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Scarfolk on Cumgate: Government Employee Eye-Test Slide (1970s).

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/104235206194572975

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Texas profiteers make bank from NYC's homeless: Crewfacilities.com LLC is gouging the city while finding hotel beds for homeless people.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/104235413650866956

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FCC's willful broadband blindness in a pandemic: You can't fix broadband if you don't know what's wrong with it.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/104235500302483083

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Uber is scrapping thousands of Jump bikes: Bikes are essential during lockdowns.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/104235579507408983

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White Americans are increasingly opposed to democracy: Turkeys, Christmas, etc.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/104235686924690319

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#15yrsago Spraypaint stencils of great science fiction writers https://web.archive.org/web/20050529004228/http://www.astoundme.com/

#15yrsago Clearchannel sets up fake anti-Clearchannel pirate radio station https://web.archive.org/web/20050528114035/http://blog.stayfreemagazine.org/2005/05/radio_free_clea.html

#15yrsago DRMed ebooks cost lots and break when you upgrade Acrobat https://appliedabstractions.com/2005/05/26/why-drm-is-a-bad-idea-for-books/

#10yrsago A perfect marvel of vacuous malice https://boingboing.net/2010/05/26/a-perfect-marvel-of.html

#10yrsago New fiction: "The Jammie Dodgers and the Adventure of the Leicester Square Screening" https://www.shareable.net/the-jammie-dodgers-and-the-adventure-of-the-leicester-square-screening/

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#5yrsago Portraits of homeless people using libraries https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photography/proof/2015/04/24/public-library-portraits-californias-homeless-connect-in-a-quiet-place/

#5yrsago Poverty is a tax on cognition https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6_scuce5TA

#5yrsago The Awesome: ass-kicking girl monster-hunter FTW! https://boingboing.net/2015/05/26/the-awesome-ass-kicking-girl.html

#1yrago Poland has asked the European Court of Justice to overturn the #CopyrightDirective https://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-copyright-poland/poland-files-complaint-with-eus-top-court-over-copyright-rule-change-idUSKCN1SU0T9

#1yrago The Chinese company that bought Grindr wasn't supposed to let Chinese engineers access Americans' data -- but it did https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-china-grindr-exclusive/exclusive-behind-grindrs-doomed-hookup-in-china-a-data-misstep-and-scramble-to-make-up-idUSKCN1SS10H

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#1yrago These corporations backed the politicians who will murder women by banning legal, safe abortions https://lifehacker.com/how-to-divest-from-the-corporations-funding-abortion-ba-1834980204

#1yrago Remembering the pre-Netscape browsers https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/05/before-netscape-forgotten-web-browsers-of-the-early-1990s/

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Yesterday's threads: Crowdfunding an open access jewelry course; Bahamas Company Registry leaked; Mafia logic and conservative ideology; Podcast: Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town Part 4; Google's free/open multilingual font; Soviet Signs and Relics; Rogue UK civil service tweet damns "truth-twisters"; A jailbreak for every version of Ios; Texas Instruments locks down its hackable calculators; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/104229841433717314

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On Jul 14, my first picture book comes out! It's called Poesy the Monster Slayer and it's an epic tale of bedtime-refusal, toy-hacking and monster-hunting, illustrated by Matt Rockefeller. It's the monster book I dreamt of reading to my own daughter.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1228033537867014145

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Today's top sources: Jeffry Vagle (https://twitter.com/jvagle/), Slashdot (https://slashdot.org/), Dan Hill (https://twitter.com/cityofsound).

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