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Radio users reminded not to use radios in crimes
The American Radio Relay League (ARRL) is the national association for amateur radio, connecting hams around the U.S. with news, information and resources.
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It’s not a self-driving car unless you can sleep in it
GROUND TRUTH is an inside look at the development and deployment of self-driving technology, from the simulation labs to city streets.
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About Three-in-Ten U.S. Adults Are Now Religiously Unaffiliated
Self-identified Christians make up 63% of the U.S. population in 2021, down from 75% a decade ago.
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Apophenia: How the Internet Transforms the Individual into a Conspiracy of One
How the Internet Transforms the Individual into a Conspiracy of One
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Study shows class bias in hiring based on few seconds of speech
Economic inequality in hiring is in part driven by snap perceptions of job applicants’ speech patterns, new Yale research shows.
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The Privacy Lesson of 9/11: Mass Surveillance Is Not the Way Forward
Congress must ensure that the next generation of Americans is able to speak and associate freely, without fear of surveillance.
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Student Surveillance Vendor Proctorio Files SLAPP Lawsuit to Silence a Critic
During the pandemic, a dangerous business has prospered: invading students’ privacy with proctoring software and apps. In the last year, we’ve seen universities compel students to download apps that collect their face images, driver’s license data, and network information. Students who want to move...
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Apple wants to redefine what it means to violate your privacy. We mustn’t let it
Violation of privacy by proxy is still violation of privacy.
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Facebook’s Widely Viewed Content Report is strange
According to new data, the most popular post on Facebook is a business that sells golfing dates with former Green Bay Packers players. What?!
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How many people have Q Clearance?
Ever wonder how many people currently have the enigmatic Q Clearance, the required security clearance for access to nuclear secrets? Well, I found out.
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Animal testing is exploitative and largely ineffective
Texts on this and that.
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Taxes Are for the Little People
If you wanna do crimes, make them incredibly complicated and technical. Like the hustlers that came into the bookstore I worked at and spun these long-ass stories about why they needed money for a Greyhound ticket home.
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If AT&T Had Managed the Phone Business Like Google
Imagine a Silicon Valley strategy implemented with the United States phone system 100 years ago. It's not a pretty picture.
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The handshake emoji is more complicated than you might think
The multi-skin toned handshake emoji reveals that it is more than a routine gesture
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Clinging Desperately to a Metaphor (2011)
September 2011 Unless the people benefit, economic growth is a subsidy for the rich. —Richard Falk, “Post-Mubarak Revolutionary Chances,” Al Jazeera , 22 Feb. 2011 It’s as silly for me to write about economics as it would be for most economists to write about the use of enjambment in iambic p
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Excess Deaths in 2020
Update Updated on April 29th, 2021. The CDC continues to update its counts of deaths by cause for 2020 as data comes in from the jurisdictions that report to it. The data are by now fairly complete, though there are still significant gaps in several states due to delayed reporting. North Carolina, in particular, has…
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The sea people: Alexander the Great trod in the footsteps of forgotten Greeks
Alexander the Great tread in the footsteps of forgotten Greeks
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Mealworms can compost styrofoam
Within our living systems, we have been raising several types of mealworms in order to compost polystyrene (styrofoam). We recently came across the study by 2015 Standard University that confirms our suspicions that they are indeed turning styrofoam into usable organic matter! Their notes are not m
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The Lakota: A Human Story
Lakota America: A New History of Indigenous Power by Pekka Hämäläinen. Yale University Press, 2019. Hardcover, 544 pages, $35.
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Living Like It's 99, No Social Media, No Smartphone
I’ve now lived without social media and without a smartphone for the past 3 years. And I’m still alive. A lot of people have asked me how I made it. So I wrote an article about it. The why, the how, and the now.
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The home computer as a cultural object is physically vanishing (2007)
The home computer presents itself through several interfaces, some in software, some in hardware. While it is mostly assumed that these interfaces’ goals are to expose the computing capabilities of the system to its user, obviously interfaces are at the same time responsible for transporting the image of the machine.