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One of New York City great institutions of nerdy delight, the Forbidden Planet store off Union Square, needs your help. After serving the city's sf, comics and media fans since 1981, it is in grave danger.

gofundme.com/f/help-forbidd…

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As they writes, "At one point you couldn't walk a single block downtown without coming across an interesting shop, club or gallery space. Places like See Hear and Kim's Video lined the streets and liberated the minds of people who braved to enter their doors."

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NYC has homogenized, squeezing out the quirky, the odd, the delightful - basically everything except chain health clubs, CVS, Citibank, and multinational convenience stores.

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Stores like FP were already marginal outfits, and now they've exhausted that margin, thanks to a month of outgoings with no income. I don't have much slack in my own budget, but I'm donating. If you can afford to, I hope you will, too.

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Facebook has an automated system for creating classifiers for its advertisers to use in their ad-targeting. This is a a terrible idea, whose idiocy has been obvious since 2017, when this system started allowing people to advertise to "Jew-haters."

propublica.org/article/facebo…

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But FB has 2.5B users, and while the impossibility of doing that responsibly is obvious to those without a financial stake in it, FB's got Upton Sinclair disease:

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."

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That's why FB is STILL running the system that coughed up "Jew-hater" 3 years ago.

Now, The Markup has identified some of its other categories, like "pseudoscience" and various conspiracy theories ("New World Order," "Chemtrails," etc).

themarkup.org/coronavirus/20…

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Amazon told Congress that it doesn't spy on its sellers to figure out which products it should clone. Instead, the company has argued that its longstanding practice of knocking off the most successful products on its platform represents a string of incredible coincidences.

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But internal Amazon whistleblowers told the Wall Street Journal that they totally do this, all the time. I mean, OBVIOUSLY.

Amazon told the WSJ that anyone who engages in such conduct is a rogue employee and has launched an "internal investigation."

wsj.com/articles/amazo…

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The whistleblowers told the Journal that Amazon's own-label planning meetings often featured data ganked from the platform's third-party sellers, which suggests that the practice - rogue or not - was hardly a secret.

gizmodo.com/report-amazon-…

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You may have heard telcoms shills declaring that America's internet is holding up during the pandemic while Europe's is collapsing, and it's all thanks to @AjitPaiFCC's murder of #NetNeutrality. As @karlbode writes, "This entire narrative is fantasy."

techdirt.com/articles/20200…

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Generally networks have help up well in most places because they're managed by engineers who are good at their jobs. The EU's request to streaming companies to lower their video resolution by 25% was a pre-emptive precautionary measure, not a response to actual problems.

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The actual data reveals that, irrespective of Net Neutrality policies, most networks are generally performing at the same level.

That level is...not good, overall. After the FCC killed Net Neutrality, the carriers' network investment plummeted.

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