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British colonisers used Shakespeare’s works as an example of how people should act, Hyland said. “It would be a massive, awesome act of decolonisation if we discovered our own stor…

> economic justice* has to come first So shall we put the ongoing ecological and climate catastrophes on hold while we take 200 years to reach an egalitarian utopia? On the other h…

Where they burn books, they will too in the end burn people. But these are paintings, not books, so no worries.

> we recently shared an update on how our External Data Misuse (EDM) team works to safeguard people against clone sites Is this what they're calling interoperable competitors now?

Your examples are all less scalable and easier to detect that hacking. > That is a great step forward, compared to the closed black boxes, e-voting systems I have heard of before. …

How many nation-states burned their best zero-days on this public intrusion test?

A related question: How secure is an Android phone that does receive security updates from its vendor? I vaguely recall hearing that it can take months before a security patch make…

> is it the motel's responsibility or the police's to deal with them Moving past how KiwiFarms hadn't actually broken any laws, let's say for the sake of argument that they had. An…

Try applying this to any other group. Truth is no defense for "bias".

Having corporations directly enforce each-other's terms & conditions is so much more efficient than the slow process of going through the courts.

> for 75 years A sure sign of corruption. An honest lease would be short, so that it can simply not be renewed if problems arise.

Conduct the observations at night? ;)

A common argument is that, because only a small fraction of US prisons are private [1], it means private prison lobbying is a negligible problem. But this is a fallacy! The fractio…

Even taking the cherry-picked history [1] and denial of Uyghur genocide at face value, this is simply yet another in a long line of articles that boil down to: Your history is evil…

> free speech is meant to protect you from government censorship to ensure the balance of powers That's the 1st amendment of the US constitution, not "free speech". Since this is a…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor#Causes regions with higher Ukrainian population shares were struck harder with centrally planned policies corresponding to famine, and Ukrai…

One difference is intent. The computer logging was somewhat incidental (but not entirely benign, so we shouldn't give it a pass without thinking), while the heat sensors are there …

That can't be it - Google's autocomplete works fine for Putin.

> "They are proposing that grad students share desks, taking turns with a scheduling web-app, so administrators can take over some of the space currently used by grad students." Gi…

> Here he goes after the "interventionistas" (foreign policy theorists with no "skin in the game,") who have repeatedly urged us to intervene in foreign countries -- Afghanistan, I…

A brilliant way to let off some steam, while making it impossible to build any sort of business around circumvention (and hence funneling enough resources into circumvention to mak…