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The Prosecution of Aaron: A Response to Orin Kerr
Aaron Swartz committed suicide last week. He was 26, a genius and my friend. Not a really good friend, but someone I had worked with off and on for 11 years, liked a lot, had laughed with frequently, occasionally shaken my head over and deeply admired. When I first met him he looked like this.
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Seeing like a spreadsheet
How the commercial spreadsheet reshaped America
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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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Tinder's lack of encryption allows spying
The Sophos Blog
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IETF Draft: Centralization, Decentralization, and Internet Standards
Despite being designed and operated as a decentralized network-of-networks, the Internet is continuously subjected to forces that encourage centralization. This document offers a definition of centralization, explains why it is undesirable, identifies different types of it, catalogues limitations of common approaches…
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Air Pollution Linked to Increased Mental Health Outpatient Visits
More pollution in the air could be linked to higher rates of mental health service utilization, researchers at the Yale School of Public Health found in a new
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Nokia and Airbus elected as judges at the UPC, an unheard corruption of Justice
Brussels, 16th November 2022 — Nokia and Airbus got their patent lawyers elected as part-time technical judges at the forthcoming Unified Patent Court (UPC). Europe is witnessing corporate capture of its Justice system. Being ‘judges’ in the morning and ‘ patent lawyers’ in the afternoon. The Unified Patent Court is…
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Agent Psychosis: Are We Going Insane?
What’s going on with the AI builder community right now?
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How Big is Email?
Estimating the size of the world’s communications.
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Withnail's Coat and I
He may have had tailoring from Hawkes of Savile Row, but Withnail’s coat has a more complicated history.
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Switzerland mandates software source code disclosure for public sector
Switzerland has enacted the "Federal Law on the Use of Electronic Means for the Fulfilment of Governmental Tasks" (EMBAG), establishing a mandatory requirement for open source software within public sector bodies.
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Chopstick sleeves as emissaries of Japanese typography and culture
Designer and educator Angie Wang deciphers a collection of over 500 sleeves recently donated to the Archive.
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Wayback Machine Playback, now with Timestamps
The Wayback Machine has an exciting new feature: it can list the dates and times, the Timestamps, of all page elements compared to the date and time of the base URL of a page. This means that users can see, for instance, that an image displayed on a page was captured X days before the
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Don't Be Anti Car. Be Pro Something Else.
People hate change. They have something of a tendency to dig their heels in and be against it just because it is new and different. They as...
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Men not at work: Why so many men aged 25 to 54 are not working (2016)
The job market is a whole lot better than it was during the worst of the Great Recession, but around 7 million American men between the ages of 25 and 54 – mostly too old to be in school and too young to retire – are neither working nor looking for work. That amounts to […]
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Gnome Turns 25
Around the end of 2020, I looked at GNOME's commit history as a proxy for the project's overall health. A year and a half went by since then, and it's time for an update.
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No Socials November
November seems to be a ripe month for challenges. Some people grow facial hair. Some people write many words daily hoping to come out with a novel on the other...
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Fuck Cloud Messaging
Ever tried to send a push notification to your phone? How hard can it be? I was surprised when I tried to push a simple push notification without involving a third party. It's not just hard they have made it near impossible to send a simple push notification without subscribing to their service. Moreover it doesn't…
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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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Proposition C
Read the latest news and information from Stripe, including corporate and product announcements, research reports, brand assets, and more.
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Making Millions by Distributing Pirated Movies
Introduction Did you know that piracy is about making money? Most people don’t seem to be aware of that. Piracy is about money. It’s serious business. It doesn’t have to be though…
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Stop Writing Twitter Threads
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.
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Why the Substack hype is much ado about very little
Previously published at GBH News. I have nothing against Substack. The newsletter platform seems like a clean, simple tool aimed at helping independent writers charge subscription fees for their wo…
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Snowden-haters are on the wrong side of history
In the autumn on 1963, J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI, worried at Martin Luther King’s growing influence, began tapping his phones and bugging his hotel rooms. They hoped to discredit him by gai…