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“Any time “public information” is referenced now, Facebook is talking about your: name, profile picture, current city, gender, networks, complete list of your friends, and your complete list of connections (formerly the list of pages that you were a “fan” of, but now including profile information like your hometown, education, work, activities, likes and interests, and, in some cases, your likes and recommendations from non-Facebook pages around the web).”

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May 17th, 2010 at 5:12 pm

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“Waddell & Reed executed several trading strategies, including index futures contracts, as part of the normal operation of our flexible portfolio funds” & the market had it’s most ginormous drop ever.

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May 15th, 2010 at 8:54 am

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Mashable’s graphic about stuff you didn’t know about FB

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May 14th, 2010 at 11:52 pm

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“Google did collect publicly broadcast SSID information (the WiFi network name) and MAC addresses (the unique number given to a device like a WiFi router) using Street View cars, we did not collect payload data (information sent over the network). But it’s now clear that we have been mistakenly collecting samples of payload data from open (i.e. non-password-protected) WiFi networks, even though we never used that data in any Google products.”

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May 14th, 2010 at 11:45 pm

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Crowd sourcing investigative reporting

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May 14th, 2010 at 10:34 am

“Today, FixCongressFirst.org is launching an effort to build the biggest lobby in the history of American politics — one that will beat out…”

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May 12th, 2010 at 11:56 am

Some of the lobbyists throwing parties for your elected officials re: financial reform

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May 12th, 2010 at 10:38 am

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3 things you should check in Facebook right now

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May 11th, 2010 at 10:49 pm

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Game to play with your credit card once it’s worthless: “finely powder some rust and then blow it over the magstripe on your credit card and you can see the zeroes and ones encoded on it by the stripes where the magnetic forces attract the ferrous particles.”

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May 10th, 2010 at 8:48 am

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“The “accounting gain” arose because the $560m insurance policy Transocean took out on its Deepwater Horizon rig was greater than the value of the rig itself. “

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May 9th, 2010 at 11:51 am

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This explains everything: “Neanderthal genome reveals interbreeding with humans”

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May 7th, 2010 at 11:19 am

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“Because of the pressure on getting the equipment back to work, root cause analysis of the failures is generally not performed,” the report said. “In many operations, high maintenance is accepted as a necessary evil to prevent downtime.”

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May 6th, 2010 at 12:14 pm

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Someone in the GOP stole my email address and subscribed me to a bunch of crap.

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May 6th, 2010 at 11:28 am

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“[A]“categorical exclusion” from the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) on April 6, 2009 — and BP’s lobbying efforts just 11 days before the explosion to expand those exemptions — show that neither federal regulators nor the company anticipated an accident of the scale of the one unfolding in the gulf.”

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May 5th, 2010 at 8:30 am

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Tester backs bill to permanently ban former members of Congress from lobbying

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May 4th, 2010 at 11:16 am

“Why do free social networks tilt inevitably toward user exploitation? Because you’re not their customer, you’re their product. “

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May 3rd, 2010 at 9:56 pm

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Technical discussion of Deepwater Horizon catastrophic failure at U.S. Coast Guard Eighth District External Affairs Flickr account.

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May 2nd, 2010 at 10:35 pm

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BP had no plan for an accident based on their internal documents.

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May 1st, 2010 at 9:10 am

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The Transparency Caucus

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April 29th, 2010 at 1:21 pm

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The prospectus for the “shitty deal” from Goldman Sachs is now public

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April 28th, 2010 at 11:08 pm

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