Pluralistic: Tesla's Dieselgate (28 July 2023)

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Tesla's Dieselgate: How DRM let Tesla defraud every one of its customers.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
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Pluralistic: 07 Aug 2022

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Epson boobytrapped its printers: "For your protection."
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Pluralistic: 20 May 2022

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Podcasting "About Those Killswitched Ukrainian Tractors": Good spaceships don't have self-destruct buttons.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
This day in history: 2002, 2017
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Pluralistic: 28 Oct 2021

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The new DRM-breaking exemptions just dropped: But here's the bad news…
All of science gets a general index: For your text-mining pleasure, courtesy of Carl Malamud and Public Resource.
Europe's trustbusters lose the plot: Filternet, made in Europe.
This day in history: 2001, 2006, 2011, 2016, 2020.
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Pluralistic: 01 Aug 2021

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Github pledges legal aid for interoperators: Youtube-dl's legacy.
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Pluralistic: 22 Jun 2021

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Improving the ACCESS Act: Six ways to make the most important tech law of the legislative season even better.
Juul's junk science: Reporting bias makes vaping's safety is a hazy mess.
Peloton bricks its treadmills: Your kids are dead because you didn't buy the subscription.
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Pluralistic: 03 May 2021

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Dishwashers have become Iphones: Meet the Bob Cassette Rewinder.
Part 5 of How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism: This week on my podcast!
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Pluralistic: 16 Nov 2020

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Jeremy Meyer's typewriter assemblages: Symmetry is everything.
HHS to pharma: stop bribing writing docs: No more cash-for-Rx.
The Attack Surface Lectures: Part 1, Politics and Protest.
Youtube-dl is back: EFF to the rescue!
Someone Comes to Town Part 23: The latest in my podcast.
This day in history: 2005, 2015, 2019
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Pluralistic: 30 Oct 2020

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Facebook loses users, makes more money: It's good to be king.
DRM horror-stories needed: Your chance to change the law.
This day in history: 2005, 2015, 2019
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Pluralistic: 28 Oct 2020

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RIAA's war on youtube-dl: The rise of the resistance.
Trump abandons supporters to freeze: More death cult shit.
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