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The Cultural Implications of Silence Around the World (2020)
What does silence mean around the world?
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CRISPR Gene Editing
CRISPR is a recently discovered genomic tool that could potentially revolutionize genetic modification and editing, including gene silencing, editing, activating, and other crucial functions. It has made a big splash in the synthetic biology community, and mentions of CRISPR have started cropping up elsewhere in the…
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Why does a librarian own MetaFilter?
Jessamyn West is not just one of the web's favorite librarians, but the new owner of Metafilter, an incredibly long-running social network that dates back to a very different Internet. In the first part of our interview with Jessamyn, she tells us just how Metafilter has kept going and stayed healthy since 1999.
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Protecting Your Anonymity: A How-to for Sex Workers
Just as you take steps to protect your personal safety and health while engaging in real-life encounters, a sex worker should also be mindful of the dangers of the online world. As we wrote in a separate blog post today, the sex worker forum MyRedBook, along with its companion sites, have been...
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What my 11 year old's Stanford course taught me about online education
[This post was originally published at Forbes.com on 7th May 2012] My 11 year old son just took a course at Stanford. That has a nice r...
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Setting time on fire and the temptation of The Button
We used to consider writing an indication of time and effort spent on a task. That isn't true anymore.
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The Eighth Meditation on Superweapons and Bingo
Your life is the best story! Just start your blog today!
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DMCA, Easylist, Adblock, Copyright Access Control and Admiral
Admiral successfully collaborates with EasyList ensuring transparent engagement for copyright protection and sustainable web practices.
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AI-Implanted False Memories
We present three interconnected studies examining how artificial intelligence technologies can induce and amplify false memories in human subjects. Our re…
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Data on 1.2M Facebook users from 2005 (2011) [use archive.org url in thread]
Recently, a Facebook dataset was released consisting of the complete set of users from the Facebook networks at 100 American institutions, and all of the in-network “friendship” links between those…
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The Debian Publicity Team will no longer post on X/Twitter
The Debian Publicity Team will no longer post on X/Twitter. We took this decision since we feel X doesn't reflect Debian shared values as stated in our social contract, code of conduct and diversity statement. X evolved into a place where people we care about don't feel safe. You are very much invited to follow us on…
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Scroogled (2007)
Cory Doctorow wrote this Creative Commons-licensed fiction story for Radar Online magazine .
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U.S. Church Membership Falls Below Majority for First Time
For the first time in Gallup's polling history, less than half of U.S. adults report belonging to a church, synagogue or mosque.
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Canary Watch, One Year Later
We announced Canary Watch a year ago as a coalition project to list Warrant Canaries and monitor them for changes or removal. Canary Watch was a joint project, with EFF, Freedom of the Press Foundation, NYU Law, Calyx and the Berkman Center.Along the way, the project has been part of the massive...
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UK courts have not been forthcoming with access to website blocking orders
A few weeks ago, ORG published the website 451unavailable.
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EFF, Access Now, and the White House Sat Down to Talk About Encryption
In the public battle for strong encryption, EFF has championed the voice of everyday Internet users. After all, if we can’t rely on the security of our digital communications, how can the Web continue to grow and thrive? Now the fight has moved to the Oval Office. EFF, Access Now, over a dozen...
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After 24 centuries, Google puts the Dead Sea Scrolls online for the world to see
(Cross-posted on the Official Google Blog and the Google.org Blog ) It’s taken 24 centuries, the work of archaeologists, scholars and histo...
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Thoughts on the Social Graph (2007)
I've been thinking a lot about the social graph for awhile now: aggregating the graph, decentralization, social network portability, etc.
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Notes on Ukraine: I spent most of April and some of May traveling around Ukraine
I spent most of April and some of May traveling around Ukraine, visiting the cities of Uzhgorod, Lviv, Kyiv, Kharkiv, Dnipro, and Odessa. As with my other travels, I’ll write down thoughts and obse…
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Government Succeeds in Stalling Again, but Jewel V. NSA Goes On
We were disappointed today to learn that a federal appeals court in Pasadena declined to consider EFF’s appeal of a ruling in Jewel v. NSA, our long-running lawsuit battling unconstitutional mass surveillance of Internet and phone communications. While we are disappointed that government’s stall...
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How SOPA Affects Students, Educators, and Libraries
Big media groups like the MPAA and the RIAA have historically targeted college campuses with “anti-piracy” measures, and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) — the blacklist bill they’re trying to push through Congress — is no exception. The bill’s supporters insist that it targets only “rogue”...
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No one wants to have kids anymore
As the world's population reaches 8 billion, we're slowly running out of babies.
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California Considers Doubling Its Taxes
Practically doubling state taxes—even if the burden is partially offset through state-provided health coverage—could send taxpayers racing for the exits.