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Inside: Bluesky creates the world's weirdest, hardest-to-understand binding arbitration clause; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/15/dogs-breakfast/
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Bluesky creates the world's weirdest, hardest-to-understand binding arbitration clause: What, and I cannot stress this enough, the FUCK does this mean?!
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115034644536017304
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Hey look at this
* Sabot in the Age of AI https://algorithmic-sabotage.github.io/asrg/posts/sabot-in-the-age-of-ai/ (h/t JWZ)
* Bestselling author Karen Joy Fowler offers character naming rights in fundraiser https://clarionwriteathon.com/prizes/auction.php
* LLMs’ “simulated reasoning” abilities are a “brittle mirage,” researchers find https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/08/researchers-find-llms-are-bad-at-logical-inference-good-at-fluent-nonsense/
* Pank-a-Squith https://www.neatorama.com/2025/08/14/Pank-a-Squith-The-Womens-Suffrage-Board-Game/ (h/t Neatorama)
* Ray’s Day, what is it? https://raysday.net/en/
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#20yrsago Babies on the no-fly list https://web.archive.org/web/20050910182032/https://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/n/a/2005/08/15/national/w115806D06.DTL&type=printable
#10yrsago AT&T was the NSA’s enthusiastic top surveillance partner https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/16/us/politics/att-helped-nsa-spy-on-an-array-of-internet-traffic.html
#10yrsago Miami police union smears woman who posted video of cop beating handcuffed suspect in police cruiserhttps://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/police-union-smears-woman-who-posted-video-of-police-beating-on-facebook-7823262
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#10yrago Pre-crime: DHS admits that it puts people on the no-fly list based on “predictive assessment” https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/aug/10/us-no-fly-list-predictive-assessments
#5yrsago AI, 1A and Citizens United https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/15/wish-youd-share/#clearview-1a
#1yrago Apple vs the "free market" https://pluralistic.net/2024/08/15/private-law/#thirty-percent-vig
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