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Much as I do not like linking to the Daily Mail, this is Trump acting like Berlusconi, and calling it wrongly:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9108803/Trump-demands-rambling-call-GA-Secretary-State-way-overturn-Bidens-win-there.html
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“Suppressing ‘Hate Speech’ on Social Media Drives Users to New Platforms” – #Management vs: #Censorship, and why we must resist the censorious impulse
Management vs: Censorship Another posting from the pre-Christmas queue; I am not (and will likely never be) in favour of “deplatforming” speakers-as-persons-in-and-of-themselves; as a free-speech activist my take is firmly that legal restrictions upon speech should reflect both content (actus reus) and intent (mens rea) – and that lacking any criminal law-breaking which satisfies both,…
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https://blog.torproject.org/in-memoriam-of-karsten-loesing It’s with deep sorrow that we share that our dear friend, colleague, and Tor core contributor Karsten Loesing passed away on the afternoon of Friday, December 18, 2020. No one is prepared for such an unimaginable loss. Our deepest sympathies go to Karsten’s family at this moment, his wife and his children. https://blog.torproject.org/in-memoriam-of-karsten-loesing I…
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NBC News: Pornhub crackdown by credit card companies cuts off sex workers’ livelihoods / @oliviasolon @ubiquity75
In case you missed it on Twitter before Christmas: much as I don’t have a great deal of respect for Mindgeek as a company, they are a channel upon which a bunch of people rely for their income… and the US (and, in particular, stoked by several NYT columnists) are waging a enormous and harmfully…
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DO NOT ASSUME A PHYSICAL FORM
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Why national boundaries around content are a harmful, bad idea, number #1478 in a series… @foodnetwork @foodnetwork_uk
Yes, yes, copyrights and creators are important and all that, but this result is particularly pointless; a friend – based in the USA – posted the following recipe URL for doughnuts: https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/yeast-doughnuts-recipe-1942740 …but when you access it from the UK the website excitably and annoyingly punches the URL through a series of redirects, and ends…
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If you are reading this blog via RSS, please drop me a comment, below.
Regarding this comment from Gabriel, I have made a few changes to the feed structure and to use of tags, which I will try to stick to; but I would be interested to know if any other people are still using RSS/Atom to read this blog? EDIT: I’ve spent the afternoon cleaning up my tags…
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BBC News: Primary schools: Send children to school on Monday, says PM # so , we should expect a U-turn by when? Dinner?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-55521580
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BBC News: Adobe Flash Player is finally laid to rest
BBC News – Adobe Flash Player is finally laid to rest https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-55497353
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InspiroBot is on a roll
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Dutch bike part dealer shipping to every country in the world except UK because of Brexit VAT change | road.cc
This does not bode well for buying stuff from the continent any time soon; very regrettable. https://road.cc/content/news/dutch-bike-part-dealer-shipping-every-country-except-uk-279779 Online bike parts retailer Dutch Bike Bits has announced that with the advent of Brexit, the UK will become the only country in the world to which it will not ship goods. The firm explained that this was…
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Wow, Apple does this?