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The dark forest and the cozy web (2020)
An illustrated diagram exposing the inner layers of the dark and cozy web
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The Effects of Noise on Health (2022)
As you were browsing something about your browser made us think you were a bot. There are a few reasons this might happen:
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Statement on EU-US Cooperation on Turning Public Opinion Against Encryption
The members of the Global Encryption Coalition’s Steering Committee issued a statement on the EU-US collaboration against encryption.
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UK Threatens End-to-End Encryption
In an open letter, seven secure messaging apps—including Signal and WhatsApp—point out that the UK’s Online Safety Bill could destroy end-to-end encryption: As currently drafted, the Bill could break end-to-end encryption,opening the door to routine, general and indiscriminate surveillance of personal messages of…
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Highway to Ruin: The crash of Southern Airways flight 242 (2022)
When a Southern Airways DC-9 loses both engines during a storm, an attempt to land it on a rural highway goes horribly wrong.
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LSD: Not Even Once
Taking LSD was a profound experience, one of the most important things in my life. […] – Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple
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The loophole that made cars in America so big
Here's why American cars and trucks are so big
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The Sudan crisis and the Sahel gold rush
Sudan is a pivotal link in the increasingly fragile and violent geopolitics of both the Sahel and the Red Sea/Horn of Africa regions.
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Fire Mark Zuckerberg
DO NOT SUBSCRIBE HERE subscribe at wheresyoured.at. Click to read DO NOT SUBSCRIBE HERE subscribe at wheresyoured.at, by Ed Zitron, a Substack publication.
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The Commission for Stopping Further Improvements
How to “embarrass and shackle the progress of improvement tomorrow by recording and registering as law the prejudices or errors of today”
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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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The EARN IT bill is back, seeking to scan our messages and photos
In a free society, people should not have their private correspondence constantly examined. U.S. lawmakers, we would hope, understand that individuals have the right to a private conversation without the government looking over their shoulder. So it’s dismaying to see a group of U.S. Senators...
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Lithuania: Students stop university from using only proprietary authentication
Vilnius Tech officials attempted to enforce the use of proprietary two factor identification (2FA) methods. Some students were concerned the methods would ...
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A Plea for Fairness for Non-Profit Developers of Open Source Software
ISC and NLnet Labs today sent a joint letter to the European Parliament committee working on the EU Cyber Resilience Act.
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Record labels panic as A.I. generated song becomes ‘hit single’
Welcome to the new world.
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When Interfaces Kill: What Happened to John Denver (1999)
How poor design killed John Denver dead.
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Why some researchers think I’m wrong about social media and mental illness
Six propositions for evaluating the evidence.
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Why don’t more people live close to friends?
A few theories why
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The Windows 11 Trash Party
Thomas Bandt was setting up a new computer for his kid, and it gave him the opportunity to really look at what Windows has become over the years. Here's what was showing by default in the Start menu: First, there was news about a mass shooting that had occurred
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Thought Examinations, Indoctrination Meetings and Struggle Sessions
On the mechanics of totalitarian terror in Mao's China.
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'Algebra for none' fails in San Francisco
The goal was equity. The result: Meh.Frustrated by high failure rates in eighth-grade algebra, San Francisco Unified decided in 2015 to delay algebra till ninth grade and place low, average and high achievers in the same classes. The goal was to improve achievement for black and Hispanic students, preparing more for…
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Alien Artefacts
The purpose of this blog post is to introduce the concept of alien artefacts 1 , a subcategory of legacy code. I use the term to describe particularly complicated and important pieces of software written by very smart engineers that are no longer working for the company—and thus not available to support it. The…
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The Military-Industrial Stock Buyback Complex
Why is the US military ceding ground to China? As a new DOD report shows, big defense contractors are middlemen whose main purpose is stock buybacks and dividends.
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Microsoft is using illegal bribes in the Middle East and Africa
After paying fines for violations in Hungary and South Africa, Microsoft agreed to stop the practice—but I have evidence that I believe shows they continue to violate the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act elsewhere.By Yasser ElabdI was recruited by Microsoft in 1998, and I helped bring the company’s products throughout…
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The least impactful way to spend $300M?
Buying status is as close to bad as a good act can be.