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Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance2022123 points95 commentsTech Industry & Business details
New Lawsuit Argues that Directors Failed to Consider Portfolio Impacts of Corporate Decisions On Monday, October 3, a class action was filed in the ...
As more and more people are asking me about Mastodon I felt a need for a picture to point at, showcasing how the software known as Mastodon fits into the much larger concept of the Fediverse. I made this infographic to help myself and others explain the many different use-
nolan caudill's internet house
Payment processors hostile to freedom of expression hate me for this one weird trick!!
An overview of net migration in the UK – defined as the difference between immigration and emigration of people moving for at least a year.
I’ve been a Twitter user and fan since 2007. With Twitter’s future looking a bit grim, I started looking around if there’s another place to go.
How does it feel to be turned into an AI image model? To find out, I opened a door to the multiverse and interviewed the creator and unwilling subject of a controversial DreamBooth model.
...but decentralization is right behind it.
It's myth-busting time! The world's richest and largest city is cheaper and roomier than you think.
Sweet, sweet humidity.
Meta deserves a bit of a discount off of its recent highs, but a number of myths about its business have caused the market to over-react.
This is a scan/OCR of Exhibits H and J from the Twitter v. Musk case, with some of the conversations de-interleaved and of course converted from a fuzzy scan to text to make for easier reading.
“ Few societies can so conspicuously lack those judicial, administrative, and political procedures which lie at the heart of the western conception of government. The traditional northern Somali political system has no chiefs to run it and no formal judiciary to control it. Men are divided amongst political units…
As you might remember from a few months ago , there was a story going around that some economists just looooved to tell. The story had all sorts of attributes that you might expect would make economists happy , including a paradox in which apparently bad behavior (whipping people to get them to work harder) was…
We're making scientists and ghost-hunters kiss
Explore the diversity of wildlife across the planet. What are species threatened with? What can we do to prevent biodiversity loss?
In November of 2021, an anonymous source leaked 600 hours of police aerial surveillance footage to the non-profit transparency organization Distributed Denial of Secrets .
Two weeks ago Paypal introduced language into its terms and conditions that allowed them to withdraw $2500 from your account for each time they believed you "promot[ed] misinformation" or you sent, posted or published "messages, content, or materials that, in PayPal’s sole discretion, (a) are harmful, obscene…
More and more websites have added an option to say “no” to cookies and other tracking- as foreseen by the GDPR. Where did this trend come from?
Some claims that test scores don’t predict college success don’t add up.
If you've clicked on the links, you've probably noticed a pattern: they are all Twitter threads. And Twitter threads are an absolute abomination.
Bumble has made an open-source version of our Private Detector™ A.I. technology available on GitHub.
Or, how we lose knowledge and technologies. And what we can do about it.
