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There are some resources posted at business schools, where Bloomberg Terminal usage is frequently part of coursework [1, 2, 3]. Also the "Bloomberg Markets" magazine (frequently so…

It seems reasonable to claim (and seems to be backed up by authorities on the issue) that most genuine sex trafficking originates from two sources: 1) visa fraud and/or human smugg…

The internet, even "big tech" platforms with 1000 different ML algorithms for downranking and banning things, is just a different medium than broadcast media altogether, so there's…

For those unfamiliar with this situation: Pleroma is an ActivityPub server and frontend written in Elixir and designed for low resource consumption, somewhat of an alterative to Ma…

Speaking of building regulations and solar, I stayed in a house that was completely powered by solar and wired with DC for lights and electronics. You can't just add an AC outlet i…

This completely defies logic, considering that 2 kids is replacement level fertility, the world has experienced generally consistent population growth, and most of the labor ever d…

Cliqz plans to make money by, in the future, "deliver[ing] sponsored offers to users based on their interests and browsing history...processed locally based on a remote repository …

People are cheering it on because there are no viable openly licensed ISAs besides RISC-V and the alternative to this move is RISC-V being crippled due to sanctions. Anybody in the…

Perhaps it's necessary but not sufficient: if you have zero lawyers, press, or government officials on your side, marching is a great way to get thrown in jail for "rioting" and ha…

The state is the entity that signed all the free trade treaties in the first place — that enabled the outsourcing and let the production be moved out of the country — and still has…

>"Indeed the conspicuous embrace of 'elite values' by journalists and academics is often little more than an aspi­rational attempt to remain connected to an economically distant el…

One could consider Americans poisoned by something , considering that 40% of the American population is obese (not just overweight) and sperm count has declined 50% in developed co…

I think the author's take would be that the working class can radicalize all they want, but it probably won't change anything without the support of a significant part of the 10%-0…

If it makes you feel any better, I'm over 6'1" and I still shouldn't have bothered creating an account.

It looks like Bing SFW search is only Youtube, same as DDG. Only video search site I've seen lately is Petey Vid which searches the expected Vimeo, Dailymotion, but also Instagram,…

It's a neat trick: it emphasizes that they are amoral companies required to do nothing but make money, and simultaneously that they're only companies like the thousands of other gy…

Technically speaking, the largest Mastodon instance is full of content that isn't exactly allowed on traditional social media (i.e. far-right extremism). See https://fediverse.netw…

Ohio's unemployment rate is 25% above the national average, but not particularly shocking at 4.1%. It also has a GDP per capita higher than Florida and Vermont. Ohio is 16th out of…

Right above this it says, >No school district..shall prohibit a student from engaging in religious expression in the completion of homework, artwork, or other written or oral assig…

A few comments about how a non-negligent company handles user data: * They wouldn't respond to "emergency disclosure" requests from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia about random users *…

Bingo; well, I'm not talking about one person in particular, but it goes like this: "Hey [person at platform company], I'm [person whose social network slightly overlaps with yours…

There is a conceivable way for actions outdoors to be private. Just roll back the clock a whopping 3 decades. Maybe nosy old Ethel notices when you leave for work in the morning, b…

Some teachable moments about the soft censorship system are when 1) it misfires, like when a teenager stands around on video with a smile in the general vicinity of a Native Americ…

They can not. Media ownership and media content, even NPR, is not tied to electoral representation.