It's still censorship (even if it doesn't violate the First Amendment): Communications monopolies create single points of failure.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115247778875760386

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Hey look at this

* Why A.I. Isn’t Going to Make Art https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/why-ai-isnt-going-to-make-art (h/t Mitch Wagner)

* Silicon Foraging: Harvesting Excess Compute for Sustainable Edge Computing https://siliconforag.ing/

* the exploitation of milk tea explosive and take-away war https://chinadigitaltimes.net/chinese/720438.html (h/t Robert Ness)

* On the Origins of Dune's Butlerian Jihad https://thetechbubble.substack.com/p/on-the-origins-of-dunes-butlerian

* Why your outdoorsy friend suddenly has a gummy bear power bank https://www.theverge.com/tech/781387/backpacking-ultralight-haribo-power-bank (h/t Hacker News)

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#20yrsago Finnish record exec: Mac users should just buy regular CD players https://web.archive.org/web/20051030161829/http://www.tigert.com/archives/2005/09/22/and-they-call-this-an-information-society/

#20yrsago Record industry releases malware that deletes your P2P software https://web.archive.org/web/20051024000549/https://www.ifpi.org/site-content/press/20050922.html

#20yrsago Lethem wins Macarthur “genius” award! https://web.archive.org/web/20051001065332/http://www.macfound.org/programs/fel/fellows/lethem_jonathan.htm

#20yrsago HOWTO write ass-kicking emails and get a response https://web.archive.org/web/20051001031742/http://www.43folders.com/2005/09/writing_sensibl.html

#20yrsago Powerbooks to get integrated video cameras? https://web.archive.org/web/20051104173641/https://appleinsider.com/article.php?id=1273

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#20yrsago London cops mug blogger for computers, phones, data, call him a “terrorist” https://gizmonaut.net/bits/suspect.html

#20yrsago RFID crackers hotwire cars, steal gas, sniff phones https://web.archive.org/web/20050930202451/http://rfidanalysis.org/

#15yrsago The .DOC File of J Alfred Prufrock https://web.archive.org/web/20100924085521/http://copperbadge.livejournal.com/3102544.html

#15yrsago MPAA: ACTA’s censoring firewalls will help governments avoid Wikileaks embarrassments https://www.techdirt.com/2010/09/20/mpaa-wants-to-know-if-acta-can-be-used-to-block-wikileaks/

#15yrsago Christian anti-transhumanist manifesto https://web.archive.org/web/20100926112935/http://www.raidersnewsnetwork.com/leadstory94.htm

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#15yrsago Evercookie: a tracking browser cookie you can’t delete https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2010/09/evercookie-escalates-the-zombie-cookie-war-by-raising-awareness/

#15yrsago Netflix pays actors to pretend to be customers and talk to press at Canadian launch https://web.archive.org/web/20100924092746/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/netflix-apologizes-for-using-actors-to-meet-press-at-canadian-launch/article1718924/

#15yrsago William Gibson talks writing-craft https://maudnewton.com/2010/09/maximus-clarke-talks-with-william-gibson-about-his-speculative-novels-of-last-wednesday/

#15yrsago Top UK spies revealed as wankers https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/8015180/MI6-used-bodily-fluids-as-invisible-ink.html

#10yrsago Yet another pre-installed spyware app discovered on Lenovo computers https://www.computerworld.com/article/1637120/lenovo-collects-usage-data-on-thinkpad-thinkcentre-and-thinkstation-pcs.html

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#10yrsago Why is it so easy to believe that the UK super-rich have sex with pigs? https://web.archive.org/web/20150923225805/https://www.vice.com/read/sam-kriss-on-pig-gate-938

#10yrsago David Cameron now all alone in demanding crypto backdoors, doubles down on antibiotic resistant superterrorists https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/17/snoopers-bill-faces-enforcement-hurdles

#10yrsago Litigation Finance predators: champerty loves company https://mathbabe.org/2015/09/01/litigation-finance-a-terrible-idea/

#10yrsago Bitcoin Ponzi operator pleads guilty over $150M fraud https://www.theverge.com/2015/9/21/9367707/bitcoin-ponzi-scheme-operator-pleads-guilty

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#10yrsago Cyber-arms dealer offers $1M for weaponizable Iphone bugs https://www.wired.com/2015/09/spy-agency-contractor-puts-1m-bounty-iphone-hack/

#10yrsago Ian McDonald’s “Luna: New Moon” – the moon is a much, much harsher mistress https://memex.craphound.com/2015/09/22/ian-mcdonalds-luna-new-moon-the-moon-is-a-much-much-harsher-mistress/

#10yrsago How Canada’s Tories destroyed the country’s memory, and its capacity to remember https://macleans.ca/news/canada/vanishing-canada-why-were-all-losers-in-ottawas-war-on-data/

#10yrsago European court orders airlines to pay compensation for delays from mechanical failures https://www.theguardian.com/money/2015/sep/19/flight-delay-claims-compensation-airlines-passengers

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#10yrsago VW’s car DRM let it get away with cheating on its diesel emissions testing https://www.wired.com/2015/09/epa-opposes-rules-couldve-exposed-vws-cheating/

#10yrsago Symantec caught issuing rogue Google.com certificates https://security.googleblog.com/2015/09/improved-digital-certificate-security.html

#10yrsago JFK TSA agent arrested for stealing $61 out of passenger’s wallet during screening https://www.nj.com/news/2015/09/tsa_agent_arrested_for_stealing_cash_from_passenge.html

#10yrsago Kickstarter re-incorporates as a “public benefit corporation” https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/21/technology/kickstarters-altruistic-vision-profits-as-the-means-not-the-mission.html

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#10yrsago Neil DeGrasse Tyson talks with Edward Snowden https://startalkmedia.com/show/a-conversation-with-edward-snowden-part-1/

#10yrsago FBI agent faces discipline for alleged polygraph countermeasures https://antipolygraph.org/cgi-bin/forums/YaBB.pl?num=1442686514

#5yrsago California's fire-debt https://pluralistic.net/2020/09/21/too-big-to-jail/#aflame

#5yrsago Fincen (they fucking knew all along) https://pluralistic.net/2020/09/21/too-big-to-jail/#fincen

#5yrsago Precursor https://pluralistic.net/2020/09/19/we-are-beautiful/#precursor

#5yrsago Foodcrime https://pluralistic.net/2020/09/19/we-are-beautiful/#man-in-the-middle

#5yrsago Facebook threatens to leave EU https://pluralistic.net/2020/09/22/uncivvl/#fb-v-eu

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