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As Public Records Are Wiped, Independent Databases Are Keeping Separate Archives (time.com)

2 days ago | robtherobber | time.com | frontpage

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Just 100 corporations responsible for 20% of the extractive conflicts (uab.cat)

a week ago | robtherobber | uab.cat | newest

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How to check if your boss is monitoring your every keystroke (2019) (mashable.com)

a week ago | robtherobber | mashable.com | newest

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Wendy McMahon Resigns as CEO of CBS News and Stations (deadline.com)

a week ago | robtherobber | deadline.com | newest

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Boss Is Watching (technologyreview.com)

a week ago | robtherobber | technologyreview.com | newest

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The average workday increased during the pandemic’s early weeks (2020) (hbs.edu)

2 weeks ago | robtherobber | hbs.edu | best

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The four-day, thirty-two-hour week: analysing organisational success and failure (osf.io)

2 weeks ago | robtherobber | osf.io | newest

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[flagged] Iceland approved 4-day workweek in 2019; six years later, predictions came true (farmingdale-observer.com)

2 weeks ago | robtherobber | farmingdale-observer.com | frontpage

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America's Coming Brain Drain: Trump's War on Universities Could Kill Innovation (foreignaffairs.com)

2 weeks ago | robtherobber | foreignaffairs.com | frontpage

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Currency Older Than Money: A Foundation for Cultural Mutualism (evolutionofconsent.com)

3 weeks ago | robtherobber | evolutionofconsent.com | newest

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Peter Turchin's False Prophecy (compactmag.com)

3 weeks ago | robtherobber | compactmag.com | newest

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The US ruled against Google's monopoly – Europe should do the same (ft.com)

a month ago | robtherobber | ft.com | newest

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Worth Is Not Your Productivity (tribunemag.co.uk)

a month ago | robtherobber | tribunemag.co.uk | newest

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EU OS: A European Proposal for a Public Sector Linux Desktop (thenewstack.io)

a month ago | robtherobber | thenewstack.io | newest

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The First Leaflet of the First World War (1970) (archive.org)

a month ago | robtherobber | archive.org | newest

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Zuckerberg in the Dock (pluralistic.net)

a month ago | robtherobber | pluralistic.net | newest

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UK creating 'murder prediction' tool to identify people most likely to kill (theguardian.com)

a month ago | robtherobber | theguardian.com | newest

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Trump Is Smashing a "Phenomenal" Deal He Already Has (bloomberg.com)

a month ago | robtherobber | bloomberg.com | frontpage

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Work time reduction via a 4-day week finds improvements in workers' well-being (osf.io)

a month ago | robtherobber | osf.io | newest

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Europe needs its own social media platforms to safeguard sovereignty (mediascope.group)

a month ago | robtherobber | mediascope.group | best

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Trump expanded the presidential pardon power to include corporations (thehill.com)

a month ago | robtherobber | thehill.com | newest

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Measuring the Income Gap from 1975 to 2023 (rand.org)

a month ago | robtherobber | rand.org | newest

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Isn't it harmful if worker co-ops don't allow employees to sell their shares? (bobjacobs.substack.com)

3 months ago | robtherobber | substack.com | newest

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European tech coalition calls for 'radical action' on digital sovereignty (techcrunch.com)

3 months ago | robtherobber | techcrunch.com | frontpage

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Is SimpleWall Firewall tool compromised? (borncity.com)

3 months ago | robtherobber | borncity.com | newest

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The Tyranny of Work or Why Are We Still Measured by Our Productivity? (anticapitalistmusings.com)

3 months ago | robtherobber | anticapitalistmusings.com | newest

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Extraordinary Labor Market Developments and the 2022-23 Disinflation (2024) (nber.org)

3 months ago | robtherobber | nber.org | newest

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Musk, Trump, and Your Boss Learned to Hate Democracy (motherjones.com)

3 months ago | robtherobber | motherjones.com | frontpage

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Trump's scrapping of corporate transparency will strengthen dictators (thebureauinvestigates.com)

3 months ago | robtherobber | thebureauinvestigates.com | newest

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The irony of Elon Musk's attack on public broadcasters (indexoncensorship.org)

4 months ago | robtherobber | indexoncensorship.org | newest

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The Cult of the Entrepreneur (newrepublic.com)

4 months ago | robtherobber | newrepublic.com | newest

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The Mythology of Work (2018) (crimethinc.com)

4 months ago | robtherobber | crimethinc.com | frontpage

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Android devices have started installing hidden app that scans your images (mastodon.sdf.org)

4 months ago | robtherobber | sdf.org | newest

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County workers wanted a pay hike, but got a 4-day workweek instead (cbsnews.com)

4 months ago | robtherobber | cbsnews.com | newest

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Franz Kafka was a great procrastinator (2013) (slate.com)

4 months ago | robtherobber | slate.com | newest

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As the Trump admin deletes online data, digital librarians rush to save it (salon.com)

4 months ago | robtherobber | salon.com | frontpage

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Gen Z are over having their work ethic questioned when they can't afford a house (fortune.com)

4 months ago | robtherobber | fortune.com | newest

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Franz Kafka – the workers' friend (2018) (marywcraig.com)

4 months ago | robtherobber | marywcraig.com | frontpage

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From audience to community: An alternative future for watchdog journalism (thefix.media)

5 months ago | robtherobber | thefix.media | newest

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Why more and more journalists are launching worker-owned outlets (poynter.org)

5 months ago | robtherobber | poynter.org | newest

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Universal basic income vs. welfare: What UBI could mean for America's safety net (businessinsider.nl)

5 months ago | robtherobber | businessinsider.nl | newest

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The Video Game Industry Is Unionizing (jacobin.com)

5 months ago | robtherobber | jacobin.com | newest

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'Never Too Much' (nybooks.com)

5 months ago | robtherobber | nybooks.com | newest

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Four-day week at a south London school (theguardian.com)

5 months ago | robtherobber | theguardian.com | frontpage

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Tear Gas Is Way More Dangerous Than Police Let on (2020) (propublica.org)

5 months ago | robtherobber | propublica.org | newest

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How the reduction of working hours could influence health outcomes (2022) (bmj.com)

5 months ago | robtherobber | bmj.com | newest

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Are Shorter Work Hours Good for the Environment? (2006) [pdf] (cepr.net)

5 months ago | robtherobber | cepr.net | newest

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The Ecological Limits of Work (2019) [pdf] (autonomy.work)

5 months ago | robtherobber | autonomy.work | newest

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The Four Legacy Empires Going Down (tomdispatch.com)

6 months ago | robtherobber | tomdispatch.com | newest

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Return to NSA's Menwith Hill with 60 Minutes (2000) (cryptome.org)

6 months ago | robtherobber | cryptome.org | frontpage

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Why China-Taiwan Relations Are So Tense (cfr.org)

6 months ago | robtherobber | cfr.org | newest

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The Facebook Apostate (theintercept.com)

6 months ago | robtherobber | theintercept.com | newest

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Time Is Up for Neoliberals (washingtonpost.com)

6 months ago | robtherobber | washingtonpost.com | newest

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Europe's Rail Operators: A Comparative Ranking (transportenvironment.org)

6 months ago | robtherobber | transportenvironment.org | newest

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Where Does Power Consolidate on Bluesky? (techpolicy.press)

7 months ago | robtherobber | techpolicy.press | newest

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Beware the rise of 'ghost jobs' – fake job openings with no intent to hire (cio.com)

7 months ago | robtherobber | cio.com | newest

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VPN Gremlin: User Impersonation Attack in Multiple SSL VPNs (txone.com)

7 months ago | robtherobber | txone.com | newest

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Crimes by Canadian Politicians (jeremy-friesen.github.io)

7 months ago | robtherobber | github.io | newest

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Operation Gladio (wikipedia.org)

7 months ago | robtherobber | wikipedia.org | newest

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Independent report analyses Council's four-day week trial (scambs.gov.uk)

8 months ago | robtherobber | scambs.gov.uk | newest

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Annual State of Hybrid Work – 2024 Report (owllabs.co.uk)

8 months ago | robtherobber | owllabs.co.uk | newest

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The Shame of Work (2016) (newramblerreview.com)

8 months ago | robtherobber | newramblerreview.com | newest

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The Decline of the British Museum (theoldie.co.uk)

8 months ago | robtherobber | theoldie.co.uk | newest

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The Prodigal Techbro (2020) (conversationalist.org)

9 months ago | robtherobber | conversationalist.org | newest

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The Misunderstood Rise of Anti-Tourism in Europe (hir.harvard.edu)

9 months ago | robtherobber | harvard.edu | newest

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The CIA-in-Chile Scandal at 50 (gwu.edu)

9 months ago | robtherobber | gwu.edu | best

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The fight to ban gas-powered cars in the 1960s (grist.org)

10 months ago | robtherobber | grist.org | frontpage

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You Will Never Retire (currentaffairs.org)

10 months ago | robtherobber | currentaffairs.org | frontpage

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Stop Huntin' Sheep – A Guide to Creating Safer Networks (2014) (anarchist-archive.org)

10 months ago | robtherobber | anarchist-archive.org | newest

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Where J.D. Vance Gets His Weird, Terrifying Techno-Authoritarian Ideas (newrepublic.com)

10 months ago | robtherobber | newrepublic.com | newest

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Fossil Fuel Subsidies Surged to Record $7T (2023) (imf.org)

10 months ago | robtherobber | imf.org | newest

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BP Condemned over 'Mammoth Profits' as Fossil Fuels Wreak Havoc on the Planet (commondreams.org)

11 months ago | robtherobber | commondreams.org | newest

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Unequal exchange of labour in the world economy (nature.com)

11 months ago | robtherobber | nature.com | newest

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Senate to Kids: We'll Listen to You When You Agree with Us on KOSA (techdirt.com)

11 months ago | robtherobber | techdirt.com | frontpage

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Document Number Nine (lrb.co.uk)

11 months ago | robtherobber | lrb.co.uk | newest

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Cisco Smart Software Manager vulnerability lets attackers change user passwords (arstechnica.com)

11 months ago | robtherobber | arstechnica.com | newest

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Vulnerabilities in VPNs (citizenlab.ca)

11 months ago | robtherobber | citizenlab.ca | newest

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SiegedSec Claim Credit for Hacking Heritage Foundation over Project 2025 (theintercept.com)

11 months ago | robtherobber | theintercept.com | newest

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New SnailLoad Attack Relies on Network Latency Variations to Infer User Activity (securityweek.com)

12 months ago | robtherobber | securityweek.com | newest

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Study shows N95 masks near-perfect at blocking escape of airborne Covid-19 (umd.edu)

12 months ago | robtherobber | umd.edu | best

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[flagged] Germany trials the four-day workweek: "Free time is invaluable" (welcometothejungle.com)

12 months ago | robtherobber | welcometothejungle.com | best

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Microsoft blocks Windows 11 workaround that enabled local accounts (pcworld.com)

12 months ago | robtherobber | pcworld.com | best

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Who Goes Nazi? (1941) (harpers.org)

a year ago | robtherobber | harpers.org | frontpage

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From Langlois to "la loupe": thoughts on piracy (2021) (filmsinframe.com)

a year ago | robtherobber | filmsinframe.com | newest

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Microsoft stoops to new low with ads in Windows 11 (techradar.com)

a year ago | robtherobber | techradar.com | best

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Challenges in Expanding the Commonsverse (geo.coop)

a year ago | robtherobber | geo.coop | newest

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The Abuses of Prehistory (newrepublic.com)

a year ago | robtherobber | newrepublic.com | newest

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AdVon, the AI-Powered Content Monster Infecting the Media Industry (futurism.com)

a year ago | robtherobber | futurism.com | newest

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The Life and Death of Hollywood (harpers.org)

a year ago | robtherobber | harpers.org | newest

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Sports Bra Restriction on Respiratory Mechanics During Exercise (nih.gov)

a year ago | robtherobber | nih.gov | newest

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Russian influence network in Europe: list of promoted politicians (insightnews.media)

a year ago | robtherobber | insightnews.media | frontpage

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Microsoft unbundles Teams worldwide after EU antitrust scrutiny (euractiv.com)

a year ago | robtherobber | euractiv.com | newest

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The Invisible Work of America's Domestic Workers (motherjones.com)

a year ago | robtherobber | motherjones.com | newest

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Bartók's Monster – Stalking the dead composer through Transylvania (2013) (harpers.org)

a year ago | robtherobber | harpers.org | best

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Intel Brags of $152B in Stock Buybacks. Why Does It Need an $8B Subsidy? (commondreams.org)

a year ago | robtherobber | commondreams.org | best

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[flagged] Austria is sleepwalking toward a far-right victory (politico.eu)

a year ago | robtherobber | politico.eu | best

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The Class Struggle in Silicon Valley (znetwork.org)

a year ago | robtherobber | znetwork.org | newest

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US to conduct 'industry-wide' privacy review of airlines (theregister.com)

a year ago | robtherobber | theregister.com | newest

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Gish Gallop (wikipedia.org)

a year ago | robtherobber | wikipedia.org | newest

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Torches of Freedom: Women and Smoking Propaganda (2012) (thesocietypages.org)

a year ago | robtherobber | thesocietypages.org | newest