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NYPD can use more than 15,000 cameras to track people using facial recognition
Thousands of volunteers helped map surveillance cameras that the NYPD could use to track people using facial recognition.
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September 11th That You Have Never Seen
In 2001, digital cameras were a rare commodity. They were expensive, bulky and captured images that were inferior to the organic look of…
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German university life seen through American eyes, 1900-1901
Rich description of aspects of academic life from student through professor at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin in 1900-01.
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Good times create weak men (2019)
Software abstraction ladder becomes too tall and starts to fall
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Mastodon Is Rewinding the Clock on Social Media – In a Good Way
A comment on a Hacker News thread inspired me to contemplate why Mastodon is everything we loved about social media before…
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Ági Szabados Does Not Need to Apologize to Me
So, at the opening ceremonies of the Budapest International Book Festival this year, a couple of people gave prefatory remarks before I received the Budapest Grand Prize and participated in my own …
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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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Free Speech Is in Trouble
Young liberals are abandoning it — and other groups are too comfortable with tit-for-tat hypocrisy
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Noyb files GDPR complaint against Meta over "Pay or Okay"
Meta charges up to €251.88 to respect the fundamental right to privacy of EU users. This is a violation of the GDPR
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My Free Speech Means You Have to Shut Up
Elon Musk and The Enduring Appeal of “Criticism is Censorship”
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It's companies' fault we don't want to return to the office
It wasn't appealing to begin with
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What does “excess liquidity sloshing around the financial system” mean?
In the recent Odd Lots AMA episode, financial journalist Tracy Alloway said …I coined the term ‘ China’s Great Ball of Money.’ This idea that you just have a bunch of extra money …
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Ship of Fools
I recently had a 3 week holiday in Florida with my family. My 17 year old son is interested in rocketry and my wife is interested in wildlife. We got to see plenty of both and had a great time. The…
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Quad9’s Opinion of the Recent Court Ruling in Leipzig
A public and free DNS service for a better security and privacy
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Miles Davis: A candid conversation (1962)
Last Modified Sunday, 05-Aug-2018 12:53:53 EDT These pages were made by Justin R. Erenkrantz unless otherwise stated. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License . These pages will look best in an XHTML 1.0 compliant browser.
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Against Automaticity
An explanation of why tricks like priming, nudge, the placebo effect, social contagion, the “emotional inception” model of advertising, most “cognitive biases,” and any fiel…
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Google Pays $21B for Search Monopoly: How "Free" Tech Markets Repress
Break the Google Search monopoly! Your data is worth billions, take back control!
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The end of the subscription era is coming
You’re overpaying for your porn (and journalism)
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Google Should Fire Sundar Pichai
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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A closer look at the Tabula Peutingeriana
This map story is about one specific map, the only one remaining from the Roman …
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The time SUSE, the German Linux company, banned mentioning Jewish holidays
And then punished the Jew who objected to that action.
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Visualizing every job in the world
A visualization of every single job in the world (or at least in the EU)
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Excess weight, obesity more deadly than previously believed
New CU Boulder research finds that overweight populations have a 22% higher mortality risk than those of healthy weight, while obese populations have as much as
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I don't trust Signal
I don't trust Signal because it pretends to be things which it provably isn't and forces use of their controlled the network. This means that if Signal wanted to, they could intercept messages. In this article I show receipts, that while each individual issue is not back-breaking: casts huge doubts to me on if i…
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The continued relevance of Weizenbaum’s warnings
“The computer has long been a solution looking for problems—the ultimate technological fix which insulates us from having to look at problems.” – Joseph Weizenbaum (1983) Trying to kee…
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Chat Control 2.0: EU set to approve end of private messaging, secure encryption
By making a minor concession EU governments hope to find a majority next week to approve the controversial „chat control“ bill. According to the proposed child sexual abuse regulation (CSAR), providers of messengers, e-mail and chat services would be forced to automatically search all private messag
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