One of the major triumphs of Elizabeth Warren's Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was a rule that banned the finance industry from using binding arbitration clauses to prevent defrauded customers from… Read the rest of the article: Corporations form coalition to ask a court to ban coalitions (of people the corporations have screwed over)
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Cory Doctorow Destinyland writes, "Slashdot turns 20 years old today [Ed: here's my post from Slashdot's 10th birthday!], and to celebrate they've gone back to look at how some of the highlights… Read the rest of the article: Slashdot is 20
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Cory Doctorow Carrie Becker's Barbie Trashes Her Dreamhouse is a detailed 1:16 scale model of a hoarder house, inside a Barbie Dream House, beautifully and hauntingly photographed. I know hoarders (and am… Read the rest of the article: Hoarder Barbie trashes her Dream House
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Cory Doctorow You will look amazing in sandals that look like gasping largemouth bass, seriously (max size is a Men's 10, so only the dainty of feed need apply, e.g., not me).
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Cory Doctorow One of the holy grails of free and open computing is a really great free/open phone; it's been tried many times before without much success, but a new crowdfunder from… Read the rest of the article: Crowdfunder for a free/open phone crosses $1M mark
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Cory Doctorow Canary makes an Internet of Things home security camera that connects to your wifi and sends video to Canary's servers where it is analyzed for suspicious activity (such as motion… Read the rest of the article: Canary claws back cloud features from its IoT camera, starts charging $10/month
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Cory Doctorow The New York Democratic primary — like primaries across the country — will be a fight for the soul of the Democratic party, between the establishment wing and progressive, Sanders… Read the rest of the article: New Yorkers: if you want to vote in the 2018 Democratic primary, you have to register by Oct 13
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Cory Doctorow Christian Alcoholics & Addicts in Recovery is a "diversion program" where drug addicts convicted of crimes can be sent to get help, but an investigation by the Center for Investigative… Read the rest of the article: Prisoners sent to Christian "rehab" diversion programs find themselves in forced-labor camps
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Cory Doctorow Columbus, Ohio boasts one of the fastest-growing economies in the midwest, with gains in transit, creditworthiness, and employment — but it's also one of the most unequal cities in the… Read the rest of the article: Sanders-inspired candidates challenge Democratic sellouts in unequal Columbus
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Cory Doctorow I am a die-hard Thinkpad user: they have the best warranty service of any laptop, by orders of magnitude, they're rugged enough to survive book tours, and it's very easy… Read the rest of the article: Lenovo's 25th anniversary Thinkpad corrects years' worth of wrong turns
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Cory Doctorow Frank Wu writes, "My wife Brianna Wu decided to run for US Congress on a serious platform of fighting for intelligent tech policy and against wage and racial inequality, and… Read the rest of the article: An amazing campaign ad for Brianna Wu, courtesy of her husband Frank Wu
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Cory Doctorow The Stranger's David Lewis snuck into the Northwest Forum, a s00per s33kr1t Nazi gathering in Seattle, and attended the speeches, including the keynote by reclusive white supremacist leader Dr Greg… Read the rest of the article: Seattle's Nazi tech-bros' plan: infiltrate tech industry, hire white supremacists
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Cory Doctorow At yesterday's Congressional hearings on the Equifax breach, Senator Elizabeth Warren took a moment to enumerate all the ways that Equifax will benefit from doxing 145,500,000 Americans.
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Cory Doctorow In A Hundred Billion Trillion Stars, Seth Fishman and illustrator Isabel Greenberg (previously) present a the astounding, nearly incomprehensible size of the universe in a picture book that even the very youngest readers will delight in; when I blurbed it, I wrote "Dazzling: the astounding, mind-boggling scale of the magnificent universe and our humbling and miraculous place in it, rendered in pictures and words that the youngest readers will understand."
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Cory Doctorow On September 29, weeks after Equifax admitted to having lost the most sensitive financial and personal information of 143,000,000 Americans (but a week before Equifax admitted that the total was… Read the rest of the article: After massive breach Equifax gets $7.25m no-bid IRS contract to "prevent fraud"
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Cory Doctorow Data analysis company Gravwell ingested 22,000,000 comments sent to the FCC's docket on Net Neutrality and posted their preliminary findings, which are that the majority of comments came from bots,… Read the rest of the article: Analysis of 22 million FCC comments show that humans love Net Neutrality and bots really, really hate it
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Cory Doctorow The average American worker has $95,000 in their 401(k), which will not even allow them to starve with dignity; this is a sharp contrast from earlier generations of American workers,… Read the rest of the article: Average Fortune 500 CEO gets a pension of $253,088 every month until they die
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Cory Doctorow In June, Chokwe Lumumba, Jr. was elected mayor of Jackson, Mississippi on a platform that promised to make it the "most radical city on the planet;" this week, Randall Woodfin… Read the rest of the article: Sanders-backed politicians are winning battle after battle in southern local elections
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Cory Doctorow The 2,500-watt LaserSharp Denim HD Abrasion System adds precision wear-marks to fresh denim jeans to make them look sort-of worn-ish, making it the latest successor to acid-washing in the long… Read the rest of the article: Laser "distresses" a pair of jeans
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Cory Doctorow Former Equifax CEO Richard Smith — who retired with $90m for his year's work after overseeing a breach of 145,500,000 Americans' most sensitive date — testified before Congress yesterday and… Read the rest of the article: Disgraced Equifax CEO blames 145.5 million-record breach on a single forgetful flunky