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Written by Peter Murray on 2025-01-30 at 23:08

🔖 Trump Antitrust Division Challenges Major Tech Merger: In its first action, the Trump DOJ files suit to block Hewlett Packard's $14 billion attempted acquisition of Juniper Networks | Matt Stoller’s BIG Newsletter https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/trump-antitrust-division-challenges #BookmarkShare

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Written by Peter Murray on 2025-01-27 at 15:08

"Empathy is the worst for those folks because empathy... gets in the way of hatred. Empathy gets in the way of blame. Empathy gets in the way of our desire to destroy a group of people. And for what it's worth, Christian nationalism is all about the dangers of the other, all about pointing out how dangerous this group is or how dangerous that group is..."

🔖 MAGA And The Danger Of Empathy by Rev Ed Trevors, annotated https://youtube.com/watch?v=7Ni0xnQq_bQ 🗒 annotated https://media.dltj.org/annotated-video/20250127T092431-7Ni0xnQq_bQ-maga-danger-empathy/index.html

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Written by Peter Murray on 2025-01-26 at 15:08

🔖 Did a Private Equity Fire Truck Roll-Up Worsen the L.A. Fires? During the LA fires, dozens of fire trucks sat in the boneyard, waiting for repairs the city couldn't afford. Why? A private equity roll-up made replacing and repairing those trucks much prici https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/did-a-private-equity-fire-truck-roll #BookmarkShare

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Written by Peter Murray on 2025-01-26 at 05:09

🔖 Canadian authors warn readers that AI dupes of their books are popping up on Amazon: Getting fake books taken down is ‘a game of whack-a-mole,' says writers’ union | CBC News https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/canadian-authors-warn-readers-that-ai-dupes-of-their-books-are-popping-up-on-amazon-1.7441183 #BookmarkShare

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Written by Peter Murray on 2025-01-24 at 01:08

🔖 A physicist weighs in on the fluid feline meme: Cats have a surprising amount of commonalities with liquids—at least from the perspective of physicists who study fluid dynamics | Scientific American https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/are-cats-actually-liquid/ #BookmarkShare

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Written by Peter Murray on 2025-01-23 at 13:26

Hard drives seem indestructible, especially compared to previous forms of storage. So we went all in on digitizing and converting and storing on hard drives. But what if the hard drives start failing?

https://dltj.org/article/issue-104-long-term-digital-storage#iron-mountain

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Written by Peter Murray on 2025-01-23 at 13:26

This week's Thursday Threads looks at digital storage from the past and the future. There are articles about the mechanics of massive data storage systems in tech giants like Google and Amazon, the still existing use of floppy disks in certain industries, and the herculean efforts of digital archivists to access stored data from outdated mediums.

https://dltj.org/article/issue-104-long-term-digital-storage/

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Written by Peter Murray on 2025-01-23 at 03:39

🔖 If you have a meeting in Ethiopia, you'd better double check the time | The World from PRX https://theworld.org/stories/2015/01/30/ethiopian-time #BookmarkShare

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Written by Peter Murray on 2025-01-21 at 06:08

🔖 Let’s talk about AI and end-to-end encryption | Matthew Green https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2025/01/17/lets-talk-about-ai-and-end-to-end-encryption/ #BookmarkShare

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Written by Peter Murray on 2025-01-21 at 02:08

🔖 Fire at world’s largest battery facility is a clean energy setback: A fire at Vistra Energy's Moss Landing battery storage facility in California destroyed thousands of lithium batteries – and a significant amount of the state's clean energy storage c https://www.newscientist.com/article/2464625-fire-at-worlds-largest-battery-facility-is-a-clean-energy-setback/ #BookmarkShare

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Written by Peter Murray on 2025-01-19 at 19:08

🔖 Shove the Presidency Down Trump’s Throat | The New Republic https://newrepublic.com/post/190337/trump-second-term-democrats-respond #BookmarkShare

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Written by Peter Murray on 2025-01-17 at 14:08

🔖 Google rejects EU fact-checking commitments for Search and YouTube: It withdraws from voluntary disinformation agreements that are still set to be formalized into law | The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/17/24345747/google-eu-dsa-fact-checks-disinformation-code-search-youtube #BookmarkShare

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Written by Peter Murray on 2025-01-16 at 13:32

The first item in the Thursday Threads on time standards is about Paris' City-wide Synchronized Clock from the 1880s: https://dltj.org/article/issue-103-time-standards#pneumatic-clock

Imagine a network of pipes under the city sending synchronized puffs of air. It is an impressive engineering feat!

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Written by Peter Murray on 2025-01-16 at 13:30

Another Thursday, another Thread. This week's Thursday Threads newsletter looks at time:

https://dltj.org/article/issue-103-time-standards/

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Written by Peter Murray on 2025-01-15 at 04:08

🔖 AI-fabricated 'junk science' floods Google scholar, researchers warn | Phys-dot-org https://phys.org/news/2025-01-ai-fabricated-junk-science-google.html #BookmarkShare

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Written by Peter Murray on 2025-01-14 at 13:08

🔖 AI Financial Advisers Target Young People Living Paycheck to Paycheck: AI finance apps are reaching Gen Z and millennial users with personalized chatbots that offer money advice—and upsell them big-time | WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/ai-financial-advisers-apps-chatbots/ #BookmarkShare

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Written by Peter Murray on 2025-01-14 at 04:10

🔖 Texas Sues Allstate Over Its Collection of Driver Data: lawsuit accuses Arity, an Allstate subsidiary, of collecting data about people’s driving behavior through mobile phone apps, leading to increases in drivers’ insurance rates | New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/13/technology/texas-allstate-driver-data-lawsuit.html #BookmarkShare

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Written by Peter Murray on 2025-01-14 at 04:10

🔖 Police ignore standards after AI facial recognition matches: Confident in unproven facial recognition technology, sometimes investigators skip steps; at least eight Americans have been wrongfully arrested | Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/interactive/2025/police-artificial-intelligence-facial-recognition/ #BookmarkShare

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Written by Peter Murray on 2025-01-13 at 01:08

🔖 IP Addresses through 2024 [IPv4 and IPv6 allocation trends and the steady move towards IPv6] | Geoff Huston https://www.potaroo.net/ispcol/2025-01/addr2024.html #BookmarkShare

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Written by Peter Murray on 2025-01-11 at 05:08

🔖 Cascading Spy Sheets: Exploiting the Complexity of Modern CSS for Email and Browser Fingerprinting | Network and Distributed System Security Symposium conference paper https://cispa.de/en/research/publications/84162-cascading-spy-sheets-exploiting-the-complexity-of-modern-css-for-email-and-browser-fingerprinting #BookmarkShare

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