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Administration of the Company “Tavaro” (1956-57) in Geneva, Switzerland, by Georges Addor germanpostwarmodern.tumblr.com/post/679317805…
A Peak in Darien, paperback cover by Robert McGinnis, 1960 gameraboy2.tumblr.com/post/679325490…
The baptistry basin of the Byzantine Basilica of St Vitalis in ancient Sufetula, today known as Sbeitla in Tunisia. 5th-6th century CE mckitterick.tumblr.com/post/679325511…
The Golem: How He Came into the World (1920) atomic-chronoscaph.tumblr.com/post/679299608…
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Mar 23
In fall 2020, Facebook went to war against Ad Observatory, a NYU crowdsourcing project where users capture paid political ads through a browser plugin that santizes them of personal info and uploads them so disinformation researchers can analyze them.

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Facebook's attacks were truly shameless. They told easily disproved lies (for example, claiming that the plugin gathered sensitive personal data, despite publicly available, audited source-code that proved this was absolute bullshit). 2/
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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Ban surveillance advertising; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2022/03/22/myo…

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This three-legged stool produces some remarkably sturdy proposals and policies - proposals that are legally sound, technologically achievable, and that advance important human rights causes in the digital realm. 3/
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