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NOTES / LINKS:
NordVPN makes its Meshnet private tunnel free for everyone
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/nordvpn-makes-its-meshnet-private-tunnel-free-for-everyone/
RL Stine of Goosebumps series accuses Scholastic
https://www.theepochtimes.com/horror-book-author-accuses-publisher-of-progressive-censorship_5110711.html
Toronto activist buying up copies of Harry Potter, stripping Rowling’s name, and reselling
https://nypost.com/2023/01/13/reseller-removes-j-k-rowlings-name-from-harry-potter-books/
Sideshow Bob Ferguson pushing legislation to classify conservative speech as “domestic violence extremism”
https://www.thecentersquare.com/washington/article_c33c78a0-b47a-11ed-8704-8f277438e09b.html
Free speech at Stanford
https://thefederalist.com/2023/03/15/the-stanford-free-speech-debacle-is-another-reason-universities-need-to-fire-99-9-of-their-administrators/
GPT4 released
https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/14/openai-releases-gpt-4-ai-that-it-claims-is-state-of-the-art/
ChatGPT defeated captcha by posing as a blind person
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2023/03/15/chatgpt-posed-blind-person-pass-online-anti-bot-test/
Signature Bank woke cringe videos from execs
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/watch-woke-signature-bank-videos-go-viral-after-fed-shut-down
HSBC acquires SVB UK for £1
https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/13/in-historic-last-minute-deal-hsbc-acquires-silicon-valley-bank-uk-says-all-depositors-money-is-safe/
Zealous Autoconfig
https://xkcd.com/416/
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