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Megaupload could spawn caselaw more destructive than SOPA
The GH engineers correctly identify the MySQL dependency as a problem. It’s such an easy one to remove, though!
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Akira Kurosawa’s Record of a Living Being
One of the first Japanese commercial features to directly address the fear of nuclear holocaust and the implications of the atom bomb, Record of a Living Being, which is better known as I Live in F…
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Mozilla launches massive campaign on digital surveillance
Additional Perspectives from Mozilla: Mitchell Baker’s post, “Total Surveillance” Ben Adida’s post, “No User is an IslandR
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IBM Stretch, the NSA, and MLK
The narrative can change, but we must overcome the disinformation and fear that has overtaken the United States.
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Multidimensional analysis of plot arcs in thousands of TV and movie scripts
Note: a somewhat more complete and slightly less colloquial, but eminently more citeable, version of this work is in the Proceedings of the ...
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License Haiku
I think that people really use software licenses to express intentions, and don’t really read the details of the licenses. So I think that licenses should be made as simple as possible, so that they don’t disagree with intentions… thus, haiku licensing:
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Immigration Agencies Are Openly Defying Federal Courts
Federal courts have overwhelmingly rejected the Trump Administration's radical expansion of mandatory detention. Despite this, ICE continues to arrest and detain tens of thousands of people each month…
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This is what a Tor Supporter looks like: Laura Poitras
The first thing that Laura Poitras has to say about Tor is that she couldn’t have made...
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EFF Pioneer Awards: Aaron Swartz, James Love, Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras
San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is pleased to announce the distinguished winners of the 2013 Pioneer Awards: late digital rights activist Aaron Swartz, international access to knowledge advocate James Love, and Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras – the journalists behind the...
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EFF Asks Patent Office to Focus on Protecting Public from Bad Patents
This week, together with Public Knowledge and Engine, EFF submitted written comments to the Patent Office regarding its Patent Quality Initiative. We urge the Patent Office to ensure that this program actually reduces the number of invalid patents being issued. Its quality efforts should serve the...
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The U.S Government Is Keeping a U.S Citizen Secretly Locked Up Without Charges
For nearly two months, the U.S. military has been detaining an American citizen at a secret jail in Iraq, denying him access to a lawyer and even refusing to release his name. The Trump administration is calling the citizen an “enemy combatant,” claiming he was fighting for ISIS in Syria, but it has not presented any…
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What happened to all the non-programmers? (2015)
As I looked around and realized for the hundredth time that I was surrounded by people exactly like me, something inside me snapped. I downloaded the latest American Community Survey microdata, fired up R and started calculating feverishly.
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No increased risk of brain tumours for mobile phone users, new study finds
Longstanding fears that using mobile phones may increase the risk of developing a brain tumour have been reignited recently by the launch of 5G (fifth generation) mobile wireless technologies. Mobile phones emit radiofrequency waves which, if absorbed by tissues, can cause heating and damage.
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More emphasis on trains in Europe to replace flights
The Green Deal for Europe should, among other elements, reduce aviation (which is harmful to the climate) and promote alternatives. The activist network Back-on-Track has pointed out five areas of priority, where improvements are needed to get cross-border long-distance trains in shape to provide alternatives to…
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Our Response to the Violence in Washington
We're treating these events as an emergency and sharing the actions we're taking.
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How Shadow Banning Can Silently Shift Opinion Online
In a new study, Yale SOM’s Tauhid Zaman and Yen-Shao Chen show how a social media platform can shift users’ positions or increase overall polarization by selectively muting and amplifying posts in ways that appear neutral to an outside observer.
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Results: Finland’s Basic Income Experiment Help Us Build the Post-Pandemic World
It all started as a curiosity in 2015. Now, the whole world is looking into universal basic income to stimulate the economy. The timing of Finland’s basic income experiment results could not have been better. But what can we learn from it when reimagining the post-pandemic economy and society? It...
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How does the land use of different electricity sources compare?
All energy production takes up land, but which sources use the most land, and which use it most efficiently?
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Bluesky: Updated Terms and Policies
We’re updating the language in our terms and policies to better explain our approach and provide more detail.
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Brave’s use of direct mailers
As Brave continues to grow, we find many users who haven't heard of us yet, so we try new marketing channels for efficacy, reach, affordability, and privacy.
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CEO pay skyrocketed 1,460% since 1978: CEOs paid 399 times as much vs. worker
What this report finds: Corporate boards running America’s largest public firms are giving top executives outsize compensation packages that have grown much faster than the stock market and the pay of typical workers, college graduates, and even the top 0.1%. In 2021, we project that a CEO at one of the top 350 firms…