This day in history
2009, 2014, 2019, 2023.
#15yrsago Concordia University has a spy-squad that snooped on novelist for “bilingual interests” https://web.archive.org/web/20101119125330/http://artthreat.net/2009/11/concordia-university-spied-novelist/
#10yrsago DC cops budget their asset forfeiture income years in advance https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/dc-police-plan-for-future-seizure-proceeds-years-in-advance-in-city-budget-documents/2014/11/15/7025edd2-6b76-11e4-b053-65cea7903f2e_story.html
#10yrsago Analysis of leaked logs from Syria’s censoring national firewall https://www.techdirt.com/2014/11/26/lessons-censorship-syrias-internet-filter-machines/
#10yrsago The Shibboleth, the sequel to The Twelve Fingered Boy https://memex.craphound.com/2014/11/27/the-shibboleth-the-sequel-to-the-twelve-fingered-boy/
#10yrsago Tiny, transforming apartment made huge with massive wheeled storage-compartments https://vimeo.com/110871691
#5yrsago Open Memory Box: hundreds of hours of East German home movies, 1947–1990 https://open-memory-box.de/roll/013-06/00-00-41-20
#5yrsago Talking Adversarial Interoperability with Y Combinator https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RsI-Vh-KWI
#5yrsago Debullshitifying the Right to Repair excuses Apple sent to Congress https://www.ifixit.com/News/33977/apple-told-congress-how-repair-should-work-we-respond
#5yrsago NSO Group employees kicked off Facebook for spying for brutal dictators are suing Facebook for violating their privacy https://www.vice.com/en/article/nso-employees-take-legal-action-against-facebook-for-banning-their-accounts/
#5yrsago Amazon secretly planned to use facial recognition and Ring doorbells to create neighborhood “watch lists” https://theintercept.com/2019/11/26/amazon-ring-home-security-facial-recognition/
#5yrsago Great backgrounder on the Hong Kong protests: what’s at stake and how’d we get here? https://www.vox.com/world/2019/8/22/20804294/hong-kong-protests-9-questions
#5yrsago Apple poses a false dichotomy between “privacy” and “competition” https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/11/26/apple-emphasizes-user-privacy-lawmakers-see-it-an-effort-edge-out-its-rivals/
#5yrsago China wants to lead the UN’s World Intellectual Property Organization https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/11/26/china-bids-lead-world-intellectual-property-organization-wipo/
#1yrago The real AI fight https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/27/10-types-of-people/#taking-up-a-lot-of-space
