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AI "journalists" prove that media bosses don't give a shit: In case there was ever any doubt.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116212494215953188
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Hey look at this
* Assassination markets are legal now but Trump doesn’t have to worry https://protos.com/assassination-markets-are-legal-now-but-trump-doesnt-have-to-worry/
* You Are Being Lied to About Algorithms https://www.usermag.co/p/you-are-being-lied-to-about-algorithms
* States’ trial against Live Nation could move forward as soon as next week https://www.theverge.com/policy/892353/live-nation-ticketmaster-doj-states-settlement
* Neuromancer / Count Zero / Mona Lisa Overdrive https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/neuromancer-count-zero-mona-lisa-overdrive (h/t Kottke)
* Judge Slams Secret DOJ-Live Nation Settlement Process as "Mind-boggling" https://www.bigtechontrial.com/p/judge-slams-secret-doj-live-nation
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#15yrsago History of the Disney Haunted Mansion’s stretching portraits https://longforgottenhauntedmansion.blogspot.com/2011/03/many-faces-ofthe-other-stretching.html
#15yrsago Readers Against DRM (logo) https://web.archive.org/web/20110311213843/https://readersbillofrights.info/RAD
#15yrsago Lost Souls: Audio adaptation of a classic vampire novel https://memex.craphound.com/2011/03/10/lost-souls-audio-adaptation-of-a-classic-vampire-novel/
#15yrsago Time‘s appraisal of the first WorldCon https://web.archive.org/web/20080906184034/https://time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,761661-1,00.html
#15yrsago Insipid thrift-store landscapes improved with monsters https://imgur.com/involuntary-collaborations-i-buy-other-peoples-landscape-paintings-yard-sales-goodwill-put-monsters-them-r-pics-2780-march-11-2011-Oujbl
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#15yrsago Fight 8-track piracy with this 1976 record sleeve https://www.flickr.com/photos/supraterra/5516574440/in/pool-41894168726@N01
#15yrsago Michigan Republicans create “financial martial law”; appointees to replace elected local officials https://web.archive.org/web/20120409124750/http://www.dailytribune.com/articles/2011/03/10/news/doc4d78d0d4d764d009636769.txt
#10yrsago Lawsuit reveals Obama’s DoJ sabotaged Freedom of Information Act transparency https://web.archive.org/web/20160309183758/https://news.vice.com/article/it-took-a-foia-lawsuit-to-uncover-how-the-obama-administration-killed-foia-reform
#10yrsago If the FBI can force decryption backdoors, why not backdoors to turn on your phone’s camera? https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/mar/10/apple-fbi-could-force-us-to-turn-on-iphone-cameras-microphones
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