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Data Brokers: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

John Oliver discusses how much data brokers know about us, what they’re doing with our personal information, and one….unusual way to change privacy laws.Conn...

Police Records Show Women Are Being Stalked With Apple AirTags Across the Country

Motherboard obtained reports of stalking, harassment, and abuse using Airtags, targeting victims of intimate partner violence.

Sen. Braun open to U.S. Supreme Court rescinding ruling that legalized interracial marriage

U.S. Sen. Mike Braun would welcome the U.S. Supreme Court rescinding its 1967 ruling that legalized interracial marriage nationwide in favor of allowing each state to decide such issues on

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Pluralistic: 27 Feb 2022 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

Generation Jones is the social cohort[1][2] of the latter half of the Baby Boomer Generation to the first years of Generation X.[3][4][5][6] The term Generation Jones was first coined by the cultural commentator Jonathan Pontell, who identified the cohort as those born from 1954 to 1965 in the U.S.[…

Mazda head units are getting bricked by a local NPR station in Seattle

Mazdas in Seattle get broken infotainment after NPR bug

Inside Mississippi’s only class on critical race theory

As Republican lawmakers push to ban critical race theory, here’s how the class changed the mind of one conservative Mississippian.

Before Pearl Harbor, L.A. was home to thriving Japanese communities. Here’s what they were like

What was life like on Dec. 6, 1941, and in the years before then for one group of people for whom Pearl Harbor would drastically alter their lives — the Japanese and Japanese Americans in Los Angeles?

Work Flexibility

A thread written by @FutureForum

New data from Future Forum reveals a great executive-employee disconnect on returning to the office: execs want to be in-person, while employees want flexibility. What’s driving this disconnect? And how could it impact your company’s ability to attract & retain top talent? 🧵👇🏽

Say Goodbye to Your Manager

The pandemic has exposed a fundamental weakness in the system.

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