#5yrsago Zuck claims he chows down with politicos from “across the spectrum” but they all seem to be far-right creeps https://theintercept.com/2019/10/25/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-dinners/
#1yrago Bad King Richard got rich by exploiting workers at King's Faire https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/25/huzzah/#bad-king-richard
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#5yrsago Researchers’ budget blown when a migrating eagle’s tracker chip connects to an Iranian cellular tower and sends expensive SMSes https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50180781
#5yrsago New Hampshire state Rep John Potucek kills Right to Repair bill: “cellphones are throwaways…just get a new one” https://www.vice.com/en/article/lawmaker-kills-repair-bill-because-cellphones-are-throwaways/
#1yrago Amazon Alexa is a graduate of the Darth Vader MBA https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/26/hit-with-a-brick/#graceful-failure
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#1yrago A media literacy handbook for Israel-Gaza https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/28/fog-o-war/##breaking-news
#1yrago A taxonomy of corporate bullshit https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/27/six-sells/#youre-holding-it-wrong
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#5yrsago The First Scarfolk Annual: a mysterious artifact from a curiously familiar eternal grimdark 1970s https://memex.craphound.com/2019/10/30/the-first-scarfolk-annual-a-mysterious-artifact-from-a-curiously-familiar-eternal-grimdark-1970s/
#1yrago Zuck's gravity-defying metaverse money-pit https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/30/markets-remaining-irrational/#steins-law
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#5yrsago Leaked document reveals that Sidewalk Labs’ Toronto plans for private taxation, private roads, charter schools, corporate cops and judges, and punishment for people who choose privacy https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-sidewalk-labs-document-reveals-companys-early-plans-for-data/
#1yrago The impoverished imagination of neoliberal climate "solutions" https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/31/carbon-upsets/#big-tradeoff
#1yrsago Social Security is class war, not intergenerational conflict https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/01/intergenerational-warfare/#five-pound-blocks-of-cheese
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