Save video game history: The MADE needs help to mothball for two years.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/104842498458615341

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Life as a precriminal: 1,000 people in Pasco County, Florida are harassed day and night as part of a predictive policing tool.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/104842600731258724

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Qanon is basically the Protocols of the Elders of Zion: It's a recycling program for nutjob racists.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/104844323676470187

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EFF vs filternet: Comments to the EU on Article 17.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/104846875758626609

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America's pandemic spiral: 9 awful things. How many do you recognize?

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/104847019144347154

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Security Engineering, 3d edition: Anderson's revenge!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/104847082057441560

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Alexa for landlords: Unauthorized Bread was not a pitch-deck.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/104847131073013563

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#5yrsago Data is a liability, not an asset https://www.richie.fi/blog/data-is-a-liability.html

#1yrago Majority of period-tracking app share incredibly sensitive data with Facebook and bottom-feeding analytics companies https://web.archive.org/web/20190909221027/https://www.privacyinternational.org/long-read/3196/no-bodys-business-mine-how-menstruation-apps-are-sharing-your-data

#1yrago A symphony orchestra in masks and helmets perform for Hong Kong's protesters https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUIDL4SB60g

#1yrago The EU's top trustbuster gets a surprise re-appointment https://venturebeat.com/2019/09/10/eu-reappoints-top-antitrust-cop-who-led-crackdown-on-tech-giants/

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Yesterday's threads: Inaudible; The rise and rise of one of NYPD's dirtiest cops; Georgia voter suppression, quantified; Kids' smart-watches unsafe at any speed; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/104842304202103198

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Yesterday's threads: Inaudible; The rise and rise of one of NYPD's dirtiest cops; Georgia voter suppression, quantified; Kids' smart-watches unsafe at any speed; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/104842304202103198

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My next book is ATTACK SURFACE, sequel to Little Brother and Homeland: it's a technothriller about a surveillance techie who goes home and learns the weapons she helped build are used against the racial justice movement founded by her best friend.

https://read.macmillan.com/promo/attacksurfacepreordercampaign/

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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."

https://craphound.com/shop/

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Upcoming talks:

* Keynote for Law Via the Internet conference, Sept 22, https://www.crowdcast.io/e/LVI2020/register

* Writing into an Uncertain Future, Afterwords Festival, Oct 1, https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/writing-into-an-uncertain-future-tickets-115378329690

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My first picture book just came 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 Rockefeller. It's the monster book I dreamt of reading to my own daughter.

https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/14/poesy-the-monster-slayer/#poesy

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Today's top sources: Kottke (https://kottke.org/), Memex 1.1 (https://memex.naughtons.org/), Four Short Links (https://www.oreilly.com/feed/four-short-links), Naked Capitalism (https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/), Schneier (https://www.schneier.com).

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