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The Empire of Information

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/data-empire-roopika-risam-information-organize-control-dominate/
6•Petiver•3d ago

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roenxi•12m ago
> Risam’s own concluding words hammer home how data confers more power on the already powerful, over and over again.

I think the insistence of the body politic on giving more power to the powerful is what drives this. Our ability to gather and organise data is just the limiting technical capability. Which is to say, the more data a central authority can process the more power it is capable of wielding.

Unclear why people are so sanguine about that whole issue given the 20th century, but here we are.

xnx•7m ago
attention >> information

Isar Aerospace reaches orbit and deploys payloads on second flight

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273•mpweiher•4h ago•60 comments

I Changed My License

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67•jllyhill•1h ago•65 comments

M-DISC – DVD/Blu-ray compatible discs that may last up to 1000 years

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33•gurjeet•4d ago•9 comments

Cloud in a Bottle: making self-hosting accessible to everyone

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457•zplizzi•12h ago•228 comments

Doomscrolling Ourselves to Death

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3•shubhamjain•21m ago•0 comments

The revolt of the reader

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403•chmaynard•14h ago•178 comments

Music Theory for Programmers

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181•birdculture•3d ago•89 comments

IBM Quantum Nighthawk R2

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28•fuglede_•3d ago•10 comments

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79•sohkamyung•4d ago•12 comments

You Don't Have a Right to Safe Drinking Water, US Court Rules

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181•vrganj•3h ago•109 comments

AI, Tools and Transformation

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82•firexcy•10h ago•34 comments

AMD Based FreeBSD Desktop Reloaded

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64•vermaden•9h ago•9 comments

Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

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2202•moultano•2d ago•1554 comments

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9•SavvyMonkey•2h ago•1 comments

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266•elvis70•19h ago•103 comments

OpenBSD Stories: Strange Medieval Devices

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71•zdw•3d ago•14 comments

Chrome again exempts Google from user site data settings

https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2026/9/1.html
447•ExMachina73•12h ago•66 comments

A Computer History Time Capsule

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16•mooreds•4d ago•0 comments

The "$60 Gaming PC" – AMD BC-250 (2025)

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352•networked•22h ago•103 comments

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https://www.trendingtopics.eu/emad-mostaque-ai-internet-outlook-english/
23•gumby•3h ago•21 comments

Private German rocket makes history, reaches orbit from European soil

https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/isar-aerospace-second-launch-norway-a...
643•bookmtn•15h ago•346 comments

LLMs as a Cognitive Virus

https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.03344
294•canjobear•16h ago•210 comments

The Empire of Information

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/data-empire-roopika-risam-information-organize-control-dominate/
6•Petiver•3d ago•2 comments

Topologist's Map of the World

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103•beardyw•4d ago•26 comments

Visualizing Rust's Vtables: How dyn Trait Works In Memory

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182•torutofu•22h ago•38 comments

How Swiss tables work in Go built-in map

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86•valyala•3d ago•6 comments

RecurseCenter.return()

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54•evakhoury•4d ago•9 comments

GPT-6 Astra on robot arms

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207•Anon84•10h ago•162 comments

Delidded Intel I9-14900KS CT Scan

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110•willx86•3d ago•11 comments

Balrogg: Demonically compacting (up to 15%) lossless Vorbis/Opus recompressor

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91•palaiologos•2d ago•12 comments