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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close June 1 – June 8, 2021 198 stories · Vol. 21 · Catalogue 23 · Issue 159 Get it by email ↓
The week's top story

Why we should end the data economy

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Business 12 stories

  1. Why we should end the data economy

  2. El Salvador to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender

  3. Australian Federal Police and FBI nab underworld figures using encrypted app

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  1. Pesticides are killing the world's soils

  2. DOJ seizes $2.3M in cryptocurrency paid to the ransomware extortionists Darkside

  3. Microsoft Irish subsidiary paid zero corporate tax on £220bn profit last year

  4. Medium sees employee exits after CEO publishes ‘culture memo’

Sports 5 stories

  1. FaceTime is coming to Android and Windows via the web

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  1. Pokegb: A gameboy emulator that only plays Pokémon Blue, in 68 lines of C++

  2. Malloc broke Serenity's JPGLoader, or: how to win the lottery

  3. If Not Overturned, Bad Copyright Decision Will Lead Many to Lose Internet Access

Technology 169 stories

  1. Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project

  2. An Unbelievable Demo

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  1. Stack Overflow sold to Prosus for $1.8B

  2. There are no results for tank man

  3. The top-ranking HTML editor on Google is an SEO scam

  4. The lab-leak theory: inside the fight to uncover Covid-19’s origins

  5. Fastly Outage

Entertainment 7 stories

  1. Farmers Deserve the Right to Repair Their Tractors

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  1. Show HN: Open-source alternative to Retool, Internal.io, etc.

  2. Language learning with Netflix

  3. Xbox co-pilot mode changed disabled sister’s life

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