Pluralistic: 25 Oct 2021

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The Dems' most secret Congressional committee: The Steering and Policy Committee runs the show and we're not even allowed to know who's on it.
Podcasting "Against The Great Forces of History": What Ada Palmer’s University of Chicago Papal election LARP can teach us about our own future.
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Pluralistic: 24 Oct 2021

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Cyber-mercenaries helped Saudis hack an NYT reporter: Citizen Lab caught the NSO Group in a(nother) war crime.
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Pluralistic: 21 Oct 2021

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Imperfections in your Bluetooth beacons allow for unstoppable tracking: Fingerprinting BLE with minor material variations in radio hardware.
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Pluralistic: 20 Oct 2021

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Copyleft lawsuit against Vizio will allow anyone to defend the commons: Software Freedom Conservancy realizes the dream of "Community-Oriented GPL Enforcement."
The monopoly strategy behind the Google/Microsoft mobile patent wars: The victory condition isn't highest profits, it's market dominance.
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Pluralistic: 19 Oct 2021

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The true, Terry Pratchett-esque origins of the trillion-dollar coin: It's a feature, not a bug.
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Pluralistic: 18 Oct 2021

Today's links

Corporatism made John Deere ripe for a strike: Optimized for failure.
Copyfraudster censors investigation of implausible covid gadget: When a US law is used to censor Indian scientific reporting.
At last, a new Econ 101 textbook: CORE's "The Economy" vs homo economicus.
Podcasting "Dead Letters": Email could be the last federated internet technology – but it isn't.
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Pluralistic: 16 Oct 2021

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The Chicago Tribune is being murdered before our eyes: And it's a serial killing.
This day in history: 2001, 2020.
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Pluralistic: 15 Oct 2021

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ROT 8000 and what "security" means: AKA, "infosec is a team sport."
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Pluralistic: 13 Oct 2021

Today's links

Charter uses bad credit threats to corral ex-subscribers: "Resubscribe or we'll keep trashing your credit report."
Adobe uses copyfraud to preserve spyware: A free-as-in-surveillance-free Flash installer is gone thanks to a bogus copyright claim.
India funded a starving kids' app, but not food: Solutionism at its worst.
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Pluralistic: 12 Oct 2021

Today's links

This Thing Between Us, a neck-hair-stand-up cuycuy horror: Gus Moreno's debut novel.
There are no corporate criminals in America: Because America doesn't have corporate crime prosecutions.
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