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Briar and Bramble: A Vision for Decentralized Infrastructure
What if we could build secure systems that didn't depend on central servers or even Internet access to let people collaborate? What would a system like this mean for political organizing, disaster relief, or even civic infrastructure? The Briar app and the Bramble framework are an attempt to find out.
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Cybersecurity Bill Broad Enough to Use Against WikiLeaks and The Pirate Bay
Congress is doing it again: they’re proposing overbroad regulations that could have dire consequences for our Internet ecology. The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act of 2011 (H.R. 3523), introduced by Rep. Mike Rogers and Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger, allows companies or the government[fn]...
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Thoughts and Concerns about Operation Onymous
What happened Recently it was announced that a coalition of government agencies took control of...
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Chat Control 2.0 through the back door
Just before a decisive meeting in Brussels, digital rights expert and former Member of the European Parliament Dr. Patrick Breyer is sounding the alarm. Using a "deceptive sleight of hand," a mandatory and expanded Chat Control is being pushed through the back door, in a form even more intrusive tha
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There Is No CD Revival
Unless Maybe You are Adele
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Thought Examinations, Indoctrination Meetings and Struggle Sessions
On the mechanics of totalitarian terror in Mao's China.
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The Engagement Is Better on Bluesky
Bluesky is the lobby to the open web. Find and build your community here.
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Study suggests most Americans would be healthier without daylight saving time (2025)
According to a new analysis by Stanford Medicine scientists, changing clocks twice a year disrupts circadian rhythms, leading to higher rates of stroke and obesity.
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What did Google+ get right?
Google+ got some things awfully wrong. They lost and they were hated. But many of us thought it was the best social network that existed...
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The Mating Crisis Among Educated Women
Every year, more women than men become college-educated. The disparity is already prevalent across North America and Europe, and the trend is beginning to spread across the world more widely. At the University of Texas at Austin where I teach, the sex ratio is 54 percent women to 46 percent men. This imbalance may not…
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Gerontopoly: Homeownership, wealth, and age
Is the “dream” of homeownership really just a massive, intergenerational wealth transfer? Recently, that’s just how it has worked out.
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Developers don't build cheaper housing because we make it illegal (2014)
One of the protests against allowing more housing construction is that supply and demand has failed – that developers only want to build luxury units or that the global elite will invariably buy al…
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London vs San Francisco – back and forth
This site is mainly a storage cupboard for things I've tinkered with along the way, such as:
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Google tips off cops after spotting child abuse images in email
The Sophos Blog
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The car industry A/B tested selling a car with and without CarPlay
A couple years ago, GM made waves by saying that soon, all their new cars would be completely free of Apple's CarPlay and Android Auto support, instead opting for the "Android Automotive OS" in their cars. Admittedly, I'm a huge fan of CarPlay for basic safety reasons and
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Iowa Caucuses, the Blob, and the Democratic Party Cartel
Hi, Welcome to BIG, a newsletter about the politics of monopoly.
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Diversity-Related Training Meta-analysis
It seems that diversity training programs generally fail at their stated goals, and often produce unfortunate and unintended consequences.
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The Benefits of Being a Female Software Engineer
Jean Hsu - Fractional VP Engineering | Engineering Leadership for Startups
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How the Fed “Went Broke”
For the first time in modern history, the Fed is operating at a loss. This article explores what that means for savers and investors.
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Ten years ago Wikipedia was widely considered a doomed experiment
Today, Wikipedia is widely considered an invaluable resource. There are occasional errors and controversies, but for the most part it…
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Stop Hacklore – An Open Letter
An open letter from current and former CISOs, security leaders, and practitioners asking the public, employers, journalists, and policymakers to retire outdated security advice.
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Why No Jobs
Around the time of the Great Depression, a man named John Maynard Keynes made an incredible discovery. The reason so many people were out of work was not really because of irresponsible banks or high taxes or reckless government policy. It was really much simpler than all that: there wasn’t enough money.
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Defending my own brain against enshittification
If you haven't had Belvita breakfast cookies, you have probably had Biscoff cookies, which are similar. These are a classic airline snack. You've probably ha...
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Threads.net is the new app.net but with ads and interoperable
Meta's Threads.net sure looks a lot like App.net. Is Meta due for a pivot? The legislation the company supports suggests yes.