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Matt Bors
Personal blog · mattbors.com/blogculturepolitics
Matt Bors's personal blog at mattbors.com covers culture and politics. Since 2011, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Matt Bors's site for an essay on the NSA PRISM surveillance story, a post on the unpaid bloggers' lawsuit against AOL and HuffPost, and the front page. The comments only quote or link them.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
From Matt Bors: "There’s a line I’ve seen trotted a few times now that goes, “Ah, we knew all this was happening, you idiots!” We didn’t know. If you knew about PRISM you should have scooped The Guardian and made a name for yourself. The fact is, this story is mammoth and is bringing an incredible amount of attention to a program that’s been operating in total secrecy for a decade. But, yes, you’re smart and get a p…
Comment linking /blog/2013/06/07/prism-thoughts/
on “Room 641A”Submitted Here’s what all of our time on Facebook has purchased as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSorry, not my intention to imply they may be inciting a moral panic or grandstanding. The original poster (sorry to pick on you! you're fine!) didn't ask what's with all the K-pop stars on the page; they asked what's with all the women. This comment is already longer than theirs and it just read to me like somebody who generally wants to do the best thing for the most people and would appreciate some help with wheth…
Comment linking /blog/2013/03/27/the-gay-marriage-rush/index.html
on “Qt Could Go Proprietary, KDE Relationship and Qt-Based Free Software in Jeopardy”On the front page of his website: http://www.mattbors.com/
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on “I am Facebook friends with Ryan Lanza”"The middle class is teetering on the brink of collapse just as surely as AIG was in the fall of 2009 - only this time, it's not just one giant insurance company (and its banking counterparties) facing disaster, it's tens of millions of hardworking Americans who played by the rules." -A. Huffington Also see: http://mattbors.com/archives/726.html
Comment linking /archives/726.html
on “AOL and Huffington Post sued by unpaid bloggers”