Link Dump - December 2019

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weird

• [x] https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/amp/news/afm-james-dean-reborn-cgi-vietnam-war-action-drama-1252703 sparking furor from actors everywhere on the internets
• [x] https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/lostinshowbiz/2019/nov/07/sorry-james-dean-youre-better-off-dead-than-digitally-alive
• [x] https://mobile.twitter.com/Amy_23_Cheng/status/1185428129545740289 tl;dr Chinese train bogs require you to scan a qr code & visit the url (afaict) to get paper dispensed -- and it doesn't work, allegedly, saving history is against our terms of service - china has a toilet paper problem, I remember some game developer years back (facebook boom) where the office photos all showed a roll of toilet paper on each desk because you had to bring your own.
• [ ] https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/12/a-scientist-analyzes-the-acoustics-of-mid-speech-burping-in-rick-and-morty/
• [ ] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/12/10/domain_thief_14_years/
• [x] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/12/10/paging_hg_wells/ <-- pig/monkey chimera THINGS. In China. Creepy af

ECO

• [x] https://www.theguardian.com/food/shortcuts/2019/nov/13/the-vegan-revolution-why-the-latest-meat-is-made-entirely-from-thin-air

AI

• [ ] https://medium.com/@fightfortheftr/we-scanned-thousands-of-faces-in-dc-today-to-show-why-facial-recognition-surveillance-should-be-3360958a76f1
• [ ] https://gizmodo.com/farewell-cortana-1839907363
• [x] https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/east-asia/article/3039617/googles-go-computer-cannot-be-beaten-so-south-korean-master-lee
• [x] https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20191127004800315 lee sedol has quit, says machines now unbeatable at go

CREEPTOE

• [x] https://www.coindesk.com/global-protests-reveal-bitcoins-limitations turns out the government can delete your bitcoins :)

SECURITY

• [ ] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/11/22/tsb/
• [ ] https://www.dataviper.io/blog/2019/pdl-data-exposure-billion-people/ oooo matron it's a big one
• [ ] https://monitor.firefox.com/breach-details/PDL yay i'm included ....
• [ ] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/11/25/wales_government_hacking/
• [ ] https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/
• [ ] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/12/05/atlassian_zero_day_bug/

NET PROFIT

• [ ] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/11/20/org_registry_sale_shambles/
• [x] https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2019/12/the_dot-org_of_our_discontents.html

In Soviet russia blahblahblah

• [ ] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-50507849 Russia bans sale of gadgets without Russian-made software
• [ ] https://io9.gizmodo.com/toys-r-us-is-open-for-business-again-but-theres-a-biza-1840202297 in soviet america the toy is you
• [ ] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/12/members-of-evil-corp-the-cybercrime-group-that-lived-in-luxury-are-indicted/ check out the picture album

Billionaire News

• [ ] https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/nov/22/sacha-baron-cohen-facebook-would-have-sold-final-solution-ads-to-hitler
• [ ] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/11/26/amazon_crazy_week/ Bezos is banging on about factories in spaaaaaaace
• [ ] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/11/state-ignored-worker-death-to-lure-amazon-business-report-says/ (these urls should come with spoiler warnings)

Citizen internet

• [ ] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-50581287 Twitter account deletions on 'pause' after outcry
• [ ] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/12/10/bbc_iplayer_samsung_outage/
• [ ] https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20191207/22513543521/cops-offered-deeper-discounts-ring-cameras-depending-how-much-neighborhood-cameras-would-surveil.shtml
• [ ] https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2019/dec/01/world-first-mobile-phone-detection-cameras-rolled-out-in-australia
• [ ] https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20191203/06384543493/fbi-says-your-tv-is-probably-spying-you.shtml
• [x] https://modsandmembersblog.wordpress.com/2019/12/08/verizon-yahoo-bad-form/ tl;dr Y!groups are closing, but efforts to save the contents for archive.org are being actively blocked

DRUNK ELON HOME NAO

• [x] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/nov/22/elon-musk-net-worth-tesla-cybertruck Elon Musk's net worth plunges $768m in a day after cybertruck fiasco
• [x] https://arstechnica.com/cars/2019/11/hot-takes-as-opinion-cools-on-tesla-cybertruck/#p3 let's all say rude things about Elon's truckywuck
• [x] https://www.thepoke.co.uk/2019/11/22/elon-musk-showing-off-his-ridiculous-cybertrucks-unbreakable-glass/
• [x] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/12/10/tesla_smashing_time/
• [ ] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/11/20/spacex_starship/ Elon kaboom!
• [ ] https://twitter.com/jfagone/status/1198814773971845120?s=09 includes link to This Is How Elon Musk Can Fix The Damage His Starlink Satellites Are Causing To Astronomy

STUFF

• [x] http://www.aidungeon.io/

Youtube Poop

• [x] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exC7j6Bpef4

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