2020
Cory Doctorow: Twitter upgraded its terms of service to permit academics to use bots for research and auditing purposes
Cory Doctorow: Sensor Tower, which provides VPN and other software it describes as privacy protecting, was in fact distributing spyware.
Cory Doctorow: The satiety index: Which foods make you feel the most full?
Cory Doctorow: Nobody knows why people have gotten fatter since the 1950s. Diet and levels of physical activity don’t explain it, at least not entirely.
Even animals are getting fatter, both domestic animals and feral animals.
Michael McConnell, a prominent San Diego homeless advocate, fought against Proposition C in San Diego, which allocated $2 billion for homelessness. He said the law didn’t do enough and would have been too easily abused.
A California software engineer found paragraphs and themes in the novel “The Manchuriam Candidate,” by Richard Congdon, that were plagiarized from “I, Claudius.”
Yes, the individual sentences and paragraphs and character personalities were copied, but this doesn’t pass the sniff test for plagiarism. The novels are blatantly different from one another.
Astronomers are using computer models for for slime mold growth patterns to trace filaments connecting galaxies.
Reminds me of season 1 of “Star Trek: Discovery!”
Cory Doctorow: Farmers are fighting John Deere for the right to fix their own tractors.
This is literally jeopardizing the US food supply.
Cory Doctorow: A woman sued the TSA over a “pat-down” that penetrated her vagina.
Led Zeppelin wins a ruling that “Stairway to Heaven” was not plagiarized from an earlier record, potentially setting a precedent for future copyright cases.
Holy Crom, is that what Robert Plant looks like now?
X-ray Shoe Fitting “Customers Expect It!” [1940s]
Dick Van Dyke for Colorburst instant cameras (1978)
Belmont Radio (LIFE, March 6, 1944)
https://www.reddit.com/r/vintageads/comments/fgoixp/belmont_radio_life_march_6_1944/
Elvira for Coors Light, 1986
https://www.reddit.com/r/vintageads/comments/fgofxx/elvira_for_coors_light_1986/
