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US law enforcement has literal centuries of shameful history of infiltrating and spying on politically disfavored activist groups, from trade unionists to suffragists to abolitionists to civil rights advocates to
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My latest @locusmag column is up: "Neofeudalism and the Digital Manor" describes Schneier's "Feudal Security" model, where computer users are unable to defend themselves, and instead ally themselves with a
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Arbitration was created to allow giant companies with equal bargaining power to settle disputes without incurring expensive court battles. So, when IBM and AT&T struck a deal, they'd agree that
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Back in 2009, I found the best technical book about climate change I've ever read: David McKay's SUSTAINABLE ENERGY WITHOUT THE HOT AIR:https://memex.craphound.com/2009/04/08/sustainable-energy-without-the-hot-air-the-freakonomics-o
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#Prop22 was the most expensive ballot initiative in history: "gig economy" companies firehosed $200m over voters, outspending 48/50 state legislative races on a single question.That question: can employers misclassify workers
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Happy #BookBirthday to @StephanieKelton on the publication of her long-awaited "The Deficit Myth," a book that could NOT be more timely in this moment of massive structural unemployment and trillions
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Google workers have announced their intention to form a union, under the auspices of @CWAUnion Local 1440. The union is called @AlphabetWorkers (Google maintains the legal and accounting fiction that
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There are lots of problems with ad-tech: * being spied on all the time means that the people of the 21st century are less able to be their authentic selves;
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Publishing works on long schedules, which means that long-planned books can be overtaken by events...like covid. 2020 was tough for those of us with books in trail, especially nonfiction. But
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1998's Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act extended US copyrights by 20 years to life-plus-70 for human authors and 95 years total for corporate authors. The extension was retrospective, so
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The Panama Papers, the Paradise Papers, Swissleaks, Lichtenstein Leaks, the Fincen Files - the past decade has been filled with financial secrecy scandals wherein we learned how the world's worst
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It's been a decade since @apophenia introduced me to the idea of "email sabbaticals." That's when you go away and turn off your email. http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2010/12/08/i-am-offline-on-email-sabbatical-f
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