UNESCO is about as good as it gets in the world of UN Specialized Agencies, responsible for designating and protecting world heritage sites, running literacy for the poorest people on… Read the rest of the article: The US has quit UNESCO, the UN agency that protects world heritage sites and teaches poor children to read
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Cory Doctorow China's latest rich-list of 2,030 people controlling fortunes of $300M or more now totals $2.6 trillion, as much as the UK GDP.
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Cory Doctorow Give birth in one of Japan's excellent state-funded hospitals and here's what you'll eat: Omuraisu, macaroni salad, chicken soup, squid rings, fruit, green tea; Salmon with mushroom sauce, soba noodles,… Read the rest of the article: Here's what hospital food looks like in Japan
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Cory Doctorow The US is the only developed country in the world without universal healthcare. Americans pay more for their healthcare than anyone else, and get significantly worse outcomes than people in… Read the rest of the article: Here are the three most common dishonest arguments used to derail universal healthcare proposals
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Cory Doctorow First it was HHS Secretary Tom Price's private-jet binge, which eventually ended his political career; then it was the $1MM+ pricetage for paid protester Mike Pence's football game stunt, and… Read the rest of the article: Yet another Trump official accused of defrauding taxpayers with dirty travel expenses
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Cory Doctorow US businesses really get screwed by their ISPs: 73% of the US only has one business ISP; 24% of the remainder has only two ISPs, and only 3% of the… Read the rest of the article: Trump's FCC redefines "effective competition" to include having only one ISP in your county
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Cory Doctorow Chinese social media platforms allow state internet censors to directly suppress individual posts as well as keywords, and an army of young, cool internet censors labor in a swanky office… Read the rest of the article: Chinese internet censors really enjoy the work
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Cory Doctorow The first person in an elevator in Japan in the "elevator captain," with duties to keep the door-open button pressed during load/unload and then button-mash close-door once loading is complete,… Read the rest of the article: You are the elevator captain: a guide to Japan's unspoken elevator etiquette
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Cory Doctorow On Wednesday, security researcher Randy Abrams visited the Equifax site to contest bad information in his credit report and was attacked by malicious software that tried to get him to… Read the rest of the article: Equifax is serving malware to visitors
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Cory Doctorow In September 2016, we learned that the University of New Hampshire was going to use $1 million that an incredibly frugal librarian saved while working as a library cataloger for… Read the rest of the article: How the University of New Hampshire spun blowing a frugal librarian's donation on a stupid football scoreboard
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Cory Doctorow Carbohydrate whisperer Jessica Leigh Clark-Bojin (AKA @thePieous) (previously), author of Pies Are Awesome Vol 1 "Pie-Modding": How to Epic-Up Store Bought Pies and Be the Hero of the Party" writes,… Read the rest of the article: Celebrate Stranger Things with an Eleven pie topped with waffles
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Cory Doctorow Last Friday, a white guy named Michael Christopher Estes walked into Asheville Regional Airport in North Carolina, dressed in black and carrying an AN/FO chemical explosive as well as sharp… Read the rest of the article: Last Friday, a white dude tried to blow up a plane to "fight a war" in America and no one cared
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Cory Doctorow Dreamhost is the hosting provider for disruptj20.org, a website where 1.3 million people discussed plans for protesting Donald Trump's inauguration; in August, Trump's DoJ got a warrant demanding all the… Read the rest of the article: Court tells Trump that he can't demand details and data on everyone who talked about protesting his inauguration
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Cory Doctorow "Tax Reform for America" is a US Chamber of Commerce-backed astroturf group that features testimonials from "mom and pop" business owners who back Trump's tax plan, which will overwhelmingly benefit… Read the rest of the article: The "mom and pop" business owner who loves Trump's tax plan is a lobbyist for Oracle who will save billions
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Cory Doctorow Oh, Equifax: "Equifax says that for approximately 14.5 million of the 15.2 million affected, the stolen records contained only a small amount of information, limited to name and dates of… Read the rest of the article: Equifax: we doxed 400k Britons, erm, make that 700k, erm, we mean 15.2 million
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Cory Doctorow Brett Gaylor from Mozilla writes, "The FCC received 22 million comments in response to its plan to repeal Net Neutrality legislation. So we've created a virtual way for you to… Read the rest of the article: Help cover the FCC with 22 million virtual flyers
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Cory Doctorow Section 108h of the Copyright Act gives libraries the power to scan and serve copies of out-of-print books published between 1923 and 1941; it's never been used before but now… Read the rest of the article: An obscure copyright law is letting the Internet Archive distribute books published 1923-1941
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Cory Doctorow The core components of a mobile phone are small enough for rectal insertion, so there's really no limit to what shape a phone can take (something you can verify with… Read the rest of the article: A fidget spinner with a built-in mobile phone
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Cory Doctorow 1977's Apple ][+ was the first successful personal computer, inspiring a generation of hackers and makers and coders; famously, it shipped with a schematic that showed how the boards and… Read the rest of the article: Reimplementing an Apple ][+ on an FPGA