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Inside: Adversarial interoperability is a team sport; and more!
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* Musk's Fake Flying Car And 'CEO Said A Thing!' Journalism https://karlbode.com/musks-fake-flying-car-and-ceo-said-a-thing-journalism/
* High schoolers, students: the twilight of macronism https://thomaspiketty.wordpress.com/2026/10/20/high-schoolers-students-the-twilight-of-macronism/
* The Singularity has been postponed https://johnquigginblog.substack.com/p/the-singularity-has-been-postponed-e77
* How to install an app on your Commodore 64 https://www.anildash.com/2026/10/08/install-an-app-commodore-64/
* A scammer could use what’s already exposed about you. https://www.malwarebytes.com/out-there
#25yrsago Secret recording of Labour Whip demanding support for Iraq invasion https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2001/oct/22/uk.september11
#25yrsago LoC launches emulator-based digital file preservation https://web.archive.org/web/20011217002337/http://www.techreview.com/magazine/oct01/innovation5.asp
#25yrsago Kevin Mitnick to play CIA lackey https://web.archive.org/web/20011111105016/http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/22395.html
#15yrsago ACLU Tennessee brings suit against ICE officers who broke into house and said, “We don’t need a warrant, we’re ICE, the warrant is coming out of my balls.” https://web.archive.org/web/20111025092605/http://www.aclu.org/blog/immigrants-rights/we-dont-need-warrant-were-ice/
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#15yrsago WIPO’s secret, corporate-run trademark enforcement meeting https://web.archive.org/web/20220121054715/https://craphound.com/PROGRAMManilaEdited10212011-FINAL.pdf
#15yrsago Canada’s Supreme Court: Linking isn’t libel https://web.archive.org/web/20111026134334/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-15374238
#15yrsago HOWTO recreate the Haunted Mansion’s singing busts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRtiiMW47i4
#10yrsago Facebook’s crackdown on publishers feeds has sites paying celebs to repost https://digiday.com/media/facebook-thirsty-publishers-turn-celebrities-worm-news-feed/
#10yrsago Internet-destroying outages were caused by “amateurish” IoT malware https://krebsonsecurity.com/2016/10/hacked-cameras-dvrs-powered-todays-massive-internet-outage/
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WDW At Home | How to Make the Singing Busts
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Adversarial interoperability is a team sport: Vibe-coded jailbreaks are fun, but don't solve the problem.
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