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Saving ‘The Onion’: An extremely brief oral history

Fast Company Tech

I had no idea how to buy a company. And I was like, If The Onion is in his hands, just give up on American society. Hes the most humorless person on earth. So I [posted on Bluesky], Who wants to buy The Onion ? I think I have $600. Im not a guy who buys stuff. All my shirts are from the dollar store. Its a huge problem.

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Best Fundraising Tips Ever: Experts Share Ideas That Work

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If you’re looking for fundraising ideas that really work, put our experts’ advice to good use. The networking opportunities stemming from these events have enabled us to raise three times more than in any period in the school’s history.”— Experiment with fundraising ideas and share your own tips and hacks with other fundraisers.

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These 5 simple ideas could fix our food system

Fast Company Tech

Whats the big idea? Listen to the audio versionread by Julian himselfin the Next Big Idea App. Take the idea that plastic is bad and biodegradable packaging is good. The idea that we should focus on big factors gives us the license to relax a little. Food is such a big topic that few really grasp the whole of it.

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Severance is borrowing a brilliant idea from Terminator 2

Mashable Tech

Cobel returns to the town where she grew up and finds her old notebooks , which prove she came up with the original idea, though it's unclear exactly what she intends to do with them. Cobel invented the severance procedure, which explains both why she's so invested in managing Lumon's Severed Floor and why she's so mad about losing that job.

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UK is going full Minority Report with ‘murder prediction’ research

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From AI being used to create police reports (bad idea) to misusing programs like ShotSpotter (another bad idea) to adopting tech that poses privacy threats to citizens (also a bad idea), history is not on the side of these being well-implemented technologies. This article originally appeared on Engadget at [link]

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Mark Zuckerberg predicted Meta's antitrust trial in a 2018 email

Engadget

In 2018, Mark Zuckerberg floated the idea of spinning out Instagram, one of the remedies the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) will likely seek in Meta's antitrust trial that began this week. Weve probably tried building dozens of apps over the history of the company, and the majority of them dont go anywhere."

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Analyzing the history of Tableau innovation

Tableau

I am proud to announce that my History of Tableau Innovation viz is now published to Tableau Public. In this blog post, I'll describe my analysis of Tableau's history to drive analytics innovation—in particular, I've identified six key innovation vectors through reflecting on the top innovations across Tableau releases. Release v1.0

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