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Do you feel guilty about ordering stuff from Amazon during the lockdown, even as the company fires and smears workers demanding safe working conditions, and withdraws the paltry $2/hour hazard
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The second wave of the 1918 flu was far worse than the first. People, buoyed up by the apparent success of their quarantines, flooded into public spaces, triggering a wave
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A followup to yesterday's mystifying story about gun enthusiasts posting photos of themselves with unsaftied guns jammed into their own crotches, fingers on the triggers.https://pluralistic.net/2020/05/27/literal-gunhumping/#youll-shoot
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Science fiction sucks at predicting the future, but it sure is good at predicting the present (c.f. @greatdismal): that is, the stuff that seems plausible in science fiction at any
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The Toronto Star is Canada's largest-circulating newspaper, a venerable institution that was the inspiration for Superman's Daily Planet. They're a partisan paper in the British tradition, well understood to be
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Before the pandemic, the music industry was making more money than ever, exceeding even the incredible revenues of the CD era in which audiences bought all their favorite music in
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I have a weird soft spot in my heart for Hertz, because they were the first company to offer satnav systems, and since I have a sense of direction so
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Leaked internal Facebook docs reveal that top company execs were told that the company's "engagement algorithm" was sowing division among its users, by feeding people ever-more-fringe versions of their own
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More recently, HP pushed a fake "security update" to its printers that lay dormant for six months, then activated and began blocking third-party/remanufactured ink cartridges.https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/09/what-hp-must-do-m
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In "The Effect of White Social Prejudice on Support for American Democracy," a pair of political scientists used data from the World Values Survey to analyze the rise of authoritarian,
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One of my favorite expressions of disgust is "The only time I wouldn't piss on him is if he was on fire." Well, the world is on fire and the
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In a deceptive software update, @TXInstruments removed a popular feature from its bestselling TI-84 graphing calculators, removing the ability of calculator owners to write and run their own C and
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