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Jim Henson poses with characters from the TV show “Sam and Friends,” ca. 1956 gameraboy2.tumblr.com/post/679513604…

A couple seated on an 1886-model bicycle for two. The South Portico of the White House, Washington, D.C., in the background. mckitterick.tumblr.com/post/679488800…

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Leslie Edgley, Tracked Down [The Angry Hart]. Ace Books, 1954. Flipside is Death Hitches a Ride by Martin L Weiss. Cover by Harry Barton. atomicrobot.live/post/679490872…

Frenchie’s Bar & Grill (1940) atomicrobot.live/post/679491131…

Star Trek Starfleet Technical Manual, 1975 atomicrobot.live/post/679492224…

Project of a Vocational Agricultural School (1966) in Stainz, Austria, by Werkgruppe Graz germanpostwarmodern.tumblr.com/post/679499084…

To the Tromaugh Station by Ed Valigursky gameraboy2.tumblr.com/post/679499641…

The Vampire and the Ballerina (1960) gameraboy2.tumblr.com/post/679506680…

“You’re the type of person that no girl is safe with!”

Spicy Stories, March 1934

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Inside: Facebook's genocide filters are really, really bad and more!

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I'm going to be mostly offline until Saturday - I likely won't get a new edition out before then. 2/

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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/

Why was Facebook so desperate to prevent a watchdog from auditing its political ads? Well, the company had promised to curb the rampant paid political disinformation on its platform as part of a settlement with regulators. 3/

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The New Radioteletype Handbook + bookmark scrap (1967 ed.) jellobiafrasays.tumblr.com/post/679445651…

THE GODFATHER 50TH ANNIVERSARY
Premiered on March 14th, 1972
— dir. Francis Ford Coppola
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Mar 22

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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Ban surveillance advertising: EFF's technological and legal proposal for a surveillance-free internet.

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Mar 22

@EFF

I've been working with @EFF for 20 years (!) now, and that association continues to pay dividends. EFF basically invented the idea of promoting tech policy positions that were informed by deep expertise in technology, law and human rights principles. 1/

If you'd like an unrolled version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

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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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