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More people use Ubuntu than anyone actually knows
People of earth, waving at Saturn, courtesy of NASA . “It Doesn't Look Like Ubuntu Reached Its Goal Of 200 Million Users This Year”...
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The end of the subscription era is coming
You’re overpaying for your porn (and journalism)
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Lee Ross and the “Fundamental Attribution Error”
...and to the psychologist who put it on the map.
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An Inside Look at CloudKitchens
A co-working space for restaurants of the future.
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America needs supply-side reform
It's can't just be an excuse — we need to improve our policies
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Everyone's Packing Up
I see a lot of posts about people leaving platforms. This one about leaving Reddit, this one about leaving WordPress, and a bunch of others about leaving Dis...
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The Antitrust Hearing, the Role of Congress, CEO Questions
Congress is exactly where discussions about tech and society should be happening. Then, a list of questions for every tech CEO.
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Why Read Classic Books?
This is my first attempt to “think out loud” about the question I get most often: why bother reading the Classics? This is still very much a work in progress: I think people don’t consider and adapt their own beliefs often enough (see also: mental liquidity ). I consider my opinions here to be very much loosely held…
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Jobs Involving Routine Tasks Aren't Growing
Automation and offshoring are playing significant roles in the types of jobs that are growing or stagnating.
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How factories were made safe
The fundamental cause was a wrong attitude towards the core question: who is responsible for safety?
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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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This Page Is Why The Internet Sucks
James Bond was orginally called Barry Clams [Note: Typo in original headline at post time.] Go look at it. According to Letter Count, the entire item people are meant to read — including head…
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Where are vacation homes located in the US?
As of 2023, the US has around 142.3 million housing units: roughly one home for every 2.4 people in the country.
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A U.S. Strategy to Prevent the Creation of Mirror Life
RAND researchers present a strategy for the United States to prevent the creation of mirror life by anyone, anywhere.
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Tumblr "Disappears" Microsoft's Danah Boyd
Update: Tumblr called me, apologized, and restored my account. More details below.
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The CIA-in-Chile Scandal at 50
Washington, D.C., September 9, 2024 – Fifty years ago, as the New York Times prepared to break a major exposé on CIA covert operations in Chile, the architect of those operations, Henry Kissinger, misled President Gerald Ford about clandestine U.S. efforts to undermine the elected government of Socialist Party leader…
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PGP needs to be retired in honor
personal ramblings, noone cares about
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Why none of my books are available on Audible
And why Amazon owes me $3,218.55.
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Half the world is now middle class or wealthier (2018)
Just over 50 percent of the world’s population, or some 3.8 billion people, now live in households with enough discretionary spending to be considered middle class or rich.
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Why Isn’t Programming Futuristic?
If you think someone is asking a rhetorical question, it is usually most interesting to treat it as though it is a legitimate question. Especially if we’re talking about something hard — driving down to underlying assumptions through this questioning process is interesting.
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Books Become Games
Simulation, Gamification, and the Rise of Algorithmic Capitalism
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Why I Canceled My Facebook Account
I canceled my Facebook account because it was lowering my capacity for independent action. I joined Facebook under certain conceptions that it was a somewhat private place. It used to have a clean …
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Experiment: Living Without A Home Internet Connection
I moved into a new apartment at the start of April, and decided to try an experiment: not having an internet connection. When I tell people that I don’t have internet, they assume that it’s because I…
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The tech industry controls CS conference funding. What are the dangers?
Research about the influence of computing technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI), on society relies heavily upon the financial support of the very companies that produce those technologies. Corporations like Google, Microsoft, and IBM spend millions of dollars each year to sponsor labs, professorships, PhD…