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  • Cory Doctorow
    11:53 am Wed, Sep 19, 2018
    Your life will be better if you turn off push notifications (and all notifications)

    Motherboard editor Jason Koebler thinks you should turn off push notifications and boy, do I agree: I have had notifications turned off on everything except SMS, Twitter DMs and Signal… Read the rest of the article: Your life will be better if you turn off push notifications (and all notifications)

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  • Cory Doctorow
    11:37 am Wed, Sep 19, 2018
    The Most Perfect album: musical tributes to all 27 US Constitutional amendments

    For more than two years, Radiolab has been running a brilliant side-podcast called More Perfect which involves deeply reported, engaging stories about Supreme Court decisions, skilfully mixing in audio from… Read the rest of the article: The Most Perfect album: musical tributes to all 27 US Constitutional amendments

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  • Cory Doctorow
    11:04 am Wed, Sep 19, 2018
    30 years after cyberpunk, Japan is still the (greying, insular, shrinking, climate-wracked) future

    In the heady years of cyberpunk, Japan epitomized the future: gritty and neon-lit, urbanized and electrified, computerized and high-tech, dominated by massive corporations.

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  • Cory Doctorow
    10:44 am Wed, Sep 19, 2018
    Rice University eliminates tuition for all but wealthiest students, makes housing free for poorest

    From its founding in 1912 until 1965, Houston's Rice University was free to attend; but today, Rice has joined other US universities in saddling its students with ghastly, inescapable mountains… Read the rest of the article: Rice University eliminates tuition for all but wealthiest students, makes housing free for poorest

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  • Cory Doctorow
    10:24 am Wed, Sep 19, 2018
    Cloud computing and DRM: a match made in hell

    As part of yesterday's International Day Against DRM, Public Knowledge's John Bergmayer published It's Always DRM's Fault, which uses this month's viral story about an Apple user named Anders G… Read the rest of the article: Cloud computing and DRM: a match made in hell

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  • Cory Doctorow
    9:59 am Wed, Sep 19, 2018
    3D print this Harriet Tubman stamp and fix all those twenties that Mnuchin forgot to take Andrew Jackson off of

    As of 2020, Harriet Tubman — revolutionary anti-racist hero — was supposed to replace Andrew Jackson (authoritarian, genocidal stain on the American project) on the $20 bill, with Jackson moving… Read the rest of the article: 3D print this Harriet Tubman stamp and fix all those twenties that Mnuchin forgot to take Andrew Jackson off of

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  • Cory Doctorow
    9:29 am Wed, Sep 19, 2018
    Incredibly satisfying video depicting the meticulous, miraculous restoration of a ruined vintage Hot Wheels car

    BaremetalHW's narrated timelapse of his restoration of a completely trashed Hot Wheels 1971 "Bye-Focal" car is fantastically satisfying: watching him bang out the dings, zinc coat, polish, paint, decorate and… Read the rest of the article: Incredibly satisfying video depicting the meticulous, miraculous restoration of a ruined vintage Hot Wheels car

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  • Cory Doctorow
    8:58 am Wed, Sep 19, 2018
    Anita Hill on how sexual harassment allegations should be handled

    When Anita Hill testified about the sexual abuse she'd suffered at Clarence Thomas's hands, Senate Republicans and the press pilloried her, calling her a liar and worse, and going on… Read the rest of the article: Anita Hill on how sexual harassment allegations should be handled

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  • Cory Doctorow
    6:48 am Wed, Sep 19, 2018
    Kalamazoo criminalizes homelessness, arrests city commissioner and other activists

    Mike DeWaele writes, "A group of homeless activists had maintained a peaceful occupation of Bronson Park in Kalamazoo for about a month in protests of a new ordinance that made… Read the rest of the article: Kalamazoo criminalizes homelessness, arrests city commissioner and other activists

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  • Cory Doctorow
    6:33 am Wed, Sep 19, 2018
    Denmark's largest bank laundered €200B through its Estonian branch, ignoring glaring warning signs

    Before Thomas Borgen was CEO of Danske Bank, he ran the bank's Estonian branch from 2009-2013, presiding over years of neglect of basic, commonsense money-laundering controls, allowing more than €200B… Read the rest of the article: Denmark's largest bank laundered €200B through its Estonian branch, ignoring glaring warning signs

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  • Cory Doctorow
    6:03 am Wed, Sep 19, 2018
    Hey, Swarthmore! I'm headed your way next week

    I'm heading to the east coast next week, first for a lecture series in NYC for Columbia University (including a conversation with Radiolab's Jad Abumrad about Big Tech, monopolies and… Read the rest of the article: Hey, Swarthmore! I'm headed your way next week

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  • Cory Doctorow
    5:39 am Wed, Sep 19, 2018
    Germany's far-right top spy just lost his job after gaslighting the country about right-wing, violent mob

    Hans-Georg Maaßen was Germany's top spy, in charge of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (a domestic surveillance agency with 3,100 employees and an annual budget of… Read the rest of the article: Germany's far-right top spy just lost his job after gaslighting the country about right-wing, violent mob

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  • Cory Doctorow
    1:42 pm Tue, Sep 18, 2018
    Free ebook! Charlie Jane Anders' award winning debut novel "All the Birds in the Sky"

    Charlie Jane Anders' Nebula-award-winning 2016 debut novel All the Birds in the Sky is the next Tor.com Ebook Club selection: that means you can get a free ebook, and then… Read the rest of the article: Free ebook! Charlie Jane Anders' award winning debut novel "All the Birds in the Sky"

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  • Cory Doctorow
    1:36 pm Tue, Sep 18, 2018
    Security researchers can access and modify security footage from Nuuo surveillance systems

    Nuuo is a leading vendor of "trusted video management" tools used in conjunction with CCTVs deployed in sensitive applications like surveillance of "transport, banking, government, and residential areas."

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  • Cory Doctorow
    1:26 pm Tue, Sep 18, 2018
    Happy Day Against DRM! How We'll Hill-Climb Our Way to Glory!

    On this International Day Against DRM, I've published an editorial for EFF Deeplinks setting out a theory of change for getting us to a world without Digital Rights Management, where… Read the rest of the article: Happy Day Against DRM! How We'll Hill-Climb Our Way to Glory!

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  • Cory Doctorow
    1:12 pm Tue, Sep 18, 2018
    Edward Snowden on Malkia Cyril, a multigenerational black rights activist on the front lines of the surveillance wars

    For its 25th anniversary, Wired Magazine asked numerous luminaries to pick a figure from the digital world to celebrate; Edward Snowden chose EFF Pioneer Award Winner Malkia Cyril, executive director… Read the rest of the article: Edward Snowden on Malkia Cyril, a multigenerational black rights activist on the front lines of the surveillance wars

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  • Cory Doctorow
    1:00 pm Tue, Sep 18, 2018
    WWWBasic: code web-pages in BASIC

    Google's WWWBasic project allows you to write web-page interactivity using a BASIC-like syntax that will be recognizable to anyone who grew up with early personal computers in the late 1970s… Read the rest of the article: WWWBasic: code web-pages in BASIC

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  • Cory Doctorow
    12:54 pm Tue, Sep 18, 2018
    Evidence of NSO Group surveillance products found in 45 countries, including notorious human-rights abusers

    Researchers from the University of Toronto's outstanding Citizen Lab (previously) have published their latest research on the notorious and prolific Israeli cyber-arms-dealer The NSO Group (previously), one of the world's… Read the rest of the article: Evidence of NSO Group surveillance products found in 45 countries, including notorious human-rights abusers

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  • Cory Doctorow
    12:37 pm Tue, Sep 18, 2018
    Seattle can't afford to fund arts, housing or tourism, but it can find $135 million to repair the Mariners stadium

    King County Council was ambushed by a series of surprise amendments to its meeting on Monday that resulted in $135,000,000 being diverted from hotel lodging tax funds earmarked for affordable… Read the rest of the article: Seattle can't afford to fund arts, housing or tourism, but it can find $135 million to repair the Mariners stadium

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  • Cory Doctorow
    12:04 pm Tue, Sep 18, 2018
    As "porn for women" tops search terms, a porn site offers cash grants for female pornographers

    "Porn for women" was Pornhub's "top trending" search term for 2017; across the pornosphere, the number of women viewers continues its meteoric rise and rise, up to 25% now —… Read the rest of the article: As "porn for women" tops search terms, a porn site offers cash grants for female pornographers

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