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Clearly you don't have any sort of social standing to uphold and have disqualified yourself from the discussion! Citations Needed has a decent episode on the publication and its hi…

"U+1F346 is an eggplant" and other oddities from the tubes we build modern society on

Ads seem like kind of a generic and misleading term for it. It's less about showing you a flashy clip for an advertised product in the classic sense, and more about building comple…

Nobody's figured out that you can redirect a DNS record to an external host yet

Everything ( https://www.voidtools.com/ ) has essentially replaced my local and network share search option. It's a staggering difference, and Search in Windows 10 seems to be prim…

I can do this myself for much cheaper by buying a used computer from eBay, waiting 3 weeks for it to ship with missing parts, trading my old bike for more RAM from Craiglist, setti…

"Paying employees less and making them work longer hours simultaneously is actually beneficial and good for their health, study finds"

>Accept that you are just boring plumbing, and don't have any "value added services", and you earn my money. I'd love to see numbers on how much long term projected revenue their c…

Most of it is fabricated and fudged statistics as part of publications catering to corporate PR and the pro-surveillance narrative anyway: https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/news-b…

That seems to be the end result of companies seeking untapped income from harvesting and selling customer data, besides offering everything as a subscription service without any ki…

Unfortunately companies know that it's vastly cheaper to frame the narrative around blaming personal responsibility and the employee for "not being tough enough / being unskilled a…

>barely literate, living paycheck to paycheck and raising children How about we focus on the issue that we're paying people working 40 hours a week, every week, for months on end n…

James Bridle wrote a rather good book titled "New Dark Age" that covers the continual increase in reliance on algorithms and often non-human-verified data in our decision making pr…

If you're in your 30s and are still thinking in political binaries of "right" and "left" or believe in infinite growth theory you are indeed doing something rather silly

It's really more about being able to trace accounts to people period, as allowed through the Patriot Act: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriot_Act#Title_II:_Enhanced... Child porn…

https://www.zdnet.com/article/legal-loopholes-unrestrained-n...