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* There Is No Antitrust Exception To Rules Of Statutory Interpretation https://www.promarket.org/2023/05/19/there-is-no-antitrust-exception-to-rules-of-statutory-interpretation/ (h/t Matt Stoller)

* #Bandcamp workers have voted to unionize https://www.bandcampunited.org/updates (h/t @slashdot)

* #DouglasAdams' Hitchhiker's Guide Gets a Glorious New #FolioSociety Edition https://gizmodo.com/hitchhikers-guide-to-galaxy-folio-society-douglas-adams-1850455317

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#20yrsago Turn a floppy into a Klingon ship https://memex.craphound.com/2003/05/25/turn-a-floppy-into-a-klingon-ship/

#20yrsago “Facts” about printing and book-design https://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/002638.html

#20yrsago Dear Hollywood: neener neener neener https://web.archive.org/web/20030524173415/http://www.instapundit.com/archives/009672.php

#20yrsago @eff on #TotalInformationAwareness https://web.archive.org/web/20030528233343/https://www.eff.org/Privacy/TIA/20030523_tia_report_review.php

#15yrsago Villagers from three continents will confront #Chevron execs at annual meeting https://web.archive.org/web/20080520120807/https://www.chevrontoxico.com/

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#15yrsago Former #RIAA CEO is the #HuffingtonPost’s new political director https://www.wired.com/2008/05/the-huffington/

#15yrsago Canadian spooks think punk band “#SuicidePilots” are terrorists https://web.archive.org/web/20080530022051/https://canadiandimension.com/blog/2008/05/csis-spying-on-canadian-punk-band/

#15yrsago #Punk House: communal homes of the anarcho-syndicalist lifestyle https://web.archive.org/web/20080526172905/http://www.alarmpress.com/2293/book-reviews/punk-house-interiors-in-anarchy/

#10yrsago Laptop with thermite self-destruct mechanism https://hackaday.com/2013/05/23/laptop-vs-thermite-slow-motion-destruction/

#10yrsago 3D-printable model of the cover of #JoyDivision’s “#UnknownPleasures” https://web.archive.org/web/20130607163848/http://i.document.m05.de/2013/05/23/joy-divisions-unknown-pleasures-printed-in-3d/

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#10yrsago Game designer creates a never-played-by-humans titanium boardgame and buries it for play in 2700 years https://www.polygon.com/2013/3/28/4157884/game-designer-jason-rohrer-designs-a-game-meant-to-be-played-2000

#10yrsago Hardwood #Escher tesselated lizard tiles https://evolulignum.blogspot.com/2011/02/diseno-geometrico-inspiracion-escher.html

#10yrsago How London cops use social media to spy on protest movements https://www.itnews.com.au/news/police-tap-social-media-in-wake-of-london-attack-344319

#10yrsago Vermont passes anti-#PatentTroll law https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/vermont-enacts-1st-u-s-law-against-patent-trolling-1.1372639

#10yrsago #RIAA losing money, firing employees, giving execs raises https://torrentfreak.com/riaa-makes-drastic-employee-cuts-as-revenue-plummets-130522/

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#10yrsago Forging £1 coins is apparently profitable https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-22612487

#10yrsago Globe and Mail: Toronto Mayor #RobFord’s family are, variously, a drug kingpin, a gangster, and affiliated with the KKK https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/toronto/globe-investigation-the-ford-familys-history-with-drug-dealing/article12153014

#10yrsago Lamps made from cassette tapes http://www.cassetteisnotdead.com

#5yrsago A guide to the valuable electronics inside #Bird’s illegal-in-San Francisco scooters https://www.jwz.org/blog/2018/05/landfill-capitalism-you-only-have-two-weeks-to-gather-up-all-those-free-microcontrollers-servos-and-batteries-that-are-littering-the-sidewalks-of-san-francisco/

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#5yrsago 500,000 home routers have been infected with #VPNFilter, malware that steals data and bricks devices https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/05/hackers-infect-500000-consumer-routers-all-over-the-world-with-malware/

#5yrsago The #FBI’s mountain of uncrackable #crimephones was nearly entirely imaginary https://www.emptywheel.net/2018/05/23/did-the-fbi-have-a-chance-to-fix-their-lies-about-encryption-in-2016/

#5yrsago A free internet is a configurable internet https://www.oreilly.com/content/cory-doctorow-on-the-fight-for-a-configurable-and-free-internet/

#5yrsago The Democratic candidate for the Georgia governorship is a Black woman running on an “unapologetic progressive” platform https://web.archive.org/web/20180523065423/https://politics.myajc.com/news/state--regional-govt--politics/georgia-election-stacey-abrams-wins-democratic-primary/eNWNZU440VRD1tQsZ0XY2K/

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#5yrsago A hard look at the wastefulness of “#ProofOfWork,” the core of the blockchain https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2018/05/22/bitcoins-stupendous-power-waste-is-green-apparently-bad-excuses-for-proof-of-work/

#5yrsago @cstross on the “soft genocide” of eugenics-tainted, alt-right climate dystopia https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2018/05/happy-21st-century.html

#5yrsago The #ComputerHistoryMuseum just published the sourcecode for #Eudora https://computerhistory.org/blog/the-eudora-email-client-source-code/

#5yrsago The company that made #GrenfellTower’s flammable, poisonous insulation used dangerous lies to make hundreds of sales https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/grenfell-tower-fire-latest-inquiry-london-cladding-building-safety-uk-celotex-a8362186.html

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#5yrsago Court rules Trump can’t block people on Twitter https://www.eff.org/press/releases/victory-first-amendment-court-rules-government-officials-who-tweet-public-cant-block

#5yrsago #Comcast’s $1.2b/year #ModemRental scam picks your pocket, then exposes you to hackers, stalkers and identity thieves https://www.vice.com/en/article/mbkgn8/dont-rent-a-modem-from-comcast

#5yrsago Cable industry attains the impossible: makes Americans hate it even more https://www.vice.com/en/article/7xmxza/america-hates-comcast-more-than-ever

#5yrsago Mining the #PanamaPapers and other leaks to reveal the hidden looting of West Africa by its corrupt elite https://www.icij.org/investigations/west-africa-leaks/

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#5yrsago Why “#leftism” is parting ways with “liberalism” and what it means for the future of American politics https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/05/americas-brand-of-capitalism-is-incompatible-with-democracy.html

#5yrsago Debugging #AI is a “hard problem” https://ai.stanford.edu/~zayd/why-is-machine-learning-hard.html

#5yrsago FBI sinkholes a key domain used by the malware that infected 500,000 home routers, declares partial victory and Russian attribution https://www.thedailybeast.com/exclusive-fbi-seizes-control-of-russian-botnet

#5yrsago Thoughtful, devastating critique of #JordanPeterson’s “12 Rules for Life” https://web.archive.org/web/20210310135608/https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/jordan-peterson-12-rules-kate-manne-review/

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#1yrago #HSBC: "Who cares if Miami is underwater?" https://pluralistic.net/2022/05/24/moral-money/#nutjobs-warning-about-the-end-of-the-world

#1yrago #SPACs were hugely successful (for banks) https://pluralistic.net/2022/05/23/you-got-spacced/#the-house-always-wins

#1yrago #KimStanleyRobinson's "The High Sierra" https://pluralistic.net/2022/05/25/the-wild-places/#sierra-people

#1yrago Talking with Kim Stanley Robinson about "The High Sierra" https://pluralistic.net/2022/05/25/the-wild-places/#ksr

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