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Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr  ·  activity timestamp 16 hours ago
#20yrsago Charlie Stross, Hugo winner https://web.archive.org/web/20050810024249/http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2005/08/07/#hugo-thing

#10yrsago Veiny, slick silicone ovipositors https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkfFZnK5W9s

#10yrsago A treadmill for Slinky toys, for your infinite Slinky-torturing pleasure https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dinVcBEDhQ

#10yrsago The Princess and the Pony, from Kate “Hark a Vagrant” Beaton https://memex.craphound.com/2015/08/07/the-princess-and-the-pony-from-kate-hark-a-vagrant-beaton/

#5yrsago Free the law https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/08/turkeys-for-christmas-party/#recap

#5yrsago Google bans anticompetitive vocabularies https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/08/turkeys-for-christmas-party/#newspeak

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Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr replied  ·  activity timestamp 16 hours ago
#5yrsago Peter Thiel was right https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/08/turkeys-for-christmas-party/#christmas-voting-turkeys

#1yrago The Google antitrust remedy should extinguish surveillance, not democratize it https://pluralistic.net/2024/08/07/revealed-preferences/#extinguish-v-improve

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Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago
#10yrsago Why privacy activists and economists should be on the same side https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2640607

#10yrsago Universal Music’s anti-piracy ads reached new heights of crazypants gore https://www.techdirt.com/2015/08/06/universal-musics-anti-piracy-ads-even-crazier-than-you-can-imagine/

#10yrsago UK govt wants your opinion on sending file-sharers to jail for 10 years https://web.archive.org/web/20150905144030/https://www.openrightsgroup.org/campaigns/copyright-enforcement-consultation

#10yrsago Robert Charles Wilson’s The Affinities: when science changes everything https://memex.craphound.com/2015/08/06/robert-charles-wilsons-the-affinities-when-science-changes-everything/

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Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago
#5yrsago California DMV's $50m/year data selloff https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/07/tired-of-winning/#you-are-the-product

#5yrsago Novartis's $678m bribery scandal https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/07/tired-of-winning/#novartis

#5yrsago US plummets below Russia and Mexico in global misery index https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/07/tired-of-winning/#usa-usa-usa

#5yrsago Satanic Abortions cut through unconstitutional abortion laws https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/07/tired-of-winning/#thyself-is-thy-master

#5yrsago Restore the Office of Technology Assessment https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/07/tired-of-winning/#ota

#1yrago Circular battery self-sufficiency https://pluralistic.net/2024/08/06/with-great-power/#comes-great-responsibility

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Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago
#10yrsago India’s porn ban collapses in less than 48 hours https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-33783539

#10yrsago Parenting and the Internet: the smarter, missing third way https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/aug/05/what-is-missing-from-the-kids-internet

#10yrsago Idaho court strikes down anti-whistleblower “ag-gag” law https://www.acluidaho.org/en/news/idaho-ag-gag-law-ruled-unconstitutional-federal-court

#10yrsago Actual questions from my Green Card questionnaire https://memex.craphound.com/2015/08/05/actual-questions-from-my-green-card-questionnaire/

#10yrsago Germany’s top prosecutor fired for bringing “treason” charge against Netzpolitik https://web.archive.org/web/20150807201032/https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/world/article/German-prosecutor-accuses-gov-t-of-meddling-in-6423563.php

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Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago
#5yrsago Qanon is magical thinking https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/05/behavioral-v-contextual/#magical-thinking

#5yrsago Trump wants to force you to invest in failing fossil fuel companies https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/05/behavioral-v-contextual/#crybabies

#5yrsago Cori Bush triumphs in Missouri https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/05/behavioral-v-contextual/#cori-bush

#5yrsago Qanon is an ARG https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/05/behavioral-v-contextual/#adrian-hon

#5yrsago GE's billion dollar tax-fraud https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/05/behavioral-v-contextual/#ge-fraud

#5yrsago Contextual ads can save media https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/05/behavioral-v-contextual/#contextual-ads

#1yrago Leveraged buyouts are not like mortgages https://pluralistic.net/2024/08/05/rugged-individuals/#misleading-by-analogy

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Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago
#20yrsago Telco that blocked union site also blocked 766+ other sites https://web.archive.org/web/20050807000417/http://www.opennetinitiative.net/bulletins/010/

#20yrsago Chevron being sued in US for hiring Nigerian death squads https://web.archive.org/web/20050812002406/http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/12285441.htm

#20yrsago Airport security wand delivers debilitating shocks https://web.archive.org/web/20051226123609/http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7777&feedId=online-news_rss20

#15yrsago Shades of Milk and Honey: Kowal’s debut novel is a drawing-room romance with magic and art https://memex.craphound.com/2010/08/02/shades-of-milk-and-honey-kowals-debut-novel-is-a-drawing-room-romance-with-magic-and-art/

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Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr replied  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago
#5yrsago Galaksija https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/02/ventilator-202/#Galaksija

#1yrago The reverse-centaur apocalypse is upon us https://pluralistic.net/2024/08/02/despotism-on-demand/#virtual-whips

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Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago
#20yrsago Anti-software-patent site taken down by software patent advocates https://web.archive.org/web/20051025080342/https://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=656

#20yrsago One 3 min MP3 = 5’9″ high stack of punchcards https://web.archive.org/web/20050804025015/http://www.ypsidixit.com/blog/archives/2005/08/remember_punch.html

#20yrsago German Harry Potter fan-translation in 45 hours https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/aug/01/books.harrypotter

#10yrsago Re-recording the 1969 “Story and Song of the Haunted Mansion” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbJRoi92Ilo

#5yrsago Populism is good for your health https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/01/set-healthy-boundaries/#healthy-populism

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Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr replied  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago
#5yrsago The Tree Who Set Healthy Boundaries https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/01/set-healthy-boundaries/#boundaries

#5yrsago A deep dive into Mexico's new copyright law https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/01/set-healthy-boundaries/#la-ley

#5yrsago Grace is going home https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/01/set-healthy-boundaries/#grace-freed

#1yrago Why is this Canadian university scared of you seeing its Privacy Impact Assessment? https://pluralistic.net/2024/08/01/eruditio-libertas-est/#streisand-v-linkletter

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Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr  ·  activity timestamp last week
#10yrsago Google diversity boss promised “UK’s first women’s history museum,” built a Jack the Ripper “museum” https://www.standard.co.uk/culture/exhibitions/museum-which-promised-to-celebrate-east-end-women-now-devoted-to-jack-the-ripper-10423690.html

#5yrsago Challenge questions suck https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/31/hall-of-famer/#favorite-food

#5yrsago Apple's internal Right to Repair fight https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/31/hall-of-famer/#e-waste-apple

#5yrsago Self-bricking medical device https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/31/hall-of-famer/#bricked-exogen

#5yrsago Mexico's copyright vs self-determination and national sovereignty https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/31/hall-of-famer/#necensuraninadados

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Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr replied  ·  activity timestamp last week
#5yrsago I'm being inducted into the Canadian SF/F hall of fame https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/31/hall-of-famer/#hall-of-famer

#1yrago The largest campaign finance violation in US history https://pluralistic.net/2024/07/31/greater-fools/#coinbased

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Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr  ·  activity timestamp last week
#20yrsago Homeland Security radio-tags foreign visitors https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/08/rfid_cards_for.html

#20yrsago Pix from today’s photog-mob at the unphotographable 1 Bush St building https://www.flickr.com/photos/avantgame/sets/668574/

#20yrsago The copyfight and international development https://web.archive.org/web/20050802001155/http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/003214.html

#5yrsago Interop to the rescue https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/30/roto-en-mexico/#interop-competition

#5yrsago Why sweat smells https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/30/roto-en-mexico/#no-sweatski

#5yrsago Solar heroin https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/30/roto-en-mexico/#solar-heroin

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Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr replied  ·  activity timestamp last week
#5yrsago Google destroys yet more smart-glasses https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/30/roto-en-mexico/#focals#5yrsago Mexico's new copyright vs cybersecurity https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/30/roto-en-mexico/#ciberseguridad

#1yrago An open copyright casebook, featuring AI, Warhol and more https://pluralistic.net/2024/07/30/open-and-shut-casebook/#stop-confusing-the-issue-with-relevant-facts

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Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr  ·  activity timestamp last week
#5yrsago Where "software" comes from https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/29/break-em-up/#word-nerd

#5yrsago Bitcoin is not a socialist's ally https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/29/break-em-up/#bitcoinism

#5yrsago The Internet Archive defends online libraries https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/29/break-em-up/#cdl

#5yrsago No consequences for police violence at BLM actions https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/29/break-em-up/#impunity

#5yrsago Let's force Big Tech to interoperate https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/29/break-em-up/#beyond-breakups

#5yrsago Unauthorized Meat https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/29/break-em-up/#mellow-brown

#5yrsago Break 'Em Up https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/29/break-em-up/#break-em-up

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@pluralistic@mamot.fr replied  ·  activity timestamp last week
#1yrago A profoundly stupid case about video game cheating could transform adblocking into a copyright infringement https://pluralistic.net/2024/07/29/faithful-user-agents/#hard-cases-make-bad-copyright-law

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Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago
#10yrsago Darth Vibrader: a Vader mannequin made from sex toys https://www.huffpost.com/entry/porn-star-kayla-jane-danger-builds-sex-toy-darth-vader-nsfw_n_55afdbc3e4b0a9b948535810

#10yrsago How .uk came to be (and why it’s not .gb) https://web.archive.org/web/20150910044243/https://30yearsof.uk/the-birth-of-uk-an-oral-history-ab3ebc0e499f

#5yrsago Mass market book sales surge https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/24/software-is-cake-too/#massmarket

#5yrsago Private equity doesn't create value, it destroys it https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/24/software-is-cake-too/#looters

#5yrsago Changes coming to UK's feudal "leaseholds https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/24/software-is-cake-too/#neofeudalism

#5yrsago Facebook's morale problem https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/24/software-is-cake-too/#eichmanns-and-oppenheimers

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Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago
#5yrsago 401(k)s are a scam https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/25/derechos-humanos/#are-there-no-poorhouses

#5yrsago Central London property prices tank https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/25/derechos-humanos/#innit

#5yrsago US copyright is a disaster for Mexico https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/25/derechos-humanos/#hecho-en-mexico

#1yrago AI's productivity theater https://pluralistic.net/2024/07/25/accountability-sinks/#work-harder-not-smarter

#1yrago FTC vs surveillance pricing https://pluralistic.net/2024/07/24/gouging-the-all-seeing-eye/#i-spy

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Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago
#20yrsago Canadian telco that blocked union websites is breaking all kinds of laws https://web.archive.org/web/20051028181259/http://www.michaelgeist.ca/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=914&Itemid=85&nsub=

#20yrsago Damning Sony payola memos: “I’m a whore this week” https://somafm.com/payola/payola2.pdf

#15yrsago What “curated computing” can and can’t deliver https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2010/jul/27/curated-computing-environment-apps-choice

#15yrsago UK govt proposes volunteer “police reserve” https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2010/jul/26/cameron-budget-cuts-diy-policing

#15yrsago Street-Fighting Math: down and dirty guide to approximation and problem-solving https://web.archive.org/web/20100605090020/https://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=12156

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@pluralistic@mamot.fr replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago
#15yrsago EFF wins enormous victory against DRM: legal to jailbreak iPhones, rip DVDs for mashup videos https://memex.craphound.com/2010/07/26/eff-wins-enormous-victory-against-drm-legal-to-jailbreak-iphones-rip-dvds-for-mashup-videos/

#5yrsago Lovely video review for Poesy the Monster Slayer https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/26/fierce-slayer/#fierce-poesy

#5yrsago Green Growth https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/26/fierce-slayer/#green-growth

#1yrago Fintech bullies stole your kid's lunch money https://pluralistic.net/2024/07/26/taanstafl/#stay-hungry

#20yrsago How Craigslist changed NYC https://web.archive.org/web/20050727011010/http://www.newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/news/people/columns/intelligencer/12348/

#20yrsago Game-modder rips into anti-modder US politicos https://web.archive.org/web/20050728003228/https://illspirit.com/press_release.html

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Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

#20yrsago Would you give a fiver a month for a UK tech/civil liberties org? https://web.archive.org/web/20050726235521/http://www.pledgebank.com/rights

#15yrsago The comics Bill Watterson sent to Berkeley Breathed https://web.archive.org/web/20100728151135/https://tvbarn.com/tv-barn/comic-con-2010/

#15yrsago Interview: Ian McDonald’s research secrets revealed https://web.archive.org/web/20100726181934/http://www.cclapcenter.com/2010/07/an_interview_with_ian_mcdonald.html

#5yrsago BLM footage censored by copyright bots https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/23/circuit-split/#dolphins-in-tuna-nets

#5yrsago Where Will Everyone Go https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/23/circuit-split/#migration-models

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@pluralistic@mamot.fr replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago
#5yrsago Canadian judge invalidates Safe Third Country Agreement https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/23/circuit-split/#kids-kages-kanada

#1yrago Holy CRAP the UN Cybercrime Treaty is a nightmare https://pluralistic.net/2024/07/23/expanded-spying-powers/#in-russia-crime-cybers-you

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@pluralistic@mamot.fr  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago
#15yrsago Wood floors made from wine-barrels https://3rings.designerpages.com/2010/07/vintage-wine-barrel-flooring-by-fontenay-wood/

#15yrsago UK regulator turns over Internet policing standards to movie, record industries https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/ofcoms-code-does-not-comply-with-digital-economy-act/

#10yrsago Comcast’s top lobbyist insists he isn’t a lobbyist https://www.techdirt.com/2015/07/22/comcast-really-wants-me-to-stop-calling-their-top-lobbyist-top-lobbyist/

#10yrsago Once again: Crypto backdoors are an insane, dangerous idea https://web.archive.org/web/20150724155241/http://motherboard.vice.com/en_uk/read/a-golden-key-for-encryption-is-mythical-nonsense

#10yrsago RIP, EL Doctorow https://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/22/books/el-doctorow-author-of-historical-fiction-dies-at-84.html

#5yrsago Kentucky AG sues top GOP donors https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/22/stimpank/#kentucky

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@pluralistic@mamot.fr replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago
#5yrsago Anti-facial recognition tool https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/22/stimpank/#fawkes

#5yrsago Little Brother as a role-playing game https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/22/stimpank/#lb-rpg

#5yrsago Ohio GOP leadership indicted for racketeering https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/22/stimpank/#householder

#5yrsago Insurers are secret, powerful police reformers https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/22/stimpank/#incentives-matter

#5yrsago OTF spared (for now) https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/22/stimpank/#breitbarf

#1yrago Unpersoned https://pluralistic.net/2024/07/22/degoogled/#kafka-as-a-service

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@pluralistic@mamot.fr  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago
#10yrsago What we talk about when we talk about “Internet addiction” https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/07/16/is-internet-addiction-a-health-threat-for-teenagers/blame-society-not-the-screen-time

#10yrsago Los Angeles is selling off some very odd lots, including a sidewalk corner https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-redevelopment-property-sale-20150718-story.html

#10yrsago Rare look at how big business defends “Investor State Dispute Settlements” https://www.techdirt.com/2015/07/20/eu-proposes-to-reform-corporate-sovereignty-slightly-us-think-tank-goes-into-panic-mode/

#5yrsago Dems vote to fund more DHS invasions of US cities https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/20/no-mask-no-service/#enablers

#5yrsago Grifters started the anti-mask movement https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/20/no-mask-no-service/#dorr-brothers

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@pluralistic@mamot.fr replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago
#5yrsago Michigan Supreme Court to review teenager's no-homework jail sentence https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/20/no-mask-no-service/#free-grace

#1yrago AI art has no anti-cooption immune system https://pluralistic.net/2024/07/20/ransom-note-force-field/#antilibraries

#1yrago FCC strikes a blow against prison profiteering https://pluralistic.net/2024/07/19/martha-wright-reed/#capitalists-hate-capitalism

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Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

Hey look at this

* Here Comes the Sun https://billmckibben.substack.com/p/shameless-self-promotion

* Elon Musk’s Neuralink filed as ‘disadvantaged business’ before being valued at $9 billion https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/17/elon-musks-neuralink-says-owned-by-disadvantaged-persons-in-filing.html (h/t JWZ)

* The Met Collection https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection (h/t Henry Farrell)

* The Number Go Up Rule: Why America Refuses to Fix Anything https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/the-number-go-up-rule-why-america

* Amazon Ring Cashes in on Techno-Authoritarianism and Mass Surveillance https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/07/amazon-ring-cashes-techno-authoritarianism-and-mass-surveillance

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@pluralistic@mamot.fr replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago
#15yrsago Woo-fighting scientist takes the funny high-road when libeled by millionaire “nutritionist” https://www.badscience.net/2010/07/and-then-i-was-incompetently-libelled-by-a-litigious-millionaire/

#15yrsago Indian bureaucracy to VS Naipaul: Can you prove that you’re really Indian? https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Dual-citizenship-a-hit-amongst-PIOs/articleshow/6185207.cms

#10yrsago Congress’s groovy, formerly secret fallout shelter https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/congressional-fallout-shelter-at-the-greenbrier-resort

#10yrsago MRI scans of food https://insideinsides.blogspot.com/

#1yrago Richard R John's "Network Nation" https://pluralistic.net/2024/07/18/the-bell-system/#were-the-phone-company-we-dont-have-to-care

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@pluralistic@mamot.fr  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago
#15yrsago Winds howl over the deserted moonscape behind Rupert Murdoch’s UK newspaper paywalls https://web.archive.org/web/20100716212545/https://www.newser.com/off-the-grid/post/502/whats-really-going-on-behind-murdochs-paywall.html

#15yrsago Vatican: ordaining women is as bad as raping children from the pulpit https://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/16/world/europe/16vatican.html?_r=1

#10yrsago Disney World after humanity’s demise https://www.deviantart.com/eledoremassis02/gallery/34539438/life-after-disney-photo-manipulation

#10yrsago UK schools’ “anti-radicalisation” software lets hackers spy on kids https://web.archive.org/web/20150714144952/https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2015/07/14/child-surveillance-vulnerability/

#5yrsago What's in Blueleaks https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/16/text-adventures-resurgent/#blueleaks

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#5yrsago Librarians' virtual escape rooms https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/16/text-adventures-resurgent/#escape-forms

#5yrsago EU court kills data-sharing deal with USA https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/16/text-adventures-resurgent/#nein

#1yrago Bowen McCurdy and Jordan Morris's "Youth Group" https://pluralistic.net/2024/07/16/satanic-panic/#the-dream-of-the-nineties

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#10yrsago Why aren’t ethicists better people? https://web.archive.org/web/20150714200719/http://aeon.co/magazine/philosophy/how-often-do-ethics-professors-call-their-mothers/

#10yrsago Laura Poitras sues the US Government to find out why she was repeatedly detained in airports https://theintercept.com/2015/07/13/laura-poitras-sues-u-s-government-find-repeatedly-stopped-border/

#5yrsago PE's three kids in a trenchcoat fraud https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/15/3-frauds-in-a-trenchcoat/#fraud

#5yrsago Biden's $2T climate plan https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/15/3-frauds-in-a-trenchcoat/#gnd-lite

#5yrsago McKinsey waxes fat off coronavirus failures https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/15/3-frauds-in-a-trenchcoat/#failing-up

#5yrsago Spain has been an NSO customer since 2015 https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/15/3-frauds-in-a-trenchcoat/#homage-to-catalonia

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#5yrsago Homeschool to prison pipeline https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/15/3-frauds-in-a-trenchcoat/#judge-mary-ellen-brennan

#1yrago Foxx Nolte's "Hidden History of Walt Disney World" https://pluralistic.net/2024/07/15/disnefried/#dialectics

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#15yrsago Gateways: Tribute to Fred Pohl with stories by Bear, Benford, Brin, Bova, Gaiman, Harrison, Haldeman and me! https://memex.craphound.com/2010/07/14/gateways-tribute-to-fred-pohl-with-stories-by-bear-benford-brin-bova-gaiman-harrison-haldeman-and-me/

#5yrsago California goes antitrust on Google https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/14/poesy-the-monster-slayer/#feeling-lucky-punk

#5yrsago Big Oil can have you locked up https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/14/poesy-the-monster-slayer/#privilege-private-law

#5yrsago Target workers strike over chickenization https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/14/poesy-the-monster-slayer/#stay-on-target

#5yrsago Free "extended preview" of the third Little Brother book https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/14/poesy-the-monster-slayer/#masha-masha-masha

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#5yrsago Artists vs tax havens https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/14/poesy-the-monster-slayer/#moneylab

#5yrsago Catalan politician hacked with NSO Group malware https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/14/poesy-the-monster-slayer/#catalunya

#5yrsago Atlas of Surveillance https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/14/poesy-the-monster-slayer/#spookycops

#5yrsago Poesy the Monster Slayer https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/14/poesy-the-monster-slayer/#poesy

#1yrago The true, tactical significance of Project 2025 https://pluralistic.net/2024/07/14/fracture-lines/#disassembly-manual

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#10yrsago We’ve evolved to disbelieve evolution https://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2015/06/29/418289762/don-t-believe-in-evolution-try-thinking-harder

#10yrsago US Customs and Border Protection: America’s largest, most corrupt police force https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-border-patrol-20150630-story.html#page=1

#5yrsago Snowden on Little Brother https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/01/bossware/#omnibus

#5yrsago Sun Ra's syllabus https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/01/bossware/#sun-ra

#5yrsago Invigilation CEO doxes student https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/01/bossware/#moral-exemplar

#5yrsago Big Cop's corporate armorers https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/01/bossware/#charitable-laundering

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#5yrsago Bossware https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/01/bossware/#bossware

#5yrsago EFF on EU interoperability policy https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/01/bossware/#eu-interop

#1yrago Austin Grossman's 'Fight Me' https://pluralistic.net/2024/07/01/the-big-genx-chill/#im-super-thanks-for-asking

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#10yrsago BBC’s list of pages de-indexed through Europe’s “right to be forgotten” https://www.bbc.co.uk/webarchive/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.co.uk%2Fblogs%2Finternet%2Fentries%2F1d765aa8-600b-4f32-b110-d02fbf7fd379

#5yrsago NYC housing lottery favors the least-needy https://pluralistic.net/2020/06/29/female-furies/#market-failure

#5yrsago Facebook and Trump collaborate on rule-rigging https://pluralistic.net/2020/06/29/female-furies/#fb-hearts-dt

#5yrsago How to break up Google https://pluralistic.net/2020/06/29/female-furies/#braygoog

#5yrsago Female Furies https://pluralistic.net/2020/06/29/female-furies/#apokolips-now

#5yrsago Bailouts should come with strings attached https://pluralistic.net/2020/06/28/kings-shilling/#tanstaafl

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#1yrago The reason you can't buy a car is the same reason that your health insurer let hackers dox you https://pluralistic.net/2024/06/28/dealer-management-software/#antonin-scalia-stole-your-car

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#20yrsago Secret Congressional policy reports published https://web.archive.org/web/20050629020405/http://www.opencrs.com/

#20yrsago Brazil to US pharma co: slash AIDS drug prices or lose patent https://web.archive.org/web/20190918065156/https://www.ft.com/content/816699fe-e50a-11d9-95f3-00000e2511c8

#20yrsago Hilary Rosen: Killing Napster didn’t bring market control https://web.archive.org/web/20050629010724/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/theblog/archive/hilary-rosen/the-wisdom-of-the-court-_3259.html

#15yrsago Canadian cops’ history of agents provocateurs and the G20 https://memex.craphound.com/2010/06/27/canadian-cops-history-of-agents-provocateurs-and-the-g20/

#15yrsago Stiglitz: spending cuts won’t cure recession https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/osborne-s-first-budget-it-s-wrong-wrong-wrong-2011501.html

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#5yrsago Snowden on tech's Oppenheimers https://pluralistic.net/2020/06/27/belated-oppenheimers/#oppenheimers

#5yrsago Santa Cruz bans predictive policing https://pluralistic.net/2020/06/27/belated-oppenheimers/#banana-slugs

#1yrago Copyright takedowns are a cautionary tale that few are heeding https://pluralistic.net/2024/06/27/nuke-first/#ask-questions-never

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