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  1. CALPERS on Silicon Valley Kicks Off Fight On Net Neutrality (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    CALPERS and other giant employee retirement funds need to start making noises about dumping Telco stocks if network neutrality is killed. It's a kleptocracy and that's the only defense real people now have.

  2. Yeah on Is Australia Becoming A Cashless Society? (abc.net.au) · · Score: 2

    Real time tracking of every financial transaction of your life. WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG?

  3. Move to Paradise on London Terrorist Used WhatsApp, UK Calls For Backdoors (yahoo.com) · · Score: 2

    Move to that Utopian paradise where the citizens' never have to fret about terrorist attacks.

    North Korea.

  4. Blackburn will love it on 'Dig Once' Bill Could Bring Fiber Internet To Much of the US (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Why wouldn't she and her pimps love it? Yet again, monopolistic corporations will be given valuable infrastructure to hoard for their own (and rent seek), all ENTIRELY on the taxpayers' dime.

  5. I can see it now on Walmart Unveils 'Store No. 8' Tech Incubator In Silicon Valley (bloomberg.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Drones wearing MAGA gimmie caps delivering boxes of hollow points to drunk yokels hunting minorities.

  6. Note to muggers on Wells Fargo: All ATMs Will Take Phone Codes, Not Just Cards (go.com) · · Score: 2

    Try not to get too much blood on the victims' phone; it will degrade the signal.

  7. Mooslims must fly nekkid.

  8. Just like Dick Cheney, we'll never be free from assholes like Peter Thiel.

  9. No more cold cases! on Local Police Departments Are Building Their Own DNA Databases (ap.org) · · Score: 1

    Now, Officer John Law will have a trove of DNA samples to synthesize and contaminate any evidence in the unlocked property room that will 'solve' any stone-cold whodunnit! Get rid of every pesky minority in their fine Apartheid Red communities because DNA evidence to corn-pone mouth-breathing juries is the word of God writ large.

  10. Disputed? on Facebook Begins Marking 'Fake News' As 'Disputed' (wdrb.com) · · Score: 2

    Total race-baiting, dog-whistle propaganda is labeled 'Disputed'?

    Cowardly.

  11. Keep in mind the LEO community of every stripe (pastry?) came out overwhelmingly for Trump. Hell, the goons in US Customs and Border Protection (CPB) were *actively* ignoring Federal judge court orders banning Bannon's XO.

    Plenty of US Blue Shirts champing at the bit to be Il Trumpe's brown shirts. Psychotic high school bullies don't change: they just become cops.

  12. Ryan and Rand on Bill Gates: The Robot That Takes Your Job Should Pay Taxes (qz.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Years ago, the Right Wing realized the US has waaay more people than they needed (those needs only being cord wood troopers for lucrative Endless War (TM), former Seal Team 6 security goons, and only the top-shelf prostitutes and rent boys). So short of rolling the cattle trucks and firing up the ovens, how best to get rid of all these useless people?

    The total destruction of any type of governmental safety net. Cut most and privatize the rest (just like they are with jails and prisons), and all those un-needed proles will stop dropping like flies. First the aged, then the disabled, and most of the poor (with of a carve-out for the true believer white ones).

    Donald's daily circus shit-show is merely distraction from the real agenda of Ayn Rand devotees like Ryan.

  13. Just checking on Twitter Announces (More) Hate-Speech Fighting Tools (Again) (cnn.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Trump still allowed to have account to shout 'burn the theater down' to his brownshirt deplorables?

    Then all this Kabuki bullshit is meaningless.

  14. I can already hear President Bannon asking, "Hey, can that be modified to just wipe out the mud people?"

  15. This is akin to socialism, which works very well... when everyone is from the same Tribe and are related going back 15 generations.

    But it all falls apart when the neighbors are the wrong color, or religion, or accent, or we don't have the same great-great-great-great-great grandfather.

    In summary: people in aggregate, suck.

  16. Government business, not party business.

    There is no evidence that Trump or the GOP are doing any of this. Furthermore, the only possible use of an app like Confide would be for purpose (1), but that is something government officials can already achieve simply by making a phone call or meeting in person.

    The day after his party killed the one federal agency tasked with ensuring voting machine security.

    Monsters and the monsters that defend them.

  17. "Programmed by fellas with compassion and vision." on 'We Need Robots To Take Our Jobs,' Veteran Tech Reporter John Markoff Explains Why (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    "We'll be clean when their work is done. We'll be eternally free, yes and eternally young." -- IGY, Donald Fagen

  18. Strategic Areas on IBM On Track To Get More Than 7,000 US Patents In 2016 (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Patents for outsourcing and hiding profits, mostly.

  19. "NEVER ask for permission. Ask for foregivness, AFTER you've accomplished what you wanted."

  20. As long as you don't let your employees off for MLK Day, you can do whatever you want, Uber. It's Alabama but with more heat and hate.

  21. Coming soon to a puritanical former democracy near you.

  22. Zero benefits, no health insurance, and like everyone else in Trump's America (other than Trump), they'll be working every Saturday for straight pay.

    Just like my local grocery store - part of a very large national chain - everyone is part time, except the manager. #MAGA

  23. Where everything new is Windows again.

  24. Just don't tell on Fossil Fuel Divestment Has Doubled In the Last 15 Months (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Big Oil, or they'll buy up all the...

    Whoops. Standard Oil 2.0 (with the Trump Stamp of Approval).

  25. The Ghost of Ned Ludd on Robots Are Already Replacing Fast-Food Workers (recode.net) · · Score: 3, Informative

    The folks with all the money realized a few decades ago: there's just too many people (as other than prostitutes and bodyguards, we don't need them anymore due to off-shoring, computerization and automation).

    But rolling the cattle trucks is a bit too on the nose, so let's go with Permanent War, sugar-based industrialized food, set them at each others' throats with race and religion-based hatreds, choke-off competent and well-funded primary education, and what the hell, add in the idea that vaccines are a bad idea.