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#20yrsago Elf Sex, per #Tolkien https://ansereg.com/what_tolkien_officially_said_abo.htm

#20yrsago You need a license to say “#IHaveADream” https://web.archive.org/web/20031231034048/http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/seltzer/2003/12/16#a48

#20yrsago Cousin-identification chart for #CousinMarriage advocacy https://web.archive.org/web/20031210061028/http://www.cuddleinternational.org/genetics/kinship.html

#20yrsago #Blockbuster prez calls for end to DVD #RegionCoding https://web.archive.org/web/20060501151122/http://hometheater.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr/home_video/brief_display.jsp%3Fvnu_content_id=2047010

#20yrsago #LiveJournal demographics https://web.archive.org/web/20040212004957/https://www.livejournal.com/stats.bml

#20yrsago Verisign calls for Internet redesign, Minitel-style https://www.isen.com/blog/archives/2003_12_01_archive.html#107166720994279652

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#15yrsago #HenryJenkins’s #NeilGaiman interview video http://henryjenkins.org/2008/12/from_neil_gaiman_to_j_michael.html

#15yrsago #StevenJohnson’s “The Invention of Air” — how an eclectic minister/scientist/politician shows that history is a web https://memex.craphound.com/2008/12/17/steven-johnsons-the-invention-of-air-how-an-eclectic-minister-scientist-politician-shows-that-history-is-a-web/

#15yrsago #Yahoo to anonymize logs after 90 days https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/12/yahoo-anonymize-logs-after-90-days-compared-google

#15yrsago HOWTO Make a #DNS #DeadDrop https://landonf.org/code/security/DNS_Dead_Drop.20060128201048.26517.luxo.html

#15yrsago HOWTO build a Linux-based supercomputer out of #Playstation3s https://phys.org/news/2008-12-scientists-supercomputer-sony-playstation.html

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#10yrsago 60 Minutes attains new journalistic low with #NSA puff-piece https://www.techdirt.com/2013/12/16/cbs-airs-nsa-propaganda-informercial-masquerading-as-hard-hitting-60-minutes-journalism-reporter-with-massive-conflict-interest/

#10yrsago #EdwardSnowden’s open letter to the people of Brazil, offering help in rooting out NSA spying in exchange for asylum https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/17/edward-snowden-letter-brazilian-people

#5yrsago London cops are subjecting people in the centre of town to #FacialRecognition today and tomorrow https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/12/londons-police-will-be-testing-facial-recognition-in-public-for-2-days/

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#5yrsago Official UK investigation of $100 billion laundered through #ScottishLimitedPartnerships ignores all evidence https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2018/12/uks-reform-limited-partnership-law-dead-arrival.html

#5yrsago No peace in Hungary as thousands fill the streets, risking police violence, to protest #SlaveLaborLaw https://edition.cnn.com/2018/12/16/europe/hungary-protests-intl/index.html

#5yrsago ISP that protested being ordered to block #SciHub by blocking #Elsevier and government agencies now under threat for “#NetNeutrality” violations https://torrentfreak.com/isp-faces-net-neutrality-investigation-for-pirate-site-blocking-retaliation-181217/

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#5yrsago “Owning your data” will not save you from #DataCapitalism https://memex.craphound.com/2018/12/17/owning-your-data-will-not-save-you-from-data-capitalism/

#5yrsago #ScienceFiction writers on the #FutureOfWork https://www.wired.com/story/future-of-work-sci-fi-issue/

#5yrsago Google’s secretive, data-hungry private city within #Toronto will be much larger than previously disclosed https://rabble.ca/general/plan-re-image-torontos-waterfront-how-much-does-public-know-about-plan/

#5yrsago Internal sources say googler uprising has killed Google’s plans to launch a censored, spying Chinese search engine https://theintercept.com/2018/12/17/google-china-censored-search-engine-2/

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#5yrsago False Flag: my science fiction story about the future of #CopyrightFilters in an Article 13 Europe https://www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/false-flag/

#5yrsago Arizona realtor surprised to find Canadian “white hat” hacker talking to him through his #SmartDoorbell https://memex.craphound.com/2018/12/17/arizona-realtor-surprised-to-find-canadian-white-hat-hacker-talking-to-him-through-his-smart-doorbell/

#5yrsago Developer who tore down historic San Francisco house ordered to build an exact replica https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/City-requires-property-owner-who-demolished-13467909.php

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#5yrsago Podcast: “Sole and Despotic Dominion” and “What is the Internet For?” https://ia600707.us.archive.org/27/items/Cory_Doctorow_Podcast_298/Cory_Doctorow_Podcast_298_-_Sole_and_Despotic_Dominion.mp3

#1yrago The #antitrust Twilight Zone https://pluralistic.net/2022/12/16/schumpeterian-terrorism/#deliberately-broken

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