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Accountancy is more likely to be mocked than celebrated (or condemned), but accountants, far more than poets, are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. 1/ Though "bean counters" are employed
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The idea of "centaurs" comes from automation theorists: it describes a system where a human and a machine collaborate to do more than either one could do on their own.
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Ring - Amazon's surveillance doorbell division - has 4,000 "partnerships" with US police ("public safety") orgs. The company has lied about how these work for years, but the basic deal
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In late 2020, a coalition of predatory, money-losing, private-equity backed companies ran a $200m disinformation campaign that resulted in the passage of California's #Prop22, legalizing worker misclassification and mass-scale labor
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Self-control isn't merely a matter of eliminating your own weaknesses. Self control is primarily about compensating for those weaknesses. When you go on a diet, you don't just commit yourself
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Say it with me now: a fine is a price. When companies profit from inflicting harm on the rest of us, a fine is just part of the price of
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One of the most Monkey's Paw things about my life is my relationship to books. When I was a teenager, I read all the way through the school and public
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Inequality requires narrative stabilizers. When you have too little and someone else has more than they can possibly use, simple logic dictates that you should take what they have. 1/
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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).Inside: Privacy Without Monopoly; Broad Band; $50T moved from America's 90% to the 1%; and more!Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2021/02/13/data-protection-without-monopoly/#Pluralistic
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In "Dependency Confusion," security researcher @alxbrsn describes how he made a fortune in bug bounties by exploiting a new supply-chain attack he calls "dependency confusion," which allowed him to compromise
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Republican North Dakota legislators have introduced #SB2333, a bill that prohibits large tech companies from locking their users into a single app store or payment processor.https://www.legis.nd.gov/assembly/67-2021/documents/21-1044-01000.
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Adam Curtis is a brilliant documentarian, and films like Hypernormalization and series like All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace had a profound effect on my thinking about politics,
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