A day in the life of HSBC executive Melania Edwards - Business Insider
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Ex-Trump Adviser Jason Miller Sues Will Menaker of ‘Chapo Trap House’ Over Tweet
Truth is an absolute defense
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Facebook's War Room Is Definitely Managing At Least One Crisis
This is, no joke, a first-rate bit of tech-news aggregation. Take a bow, @rhettjonez.
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NotFound | Bill Gates
If only more billlionaires did this
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The Centrist Paradox: Political Correlates of the Democratic Disconnect by David R. K. Adler :: SSRN
centrism is fundamentally authoritarian, pass it on (from @davidrkadler's new paper
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Ultimate Writer: an Open Digital Typewriter
Kind of love this insane eink "typewriter" in a wooden box
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Banksy's art shred 'every time' in rehearsals, but malfunctioned at Sotheby's / Boing Boing
Banksy's art shred 'every time' in rehearsals, but malfunctioned at Sotheby's
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Palantir may IPO at valuation of up to $41 billion / Boing Boing
Peter Thiel's secretive data firm Palantir may IPO at up to $41 billion valuation.
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Twitter kills pro-Saudi “botnet” spreading Khashoggi disinformation tweets / Boing Boing
Twitter kills pro-Saudi “botnet” spreading Khashoggi disinfo. You'd think by now Twitter would be ahead of the game, not waiting for @NBC...
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This is what a Facebook election security charm offensive looks like / Boing Boing
Facebook is working very hard right now to prove it can be trusted to protect users from malicious fake news, political disinformation, a...
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Helm: A home network email server appliance to redecentralize the web / Boing Boing
Helm: A home network email server appliance to redecentralize the web
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US veterans operate in Yemen as mercenary assassins for Middle Eastern autocrats / Boing Boing
US veterans operate in Yemen as mercenary assassins for Middle Eastern autocrats
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Slaves - including children - make the bricks for Cambodia's housing bubble / Boing Boing
Slaves - including children - make the bricks for Cambodia's housing bubble
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Deleting Facebook is not enough: without antitrust, the company will be our lives' "operating system" / Boing Boing
Deleting Facebook is not enough: without antitrust, the company will be our lives' "operating system" https://t.c...
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Nobel-winning economist Joe Stiglitz on how the US economy became a "rigged, inherited plutocracy" and how to fix it / Boing Boing
Nobel-winning economist Joe Stiglitz on how the US economy became a "rigged, inherited plutocracy" and how to fix it
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And Introducing: A Journey to the End of the Cast List by Jez Burrows — Kickstarter
Going to share one credit from And Introducing every day while the campaign is running! Absolutely mute this th...
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City of Seattle's official tow partner impounded a homeless woman's stolen car and wanted $21,634 to give it back / Boing Boing
City of Seattle's official tow partner impounded a homeless woman's stolen car and wante d $21,634 to give it back
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GDPR: Good for privacy, even better for Google's dominance / Boing Boing
GDPR: Good for privacy, even better for Google's dominance
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The iPhone’s New Parental Controls Block Searches for Sex Ed, Allow Violence and Racism - Motherboard
Incredible that this keeps happening. Unfuckingbelievable.
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Did Facebook’s faulty data push news publishers to make terrible decisions on video? » Nieman Journalism Lab
Oh do not miss the excerpts from the court filing here. Facebook knew they were busted and hid it. And finally, some voices of actual use...
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Radical expansion of Australia's national firewall will censor search results and websites / Boing Boing
Radical expansion of Australia's national firewall will censor search results and websites
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Anaheim's living wage ballot measure pits big corporate donors against union money / Boing Boing
Anaheim's living wage ballot measure pits big corporate donors against union money
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Saudi Arabia Weighs Blaming Intelligence Official for Khashoggi Killing - The New York Times
This sentence, this world. I don’t know, folks.
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Did I Make a Mistake Selling Del.icio.us to Yahoo?
"It probably doesn’t matter now, since Yahoo isn’t even really a company, but it was definitely less than $30 million." Such a great piec...
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The Prophets of Cryptocurrency Survey the Boom and Bust | The New Yorker
The @NewYorker reporting on technology and its culture is really good, as evidenced by this blockchain piece
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Computer Stories: A.I. Is Beginning to Assist Novelists - The New York Times
So @robinsloan is using machine learning to help write his new book. Mostly, I’m just curious about the book’s byline — “by Robin Sloan a...
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Pat Robertson, prominent evangelical leader, on Khashoggi crisis: let’s not risk “$100 billion worth of arms sales” - Vox
I've never liked Pat Robertson or CBN, but Jesus. To use words Robertson would understand: He's clearly sold his soul to the devil. In e...
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Opinion | Eight Stories of Men’s Regret - The New York Times
from a man in his 80s: "I have thought about that night ever since, repelled by my behavior toward a young woman I cared for. I knew it w...
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Voter Registration | Vote.gov
Wow this tweet blew up. Here’s a link to my SoundCloud
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