Hey look at this

* How is the world’s biggest boycott doing? https://doc.searls.com/2023/11/11/how-is-the-worlds-biggest-boycott-doing/

* Sorry, Billionaires. Space Won’t Be Our Climate Haven https://atmos.earth/sorry-billionaires-space-wont-be-our-climate-haven/ (h/t Naked Capitalism)

* Remote Control Air Horn! https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-io-wippersnapper-summoning-horn?view=all

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#20yrsago #PearsonAirport threatens to sue websites that take its name in vain https://www.techdirt.com/2003/11/13/is-it-against-the-law-to-put-the-name-of-the-toronto-airport-on-the-web/

#15yrsago Zoe’s Tale: @scalzi's smart-ass young-adult sf thriller https://memex.craphound.com/2008/11/12/zoes-tale-scalzis-smart-ass-young-adult-sf-thriller/

#10yrsago UK home secretary wants to overturn #HumanRights treaties and make terror suspects stateless https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/nov/12/theresa-may-british-terror-suspects-stateless-passport

#10yrsago #DavidNutt wants to make non-addictive, safer synth-booze that comes with a sober-up pill https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/getting-drunk-without-the-hangover-or-health-risks-scientist-seeks-investment-for-alcohol-substitute-drug-8931946.html

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#10yrsago Irish Freedom of Information amendment will send #FOI fees to infinity https://www.mcgarrsolicitors.ie/2013/11/10/freedom-information-fees-multiplied-new-amendment/

#10yrsago #GCHQ used fake Slashdot, LinkedIn to target employees at Internet exchanges https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/11/uk-spies-continue-quantum-insert-attack-via-linkedin-slashdot-pages/

#10yrsago Edward Snowden is almost broke https://world.time.com/2013/11/12/edward-snowden-is-almost-broke/

#10yrsago @vihart cramming #GooglePlus into YouTube has made comments even worse, I’m leaving https://web.archive.org/web/20131114001432/http://vihart.com/google-youtube-integration-kind-of-like-twilight-except-in-this-version-when-cullen-drinks-bellatubes-blood-they-both-become-mortal-but-cullen-is-still-an-abusive-creep-also-it-is-still-bad/

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#10yrsago Tune: Still Life, new installment in romcom/alien abduction graphic novel https://memex.craphound.com/2013/11/13/tune-still-life-new-installment-in-romcom-alien-abduction-graphic-novel/

#5yrsago Trump is bailing out a Chinese owned pork producer to compensate it for retaliatory Chinese tariffs https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-smithfield-china-tariffs-20181109-story.html

#5yrsago Yanis Varoufakis on capitalism’s incompatibility with democracy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGeevtdp1WQ

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#5yrsago Congressional Democrats’ first bill aims to end #gerrymandering, increase voter registration and rein in campaign finance https://www.npr.org/2018/11/12/665635832/democrats-say-their-first-bill-will-focus-on-strengthening-democracy-at-home

#5yrsago #BigTech got big because we stopped enforcing #antitrust law (not because tech is intrinsically monopolistic) https://www.wired.com/story/book-excerpt-curse-of-bigness/

#5yrsago A catalog of ingenious cheats developed by #MachineLearning systems https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/1/d/e/2PACX-1vRPiprOaC3HsCf5Tuum8bRfzYUiKLRqJmbOoC-32JorNdfyTiRRsR7Ea5eWtvsWzuxo8bjOxCG84dAg/pubhtml

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#5yrsago Global #AntiquarianBookseller strike brings Amazon to its knees https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/07/technology/amazon-bookseller-protest-strike.html

#5yrsago New, “unbreakable” #Denuvo #DRM cracked two days before its first commercial deployment https://torrentfreak.com/hitman-2s-denuvo-protection-cracked-three-days-before-launch-181112/

#5yrsago How many computers are in your computer? https://gwern.net/turing-complete#how-many-computers-are-in-your-computer

#5yrsago The market failed rural kids: poor #RuralBroadband has created a “homework gap” https://www.wired.com/story/rural-kids-internet-homework-gap-fcc-could-help/

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#1yrago The #Framework is the most exciting laptop I've ever broken https://pluralistic.net/2022/11/13/graceful-failure/#frame

#1yrago They Want to Kill Libraries https://pluralistic.net/2022/11/13/they-want-to-kill-libraries/

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