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2026-11-04 03:57:54
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Cory Doctorow
pluralistic@mamot.fr
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Inside: The AI fatfinger economy has come for my receipts app; and more!
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https://pluralistic.net/2026/11/04/genius-scan-is-neither/
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2026-11-04 03:58:42
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The AI fatfinger economy has come for my receipts app: Every heretofore useful button now summons a useless AI genie.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/117558006008197927
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2026-11-04 03:58:56
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Hey look at this
* Google Will Turn Off Search for Schools That Reject A.I.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/11/03/us/google-search-schools-restrict-ai.html
* Private Credit's State Backstop: How Private Equity Socializes Risk Through Insurers
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=7152239
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2026-11-04 03:59:22
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#20yrsago
Army Times: Rumsfeld must go!
https://web.archive.org/web/20061107220242/http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/110406Z.shtml
#20yrsago
UK is a surveillance society
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6108496.stm
#20yrsago
Record companies sue soccer mom’s kids
https://web.archive.org/web/20061104145550/https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/02/AR2006110200114.html
#15yrsago
HOWTO make your own skateboard truck lazy-susan table
https://www.instructables.com/Skateboard-Table/
#15yrsago
Home Secretary to OccupyLondon: you’re scaring the tourists
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-15588987
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2026-11-04 03:59:37
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#15yrsago
Judge whose daughter released video of him beating her suspended from bench during judicial investigation
https://web.archive.org/web/20111105234141/http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_VIDEOTAPED_BEATING_TEXAS
#15yrsago
Prof who keeps announcing links between the Internet, childhood dementia and autism should publish theories in a scientific journal
https://www.badscience.net/2011/11/why-wont-professor-greenfield-publish-this-theory-in-a-scientific-journal/
#10yrsago
Internet of Things botnet threatens to knock the entire country of Liberia offline
https://doublepulsar.com/shadows-kill-mirai-ddos-botnet-testing-large-scale-attacks-sending-threatening-messages-about-6a61553d1c7#.zg4448j8w
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2026-11-04 03:59:55
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#10yrsago
Black Lives Matter declares its opposition to TPP
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2016/11/gauis-publius-tpp-has-picked-up-a-powerful-enemy-black-lives-matter.html
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