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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close August 21 – September 20, 2019 820 stories · Vol. 19 · Catalogue 38 · Issue 263 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Dolly Parton: Making the most of everything

The poor girl from the Great Smoky Mountains who became the glitzy queen of country glamour has always known what really matters

CBS · 1 sources

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What dominated September

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    New Google and Facebook Inquiries

    8 of 30 days · 11 articles

  2. Technology

    Interview with Edward Snowden

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    An introduction to deterministic builds with C/C++

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 46 stories

  1. Google’s GDPR Workaround

    brave.com · 1 outlets

  2. 94k Bitcoin (1B USD) transferred from unknown wallet to unknown wallet

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  3. Gitlab More Than Doubles Valuation to $2.75B Ahead of Planned 2020 IPO

    forbes.com · 1 outlets

  4. California passes bill that classifies gig economy workers as employees

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

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  1. Stripe’s new funding round values company at $35B

    wsj.com · 1 outlets

  2. Apple expands parts access to more independent repair businesses

    apple.com · 1 outlets

  3. 50 U.S. states and territories announce broad antitrust investigation of Google

    washingtonpost.com · 1 outlets

  4. Anthony Levandowski Charged with Theft of Trade Secrets

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

  5. Hackers Hit Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey in a ‘SIM Swap’

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

  6. Why Index Funds Are Like Subprime CDOs

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

  7. Kickstarter’s Year of Turmoil

    slate.com · 1 outlets

  8. NY Fed rescues overnight lending market with $53B

    cnn.com · 1 outlets

  9. WeWork Gets Tax Rebate Meant for Its Small-Business Tenants

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

  10. Hong Kong Exchanges Bids $39B to Take over London Stock Exchange

    reuters.com · 1 outlets

Sports 35 stories

  1. Why All of Our Games Look Like Crap

    jeff-vogel.blogspot.co · 1 outlets

  2. Solar and Wind Power So Cheap They’re Outgrowing Subsidies

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Fancy Zones, a tiling window manager

    github.com · 1 outlets

  2. Useless Windows 10 Features

    howtogeek.com · 1 outlets

  3. Police Shut Down a 3k-Person Game of Hide-and-Seek at IKEA

    housebeautiful.com · 1 outlets

  4. WeWork parent pulls IPO following pushback: sources

    reuters.com · 1 outlets

  5. Cosmoteer: A starship design, simulation, and battle game

    cosmoteer.net · 1 outlets

  6. The U.S. economy is growing and using less and less stuff to do so

    hbr.org · 1 outlets

Technology 603 stories

  1. Richard M. Stallman resigns

    fsf.org · 6 outlets

  2. How Apple's Apps Topped Rivals in the App Store It Controls

    washingtonpost.com · 2 outlets

  3. China Seeks to Buy Control of Hong Kong Companies

    nytimes.com · 6 outlets

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  1. New Google and Facebook Inquiries

    m.youtube.com · 11 outlets

  2. Facebook scans system libraries on Android and uploads them to their server

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  3. Interview with Edward Snowden

    justice.gov · 4 outlets

  4. The boring technology behind a one-person Internet company (2018)

    broadcast.listennotes. · 2 outlets

  5. California bans private prisons

    theguardian.com · 1 outlets

  6. Sunsetting Python 2

    python.org · 1 outlets

  7. Colorado Town Offers 1 Gbps for $60 After Years of Battling Comcast

    techdirt.com · 1 outlets

  8. Introducing nushell

    jonathanturner.org · 1 outlets

  9. How to do a code review

    google.github.io · 1 outlets

Entertainment 40 stories

  1. Show HN: I made a CRM system to make sales fun

    augmented-ui.com · 6 outlets

  2. Show HN: Browse Reddit in 3D

    3dforreddit.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Smart TVs sending sensitive user data to Netflix and Facebook

    ft.com · 1 outlets

  2. Show HN: CLI tool for saving web pages as a single file

    github.com · 2 outlets

  3. Too Many Video Streaming Choices May Drive Users Back To Piracy

    techdirt.com · 1 outlets

  4. WTF – A personal information dashboard for your terminal

    wtfutil.com · 1 outlets

  5. MoviePass will shut down for good on Sept. 14

    cnbc.com · 1 outlets

  6. Show HN: I Built a “Google Alerts” for Hacker News

    pqina.nl · 2 outlets

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