MEP Patrick Breyer sat at the negotiating table as Rapporteur for the Committee on Civil Liberties (LIBE) and summarises: "We were able to p
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“Multiple personality disorder” probably doesn't exist
TikTok culture can be incredibly toxic, but those on the left refuse to ever condemn it for fear of echoing conservatives
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What would open sourcing the Twitter algorithm actually look like?
What would “open sourcing the Twitter algorithm” actually look like? In Part 1 of this series, we focus on understanding how Twitter’s algorithmic feed works under the hood.
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I can't let go of “The Dunning-Kruger Effect is Autocorrelation”
Organizing my thoughts regarding an argument about the Dunning-Kruger study and statistics in general
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Thatcher killed the UK’s superfast broadband before it even existed
Webreturn web design & development, Scotland2022266 points216 commentsSociety, Policy & Culture details
Grrrh! I could get really annoyed about this! Living and working in rural Stirlingshire has its advantages for sure, but fast broadband is not one of them.
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Former officials say big tech monopoly power is vital to national security
When the U.S. security state announces that Big Tech's centralized censorship power must be preserved, we should ask what this reveals about whom this regime serves.
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Books Become Games
Simulation, Gamification, and the Rise of Algorithmic Capitalism
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The unreasonable fight for municipal broadband
I love Longmont’s municipal broadband, but we had to fight Comcast every step of the way to get it.
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On anti-crypto toxicity
Crypto is known for its toxicity towards outsiders. Similar attitudes are emerging from some who oppose crypto.
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Everyone gets numbers wrong, even the New York Times
It's a shortcut to understanding, and there are no shortcuts
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Universal's Audible Watermark (2012)
This is my personal blog. The views expressed on this page are mine alone. Update, April 8, 2013: Can you hear it? Take the watermark listening test. Update, January 14, 2015: Check out the results of the listening test. A while ago, I wrote about my confusion regarding Weird Spotify Compression Artifacts. It turns…
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Six companies control 90% of what you read, watch, and hear
Six companies control 90% of what you read, watch, and hear. Here's why that's dangerous.
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On leaving Turkey (2021)
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Vampire Attack Twitter
Here’s a simple way to take over Twitter for way less than $43 billion dollars.
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Notable items missing from English Wikipedia
From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus
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The silenced deaths of the Shanghai 2022 lockdown
This is a different type of post. Here, instead of presenting the voice of a single person, I have translated selected stories shared on Weibo and elsewhere on the Chinese Internet—or more fittingl…
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Psychedelics and mental illness
The science of psychedelics is everywhere – but we should treat it with serious scepticism
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An argument for a return to Web 1.0
The web was established with the best of intentions. The basic idea was that if everyone could share their thoughts and ideas with the world, the best ones would be vetted and float to the top. The bad ones would be ignored and pushed to the bottom.
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The New York Times has requested that I shut the archive down
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