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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 most popular blog posts about society, policy & culture on Hacker News. 13,065 posts.
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Apple commits to be 100% carbon neutral for supply chain and products by 2030
Already carbon neutral for its operations, Apple is unveiling a roadmap to achieve zero carbon for its supply chain and products by 2030.
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Tech has graduated from the Star Trek era to the Douglas Adams age
Posted on Wednesday 21 Feb 2024. 1,196 words, 13 links. By Matt Webb.
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Is there a new geek anti-intellectualism?
This essay can be read in my 2020 book, Essays on Free Knowledge. Perhaps ironically, it is no longer free. UPDATE: I've posted a very long set of replies. UPDATE 2: I've decided to reply below as well--very belatedly...
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Using government guidelines to police content: state censorship?
YouTube's decision to demonetize podcaster Bret Weinstein raises serious questions, both about the First Amendment and regulatory capture
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A Bank of One's Own
A fun fact about startups, if you've never worked for one, is that employees don't typically get equity in the company.
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On Digital Minimalism
The Curmudgeonly Optimist People are sometimes confused about my personal relationship with digital communication technologies. On the one hand, I’m a computer scientist who studies and improves these tools. ... Read more
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Microsoft Edge is starting to annoy me big time
Short article slash rant discussing the Got it! button in a prompt for personalized Web experience in Microsoft Edge, covering user experience interruption, bad design, aggressive marketing, implicit decisions, other annoyances, and more
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The Many Branches of the Fediverse
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-
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Email immutability matters more in a world with AI
Email immutability matters even more in a world of AI. Here is how we enable your use of your data, in line with our values.
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ICE Is Buying a Tool to Track Phones, Without Warrants
Trump is quietly building a surveillance state, and almost no one is paying attention.
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TLS 1.3 Is an Opportunity for Amazon, Google and Microsoft to End Censorship
A new standard for cryptography is on the horizon, called Transport Level Security 1.3 (TLS 1.3). TLS 1.3 is a major update to cryptography, and
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Petered
We’re looking in the wrong place for the imposters among us.
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I analyzed the lineups at the most popular nightclubs
A few years back I did a bit of dance music related data visualization over at Lazily Evaluated. My favourite was an analysis of clubs and their lineups using Resident Advisor / RA data, I called it Clubster Analysis. I always wanted to dig into the technical aspects of gathering the data, analyzing it and building…
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Amtrak police use of passenger data
[Passenger Name Record (PNR) view from Amtrak “Police GUI”. Click image for larger version.]
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UK government declines to pardon Alan Turing
There's been a petition to the government and an Early Day Motion asking for Alan Turing to be pardoned. This is something I oppose desp...
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Gartner's grift is about to unravel
swyx recognizes $IT as a visionary short in the DX Tips Magic Quadrant of Boomer Relics That No Longer Make Sense
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My Conversation with “Eugene Goostman”
If you haven’t read about it yet, “Eugene Goostman” is a chatbot that’s being heavily promoted by the University of Reading’s Kevin Warwick, for fooling 33% of judges …
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U.S. Congress Renews $5M Open Textbook Pilot for Second Year
Congress approved legislation that will renew and strengthen the federal Open Textbook Pilot, which provides grants to expand OER in higher education.
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Secret TPP Talks Continue as the Deal Grows More Controversial
Trade ministers are meeting behind closed-doors at the Westin Resort and Spa in Maui this week to finalize the terms of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). This is the first formal round of talks since the U.S. passed the controversial Fast Track trade legislation in June, which has given U.S....
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How The FCC Plans To Destroy GPS – A Simple Explanation
Exploring the world of free tools for GIS, GPS, Google Earth, neogeography, and more.