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In 1948, Yugoslavia was expelled from Cominform, the Soviet information agency, in retaliation for its "non-aligned" status; deprived of information-processing capacity, the country created its own IT industry from scratch.1/
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For years, the pharma giant Novartis ran a "speaker program" that laundered vast payments to doctors - speaking fees, trips, top-shelf booze, strip club nights and fancy meals - in
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States across the US have enacted cruel, unconstitutional abortion laws that require doctors to sexually assault women seeking abortions and lie to them about the health impacts of abortion. Some
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The Qanon phenomenon is many things: for one thing, it's a grift. Q's top spokesgargoyles earn small fortunes in ad revenue, crowdfunding and merchandise.https://pluralistic.net/2020/05/15/out-here-everything-hurts/#q1/ But it's
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The mainstay of online advertising is "behavioral advertising" in which ads are placed based on dossiers of your activity and preferences that have been compiled by Big Tech giants and
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If you think about the @NRA, you probably concentrate on the org's program activities: raising stupendous sums from terrified musketfuckers and spending them to lobby for the most lethally irresponsible
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There's increasing medical consensus that indoor spread of covid takes place through floating aerosol particles. If your environs are warm and dry year round (like my place in San Fernando
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You know that thing that companies do when you set up an online account, asking you to name your favorite food and your high-school mascot as a way to recover
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In a major new paper, just released as a preprint, the eminent UK computer scientist and digital rights campaigner @1Br0wn makes the case for "Interoperability as a tool for competition
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Late last June, Google bought out "North," a tech company based in Waterloo, ON, which manufactured "Focals," a line of "smart glasses." A month later, the company is turning off
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Mexico's new copyright law was rushed through its Congress without debate or consultation, copy-pasting the US copyright system into Mexican law as though America's system was working perfectly.https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/07/
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In 1953, Paul Niquette coined the term "software."At the time, computers were colloquially called "giant brains" but they were inert until a program inputted semipermanent routines in the computer's memory.
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