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Linux, politics, and other interesting things

Links April 2024

Ron Garret wrote an insightful refutation to 2nd amendment arguments [1].

Interesting article from the UK about British Gas losing a civil suit about bill collecting techniques that are harassment [2]. This should be a criminal offence investigated by the police and prosecuted by the CPS.

David Brin wrote a new version of his essay about dealing with blackmail in the US political system [3].

Cory Doctorow gave an insightful lecture about Enshittification for the Transmediale festival in Berlin [4]. This link has video and a transcript, I read the transcript.

The Cut has an insightful article by a journalist who gave $50k in cash to a scammer and compares the scam to techniques used to extort false confessions [5].

Truth Dig has an informative article about how Nick Bostrom is racist and how his advocacy of eugenics influences Effective Altruism and a lot of Silicon Valley [6].

Bruce Scneier and Nathan Sanders wrote an insightful article about the problems with a frontier flogan for AI development [7].

Brian Krebs wrote an informative article about the links between Chinese APT companies and the Chinese government [8].

[1] https://tinyurl.com/2cyrnulm
[2] https://tinyurl.com/24bfy2x7
[3] https://tinyurl.com/277o2wt3
[4] https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/30/go-nuts-meine-kerle/
[5] https://tinyurl.com/27sl85ml
[6] https://tinyurl.com/25vtw89m
[7] https://tinyurl.com/26m7h9ro
[8] https://tinyurl.com/2ajjetba

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