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Electronic Frontier Foundation  

You can’t get a patent on something that occurs in nature. Let’s keep it that way. eff.org/deeplinks/2019/11/alic

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Electronic Frontier Foundation  

The right response to criticism is more speech, not litigation. That’s why we’re working for a strong federal law against the harassing lawsuits known as SLAPPs. protecttheprotest.org/

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Electronic Frontier Foundation  

We're not saying Disney is the Empire, just that disappearing Baby Yoda is something the Empire would do. eff.org/takedowns/saga-disappe t.co/Ar2jcc3Ty0

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Electronic Frontier Foundation  

At the moment, most airlines don't use face recognition. But you should still know how to opt out: eff.org/deeplinks/2019/04/skip

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fatboy :mxlinux:  

Well, I am not surprised. Time to nuke the assholes! #deletefacebook

Facebook admits to circumventing GDPR -
enterprisetimes.co.uk/2019/11/

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fatboy :mxlinux:  

Unblockable Trackers?

theregister.co.uk/2019/11/21/u

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Top Environment News -- ScienceDaily  

Old newspapers can be used to grow carbon nanotubes

New research has found that old newspaper provide a cheap and green solution for the bulk production of single walled carbon nanotubes.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation  

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court declared that the government should not put individuals in the no-win situation of choosing between disclosing a device's password—and turning over everything on these devices—or instead defying a court order to do so. eff.org/deeplinks/2019/11/vict

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Old Fucking Punk  

I wonder if there's a need for an internet registry? What should the identifying attributes of a website be? Name + steward key?

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Electronic Frontier Foundation  

EFF is proud to stand with the global nonprofit community in opposing the sale of the .ORG registry. eff.org/deeplinks/2019/11/nonp

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Old Fucking Punk  

My science news calendar says in 2016 a huge frozen underground lake was found on Mars...can we really be sure that's not where Seamonkeys are from?

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Old Fucking Punk  

Three rules for working on large projects:
1. If you're setting the schedule, make sure it's accurate;
2. If you're not setting the schedule, verify that it's accurate;
3. If the schedule's not accurate, you can't make it accurate.

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Old Fucking Punk  

Three rules for working for a large corporation:
1. Do your best, but
2. It's just a job, and
3. Your life won't end if the project doesn't meet it's schedule.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation  

Twitter, Google, and Facebook can and should make changes to prevent the use of their advertising tools from distorting the political process.

But moderating content—including advertising—at scale is a difficult and unsolved problem.
eff.org/deeplinks/2019/11/thre

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Old Fucking Punk  

Interesting to observe how closely two coworkers, who were at the same previous small company, view managing people. Both seem to be stuck in the mandate makes better workplace involvement phase.

Very few seem to understand that, "Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical" corporate power scenario.

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The Nib  

Playing Chicken

Chik-Fil-A says they won’t donate to anti-LGBTQ groups anymore.

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melissa is on monads  

advertising is a far bigger act of vandalism and nuisance on public spaces than graffiti

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Ted Rall's Rallblog  

Sorry but It Really Is Too Late to Save the World

Even if humanity slams on the brakes, stopped emitting carbon dioxide and goes back to horses and buggies, global warming will continue for at least a few more decades. So although Donald Trump and his rolling back of air pollution emissions standards are annoying, it’s probably too late anyway.

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The Nib  

He Was No Angel!

What if people who shot cops were treated like cops who shot people?

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Electronic Frontier Foundation  

Footage from your door, requested by local police to catch an alleged thief in the neighborhood, could end up being used by another law enforcement agency for a completely different purpose. eff.org/deeplinks/2019/11/five

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