10 years old and still spot on
You mean Brewster Kahle? Maybe a little?
A recent data breach is not the only way that Internet Archive users have been left vulnerable online.
Incarcerated people are barred from reading a collection of their own letters – and 10,000 other texts – in a state where hundreds remain isolated after a decade or more
From cutting social services to changing election rules, Tarrant County Judge Tim O’Hare has pushed his agenda with an uncompromising approach. His term offers a rare look at what happens when hard-liners exert influence in a battleground county.
New details emerge that Trump’s then lawyer tried but failed to urge Michigan legislator to install fake electors
Tim Dunn and Farris Wilks are poised to take their Christian nationalist agenda nationwide.
Food and building service workers, represented by Service Employees International Union Local 73, at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign went on strike Monday morning. Wages are a major issue. “They give us just a little bit every year,” said building service worker Liem To. “A lot of dep...
Republicans are making anxiety around masculinity a key voting issue – but the Democratic nominee is hoping to turn it to her advantage
Longshoremen’s union says wage demands must be met or members will strike on Tuesday for first time since 1977
"Let me get this straight," he said. "You're hosting a 'future of AI' event in a city that has failed humanity so miserably?"
Thanks, it told me it didn’t work the first time but apparently went through
The University of North Texas Health Science Center built a flourishing business using hundreds of unclaimed corpses. It suspended the program after NBC News exposed failures to treat the dead and their families with respect.
Did you just invent donating to ProPublica?
The Netflix-owned studio has already delisted the game from the site.
Neuroimaging studies have shown that the amygdala, the tiny almond-shaped brain structure that mediates fear, is larger in people with more rightwing views
Authoritarians and would-be authoritarians are only too aware that universities are primary sites of critique and dissent
The car-centric age of development is one long mistake.
The cops object when their tools on turned on them
He may be the richest man in the world – but that doesn’t mean we’re powerless to stop him
Amid rising temperatures last year, unionized UPS workers made heat an issue – but despite a key contract win, workers say little progress has been made
DMCA violations are $500,000 and 5 years in prison for a first offense
Oh wow, they sue you for $50k if you try. What confidence in their product.
Tesla allows resale I thought, you just forfeit all your DLC, killing the resale value
What exactly is uplifting about animal agriculture?
Selver lives
What is this bullshit credentialism? A degree tells you nothing about whether someone is good or bad, whether they’ll follow the law, whether they’d make a good leader. Is the argument supposed to be that psychopaths and war criminals can’t advanced degrees? Gtfo
How? The same way that every shareholder in every company who owns shares of stock and has voting rights in that company does, even though the company is the legal owner.
The problem isn’t usually nationalization but the utter lack of democratic control of what is owned by the state.
Implying public funding of campaigns? Accidentally based?
“I’m nothing like those nasty reactionaries who treat women like objects and judge them only by their looks”
In fact anonymous review is an important part of the scientific method, precisely because work shouldn’t be judged by its source
Rules for thee but not for me
Not sure about that case specifically, but in general lack of regulation unleashes enshittificatory impulses. This comment may be aimed more at conservative voters or politicians to convince them (or at least let them claim) that pro-consumer regulation actually harms “consumer welfare.”
Second the suggestion of credit unions, but to be clear they’re neither charities nor non-profits; they’re member co-ops, run for the benefit of members (instead of stockholders), in which each member gets one vote (instead of each share of stock having one vote).