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The "shitty technology adoption curve" describes the arc of oppressive technology: when you have a manifestly terrible idea, you can't ram it down the throats of rich, powerful people who
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When you think of the @rcmpgrcpolice, you probably imagine the romantic sight of guys in archaic red brocaded uniforms doing close-order drill on horses while waving Canadian flags. 1/ The
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The @RIAA threw an October Surprise late last month when it sent a takedown demand to @Github over #Youtubedl, a general purpose, lawful tool that allowed people to download Youtube
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One of the machine learning researchers I follow closely is @petewarden, who writes extensively about the hardware side of ML, something we hear very little about beyond vague accounts of
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Here's what K-shaped recovery looks like: New Yorkers, out of money and options, move into smaller quarters with their families, putting their treasures into storage, only to discover they can't
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With its US body count around 200k, the opioid epidemic may seem like small potatoes next to the slaughter of the bungled covid response, but it's a still-suppurating wound on
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We are in an extraordinary moment, but not an entirely unprecedented one. Since the earliest days, societies have had to cope with disasters that wiped out the ability of everyday
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If you only learn one technical term from labor economics, make it "chickenization" - @CLeonardNews's term for the way that the Big Three poultry processors have structured the chicken-farming industry
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Obviously, there was a LOT of stuff on the ballot on Nov 3. In Massachusetts, there was a chance to vote on #RightToRepair.Again.1/ Back in 2012, 75% of Bay Staters
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Back in April, Xi Jinping gave a (just released) speech about his "dual circulation" plan for China's economy:* stimulating consumer spending and reducing China's dependence on trade, and * increasing
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In "Constantly Wrong," @remixeverything continues his brilliant mashup video work on conspiracy theories with a new, 47 minute documentary that contrasts real-world conspiracies (crimes) with conspiracy theories. https://www.youtu
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(Almost) all Americans hate their ISP. The exception? People who get their internet from their municipal governments. https://www.consumerreports.org/telecom-services/cord-cutting-continues-high-cable-pricing/Over 750 municipalities (mostly
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