Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: How not to ban surveillance pricing; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/30/something-must-be-done/
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Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: How not to ban surveillance pricing; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/30/something-must-be-done/
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Yesterday's threads: How not to ban surveillance pricing; and more!
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116494235875803571
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NEW YORKERS! Catch me TONIGHT at The Strand with Sarah Jeong, Tochi Onyebuchi and Alia Dastagir for a PEN World Voices panel called "Techidemic":
https://worldvoices.pen.org/event/techidemic/
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Hey look at this
* "An Ignorant Population Is Easier to Control" https://rickperlstein.substack.com/p/an-ignorant-population-is-easier
* Walt Disney Visited a Ford Factory in 1948. What He Witnessed There Laid the Groundwork for What Would Become Disneyland https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/walt-disney-visited-a-ford-factory-in-1948-what-he-witnessed-there-laid-the-groundwork-for-what-would-become-disneyland-180988551/
* ‘Stop’: Warning over viral Scientology ‘Speedrun’ trend https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/news-life/stop-warning-over-viral-scientology-speedrun-trend/news-story/067ce0336bcf53774b4be682741dd868
* Aftermath: China Is Electrifying Freight Trucking https://prospect.org/2026/04/29/aftermath-china-electrifying-freight-trucking/
* 2026 Digital Publishing Awards Nominees https://digitalpublishingawards.ca/2026nominees/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=DPA-2026-Nominees&utm_source=Envoke-Digital-Publishing-Awards&utm_term=DPA-2026-Nominees-Announced
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#25yrsago Google's now running on 8,000 Linux servers https://web.archive.org/web/20010501043429/http://www.internetweek.com/story/INW20010427S0010
#25yrsago Karl Schroeder’s Ventus in the NYT https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/01/04/29/reviews/010429.29scifit.html
#20yrsago Sony screwing artists out of iTunes royalties, customers out of first sale https://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/30/technology/cheap-trick-allman-brothers-sue-sony-over-download-royalties.html
#20yrsago Robot Lego CD thrower can shatter discs https://www.techeblog.com/hammerhead-the-lego-cd-thrower/
#15yrsago Understanding alternative voting, with coffee and beer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtW3QkX8Xa0
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#15yrsago Battleshoe https://philnoto.tumblr.com/post/4613522934/quite-busy-with-work-today-so-heres-a-little
#15yrsago Filling Paris’s potholes with knitwork https://www.flickr.com/photos/39380641@N03/albums/72157622189211405/
#15yrsago Pinhole cameras made out of hollow eggs https://www.lomography.com/magazine/71984-the-pinhegg-my-journey-to-build-an-egg-pinhole-camera
#15yrsago Canadian pro-Net Neutrality/anti-censorship/anti-surveillance party gaining support https://web.archive.org/web/20110429020845/http://www.ekospolitics.com/index.php/2011/04/ndp’s-new-status-as-second-runner-holding-april-26-2011/
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#15yrsago We Say Gay: Tennessee kids fight bill that would prohibit discussing homosexuality in school https://web.archive.org/web/20110501072834/https://wesaygay.com/
#15yrsago HOWTO build an impossible Escher perpetual motion waterfall https://www.instructables.com/Perpetual-Motion-Machine-The-real-life-version-of/
#15yrsago RIP Keith Aoki, copyfighting law prof, comics illustrator, musician and writer https://www.thepublicdomain.org/2011/04/27/rip-keith-aoki/
#5yrsago Unpack the court with judicial overrides https://pluralistic.net/2021/04/27/bruno-argento/#crisis-of-legitimacy
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