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Surveillance pricing incentivizes all businesses to harvest as much of our personal data as possible. So we support a California bill to ban it. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/californias-bill-ban-surveillance-pricing

Yes to California's Bill to Ban Surveillance Pricing

Corporations harvest and monetize ever-growing amounts of our personal data, such as our browsing history and physical location. One bitter fruit of this poisonous tree is known as “surveillance pricing”: corporations offer the same product to two different people at two different prices, based on...

Electronic Frontier Foundation

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Su-Shee 1d ago

my general ideas for when we're all unemployed and everything went down:

* citizen science
* open source and small computing
* tech writing
* guerilla and other gardening
* general repair (I'll leave the bike repair to O.) - need to get better at electronics
* volunteering at a library (public money will be gone too I expect..)
* artsy stuff
* I feel we should revive flash mobs and street theater
* I'm experienced cooking for 100 people
... ... ...

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Red 1d ago

@Black_Flag Your post made me think of this other post I've been sitting with recently

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Heidi Li Feldman 1d ago

Depravity. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/world/africa/deportations-central-african-republic-migrants-iran-women.html?unlocked_article_code=1.plA.R6gi.EB5zflCPfNDH&smid=url-share

Women Who Fled Iran Are to Be Deported to Central African Republic, Lawyers Say

The women are among nearly two dozen people slated to be sent to a country where the U.S. government has advised “Do not travel for any reason.”

The New York Times

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Max Leibman 1d ago

Microsoft’s terms of service said Copilot was “for entertainment purposes only.”

An Nvidia executive said AI is more expensive than humans.

Google argued in German court that everyone knows they can’t trust AI.

The tech industry has bet a trillion dollars on something they know doesn’t work.

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iFixit 2d ago

You can rebrand a phone.
You can paint it gold.
You can rewrite the marketing.

But when you put it next to an HTC U24 Pro in a CT scanner, the disguise falls apart pretty fast.

https://www.ifixit.com/News/117789/teardown-confirms-the-trump-phone-is-a-gold-painted-htc-u24-pro

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The Public Domain Review 4d ago

How did alphabet books deal with the letter X before the rise of x-rays and xylophones? Here's some highlights: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/x-is-for

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