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Cory DoctorowIf you're a Medium subscriber, you can read these - as well as previews of upcoming magazine columns and early exclusives on doctorow.medium.com.
My latest Medium column is "The Internet Heist (Part I): The early days of the war to control the future"
https://doctorow.medium.com/the-internet-heist-part-i-3395769891b0
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Electronic Frontier FoundationWe deserve a better future than locked-down XR headsets that spy on users and bystanders. Our participatory session Friday with @accessnow will address how we can steer this technology towards respecting human rights. (hosted by #XRSafetyWeek) https://www.eff.org/event/building-human-rights-metaverse
Building Human Rights Into the Metaverse
This event is organized by EFF and Access Now in honor of International Human Rights Day as part of XR Safety Week.Note: Registration is limited, please RSVP early to ensure your attendance. For International Human Rights Day, EFF and AccessNow are bringing together experts and stakeholders in the...
Eric PhelpsImagine a government agency ordered Apple to include hashes of all documents they wanted to track into that kiddie porn database. Suddenly the government knows who's got that antivax meme JPG. Or tax protest DOC. Or an environmental report PDF.
And it's just hashes! Apple won't know what they're tracking, so they can't say "no".
Now tell me you honestly believe no government *ever* will take advantage of this invisible monitoring power.
XKCD BotThe only other person to walk by was a linguist back in the 80s, but she just spent a while dissecting the phrase 'help me down' before getting distracted by a squirrel and wandering off.
We trained it to produce data that looked convincing, and we have to admit the results look convincing!
Small devices use two-prong USB-AC, but there's also a three-prong version with a USB-B plug as the ground.
Laser (it's been a good run)This random rooster kept showing up in my yard today, so I set up the most Wile E Coyote-ass trap to get rid of him
Jim StormdancerFinally they figured out how to make wireless earbuds that you can physically tether to your phone so you don't lose them
July 14th. Vive la republique. Go the revolution. (Truly time Australia had our republic.)