Pluralistic: An interoperability rule for your money (21 Oct 2023)

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An interoperability rule for your money: The CFPB will force banks to make it easy for you to leave.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
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Experian doxes the world (again): And the breach is still ongoing.
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US public health officials on apps: "Meh"; Volcano gods demand workers; Animal Crossing Haunted Mansion

Pluralistic: 08 May 2020 volcano-gods

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US public health officials on apps: "Meh": Exposure notification is no substitute for labor-intensive contact-tracing.
Volcano gods demand workers: Reopening is only possible under threat of starvation and homelessness.
Animal Crossing Haunted Mansion: Needs more AOC.
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Pluralistic: 07 Apr 2020

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Pickled 2001 computer store: Deadstock ahoy!
A farewell to APIs: Greed, spam and entropy killed mashups.
Machine learning model performs butthole recognition: Peak Internet of Shit.
Covid loteria cards: Cabronavirus.
California's fiber for all bill: Tell your senator to support SB1130.
1978 Doonesbury stereotype: Come for the Indochina political humor, stay for the printer's lore.
LA crime plummets: Down 23% (domestic violence is down 11%).
US stimulus is one week's cash: Deflation ahoy.
Private equity blinks on cuts to health workers' wages: Speeding up slow destruction makes it impossible to ignore.
Virtual greenscreen: Incredible computer science paper from the 2020 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition.
Landlord changes church's locks: The pastor of Cross Culture Christian Center in Lodi, CA refused to stop holding services.
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