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#10yrsago Bank forecloses on wrong house, changes locks, steals tons of stuff, won’t compensate owner in full https://www.popehat.com/2013/07/26/want-to-burglarize-a-house-with-impunity-then-nickle-and-dime-the-restitution-it-helps-to-be-a-bank/

#10yrsago Canadian #Tories distribute fake Braille flyers about disabled initiative https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/conservative-flyers-on-disabled-initiatives-contain-fake-braille/article_e500f631-3cc1-5b81-b4a3-db7f0b7edb2d.html

#10yrsago At #VW’s request, English court censors #UsenixSecurity presentation on keyless entry systems for luxury cars https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/jul/26/scientist-banned-revealing-codes-cars

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Scientist banned from revealing codes used to start luxury cars

High court imposes injunction on Flavio Garcia, who has cracked security system of cars including Porsches and Bentleys

^{Lisa O'Carroll (The Guardian)}

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#10yrsago Bribery: pro-#NSA Congressional voters got twice the defense industry campaign contributions https://www.wired.com/2013/07/money-nsa-vote/

#10yrsago NSA college recruiting ad, 1976 https://www.flickr.com/photos/joeholmes/9384778371/lightbox/

#10yrsago NV court marshal sexually assaults woman, then arrests her for complaining while judge looks on https://web.archive.org/web/20130726035500/https://www.8newsnow.com/story/21557505/cover-up-alleged-in-clark-clark-family-court

#10yrsago Zero tolerance schools and cops: kids are not perps https://www.techdirt.com/2013/07/26/zero-tolerance-policies-put-students-hands-bad-cops/

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NSA Ad, 1976

This National Security Agency recruiting ad ran in my college's newspaper, January 1976.

^Flickr

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#10yrsago Notes from the ducking stool: wget as evidence of guilt at the Manning trial https://jacobin.com/2013/07/bradley-manning-on-trial/

#10yrsago Who is America at war with? Sorry, that’s classified https://www.propublica.org/article/who-are-we-at-war-with-thats-classified

#5yrsago #Disneyland will raise park employees’ minimum wage to $15 https://money.cnn.com/2018/07/27/news/companies/disneyland-workers-pay-15-an-hour/index.html

#5yrsago #Ghanaian parliament erupts into giggles as MPs learn about towns called “Vagina is Wise,” “Penis is a Fool” and “Testicles are Sad” https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-44982570

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Ghana MPs giggle over 'Wise Vagina' village name

Areas named after genitals leave Ghana's parliament in fits of laughter.

^{BBC News}

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#5yrsago The future of “#FakeNews”: Pepsi gets Facebook to censor jokes about plastic in its Kurkure corn puffs https://gizmodo.com/facebook-forced-to-block-20-000-posts-about-snack-food-1827892990

#5yrsago #UniversalBasicIncome vs #JobsGuarantees: which one will make us happier? https://timharford.com/2018/07/the-secret-to-happiness-after-the-robot-takeover/

#5yrsago The #HousingMarket in America’s most expensive cities is imploding https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-26/american-housing-market-is-showing-signs-of-running-out-of-steam

#5yrsago #VoiceAssistants suck, but they suck worse if you have an “accent” https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/business/alexa-does-not-understand-your-accent/

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Facebook Forced to Block 20,000 Posts About Snack Food Conspiracy After PepsiCo Sues: Report

PepsiCo really doesn’t want anyone talking shit about its corn puffs online. There is a rumor that Kurkure, a corn puff product developed by the company in India, is made of plastic.

^{Melanie Ehrenkranz (Gizmodo)}

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#5yrsago The #ACLU showed that Amazon’s #FacialRecognition system thinks members of Congress are felons, so now Congress is taking action https://www.aclunc.org/blog/amazon-s-face-recognition-falsely-matched-28-members-congress-mugshots

#5yrsago #FourThievesVinegarCollective: DIY #epipens were just the start, now it’s home bioreactors to thwart #BigPharma’s price-gouging https://www.vice.com/en/article/43pngb/how-to-make-your-own-medicine-four-thieves-vinegar-collective

#5yrsago Android’s keyboard will no longer autocomplete “sit” with “on my face” thanks to me https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/nicolenguyen/sit-on-my-face-android-autocomplete

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Google Says It Will Stop Android Phones From Suggesting "My Face" When Users Type "Sit On"

"Sit on my face" refers to a sexual act.

^{Nicole Nguyen (BuzzFeed)}

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#5yrsago The Russian equivalent to Alexa is a “good girl” but not too friendly, and is OK with wife-beating https://aeon.co/essays/can-emotion-regulating-tech-translate-across-cultures

#5yrsago Calgary malls caught secretly using #FacialRecognition to characterise shoppers’ age and gender https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/calgary-malls-1.4760964

#5yrsago The Cyberdeck: a homebrew, #3DPrinted #CyberspaceDeck https://www.reddit.com/r/Cyberpunk/comments/8yyayp/just_designed_and_3d_printed_a_cyberdeck_time_to/

#5yrsago Trumpian #Ontario premier #DougFord will gut Toronto’s city council to punish his Tory rivals https://www.thestar.com/politics/provincial/ford-to-slash-toronto-city-council-to-25-councillors-from-47-sources-say/article_8d99a5f5-caeb-58d2-a6eb-1db261560a02.html?

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Can emotion-regulating tech translate across cultures? | Aeon Essays

Artificial intelligence promises ever more control over the highs and lows of our emotions. Uneasy? Perhaps you should be

^{Polina Aronson (Aeon Magazine)}

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#5yrsago #JamesComey: A freak of nature with the power to cloud liberals’ minds https://clickhole.com/step-right-up-and-feast-your-eyes-on-the-unfathomable-c-1825329399/

#1yrago #PeterThiel's evil, but he's not an "evil genius": How to criticize self-mythologizing villains https://pluralistic.net/2022/07/28/descartes-was-an-optimist/#ordinary-mediocrity

#1yrago Your computer is tormented by a wicked god: Bootkits are why we can't have nice things https://pluralistic.net/2022/07/28/descartes-was-an-optimist/#uh-oh

#1yrago Dashcam repo: Cruising the streets with a license plate camera to win debt-collector bounties https://pluralistic.net/2022/07/27/boricua/#looking-for-the-joke-with-a-microscope

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Step Right Up And Feast Your Eyes On The Unfathomable Comey, The Man Who Is Both Good And Bad! The Beautiful Monster Who Makes Resisters’ Minds Spin! Betrayer Of Hillary! Enemy Of Trump! Behold This Freak Of Nature! - ClickHole

Ladies and gentleman of the #Resistance, what you are about to witness is a sight so strange, so confounding to the mind, so utterly freakish,…

^{Clickhole Editorial (ClickHole)}

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#1yrago "War Against All Puerto Ricans" https://pluralistic.net/2022/07/27/boricua/#que-viva-albizu

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Wednesday's threads: The surprising truth about data-driven dictatorships; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/110781307327757628

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Cory Doctorow

2023-07-26 16:23:20

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: The surprising truth about data-driven dictatorships; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/26/dictators-dilemma/

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