Today’s threads (a thread)
Inside: American education has all the downsides of standardization, none of the upsides; Hey look at this; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/16/flexibility-in-the-margins/
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Catch me in #Miami! I’ll be at Books and Books in Coral Gables on Jan 22 at 8PM:
https://www.booksandbooks.com/event/in-person-an-evening-with-cory-doctorow/
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I’m Kickstarting the audiobook for The Bezzle, sequel to Red Team Blues, narrated by #WilWheaton! Pre-order the audiobook and ebook, DRM free, as well as the hardcover. There’s also bundles with Red Team Blues in ebook, audio or paperback:
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American education has all the downsides of standardization, none of the upsides: A common core, but no commons.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/111767080526301851
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Hey look at this
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Among Linguists, the #WordOfTheYear Is More of a Vibe https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/15/crosswords/linguistics-word-of-the-year.html
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The #FTC Just Blocked Four Mergers in a Month. Here’s How Its Latest Win Fits Into the Broader Campaign to Revive #Antitrust https://www.thesling.org/the-ftc-just-blocked-four-mergers-in-a-month-heres-how-its-latest-win-fits-into-the-broader-campaign-to-revive-antitrust/
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The charges against #Binance https://blog.mollywhite.net/binance-script/
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#20yrsago Developing nations shouldn’t respect US #copyright unless farm subsidies end https://www.wired.com/2004/01/a-taste-of-our-own-poison/
#20yrsago Self-parking #Prius https://www.seattlepi.com/business/article/look-no-hands-car-parks-itself-1134918.php
#20yrsago #Disney selling off #CelebrationFlorida https://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/16/us/disney-is-selling-a-town-it-built-to-reflect-the-past.html
#15yrsago #Zimbabwean $100 trillion note https://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/01/16/zimbawe.currency/index.html
#15yrsago UK MPs to hide their expenses from #FreedomOfInformation requests https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2009/jan/15/freedom-of-information-expenses
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#10yrsago Building a fully open, transparent laptop https://makezine.com/article/maker-news/building-an-open-source-laptop/
#10yrsago Why the sum of all positive integers is -1/12 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-I6XTVZXww
#10yrsago #NSA harvests 200M of SMSes every day with untargeted, global “#Dishfire” program https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/16/nsa-collects-millions-text-messages-daily-untargeted-global-sweep
#10yrsago Congress calls on Schneier to give it answers that the NSA won’t https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/01/today_i_briefed.html
#10yrsago How to have a healthy relationship with technology https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jan/16/digital-failures-software
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#10yrsago What’s the most profitable price for an ebook? https://blog.luzme.com/2014/01/10-things-may-know-ebook-prices/
#10yrsago #CopyrightTroll dodging disbarment by resigning from the bar? https://fightcopyrighttrolls.com/2014/01/15/how-to-avoid-disbarment-disbar-yourself/
#10yrsago The Encyclopedia of Early Earth, a graphic novel by Isabel Greenberg https://memex.craphound.com/2014/01/15/the-encyclopedia-of-early-earth-a-graphic-novel-by-isabel-greenberg/
#10yrsago Leaked: environmental chapter of the secret #TransPacificPartnership treaty https://wikileaks.org/tpp-enviro/
#10yrsago #BoothBabes are bad for business https://techcrunch.com/2014/01/13/booth-babes-dont-convert/
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#10yrsago Blackphone: a privacy-oriented, high-end, unlocked phone https://web.archive.org/web/20140115183757/https://www.blackphone.ch/
#10yrsago #HEADWATER: NSA program for sabotaging #Huawei routers over the Internet https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/01/headwater_nsa_e.html
#10yrsago Judge rules TSA #NoFly procedures unconstitutional https://www.loweringthebar.net/2014/01/judge-rules-for-plaintiff-in-no-fly-case.html
#10yrsago Dirty secrets of America’s most notorious #PatentTroll https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/01/mphj-exposed-the-real-dirt-notorious-scanner-troll
#10yrsago UK consultation on #OrphanWorks https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/copyright-uk-orphan-works-licensing-scheme
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#5yrsago Even the rightsholders think Europe’s #Article13 is a mess, call for an immediate halt in negotiations https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/01/even-rightsholders-think-europes-article-13-mess-call-immediate-halt-negotiations
#5yrsago AOC’s debut speech on the Congressional floor: “It is not normal to shut down the government when we don’t get what we want.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-No5ClLS1W8
#5yrsago Vermont official fact-checks mobile carriers’ coverage maps, proves they’re lying like crazy https://www.vermontpublic.org/vpr-news/2019-01-16/state-official-went-roaming-around-vermont-to-test-cell-coverage-claims
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