Object permanence

Postapocalyptic Disney World, UK schools’ “anti-radicalization” software; Blueleaks, EU kills US data-sharing.

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#15yrsago Winds howl over the deserted moonscape behind Rupert Murdoch’s UK newspaper paywalls https://web.archive.org/web/20100716212545/https://www.newser.com/off-the-grid/post/502/whats-really-going-on-behind-murdochs-paywall.html

#15yrsago Vatican: ordaining women is as bad as raping children from the pulpit https://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/16/world/europe/16vatican.html?_r=1

#10yrsago Disney World after humanity’s demise https://www.deviantart.com/eledoremassis02/gallery/34539438/life-after-disney-photo-manipulation

#10yrsago UK schools’ “anti-radicalisation” software lets hackers spy on kids https://web.archive.org/web/20150714144952/https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2015/07/14/child-surveillance-vulnerability/

#10yrsago #10yrsago UK schools’ “anti-radicalisation” software lets hackers spy on kids https://web.archive.org/web/20150714144952/https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2015/07/14/child-surveillance-vulnerability/ https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/ournhs/government-moves-to-consider-nhs-user-charges/

#5yrsago What’s in Blueleaks https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/16/text-adventures-resurgent/#blueleaks

#5yrsago Librarians’ virtual escape rooms https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/16/text-adventures-resurgent/#escape-forms

#5yrsago EU court kills data-sharing deal with USA https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/16/text-adventures-resurgent/#nein

#1yrago Bowen McCurdy and Jordan Morris’s “Youth Group” https://pluralistic.net/2024/07/16/satanic-panic/#the-dream-of-the-nineties