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Jack Dorsey Joins Disney’s Board Of Directors | TechCrunchtechcrunch.com
The Walt Disney Company just announced that Jack Dorsey (co-founder and CEO Square, as well co-founder and chairman at Twitter, as if you didn't know) has.. -
Secret Handshakes Greet Frat Brothers on Wall Streetbloomberg.com
Conor Hails, head of the University of Pennsylvania’s Sigma Chi chapter, was in a Philadelphia hotel ballroom last month for a Barclays Plc recruiting reception. A friend pointed out a banker from their fraternity. Hails, 20, approached with a secret h... -
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Sorry, RSA, I'm just not buying it - Gist is a simple way to share snippets of text and code with others. -
How Iron Maiden found its worst music pirates -- then went and played for themciteworld.com
The British heavy metal legends used analytics to determine where the greatest amount of music theft was taking place, then set up gigs in those areas. The result? Sellout shows. -
Shame On Feinsteinshameonfeinstein.org
An Open Letter to Senator Feinstein Deploring Her Persistent Denial of the Current Crisis in Surveillance Policy. - news.ycombinator.com
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This Is What It's Like To Be A Tech Geek ... In Prisonbusinessinsider.com
"The first assumption that other inmates make is that an older white guy is a pedophile, so the first order of business is showing them your paperwork." -
You'll never guess where this FBI agent left a secret interrogation manualmotherjones.com
"Security screwups are not very uncommon. But this is a first." -
"Dark Money" Funds Climate Change Denial Effort: Scientific Americanscientificamerican.com
A Drexel University study finds that a large slice of donations to organizations that deny global warming are funneled through third-party pass-through organizations that conceal the original funder - news.ycombinator.com
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FBI agent tries to copyright super-secret torture manual, inadvertently makes it publicboingboing.net
The ACLU has spent years in court trying to get a look at a top-secret FBI interrogation manual that referred to the CIA's notorious KUBARK torture manual. -
Why I spoke out about my sexual assault: Sen. Gretchen Whitmer talks to Salonsalon.com
"If I was asking my colleague to tell a tough story, I needed to be brave enough to tell my own," senator explains - cobra-language.com
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A Start-Up Moves Teachers Past Data Entrybits.blogs.nytimes.com
Clever, a San Francisco start-up, enables teachers to enroll and track students, normally a time-consuming process. Its software is now in 15,000 schools. - fda.gov
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Cameron's internet filter goes far beyond porn - and that was always the plannewstatesman.com
Through secretive negotiations with ISPs, the coalition has divided the internet into 'acceptable' and 'unacceptable' categories and cut people off from huge swathes of it at the stroke of a key. -
The NBA's Possible Solution for Tanking: Good-bye to the Lottery, Hello to the Wheelgrantland.com
Nearly the entire history of the NBA suggests that a team wishing to win the title must have one of the 10 or 15 best players alive — and prefer