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Japanese Typewriters
September 30, 2009 at 5:30 pm · Filed under Japanese History , Japanese Technology
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I'm going to keep opting out
Marketing, solicitations, advertising, political contact, direct mailers, email campaigns, cookies, ads — it's all opt out. It puts the burden on you to opt out of each communication each message, each outreach from a loyalty program. It can feel like weeding a garden, but that garden is your attention. The weeds keep…
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Trading trust
The Brookings Institution did a fascinating survey series over the last five years. I have two takeways from this: The first is that focused and persistent propaganda is able to shift public opinio…
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Closure of the Weatheradio service in Canada
Radio Amateurs du Canada réagit à la fermeture du service Radio-Météo au Canada For immediate release | February 25, 2026Radio Amateurs of Canada (RAC) is saddened to learn about the closure of the Weatheradio service provided by Environment and Climate Change Canada.For decades, Weatheradio has been a trusted and…
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Google+'s Real Goal is Not to Kill Facebook, but to Force it to Open
I’ve been so focused on the user experience of Google’s new social network Plus that I haven’t thought very much about the big picture, I must admit. Listening tonight to an interview with Plus designer Joseph Smarr on the IEEE Podcast it became clear to me that for at least some of Plus’s leadership the goal is not…
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Judge to DOJ: Not All Writs
A federal magistrate judge in Brooklyn took an admirable stand last week when he questioned the government’s authority to compel Apple to unlock a seized mobile device using the All Writs Act. That’s a general-purpose law passed in 1789 that allows a court to require third parties’ assistance to...
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Hey Paypal, why do you need access to my microphone, camera and photos?
Who actually checks the permissions of applications they’re installing? A little while ago a Paypal update stalled because it required extra permissions. This is what happens if an app you have already installed wants more power. I was more than a little surprised with what I found.
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Public hacker test on Swiss Post’s e-voting system
Die Post unterstützt mit ihren Dienstleistungen den Alltag der Menschen in der Schweiz, in der physischen und in der virtuellen Welt. Beim E-Voting digitalisiert sie, was sie bereits am besten kann: den sicheren Transport vertraulicher Informationen.
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The other side of "academic freedom"
My various blog posts about moving from academia to industry have prompted a number of conversations with PhD students who are considerin...
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Toward a Grand Unified Theory of n00bs
Dan Grover is an engineer, designer, and product leader living between Portland and Oakland.
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Language contains human biases, and so will machines trained on language corpora
I have a new draft paper with Aylin Caliskan-Islam and Joanna Bryson titled Semantics derived automatically from language corpora necessarily contain human biases. We show empirically that natural language necessarily contains human biases, and the paradigm of training machine learning on language corpora means that…
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The TED Augmented Reality Hoax
Prediksi HK LOTTO Merupakan panduan akurat untuk melihat prediksi HK malam ini, bocoran angka jitu, syair HK lengkap, serta result Hongkong yang selalu diperbarui agar peluang Anda semakin optimal di Pools.
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The fine art of Italian hand gestures: A vintage visual dictionary (2012)
A pocket guide to Neapolitan nonverbal communication.
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Belonging to a group makes people more likely to harm others outside the group
Being in a group makes some people lose touch with their personal moral beliefs, researchers find.
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Wiley’s removal of hundreds of titles from ebook collections
Irish Librarians and library-related organisations wish to express our grave dissatisfaction at the sudden withdrawal by Wiley publishers of over one thousand titles from key ebook collections to which many academic libraries subscribe. On 31st of August 2022 Wiley abruptly removed more than 1,300 ebooks, many of…
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AI is an elite crime spree
Documents show a Microsoft exec called AI the "largest theft of labor in human history.” New AI regulations are besides the point, the problem is we don’t apply existing laws to the powerful.
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Samsung Sets Its Reputation on Fire with Bogus DMCA Takedown Notices
While there are countless examples of DMCA abuse, sometimes a story stands out. Last week, Samsung sent a series of takedown notices aimed at videos showing a GTA V mod in action. The modification replaced an in-game weapon with an exploding Samsung phone. Whether you think these videos are...
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The illusion of progress lights a fire
Psychologists have longed talked about ‘goal gradient’ which describes how we work harder to achieve a goal as we get closer to it. I just came across a fantastic study published in the…
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French Constitutional Council Widely Approves Surveillance Law
Update (24 July 2015): The French Constitutional Council shows again its disregard for fundamental rights. This morning, after approving almost all dispositions in the Surveillance law, the Constitutional Council builds momentum by rejecting the Question Prioritaire de ConstitutionalitéThe QPC is a
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Lessons learned from 6 months of operating a tiny news archive
The best websites are home-cooked meals. Andrew’s Selkouutiset Archive was birthed after I realized there was no obvious way to fetch the previous articles of the “Easy Finnish” daily news broadcast. This annoyed me as a student of the language. “Here we have a stream”, I thought, “of high-quality, human-written…
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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Coursera
I’m excited to be teaching Stanford Law’s first Coursera offering this fall, on government surveillance . In preparation, I’ve been extensively poking around the platform; while I found some snazzy features, I also stumbled across a few security and privacy issues.
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The FBI can almost certainly crack the San Bernardino iPhone without Apple
The title kind of says it all. How do I know? Because of this photo : That's a picture of the logic board of an iPhone 5C, the same mod...
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The Weirdness of Kentucky Route Zero (2016)
In my last post , I took issue with the TV show Mr. Robot for not being weird enough. Although imaginative and compelling, its universe is well-ordered: everything happens for a reason.
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Three Big Things: Important forces shaping the world
An irony of studying history is that we often know exactly how a story ends, but have no idea where…
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The Greatest Counterfeiter (2021)
What if you could counterfeit so much money that it stopped being illegal?