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How Facebook will benefit from its massive breach: Creating a problem does not qualify you to solve the problem.

This day in history: 2011, 2016, 2020

Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading

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Hank Green and me in conversation: July 10 for Minneapolis's Magers and Quinn books.
Facebook Workplace can block employees from discussing unionization: Oops, they said the quiet part out loud.
Secrets of a seventeen year old scraper: How 17 year old Avi Schiffmann built the web's leading covid case-tracker and Black Lives Matter protest-tracker.
Facebook endorses Terra Nullius: Facebook's nudity filter blocks images of Aboriginal slavery.
This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

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