Pluralistic: Linkdump Minkchump (16 Dec 2023)

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Linkdump Minkchump: A thoroughly assorted Saturday.
This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022
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Pluralistic: 19 Sep 2022 How to ditch Facebook without ditching your friends

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How to ditch Facebook without ditching your friends: A new interop design fiction from EFF.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
This day in history: 2002, 2007, 2012, 2017
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Pluralistic: 07 Dec 2021

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Podcasting "Give Me Slack": On the parenting challenges of an era without second chances.
A lexicon of euphemisms for "corporate crime": Compliance, risk, white collar crime…
IP lawyers weaponize trade secrecy to stall vaccine waivers: But Karan Menon has their number.
This day in history: 2001, 2006, 2011, 2016, 2020
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Pluralistic: 23 Nov 2021

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The definitive answers to Disney's pernicious queueing debates: Defunctland simulated a themepark and produced the first public data on queue-management strategies.
This day in history: 2001, 2006, 2011, 2016, 2020
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Pluralistic: 05 Oct 2021

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The Attack Surface paperback is out: And a once-in-a-lifetime deal on the Little Brother audiobooks.
Dave Eggers' "The Every": A tragicomic look at Big Tech, following from "The Circle."
Open Access Ninja: "The Brew of Law."
This day in history: 2016, 2020
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Pluralistic: 19 Apr 2021

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The G(AN)-8: Shardcore's questing AI tries to locate world leaders in a sprawling data-set.
Facebook's tonsils: The traumatic lives of Facebook's moderators.
Podcasting How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism: Part three.
This day in history: 2001, 2006, 2011, 2016, 2020
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Pluralistic: 8 Apr 2021

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We CAN have nice things: Why – and how – America's New New Deal should go VERY VERY big.
Howard Dean's racist, genocidal pharma sellout: Once a progressive lion, now a shill for the worst companies on Earth. Fuck that guy sideways with a brick.
60 seconds of giddy, terrifying, delightful surrealism: The magic realism of Fernando Livschitz.
This day in history: 2016, 2020
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Pluralistic: 19 Feb 2021

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My talks with Edward Snowden and William Gibson: Two wonderful books for your TBR.
Complicity, incompetence, leadership and Capitol Police: A deep postmortem and legal repercussions.
How Republicans froze Texas solid: Market Lysenkoists.
Uber loses court battle, steals wages, censors whistleblower: Big bezzle energy.
This day in history: 2016, 2020
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Pluralistic: 20 Nov 2020

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Little Revolutions: Bethany C Morrow and Tochi Onyebuchi on the Attack Surface Lectures.
Russian Cyberpunk Farm: Superb comedy-dystopia in a russo-futuristic vein.
We're already (badly) forgiving student debt: Debts that can't be paid won't be paid.
Facebook bullies watchdog: My Wired op-ed on the Ad Observer scandal.
Google's monopoly rigged the ad market: Dina Srinivasan is on fire.
This day in history: 2015, 2019
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Pluralistic: 12 Nov 2020

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Constantly Wrong: "Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead."
Xi on interop and lock-in: Inkjet business model as foreign policy.
Anti-bear robo-wolves: Dr Tenma v lobo.
This day in history: 2015
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