Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: Podcasting "Ideas Lying Around"; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2023/06/12/only-a-crisis/
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Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: Podcasting "Ideas Lying Around"; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2023/06/12/only-a-crisis/
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Podcasting "Ideas Lying Around": A theory of change based on shovel-ready ideas.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/110531286305909847
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Hey look at this
* #Toronto Tenants Are Uniting in a Mass #RentStrike https://jacobin.com/2023/06/toronto-tenants-union-rent-strike-corporate-landlords-housing-crisis/
* France legalizes remotely turning on the camera or microphone of smartphones in criminal investigations https://www-francetvinfo-fr.translate.goog/societe/justice/le-senat-donne-son-feu-vert-a-l-activation-a-distance-des-cameras-ou-micros-des-telephones_5875187.html?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp (h/t Cooper)
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#20yrsago #TuringMachines aren’t as universal as they could be https://www.coherenceengine.com/blog/2003_06_01_archive.html#105547327596834731
#15yrsago Ancient Roman #D20 for sale, $18,000 https://www.christies.com/lot/lot-4205385/?intObjectID=4205385
#15yrsago #DieselSweeties: the ten-volume free @creativecommons licensed collection edition https://www.dieselsweeties.com/ebooks/
#15yrsago Canadian DMCA is worse than the American one https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2008/06/canadian-dmca-fine-print/
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#15yrsago Canadian Industry Minister #JimPrentice loads the DMCA, aims it at Canada’s temple, and pulls the trigger https://web.archive.org/web/20080612120601/http://www.ic.gc.ca/cmb/welcomeic.nsf/0365f77a8a847e1e8525655d006e1f91/85256a5d006b9720852574650065cf5b!OpenDocument
#15yrsago One-click site to tell Amazon that you don’t want #Audible #DRM https://web.archive.org/web/20080612125539/http://callanaudible.org/
#15yrsago Sabotage manual from 1944 advises acting like an average 2008 manager https://web.archive.org/web/20080715195004/community.e2conf.com/servlet/JiveServlet/download/1090-5-1190/OSS Simple Sabotage Manual.pdf
#15yrsago @LindaStone on time management https://www.huffpost.com/entry/is-it-time-to-retire-the_b_106624
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#15yrsago @GreatDismal interviewed on IO9 https://gizmodo.com/william-gibson-talks-to-io9-about-canada-draft-dodging-5015137
#10yrsago #AiWeiWei on #Prism https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/jun/11/nsa-surveillance-us-behaving-like-china
#10yrsago Stopwatching.us: Internet companies and civil liberties groups call for investigation into the surveillance state https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/06/86-civil-liberties-groups-and-internet-companies-demand-end-nsa-spying
#10yrsago #EdwardSnowden checks out of hotel, whereabouts unknown https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-22850901
#10yrsago @bruces Augmented World keynote speech https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohatuq8tekk
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#15yrsago @GreatDismal interviewed on IO9 https://gizmodo.com/william-gibson-talks-to-io9-about-canada-draft-dodging-5015137
#10yrsago #AiWeiWei on #Prism https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/jun/11/nsa-surveillance-us-behaving-like-china
#10yrsago Stopwatching.us: Internet companies and civil liberties groups call for investigation into the surveillance state https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/06/86-civil-liberties-groups-and-internet-companies-demand-end-nsa-spying
#10yrsago #EdwardSnowden checks out of hotel, whereabouts unknown https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-22850901
#10yrsago @bruces Augmented World keynote speech https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohatuq8tekk
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#10yrsago #HughHowey on why he favors self-publishing https://www.salon.com/2013/04/04/hugh_howey_self_publishing_is_the_future_and_great_for_writers/
#10yrsago #SesameStreet’s materials for kids with an incarcerated parent https://web.archive.org/web/20130629061517/https://www.sesamestreet.org/parents/topicsandactivities/toolkits/incarceration
#10yrsago Roundup of responses to the Snowden/#NSA leaks https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/12/anger-mounts-congress-telephone-surveillance-programmes
#10yrsago Photos from #OccupyGezi https://occupygezipics.tumblr.com/post/52730157891/taksim-rainbow-tuesday-evening
#10yrsago Greek government shuts down state broadcaster, police force journalists out of the building https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/2013/06/11/ert-greek-state-tv-radio-is-dead-a-blacklisted-persons-lament/
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#10yrsago Former UK drug czar calls banning marijuana and #psychedelics “the worst case of scientific #censorship since the Catholic Church banned the works of #Copernicus and #Galileo” https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/the-worst-case-of-scientific-censorship-since-the-catholic-church-banned-the-works-of-galileo-scientists-call-for-drugs-to-be-legalised-to-allow-proper-study-of-their-properties-8654514.html
#10yrsago Why are the protesters in #GeziPark? https://technosociology.org/?p=1349
#5yrsago #Reddit sounds the alarm: the EU internet proposal would end the net as we know it! https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/8qfw8l/protecting_the_free_and_open_internet_european/
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#5yrsago LA’s high-tech, thoughtful water management is cause for cautious optimism about adapting to climate change https://www.wired.com/story/la-is-doing-water-better-than-your-city-yes-that-la/
#5yrsago Feds indict Florida police chief who framed a teen for burglaries so he could boast about perfect record https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2018/06/11/police-framed-a-teen-for-four-burglaries-so-chief-could-tout-perfect-clearance-rate-feds-say/
#5yrsago Empirical evidence for the #PeterPrinciple (or, why bosses are so incompetent) https://hbr.org/2018/03/research-do-people-really-get-promoted-to-their-level-of-incompetence
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#5yrsago The EU’s terrible #copyright proposal will “carpet bomb” the whole world’s internet with censorship and surveillance https://newint.org/features/web-exclusive/2018/06/11/eu-copyright-law
#5yrsago 70+ internet pioneers to the EU: you are transforming the internet into a “tool for automated surveillance and control” https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/06/internet-luminaries-ring-alarm-eu-copyright-filtering-proposal
#5yrsago The Freeze-Frame Revolution: mutineers unstuck in time, strung out across an aeon https://memex.craphound.com/2018/06/12/the-freeze-frame-revolution-mutineers-unstuck-in-time-strung-out-across-an-aeon/
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