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Joseph Menn@josephmenn2 May 2018
So people are upset about Facebook having too much power and it is responding with offers to pick your news sources and dating partners. Got it.
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Pinboard
@Pinboard21 Mar 2018
I've written a lot about the issues around Facebook, its governance, and its business model, so I'm going to self-promote a bit. This from 'The Moral Economy of Tech' idlewords.com/talks/sase_pan…
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Matthew Green
@matthew_d_green25 Jan 2018
This headline wins the Internet. gizmodo.com/senator-demands-…

Senator Demands FBI Director Explain His Encryption Backdoor Bullshit

One US senator is calling out the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation for pushing the moronic notion that there is somehow a good way to add

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Here's a recording of what you hear when you call the White House. This is bonkers. h/t @davidmackau #MondayMotivation #MorningJoe xitter.cf/davidmackau/status/954…
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Seen earlier on the Andrews & Arnold irc channel (from a customer, not a staff member): "as far as I can tell, BT think of themselves as a misplaced arm of the government, so the whole concept of "monopoly" doesn't quite fit them...it's more like dealing with the civil service"
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hugo
@hugojmd5 Dec 2017
I made a thing! 🎉👇 Just run `curl parrot.live` and you should get a live parrot in your terminal! 👉Check out the code here: github.com/hugomd/parrot.liv… Thanks to @jmhobbs for the inspiration🐦 #partyparrot✌️
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Mustafa Al Bassam
@musalbas19 Jan 2018
What if a billion people had access to easy end to end encrypted messaging, except it was useless because a majority of them unknowingly backed up their and their friend's chats and group chats to Google Drive unencrypted, so the government can just subpoena Google.
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Andres Guadamuz
@technollama18 Jan 2018
Always relevant 🐺
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I've reached that age where the surveillance economy's algorithms and data science routines have analysed my lifestyle and determined that what I most need is "quick drying pants". xitter.cf/LoveNewchic/status/905…
Newchic@LoveNewchic7 Sep 2017
49% OFF! Elastic fleece waterproof lining pants! on sale now! Two colors options. Only GB £26.44! Check it out. xitter.cf/cards/18ce…
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I Write Monsters@IWriteMonsters27 Oct 2017
My daughter insisted on this costume. All the other parents at daycare will think I've never read a comic book. #HalloweenWeekend
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Hend Amry
@LibyaLiberty26 Oct 2017
You should see who they'll give the presidency to. xitter.cf/thehill/status/9229656…
The Hill
@thehill24 Oct 2017
Sarah Huckabee Sanders: "Now anybody with a computer can be a journalist" hill.cm/fO9I1wL
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Why merely sleepwalk into an Orwellian nightmare, when you can grab it with both hands and charge it to your card? xitter.cf/GoogleUK/status/857992…
Google UK
@GoogleUK28 Apr 2017
Meet Google Home. The smart speaker powered by the Google Assistant. For £129 RRP. xitter.cf/cards/18ce…
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MIT Technology Review
@techreview12 Oct 2017
This pump could eventually make renewable sources like wind and solar as cheap and reliable as natural-gas plants. trib.al/IzIFy1t
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Jodi Kantor
@jodikantor10 Oct 2017
I know Paltrow/Jolie will get attention, but pls read accounts of the lesser-known women. You will not forget them. nyti.ms/2zbaN13

Gwyneth Paltrow, Angelina Jolie and Others Say Weinstein Harassed Them (Published 2017)

“This way of treating women ends now,” Ms. Paltrow said as she and other actresses accused the producer of casting-couch abuses.

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EFF
@EFF2 Oct 2017
Europe's upload filter is based on the idea that copyright infringement shouldn't just be illegal, but impossible. eff.org/deeplinks/2017/10/en…

The End Game for European Upload Filtering Approaches

Update: the October 5 vote in the LIBE committee has now been postponed to an indefinite future date. If you've been following the slow progress of the European Commission's proposal to introduce new

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Esther Choo, MD MPH
@choo_ek2 Oct 2017
“If not guns, they’ll just find another way to kill.” I’m an ER doc. I’ve seen the other ways and guns are the worst. – at Lake Oswego, OR
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