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Inside: "Privacy preserving age verification" is bullshit; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/14/bellovin/
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"Privacy preserving age verification" is bullshit: Take it from the guy who invented it.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115028095391461811
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Hey look at this
* Australian court finds Apple, Google guilty of being anticompetitive https://www.ghacks.net/2025/08/12/australian-court-finds-apple-google-guilty-of-being-anticompetitive/
* Fobazi’s road to recovery: Kidney and liver transplant https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-fobazis-road-to-recovery
* J.R. “Bob” Dobbs and the Church of the SubGenius https://dobbstown.org/things-to-buy/
* Quiet politics and the minimum wage https://dirkmjk.nl/en/453/quiet-politics-and-the-minimum-wage
* Reddit will block the Internet Archive https://www.theverge.com/news/757538/reddit-internet-archive-wayback-machine-block-limit
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#20yrsago Lloyds of London to offer insurance for corporate open source users https://www.theregister.com/2005/08/12/opensource_indemnification/
#20yrsago Vampire novel as a work of first-rate science fiction https://memex.craphound.com/2005/08/14/vampire-novel-as-a-work-of-first-rate-science-fiction/
#10yrsago Chinese theme-park queue-jumping techniques http://www.capndesign.com/archives/2015/08/the_art_of_queue_jumping.php
#10yrsago Even when you turn on Win 10’s “privacy” flags, it still spies on you https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/08/even-when-told-not-to-windows-10-just-cant-stop-talking-to-microsoft/
#10yrsago Trickle-down kids’ TV: Sesame Street will air on HBO 9 months before PBS https://memex.craphound.com/2015/08/14/trickle-down-kids-tv-sesame-street-will-air-on-hbo-9-months-before-pbs/
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#10yrsago Transgenic mouse company pays academics who cite them in papers https://www.badscience.net/2015/08/so-this-company-cyagen-is-paying-authors-for-citations-in-academic-papers/
#10yrsago Australian court hands copyright trolls their own asses https://torrentfreak.com/dallas-buyers-club-ruling-devastates-copyright-trolling-down-under-150814/
#10yrsago Student suspended for tweeting two words will get to sue his school, police chief https://www.techdirt.com/2015/08/14/school-police-chief-must-face-lawsuit-brought-student-suspended-10-days-tweeting-actually-yes/
#5yrsago Maidan in Belarus https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/14/shock-doctrine/#walkaway
#5yrsago NYC Street View, WPA edition https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/14/shock-doctrine/#wpa-nyc
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#5yrsago NYC homeless lose bathroom access https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/14/shock-doctrine/#everybody-poops
#5yrsago The CARES Shock Doctrine https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/14/shock-doctrine/#shock-doctrine
#1yrago The one weird monopoly trick that gave us Walmart and Amazon and killed Main Street https://pluralistic.net/2024/08/14/the-price-is-wright/#enforcement-priorities
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Yesterday's threads: Maga's boss class think they are immune to American carnage; and more!
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115022676354332768
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* #SanFrancisco: Enshittification at Public Works (The Booksmith), Oct 20
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* #Miami: Enshittification at Books & Books, Nov 5
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