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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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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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Tugba Tanyeri-Erdemir
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Panagia Soumela (Greek Orhodox) in Trabzon and the Cathedral of Holy Cross (Armenian) on Akthamar Island in Van were restored and opened as museums in 2010; the Turkish government allowed
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Cory Doctorow #BLM
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Kroger is one of America's largest, most profitable grocery chains, with $2b in profits in '19. Ohio just gave it a 15-year, 75% tax subsidy in exchange for locating some
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The latest Made-in-Britain Tory political scandal is the "fuck the algorithm" A-level grades omnishambles, in which the Conservative party deployed a black-box algorithm to give rich students higher grades and
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Cory Doctorow #BLM
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When they write the history of this era, one of the strangest chapters will be devoted to Uber, a company that was never, ever going to be profitable, which existed
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Cory Doctorow #BLM
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2018 was almost the year we won the #RightToRepair. Instead, 2018 turned out to be the year we lost #R2R: 20 bills defeated in 20 state houses, and it was
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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).Inside: Organic fascism; Stop the "Stop the Steal" steal; and more!Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2021/02/04/vote-machine-tankies/#Pluralistic1/ Organic fascism: The Pastel Q/or
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There's a tacit bet on the left that Biden might turn out be a president in the mold of FDR or Lincoln - a centrist margin-tinkerer whose susceptibility to political
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Drew Holden
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This whole Cawthorne brouhaha seems like it’s just another example of one of the ways that lots of people - in the media and beyond - don’t grasp what Christianity
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Cory Doctorow #BLM
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On the one hand, high-stakes testing is pedagogically bankrupt, but on the other hand, it sure produces numbers that universities can focus on increasing, and then trumpet when those numbers
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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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Cory Doctorow #BLM
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This week marks publication of The Case for a Job Guarantee, @ptcherneva's brilliant, lucid pamphlet laying out the case for a radical rethinking of work and the creation of a
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Finfisher/Finspy is malware made by Gamma, an Anglo-German cyber-arms dealer, and sold to the world's most despicable dictators and torturers. Microsoft Security has just published an extensive, fascinating analysis of
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Cory Doctorow #BLM
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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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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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