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SouthwestAirlines' Meltdown Shows How Corporations Pit Consumers Against Workers
Our system is set up to create mutual antagonism between members of the working class. Meanwhile, faceless corporate executives remain shielded like mob bosses.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 700 posts.
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Fetish tabooness vs. popularity
~250 fetishes, graphed for your pleasure
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Can a Tarot card reading be defamatory?
Crazed Tik-Toker's Tirade Against University Professor Raises Fact v. Opinion Issue
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Privacy is ok
I hate to write a piece just saying Someone Is Wrong On The Internet. But Reid Blackman’s The Signal App and the Danger of Privacy at All Costs (in the NYTimes , forsooth) is not just wrong but dangerously misleading. I haven’t seen a compact explainer on why, so here goes.
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Barnes and Noble's surprising turnaround
Digital platforms are struggling, meanwhile a 136-year-old book retailer is growing again. But why?
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I'm done with Google
My auntie is in hospital for christmas this year. It's been identified as flu, but it seriously affected her because she has a lot of heath problems inclu...
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2022 was the year of Linux on the Desktop?
It finally happened!
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Tech journalism doesn’t know what to do with Mastodon
What happens when innovation doesn’t fit the usual narratives?
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Eight studies reveal a bias in human imagination
Eight studies reveal a (possibly universal) bias in human imagination
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Stanford hates fun
Stanford hates fun is the title of the second Stanford article in the Wall Street Journal this week. (On the first, Stanford's guide to acceptable words , enough said already.)
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“News is what somebody does not want you to print – all the rest is advertising”
George Orwell? Alfred Harmsworth? William Randolph Hearst? L. E. Edwardson? Robert W. Sawyer? Mark Rhea Byers? Brian R. Roberts? Malcolm Muggeridge? Katharine Graham? Lord Rothermere? Lord Northcliffe? Anonymous?
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Things to argue about over the holidays instead of politics
Report back on how it goes
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How we slowed the subway down
Every day, hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers lurch into dusty darkness as their Manhattan-bound 4 or 5 train leaves Brooklyn’s Franklin Avenue station. As the blurred fluorescence of the station…
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OpenAI's Woke Catechism
How a Few Activists Made ChatGPT Deny Basic Science
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Against All Applications
Imagining better ways of picking people
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Personal newsletters as a calmer alternative to social networks
During the pandemic, I deleted most of my social media accounts. While social networks started as a great way to stay in touch - the websites evolved into addic...
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We are drowning in information while starving for wisdom (2021)
The title of this post is a quote from Edward O. Wilson’s book ‘Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge’. For example, if you search for scientific papers about “Entropy” …
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Protocols, not platforms
Does everybody get to coin one maxim in their lives? If so, here’s mine: Everything gets worse. Let’s say you’re shopping at the grocery, when you notice a new food product. It competes directly with
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Did insurance fire brigades let uninsured buildings burn?
This paper derives from a short, time-bound, review of the literature, which sought to investigate the question “Did Insurance Fire Brigades let uninsured buildings burn?”. The question is set in the context of property fire insurance in London, from 1680. The situation was possibly comparable with other large British…
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Why fusion will never happen (2012)
I like fusion, really. I’ve talked to some of luminaries that work in the field, they’re great people. I love the technology and the physics behind it. But fusion as a power source is n…
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Trump's Trading Card Grift Is Worse Than You Think
Shell companies, rubbing elbows with international criminals, and worse in his scam of scams
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Nuclear power is too slow
One common and plausible argument against nuclear power is that it is too slow.
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The rise and fall of peer review
Why the greatest scientific experiment in history failed, and why that's a great thing
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No, Google did not hike the price of a .dev domain from $12 to $850
But domain pricing is very confusing. Let's demystify it.
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Paul Le Roux is Satoshi?
attached is signature proof
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How to rebuild social media on top of RSS
We should look for ways to make reading, publishing, and community services all play nicely together. I'm calling this model "the unbundled web," and I think RSS should be the primary method of interop.
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Balloon framing is worse-is-better (2021)
Today in the US, most houses and apartments are built using light framed wood construction. This system consists of load bearing walls made from 2x4s or 2x6s, which support a wood-framed floor or roof - usually either trusses, joists, or engineered i-joists. This system is a variant of a framing style known as balloon…