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The business of tear gas
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Axios
The business of tear gas
There is no federal tracking of tear gas usage by U.S. law enforcement.
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Lawsuit over online book lending could bankrupt Internet Archive
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Ars Technica
Lawsuit over online book lending could bankrupt Internet Archive
Publishers call online library “willful digital piracy on an industrial scale.”
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Is Google censoring 'Falun Gong' voice typing?
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Individual Investors Get Burned by Collapse of Complex Securities
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WSJ
‘Bankrupt in Just Two Weeks’—Individual Investors Get Burned by Collapse of Complex Securities
Seeking high returns, they poured savings into leveraged exchange-traded notes. One adviser called it “investing on steroids.” The coronavirus downturn made some of the securities nearly worthless.
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Internet Users of All Kinds Should Be Concerned by a New Copyright Office Report
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Electronic Frontier Foundation
Internet Users of All Kinds Should Be Concerned by a New Copyright Office Report
Outside of the beltway, people all over the United States are taking to the streets to demand fundamental change. In the halls of Congress and the White House, however, many people seem to think the
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Thousands Are Monitoring Police Scanners During the George Floyd Protests
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Vice
Thousands Are Monitoring Police Scanners During the George Floyd Protests
Apps that let people listen to police scanners have skyrocketed to the top of the App Store.
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Walmart employees are out to show its anti-shoplifting AI doesn’t work
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Ars Technica
Walmart employees are out to show its anti-shoplifting AI doesn’t work
The retailer denies there is any widespread issue with the software.
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Lawmakers Begin Bipartisan Push to Cut Off Police Access to Military-Style Gear
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NY Times
Lawmakers Begin Bipartisan Push to Cut Off Police Access to Military-Style Gear
The effort to end a program transferring surplus military equipment from the Pentagon to the police reflects a revived bipartisan concern about excessive use of force by law enforcement.
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Tor Browser 9.5
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blog.torproject.org
New Release: Tor Browser 9.5 | Tor Project
Tor Browser 9.5 is now available from the Tor Browser download page and also from our distribution directory.
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Microsoft Defender SmartScreen is hurting independent developers
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Stratechery – Dust in the Light
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Stratechery
Dust in the Light
The Internet ends gatekeepers and increases transparency, which has world-altering effects — both good and bad.
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What Facebook doesn’t understand about the Facebook walkout
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The Verge
What Facebook doesn’t understand about the Facebook walkout
The company is treating a moral issue as if it’s a legal one
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U.S. police have attacked journalists more than 110 times since May 28
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Nieman Lab
U.S. police have attacked journalists at least 140 times since May 28
"Although in some incidents it is possible the journalists were hit or affected accidentally, in the majority of the cases we have recorded the journalists are clearly identifiable as press, and it is clear that they are being deliberately targeted."
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Papers with Code
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huggingface.co
Trending Papers - Hugging Face
Your daily dose of AI research from AK
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Civil rights leaders blast Facebook after meeting with Zuckerberg
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Axios
Civil rights leaders blast Facebook after meeting with Zuckerberg
Three leaders who attended the meeting said they were "disappointed and stunned" with Facebook's explanations.
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P2P Matrix
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matrix.org
Introducing P2P Matrix
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
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IBM Stretch, the NSA, and MLK
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schmud.de
MLK and “Domestic Terrorism”
The narrative can change, but we must overcome the disinformation and fear that has overtaken the United States.
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Stockton Extends Its Monthly $500 UBI Payment Experiment
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Bloomberg
Stockton Extends its Universal Basic Income Pilot
A pioneering universal basic income pilot in the low-income California city was scheduled to expire soon. But the coronavirus crisis made the case to extend it.
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“Today, I submitted my resignation to Facebook”
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Linkedin
Timothy J. Aveni on LinkedIn: #blacklivesmatter | 14768 comments
Today, I submitted my resignation to Facebook.
I cannot stand by Facebook’s continued refusal to act on the president’s bigoted messages aimed at radicalizing... 14768 comments on LinkedIn
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Writing to the Framebuffer
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Seenaburns
Writing To The Framebuffer | Seena Burns
I’ve been thinking about cross platform GUIs, and one question led to the next and eventually I
was asking: how do pixels end up on the monitor? A pretty neat stack overflow
response answers:
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Running Awk in parallel to process 256M records
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Ketan's Blog
Running Awk in parallel to process 256M records
TL;DR Awk crunches massive data; a High Performance Computing (HPC) noscript calls hundreds of Awk concurrently. Fast and scalable in-memory solution on a fat machine.
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