This day in history

2012, 2017, 2021.

#10yrsago Neal Stephenson’s Some Remarks, a remarkable essay collection https://memex.craphound.com/2012/08/07/neal-stephensons-some-remarks-a-remarkable-essay-collection/

#10yrsago If Hemingway (and Shakespeare, and co) were coders http://byfat.xxx/if-hemingway-wrote-javascript

#5yrsago Amazon is the poster child for everything wrong with post-Reagan anti-trust enforcement https://www.yalelawjournal.org/note/amazons-antitrust-paradox

#5yrsago “Adversarial perturbations” reliably trick AIs about what kind of road-sign they’re seeing https://arxiv.org/pdf/1707.08945.pdf

#5yrsago Real-estate speculators bought the road and sidewalk in a gated wealthy San Francisco enclave https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/matier-ross/article/Rich-SF-residents-get-a-shock-Someone-bought-11738236.php

#1yrago End bankruptcy shopping: No more Sacklers, ever https://pluralistic.net/2021/08/07/hr-4193/#shoppers-choice

#1yrago Doordash privacywashes its war on workers https://pluralistic.net/2021/08/07/hr-4193/#boss-app

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