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by jboynyc 10y ago
You could turn those people's comment pages into RSS feeds and subscribe to those in a feed reader. Quick hacky solution to turn your comments into an RSS feed: http://createfeed.fivefilters.org/extract.php?url=https%3A
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Einstein’s Little-Known Correspondence with W.E.B. Du Bois About Racial Justice(brainpickings.org)
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We can teach women to code, but that just creates another problem(theguardian.com)
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Nope, not in response to current administration. I was just suggesting that framework might lend itself to pushing back against current policy as well, not just the danger of a far-right-wing ascendancy.
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Before Spideroak started (ab)using the term in this way, the password manager Clipperz did as well. However, they saw the error of their ways and switched from "zero-knowledge web apps" to "host-proof web apps," which ar
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It's a young initiative and its focus thus far has mainly been on other issues, but nonetheless, you may want to reach out to Tech Solidarity NL to propose or coordinate actions. https://www.techsolidarity.nl
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America's Great Working-Class Colleges(nytimes.com)
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There's also Zom (zom.im), which like Conversations is derived from the Guardian Project's ChatSecure.
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Google Launches Key Transparency While a WhatsApp Trade-Off Is Called Backdoor(eff.org)
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Zom Mobile Messenger(zom.im)
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If you don't want to venture too far out of your comfort zone, A. S. Byatt writes fiction books that read like non-fiction (much in the way that Erik Larson writes non-fiction that reads like fiction). At the same time, Byatt is a fant
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Whenever I hear an OK Go song (or see one of their amazing videos), I have to remember the appearance of Damien Kulash at the Aaron Swartz memorial at the Cooper Union Great Hall. "Everybody's heart's breaking now..." Ve
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Not exactly. "The One Moment" is already over two years old.
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Here's a hack: you can fund Jill Stein to request the recounts. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/23/jill-stein-e...
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I can confirm that that is possible. I have it running on my locked-down employer-issued windows machine.
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Trump vs. Hillary: Analyzing Viral Tweets During US Presidential Elections 2016(arxiv.org)
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In addition to the prior art the author links in the README, there's also the suckless.org project ssg[0]. For something a little more graphically oriented, there's Tom MacWright's big[1] and the in-browser slide editor biggi
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Here's my plan to save Twitter: let's buy it(theguardian.com)
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I like all of Carin Meier's talks, but I think the one that made the most lasting impression was "The Joy of Flying Robots with Clojure." http://gigasquidsoftware.com/speaking/
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The Computer as Extended Phenotype, by Steven Pemberton(opentranscripts.org)
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Resurrecting Freenode Tor hidden service(freenode.net)
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A big win! However, the Guardian reporting adds a little wrinkle: According to Manning’s representatives, doctors have recommended that as part of her treatment for gender dysphoria the soldier, who began hormone therapy in 2
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Chelsea Manning ends hunger strike after winning gender surgery battle(theguardian.com)
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In the case of Ford's pardon of Nixon, the pardon covered "any crimes he might have committed against the United States while president," as Wikipedia currently has it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pardo
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The Facts of Life(crookedtimber.org)
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Nope, it's terrible. Just look at the international comparison: http://www.ipu.org/wmn-e/classif.htm Unless you think "At least the U.S. is doing better than Kyrgyzstan" is the appropriate response. In t
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Add to that that the current U.S. Senate has only 20 women members (i.e., 20 percent), which is the highest proportion in the history of the Senate . In the House of Representatives the proportion of women members is below 20 percent (19.4
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Most recently, Password by Martin Paul Eve. Highly recommended. http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/password-9781501314872/
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To be fair, "change history" in this case refers to transformations in the work of historians.
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The Mythos of Model Interpretability(arxiv.org)
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