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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close October 9 – October 16, 2022 182 stories · Vol. 22 · Catalogue 41 · Issue 289 Get it by email ↓
The week's top story

TikTok profits from livestreams of families begging

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Business 3 stories

  1. TikTok profits from livestreams of families begging

  2. An ‘everything app’ would be bad for liberal democracies and free markets

  3. Regulators of Facebook, Google and Amazon also invest in the companies’ stocks

Sports 6 stories

  1. How Wine works 101

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  1. Authors’ names have ‘astonishing’ influence on peer reviewers: study

  2. 12,000 Facebook employees, 15% of its workforce, may lose jobs amid quiet layoff

  3. Possibly a new way of drawing boxes in the terminal

Technology 152 stories

  1. The Chaostron: An Important Advance in Learning Machines (1961)

  2. Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app

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  1. Improving Firefox Responsiveness on macOS

  2. Private Prisons Are Behind the Push for Homeless Criminalization

  3. PostgreSQL 15

  4. Meta Quest Pro

  5. Equifax used records it collects from companies to fire employees with 2nd jobs

Entertainment 17 stories

  1. Show HN: America – Road Trip Simulator

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  1. Dutch employee fired by U.S. firm for shutting off webcam awarded €75K in court

  2. How Brian Eno Created Ambient 1: Music for Airports (2019)

  3. Sweden’s incoming cabinet says new nuclear reactors will be built

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