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MAGA Built The Censorship Machine It Spent Years Falsely Accusing Democrats Of Building

This is not a unique or new observation, but so many MAGA attacks on others are projection, claiming that Democrats were doing the very things that MAGA always knew they would do if they were in charge. We've certainly spent plenty of time talking about Donald Trump's myriad and non-stop attacks on free speech, and...

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Daily Deal: The Academy of Game Art Bundle

The Academy of Game Art Bundle teaches you the basics of how to create video game art. You'll learn how to use Inkscape to create logos, 2D backgrounds, pre-defined modules, UI designs, and characters. A course on using DragonBones will teach you how to animate your characters as well. The bundle is on sale for...

Court Filings Show DHS Is Collecting Info On Protesters, Feeding It To Palantir

More evidence is piling up that contradicts the almost-but-not-quite denials given by administration officials in response to allegations about the DHS compiling a database to keep tabs on protesters. Just a few months ago, "Immigration Czar" Todd Lyons was trying to turn credible accusations into a nothingburger by deploying a few vague and trite statements...

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Court Filings Show DHS Is Collecting Info On Protesters, Feeding It To Palantir

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China Still Has Easy Access To TikTok Despite Trump ‘Fixes’

Remember how the Trump administration -- and folks like Brendan Carr -- spent four straight years fear-mongering about China's purported control over TikTok and its owner, ByteDance? And remember how the Trump administration (with incompetent Democratic lawmaker help) "fixed" the problem by offloading Tiktok to Trump's billionaire buddies while still maintaining co-ownership with the Chinese?...

China Still Has Easy Access To TikTok Despite Trump ‘Fixes’

In 1991, Federal Panel Blasts Vaccine Unavailability That Led To A Measles Epidemic

The apocryphal quote supposedly from Mark Twain is one of my favorites: "History does not repeat, but it does often rhyme." Now, there is no evidence that Twain ever actually authored these words, but it's incredible how true they tend to be regardless. And when it comes to the current measles outbreak that is ravaging...

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In 1991, Federal Panel Blasts Vaccine Unavailability That Led To A Measles Epidemic

The Metric Is Not The Mission: The End Of The Universal Internet

The Metric Is Not the Mission is a ten-part examination of how Big Tech moved from building and expanding the open internet to increasingly shaping it around its own metrics, incentives and assumptions. Across the series, the argument follows the evolution of the platform economy—from the optimism of the early internet to the growing tensions...

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The Metric Is Not The Mission: The End Of The Universal Internet

U.S. Car Privacy And Security Remain An Absolute Shitshow

In 2023, Mozilla released a report noting that modern U.S. cars had the worst security and privacy standards of any major technology industry the organization tracks. That was followed by a major NYT report in 2024 showing how automakers routinely hoover up oodles of consumer driving and phone info, then sell access to that data...

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U.S. Car Privacy And Security Remain An Absolute Shitshow

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