Object permanence
Riepl’s Law; copyright astroturfers; NSA’s “Upstream”; Librarian of Progress; Smart speaker triggers; Roller derby covid mitigations; BMW’s car-seat DRM.
#15yrsago New York Times and other papers use deceptive death-notice company https://idlewords.com/2010/07/the_great_legacy.com_swindle.htm
#15yrsago Riepl’s Law: how future media compost the past https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riepl's_law
#15yrsago Online video patents: an impassable thicket? https://web.archive.org/web/20100706012619/https://oti.newamerica.net/blogposts/2010/video_prison_why_patents_might_threaten_free_online_video-33950
#15yrsago Canadian copyright astroturfers own up: front for US labels https://web.archive.org/web/20100705133038/http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/5164/125/
#10yrsago Fracketeering: Life in a capitalist sci-fi horror story https://www.theguardian.com/money/2015/jun/30/fracketeering-capitalism-power-hosing-estate-agents-cakeage
#10yrsago How the NSA searches the world’s intercepted private communications https://theintercept.com/2015/07/01/nsas-google-worlds-private-communications/
#10yrsago Judge hires lawyer to threaten court over jury summons https://www.loweringthebar.net/2015/07/some-judges-show-some-dont.html
#10yrsago The next Librarian of Congress: a Librarian of Progress? https://librarianofprogress.com/
#10yrsago 1930s ice-cream parlour hidden in Cincinnati’s art deco railway station https://thoughtandsight.com/the-1930s-ice-cream-parlor-tucked-away-in-cincinnatis-union-terminal/
#5yrsago 1000+ accidental trigger-phrases for smart speakers https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/02/big-river/#triggered
#5yrsago Hong Kong law threatens people all over the world https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/02/big-river/#be-water
#5yrsago A grifter’s border wall is about to fall into the Rio Grande https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/02/big-river/#god-hates-walls
#5yrsago Roller derby’s brilliant re-opening plan https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/02/big-river/#derby
#5yrsago Don’t Believe Proven Liars https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/02/big-river/#big-lie
#5yrsago Unauthorized seat https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/02/big-river/#beemers
