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Inside: Matt Ruff's "Destroyer of Worlds"; and more!

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Matt Ruff's "Destroyer of Worlds": A return to "Lovecraft Country."

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#20yrsago Bertelsmann sued over #Napster web.archive.org/web/2003040120…

#15yrsago Random House Audio abandons audiobook #DRM craphound.com/DRMLetter22108…

#15yrsago Collective intelligence spontaneously arises among #ARG players — paper from I Love Bees creator avantgame.com/McGonigal_WhyI… 3/

#10yrsago @EFF’s new international director: @mala eff.org/press/releases…

#10yrsago Music industry hates anti-spam laws michaelgeist.ca/2013/02/music-… 4/

#10yrsago Corporations are people, so the city of Seattle can’t have an opt-out policy for spammy phonebooks no one wants jeffreifman.com/2013/02/21/cor…

#5yrsago Online security is a disaster and the people who investigate it are being sued into silence zdnet.com/article/chilli… 5/

#5yrsago The Copyright Office is spending the year deciding technology’s future, but the future doesn’t get a seat at the table eff.org/deeplinks/2018…

#1yrago The people's disruption: Tech rights are workers' rights pluralistic.net/2022/02/21/con… 6/

#1yrago A(nother) massive Swiss banking leak pluralistic.net/2022/02/21/con… 7/

Yesterday's threads: Turbotax is blitzing Congress for the right to tax YOU; and more!

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