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Inside: The oligarchs' Supreme Court; and more!

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Sponsor me for the @ClarionUCSD Write-A-Thon! I'm writing 10,000 words on my prison-tech thriller "Some Men Rob You With a Fountain Pen" and raising scholarship money for the Clarion SF/F workshop, which I graduated from in 1992.

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The oligarchs' Supreme Court: Getting turkeys to vote for Christmas ain't cheap.

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Hey look at this

* Security/Privacy Tips for People Seeking Abortions eff.org/deeplinks/2022…

* Westlaw Faces Antitrust Claims in a Case Over #Comcom eff.org/deeplinks/2022…

* FTC Takes Action Against Harley-Davidson for Violating Right-to-Repair vice.com/en/article/qjk… 4/

#20yrsago @JamesGleick: Life is different with email salon.com/2002/06/25/wha…

#20yrsago Wibo: A wireless hobo web.archive.org/web/2002071104…

#15yrsago London’s mayor calls deadbeat US Ambassador “venal little crook” web.archive.org/web/2007070322… 5/

#20yrsago Ted Chiang's debut: Short-story collection of the decade if not the century memex.craphound.com/2002/06/24/sho…

#20yrsago More Songs About Buildings and Food salon.com/2002/06/24/bui…

#20yrsago VerisignOff: Let’s put Verisign to death web.archive.org/web/2002080214… 6/

#20yrsago Broadband *doesn’t* need content! pewresearch.org/internet/2002/…

#20yrsago Warchalking Runes 1.0 web.archive.org/web/2002062710…

#15yrsago MySpace, Facebook mirror class divisions in US society danah.org/papers/essays/… 7/

#10yrsago Q and A with a former member of the Westboro Baptist family web.archive.org/web/2012062421…

#10yrsago @jimmywales to UK Home Secretary: don’t render Richard O’Dwyer to the USA theguardian.com/commentisfree/… 8/

#10yrsago Entertainment industry to Japanese ISPs: we’ll hand you a secret list of copyrighted works, and you have to block them torrentfreak.com/jail-for-file-…

#10yrsago Rohinton Mistry’s fairy-tale about Canadian neocons web.archive.org/web/2012062412… 9/

#10yrsago Sonic.net stopped saving logs for more than 14 days in order to frustrate copyright trolls forbes.com/sites/andygree…

#10yrsago Canadian fed court: linking isn’t copyright infringement, neither is excerpting an article web.archive.org/web/2012062800… 10/

#10yrsago Zita the Space Girl: delightful kids’ science fiction comic that’s part Vaughn Bode, part Mos Eisley Cantina memex.craphound.com/2012/06/25/zit…

#5yrsago Philando Castile’s killers secretly tried to order Facebook to let them spy on Castile’s girlfriend techdirt.com/2017/06/23/cop… 11/

#5yrsago Remembering Prisoners of Gravity, the greatest science fiction TV show of all timehttps://www.wired.com/2017/06/geeks-guide-prisoners-of-gravity/

#1yrago The pandemic showed remote proctoring to be worse than useless pluralistic.net/2021/06/24/pro… 12/

Thursday's threads: Daycare apps are insecure surveillance dumpster-fires; and more!

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My latest book is Attack Surface, a sequel to my bestselling Little Brother books, now in paperback, wherever books are sold.

Signed copies at @DarkDel:

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My book "How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism" is a critique of Big Tech connecting conspiratorial thinking to the rise of tech monopolies (proposing a way to deal with both) is now out in paperback:

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Signed copies here:
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My ebooks and audiobooks (from @torbooks, @HoZ_Books, @mcsweeneys, and others) are for sale all over the net, but I sell 'em too, and when you buy 'em from me, I earn twice as much and you get books with no DRM and no license "agreements."

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Upcoming appearances:

* A New @hopeconf (NYC), Jul 24
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Recent appearances:

* Supp-Lie Demand (Bad Faith podcast with @briebriejoy):
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* The Sci-Fi Feedback Loop: Mapping Fiction’s Influence on Real-World Tech
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* Privacy is the New Celebrity
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My first picture book is out! It's called Poesy the Monster Slayer and it's an epic tale of bedtime-refusal, toy-hacking and monster-hunting, illustrated by Matt @mcrockefeller. It's the monster book I dreamt of reading to my own daughter.

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