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So people are upset about Facebook having too much power and it is responding with offers to pick your news sources and dating partners. Got it.
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I've written a lot about the issues around Facebook, its governance, and its business model, so I'm going to self-promote a bit. This from 'The Moral Economy of Tech' https://t.co/mypcBcA6Bf
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This headline wins the Internet.
gizmodo.com
One US senator is calling out the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation for pushing the moronic notion that there is somehow a good way to add
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Here's a recording of what you hear when you call the White House. This is bonkers. h/t @davidmackau
#MondayMotivation
#MorningJoe
https://t.co/n3s6QbIEIB
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Seen earlier on the Andrews & Arnold irc channel (from a customer, not a staff member): "as far as I can tell, BT think of themselves as a misplaced arm of the government, so the whole concept of "monopoly" doesn't quite fit them...it's more like dealing with the civil service"
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I made a thing! 🎉👇 Just run `curl https://t.co/yAr5HS6Qud` and you should get a live parrot in your terminal! 👉Check out the code here: https://t.co/zLGuvT9gZf Thanks to @jmhobbs for the inspiration🐦 #partyparrot✌️
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What if a billion people had access to easy end to end encrypted messaging, except it was useless because a majority of them unknowingly backed up their and their friend's chats and group chats to Google Drive unencrypted, so the government can just subpoena Google.
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My daughter insisted on this costume. All the other parents at daycare will think I've never read a comic book. #HalloweenWeekend
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You should see who they'll give the presidency to.
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This pump could eventually make renewable sources like wind and solar as cheap and reliable as natural-gas plants.
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I know Paltrow/Jolie will get attention, but pls read accounts of the lesser-known women. You will not forget them.
nytimes.com
“This way of treating women ends now,” Ms. Paltrow said as she and other actresses accused the producer of casting-couch abuses.
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Europe's upload filter is based on the idea that copyright infringement shouldn't just be illegal, but impossible.
eff.org
Update: the October 5 vote in the LIBE committee has now been postponed to an indefinite future date. If you've been following the slow progress of the European Commission's proposal to introduce new
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“If not guns, they’ll just find another way to kill.” I’m an ER doc. I’ve seen the other ways and guns are the worst.
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