Rene Flores is one of the truckers who spoke to USA Today for its excellent investigative piece on the use of debt and indenture to force truckers to work for… Read the rest of the article: Trucking company fires worker who spoke to reporter about working conditions, takes truck and $60,000 from him
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Cory Doctorow A New York Magazine profile of racist media kingpin and White House Pepe-tender Steve Bannon reveals that his office sports a framed mashup of Jacques-Louis David's 1812 painting "The Emperor… Read the rest of the article: Nigel Farage gave Steve Bannon a painting in which Bannon is Napoleon
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Cory Doctorow 58% of "right-leaning Americans" believe that colleges and universities "have a negative effect on the country"; only 36% of Republican-leaning voters support higher education.
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Cory Doctorow Most people don't look at any news, or at one news site; using social media a lot (even without the intention of looking for news) means that sometimes you'll end… Read the rest of the article: Heavy social media use leads to a wider variety of news sources
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Cory Doctorow Good Business is a short science fiction film about a very dodgy arms deal indeed, with a sting in its metaphorical tail; the film was created by Ray Sullian, adapted… Read the rest of the article: Selling arms to alien arthropods is a tricky business
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Cory Doctorow In 2012, Google introduced Certificate Transparency, an internet-wide tripwire system designed to catch cryptographic "certificate authorities" who abused their position to produce counterfeit credentials that would allow criminals, governments and… Read the rest of the article: Cheating Chinese certificate authorities, caught by Certificate Transparency, will get the death penalty
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Cory Doctorow Anne Marie Morris is the Conservative Party MP for Newton Abbott, Devon; while on a panel at a Eurosceptic meeting in Central London, she described the UK leaving the EU… Read the rest of the article: Tory MP suspended for using the n-word in Brexit debate
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Cory Doctorow Chris Brown — long known as a writer of perfect, jewel-like demented cyberpunk stories — makes his long-overdue novel debut today with Tropic of Kansas; a hilarious, dark, and ultimately hopeful story of a terrible authoritarian president whose project to Make America Great Again has plunged the country into an authoritarian collapse that's all too plausible.
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Cory Doctorow The National Enquirer's circulation peaked in 1988 at 4 million, while today it averages 325,000 copies sold, mostly to low-income, over-80-year olds. Its best retailer is Wal-Mart. It does not… Read the rest of the article: The National Enquirer is in the tank for Trump
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Cory Doctorow Writing in his official capacity, Archbishop Secretary Arthur Roche has published a letter detailing the Vatican's position on gluten-free Eucharist.
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Cory Doctorow In 2014, 43 students from Mexico's Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers' College went missing in Iguala, in the state of Guerrero: they had been detained by police, who turned them over to… Read the rest of the article: Investigators into mass murder of Mexican student teachers were attacked with NSO's government spyware
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Cory Doctorow Espionage Cosmetics has your nerdy nail-art needs covered with the D20-themed $10 Critical Hit nail wraps, circuit board wraps and tentacle wraps. (via Geeky Merch)
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Cory Doctorow Any time a trader at Enstar Capital's new London Soho offices fancies sushi and Champagne delivered to their desk, they can press a dedicated "Champagne" button that's being installed at… Read the rest of the article: New hedge-fund HQ will have "Champagne" buttons for the traders' desks
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Cory Doctorow It's the Day Against DRM, and EFF is celebrating by publishing the first public look at How Much Do Consumers Value Interoperability? Evidence from the Price of DVD Players, a… Read the rest of the article: How big is the market for DRM-Free?
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Cory Doctorow Paul Ryan ally Rep. Mike Conaway [R-TX, @ConawayTX11, +1 (202) 225-3605] is the proud owner of $30,000 worth of stock in UnitedHealth, who stand to benefit enormously from Rep Conaway's… Read the rest of the article: GOP lawmakers snap up surging health insurance stocks as they gut Obamacare
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Cory Doctorow Yougov's latest poll numbers put the "unelectable" Jeremy Corbyn and his "unrealistic" "unworkable" political platform eight points ahead of Theresa May and her Conservative Party, who were only able to… Read the rest of the article: Corbyn's Labour surges to an 8-point lead over the Tories
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Cory Doctorow It's been nearly four months since the W3C held the most controversial vote in its decades-long history of standards-setting: a vote where accessibility groups, security experts, browser startups, public interest… Read the rest of the article: The W3C has overruled members' objections and will publish its DRM for videos
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Cory Doctorow Eight US states are trying to pass minimal Right to Repair legislation that would require companies not to actively confound people who wanted to fix their stuff or choose an… Read the rest of the article: The EU's Right to Repair proposal makes America's look weaksauce
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Cory Doctorow More than 1 million people have been non-fatally shot in the USA since 2000: all of them would have uninsurable pre-existing conditions in the eyes of insurers if Trumpcare passes.
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Cory Doctorow When a network TV show performs badly, the networks deliberately introduce errors into the episodes' metadata before submitting it to the Nielsen ratings, so that the episode is counted as… Read the rest of the article: Networks hide badly rated shows by misspelling their names in Nielsen submissions