Articles by like_any_other
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Valve wants to hold [patent troll] Leigh Rothschild personally liable (reporterbyte.com)

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James Prinsep, polymath who deciphered Kharosthi and Brahmi scripts (wikipedia.org)

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F-Droid bans Gab for being a "free speech zone" that "tolerates all opinions" (reclaimthenet.org)

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We Went to Arkansas. The Farm Crisis Will Shock You [video] (youtube.com)

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E Pluribus, Pauciores (Out of Many, Fewer): Diversity and Birth Rates (ssrn.com)

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Utility Engineering: Analyzing and Controlling Emergent Value Systems in AIs (arxiv.org)

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'Greatest Generation' runs counter to its wholesome image in survey on race, sex (washingtonpost.com)

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Faced with soaring Ds and Fs, schools are ditching the old way of grading (latimes.com)

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Brazil Enacts Age Verification Law Mandating Digital ID, Curbing Net Anonymity (reclaimthenet.org)

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[flagged] Invasive Israeli-founded bloatware is harvesting data from Samsung users in WANA (smex.org)

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Chimp and baby raised together in the same way to see what would happen (smithsonianmag.com)

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House Just Passed a Bill Punishing "Politically Motivated" Boycotts of Israel (theintercept.com)

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Uh Oh: Nintendo Just Landed a 'Summoning' and 'Battling' Patent (forbes.com/sites/paultassi)

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Instacart issues takedown notice for reposting its job ads (twitter.com/jobsnowpr)

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[flagged] Linux Foundation's New Banned Words: Hung, Pow-Wow, & Sanity Check (lunduke.substack.com)

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On Hatred (anarchonomicon.com)

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Age Verification Lobby Pushes for Age Verification Checks for VPN Use (reclaimthenet.org)

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How Trump is banning DEI at universities – except for Jews (forward.com)

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EU Revives Plan to Ban Private Messaging (reclaimthenet.org)

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Durability of clothes is by no means correlated with price, study finds (fashionnetwork.com)

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Australia Wants to See Your Papers Before You Press Play (reclaimthenet.org)

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More rules being considered to keep children safe online (bbc.com)

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Please remove anti-debugging code in BambuLab network plugin (github.com/bambulab)

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Video games need age assurance; k-ID and Microsoft offer good models: WEF (biometricupdate.com)

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[flagged] Intrasexually competitive women advise other women to cut off more hair (sciencedirect.com)

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Canada's "Strong Borders Act" (Bill C-2) Contains Four Mass Surveillance Trojans (easydns.com)

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Robustly improving LLM fairness in realistic settings via interpretability (arxiv.org)

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Supreme Court Greenlights Online Digital ID Checks (reclaimthenet.org)

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UK police working with tech giant Palantir on real-time surveillance network (libertyinvestigates.org.uk)

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As attention spans get shorter, so does the SAT – and soon the ACT (joannejacobs.com)

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Researchers using the same data and hypothesis arrive at different conclusions (2022) (pnas.org)

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White people prefer white people on dating apps – but that could be changed (kansascity.com)

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The Death of the Summer Job (financialpost.com)

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Motivated Numeracy and Enlightened Self-Government (2017) (ssrn.com)

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Hong Kong bans 'seditious' mobile game about fighting communists (bbc.com)

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4chan and porn site investigated by Ofcom over online safety (bbc.com)

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France Moves to Classify X as an Adult Site Amid Digital ID Crackdown (reclaimthenet.org)

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Crowds on Demand (wikipedia.org)

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College English majors can't read (kittenbeloved.substack.com)

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Tinder has patented swiping and double-opt-in matches (2018) (axios.com)

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Telegram CEO: French intelligence head asked me to ban Romanian conservatives (twitter.com/durov)

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You Don't Have a Right to a Bank Account (nytimes.com)

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AI can guess racial categories from heart scans (theconversation.com)

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UK Online Safety Act: Ofcom pressured to enforce censorship and surveillance (reclaimthenet.org)

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Ireland given two months to implement hate speech laws or face action from EU (thejournal.ie)

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Odysee Drops Stripe for USDC Payments, Citing Censorship Concerns (reclaimthenet.org)

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Who's Afraid of Renaud Camus? (wsj.com)

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EFF Says "We Cannot Allow a Country Within a Country" (Orania, South Africa) (centralnews.co.za)

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Ofcom: New rules for a safer generation of children online (ofcom.org.uk)

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Senior GrapheneOS developer forcibly detained and conscripted (twitter.com/grapheneos)

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Lee Kuan Yew's Opposition to Trial by Jury (postcolonialweb.org)

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U.S. says it is now monitoring immigrants' social media for antisemitism (npr.org)

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Bitchute blocks UK due to Online Safety Act (bitchute.com)

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Defensive Democracy (wikipedia.org)

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Representation of the People Act 1981 (wikipedia.org)

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What no one is saying about the first city-wide facial recognition zone [video] (youtube.com)

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Miami Beach mayor backs down from threatening theater over 'No Other Land' (latimes.com)

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Beware of Stephen J. Gould (2007) (lesswrong.com)

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Migrants to be tested on antisemitism under Coalition citizenship test (smh.com.au)

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Reconsidering the search for alternatives to general mental ability tests (sciencedirect.com)

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BBC quietly censors its own archives (2022) (nationalreview.com)

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Immigration Accounts for Entire US Population Growth for First Time (newsweek.com)

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Call centres using AI to 'whiten' Indian accents (telegraph.co.uk)

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White nationalist books planted in little free libraries across Ottawa (cbc.ca)

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The data hinted at racism among white doctors. Then scholars looked again (economist.com)