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Hackers on Planet Earth, in the cloud: HOPE will not be cancelled.
Climate and machine learning: Machine learning is roasting the planet.
Seeking Fitbit owners' stories: Help EFF explain why the Google takeover is wrong.
Software secrecy: Code is (bad) law.
Grocer won't show employees results from mandatory temp-checks: Coronavirus theater, class war edition.
Bill Clinton sings "Baby Got Back": Speech synthesis is just sublimely weird.
Webinar on Controlled Digital Lending and the pandemic: Talking about the Internet Archive, this Friday.
Google vows no custom AI for oil and gas: Reversing its 2018 position, which was garbage.
Re-positive coronavirus cases are not infectious: Finally, we catch a break.
Ifixit's medtech repair manual trove is full to bursting: Right to Repair, pandemic edition.
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Problems with Pepp-Pt: Privacy-preserving contact tracing is really hard.

Disney publishes an official Dole Whip recipe: Orange whip? Orange whip? Three orange whips.

Reset Everything: Crisis means crossroads.

Usage stats from the National Emergency Library: Most of the checkouts are of books more than a decade old and last less than 30 minutes.

RPG hagaddah: The Role-Player, what does he say?

Managing UI claim surges: Hundreds of phone calls, day after day, without ever reaching a person.

Realtime wildcat strike map: Coronavirus is leverage for low-waged workers.

501 Developer Manifesto: Free time over free snacks.

Privacy Redirect: Nitter > Twitter.

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