Hey look at this

* We May Not Negotiate Prices for Ten Drugs After All https://prospect.org/health/2023-09-11-we-may-not-negotiate-prices-for-ten-drugs-after-all/

* 'It's robbery': Salvadorans slow to adopt #Bitcoin https://news.yahoo.com/robbery-salvadorans-slow-adopt-bitcoin-191002188.html (h/t Slashdot)

* The #oracle problem and the future of #DeFi https://www.bis.org/publ/bisbull76.pdf (h/t Naked Capitalism)

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#20yrsago Help pay back the #RIAA’s 12-year-old victim https://web.archive.org/web/20040215051659/http://funkbunny.com/datatype/archives/000076.html

#20yrsago 'Amnesty' for Music #FileSharing Is a Sham https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2003-sep-10-oe-vonlohmann10-story.html

#15yrsago Canadian man changes name to beat #NoFlyList https://web.archive.org/web/20080917202919/https://www.cbc.ca/canada/montreal/story/2008/09/11/nofly-name.html

#15yrsago Michigan GOP attacks #RightToVote for the recently foreclosed https://web.archive.org/web/20080911193036/https://michiganmessenger.com/4076/lose-your-house-lose-your-vote

#15yrsago North Texas house burns because local authorities switched off hydrants “to fight #terrorism” https://web.archive.org/web/20080913150058/https://www.wfaa.com/sharedcontent/dws/wfaa/latestnews/stories/wfaa080827_lj_hawes.1983f2d0.html

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#15yrsago Terror cops hunt down ornamental castor bean plant https://web.archive.org/web/20080914224719/http://www.abc4.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=f2396fa3-c730-457d-825c-257c263a831c

#15yrsago Seaweed: Lush, hilarious oversized indie graphic novel https://memex.craphound.com/2008/09/11/seaweed-lush-hilarious-oversized-indie-graphic-novel/

#10yrsago #NSA reveals that it illegally gathered thousands of phone records, to the appalled astonishment of #FISA court judge https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/10/nsa-violated-court-rules-data-documents

#10yrsago Revisiting #Milgram’s #ObedienceExperiment: what did he actually prove? https://psmag.com/social-justice/electric-schlock-65377

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#10yrsago This is the #crypto standard that the NSA sabotaged https://archive.nytimes.com/bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/10/government-announces-steps-to-restore-confidence-on-encryption-standards/

#10yrsago How the feds asked Microsoft to backdoor #BitLocker, their full-disk #encryption tool https://mashable.com/archive/fbi-microsoft-bitlocker-backdoor

#10yrsago US #border #LaptopSearches: the other #WarrantlessSurveillance https://www.aclu.org/news/national-security/documents-shed-light-border-laptop-searches

#10yrsago Knife use workshops for kids https://web.archive.org/web/20130913132151/http://www.nepafamily.com/events/sharp-kids/

#10yrsago Scholar shows ‘three strikes’ programs don’t reduce #piracy https://www.itnews.com.au/news/three-strikes-laws-do-not-reduce-online-piracy-study-356360

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#10yrsago Report: Rich Chinese perps hire body-doubles to do their time https://web.archive.org/web/20130910225855/https://www.vocativ.com/09-2013/chinas-prisoners-for-hire-is-that-you-bo-xilai/

#10yrsago UK gov’t wants to ban dirty words in UK domain names; tell them to #£@* off https://web.archive.org/web/20140810230219/http://www.nominet.org.uk/news/latest/nominet-announces-registration-policy-review

#10yrsago WILD: sweet picture book about a feral child who won’t be tamed https://memex.craphound.com/2013/09/10/wild-sweet-picture-book-about-a-feral-child-who-wont-be-tamed-2/

#10yrsago Replica ‘#Enterprise’ bridge used to sell #surveillance to Congress https://slate.com/technology/2013/09/surveilliance-and-spying-does-the-army-have-a-star-trek-lair.html

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#5yrsago @bruces’s VR, Objective Reality, live life as an inert, resentful appliance https://www.wired.com/beyond-the-beyond/2018/08/automata-farm-objective-reality/

#5yrsago Trump wants to kill the #InternationalCriminalCourt to protect US #WarCriminals from prosecution for #Afghan crimes https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/10/trump-administration-to-take-tough-stance-against-the-hagues-icc.html

#5yrsago #BigTech is losing the public’s trust in just the same way that Big #Finance has https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/09/technology/internet-industry-hearings.html

#5yrsago Court nukes #Ontario’s Trumpian government bid to gut #TorontoCityCCuncil https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/judge-ruling-city-council-bill-election-1.4816664

#5yrsago Not in our name: Why European creators must oppose the EU’s proposal to limit linking and #censor the net https://memex.craphound.com/2018/09/10/not-in-our-name-why-european-creators-must-oppose-the-eus-proposal-to-limit-linking-and-censor-the-internet/

#5yrsago 12 year olds write a book on making afterschool mischief https://drive.google.com/file/d/16Fd0VmGBT_D34WEorIsopcqbFPVWe845/view

#1yrago The White House has a plan for Big Tech: Donald Trump, Mark Zuckerberg and Joe Biden all agree https://pluralistic.net/2022/09/10/big-data/#230-quagmire

#5yrsago #CaliforniaFarmBureau sells out farmers, hands #JohnDeere a monopoly over tractor #repair https://www.vice.com/en/article/kz5qgw/california-farm-bureau-john-deere-tractor-hacking-right-to-repair

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#5yrsago 2018’s Blue Wave needs to take down Trump, and the right-wing establishment of the Democratic Party https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/10/trump-neoliberal-democratic-party-america

#5yrsago History’s solutions to runaway #inequality: warfare, revolution, state collapse and plague https://www.economist.com/open-future/2018/09/10/can-inequality-only-be-fixed-by-war-revolution-or-plague

#5yrsago The EU’s #copyright plans will let anyone mass-censor the internet https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/09/how-eus-copyright-filters-will-make-it-trivial-anyone-censor-internet

#5yrsago Wanting It Badly Is Not Enough: Real Problems For Creators Deserve Real Solutions https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/09/wanting-it-badly-not-enough-real-problems-creators-deserve-real-solutions

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#5yrsago Woman World: the hilarious man-free apocalypse we’ve all been waiting for https://memex.craphound.com/2018/09/11/woman-world-the-hilarious-man-free-apocalypse-weve-all-been-waiting-for/

#5yrsago What developers need to do to save the internet from the EU’s looming copyright disaster https://github.blog/2018-09-10-how-developers-can-defend-open-source-from-the-eu-copyright-proposal/

#1yrago American #healthcare did a fuckery: A trillion prices can't be wrong https://pluralistic.net/2022/09/10/big-data/#malicious-compliance

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