Molly McGhee's "Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind": A haunting novel of debt, work, dreams, and the capitalist nightmare.

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#20yrsago Civilization arises from agreements about shit https://web.archive.org/web/20040202122931/https://www.londonconsortium.com/shit.htm

#15yrsago HOWTO write in the age of distraction http://www.locusmag.com/Features/2009/01/cory-doctorow-writing-in-age-of.html

#15yrsago Ebook #DRM provider goes dark, the books you paid for disappear https://web.archive.org/web/20110902104049/http://www.fictionwise.com/help/help.htm

#15yrsago Hardest-to-understand #EULA *ever* when you install WoW on GNU/Linux https://memex.craphound.com/2009/01/08/hardest-to-understand-eula-ever-when-you-install-wow-on-gnu-linux/

#15yrsago Group wants to own trademark on “awareness” of a rare disease https://web.archive.org/web/20090416045613/https://www.ipetitions.com/petition/cdhawareness/

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#10yrsago FBI no longer primarily a crime-fighting agency https://foreignpolicy.com/2014/01/05/fbi-drops-law-enforcement-as-primary-mission/

#10yrsago Freedom Maze: brave, uncomfortable YA time-travel novel about race https://memex.craphound.com/2014/01/08/freedom-maze-brave-uncomfortable-ya-time-travel-novel-about-race/

#10yrsago Terror squad yanks 12-year-old out of class over plan to protest at David Cameron’s office https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/i-was-told-by-police-that-i-could-be-arrested-it-was-terrifying-2164835.html

#10yrsago Scan-to-email #PatentTrolls sue Coca-Cola and other large companies https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/01/notorious-scan-to-email-patents-go-big-sue-coca-cola-and-dillards/

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#5yrsago Silicon Valley real estate asking prices fall 12% from peak https://wolfstreet.com/2019/01/07/housing-bubble-trouble-silicon-valley-san-francisco/

#5yrsago Bounty hunters track targets by buying realtime location data generated by T-Mobile, Sprint, and AT&T https://www.vice.com/en/article/nepxbz/i-gave-a-bounty-hunter-300-dollars-located-phone-microbilt-zumigo-tmobile

#5yrsago Ten years after #Juneau ditched water #fluoridation, kids racked up an average of $300/each in extra dental bills https://www.sciencealert.com/here-s-what-happened-when-a-city-in-alaska-took-fluoride-out-of-their-drinking-water

#5yrsago An interactive timeline of race categories in the US Census https://www.pewresearch.org/interactives/what-census-calls-us/

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#5yrsago More Americans get the vote today than on any day since sufferage https://theintercept.com/2019/01/08/florida-felon-voting-rights-amendment-4-2/

#5yrsago Travel warning: 4 days until Trump’s shutdown costs #TSA screeners their paycheck https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-07/airports-fretting-over-screener-absences-if-shutdown-continues

#5yrsago Canada’s housing market is slowly but surely imploding, and Canadians are more exposed than the US was in 2008 https://macleans.ca/economy/realestateeconomy/this-is-how-canadas-housing-correction-begins/

#5yrsago America’s #Fiber Future: #SusanCrawford on how America’s wired future is slipping away https://memex.craphound.com/2019/01/08/americas-fiber-future-susan-crawford-on-how-americas-wired-future-is-slipping-away/

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#5yrsago Trump gave AT&T a $20B tax break and killed #NetNeutrality, now they’re prepping mass layoffs https://www.vice.com/en/article/nepxeg/atandt-preps-for-new-layoffs-despite-billions-in-tax-breaks-and-regulatory-favors

#5yrsago The Science Fiction Writers of America inducts #WilliamGibson as its next Grand Master https://nebulas.sfwa.org/sfwa-announces-newest-damon-knight-grand-master-william-gibson/

#1yrago #NaomiNovik's incredible, brilliant, stupendous "Temeraire" series https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/08/temeraire/#but-i-am-napoleon

#1yrago Social Quitting https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/08/watch-the-surpluses/#exogenous-shocks

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