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Inside: A TRAP for workers; and more!

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A TRAP for workers: Oops, we re-invented indenture.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1555209872760766464

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Hey look at this

* Public Defenders/Defense Attorneys: Help @ProPublica Report on Criminal Justice propublica.org/getinvolved/pu…

* @StephenKing testifies against publishing merger bbc.com/news/world-us-…

* How to write a Flintstones history of money brettscott.substack.com/p/how-to-write… 3/

#20yrsago @BaenBooks’ latest reader-friendly e-book venture slashdot.org/story/02/08/03…

#20yrsago @therealjanisian’s successful fallout web.archive.org/web/2002080322…

#20yrsago @mala's Random acts of Internet kindness web.archive.org/web/2002082008… 4/

#20yrsago @BruceS and I, debating spam viridiandesign.org/notes/301-350/…

#20yrsago @NSAGov broke the Internet satn.org/archive/2002_0…

#15yrsago @HenryRollins rants about Internet freedom 5/

#15yrsago @CBC bans employee blogging without permission – no politics or causes allowed web.archive.org/web/2007101106…

#10yrsago HOWTO open an electronic hotel-room lock without a key forbes.com/sites/andygree… 6/

#10yrsago Cybercrime, patent-theft numbers are total bullshit propublica.org/article/does-c…

#10yrsago Sociability’s value comes from privacy web.archive.org/web/2012080621…

#5yrsago @greatdismal: what we talk about, when we talk about dystopia memex.craphound.com/2017/08/04/wil… 7/

#5yrsago Big data + private health insurance = game over bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

#5yrsago @BruceS in 1994, talking about crypto backdoors and the future of VR 8/

#5yrsago Tired of being gouged, @SecretService moves out of Trump Tower and into a box on the sidewalk thehill.com/homenews/admin…

#5yrsago #DRM in web standards creates new barriers to accessibility memex.craphound.com/2017/08/03/drm… 9/

#5yrsago After #Defcon, the @FBI arrested the UK national who stopped #Wannacry vice.com/en/article/ywp…

#5yrsago Global #Wannacry payout: $140,000 — a superweapon in the hands of dolts memex.craphound.com/2017/08/03/glo… 10/

#5yrsago Quackspeak ascendant: China’s subject-changing astroturfers rule the Chinese internet web.archive.org/web/2017070100…

#1yrago Elite debt hits record heights: How the rich get free money and don't pay taxes on it pluralistic.net/2021/08/03/fit… 11/

#1yrago Utilities governed like empires: One bad account disconnection can cost you everything pluralistic.net/2021/08/04/eig…

#1yrago Congress has allocated enough money to end the eviction crisis: But they asked the states to hand it out pluralistic.net/2021/08/04/eig… 12/

#1yrago Vaccine refusal and health insurance: Insurers to unvaccinated: "Drop dead" pluralistic.net/2021/08/04/eig… 13/

Tuesday's threads: The high cost of "self-funded" Democrats; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1554496141055721472

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