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Inside: Emil Ferris's long-awaited "My Favorite Thing Is Monsters Book Two"; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/06/01/the-druid/

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Next weekend (June 7–9), I'm in Amherst, New York to keynote the 25th Annual Media Ecology Association Convention and accept the Neil Postman Award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity:

https://media-ecology.org/convention

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Emil Ferris's long-awaited "My Favorite Thing Is Monsters Book Two": A tour-de-force that was worth the wait.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112542044173788331

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Hey look at this

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Adrian Mole: the text-adventure game https://web.archive.org/web/20040603000808/www.c64unlimited.net/games/s/Secret Diary of Adrian Mole/Secret Diary of Adrian Mole.htm

Canadian cinema fined $10,000 for privacy invasion over bag-search https://web.archive.org/web/20090529094117/https://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20090525/cinema_lawsuit_090525/20090525

Profile of the lock-hacker who bumped the “unbumpable” Medeco lock https://web.archive.org/web/20090525195144/http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/17-06/ff_keymaster

Devilish Devenish-Phibbs bench-plaques around London https://web.archive.org/web/20090529001109/https://www.timeout.com/london/big-smoke/blog/7810/london-s_benches_and_the_strange_case_of_croy_devenish-phibbs.html

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Women who’d never seen their vulvas given a mirror and a modesty screen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eC4dVe8pIGY

Engineering our way out of mass surveillance https://web.archive.org/web/20140603175909/smarimccarthy.is/blog/2014/05/28/engineering-our-way-out-of-fascism/

Harvard Bluebook: more threats to those who would cite the law https://web.archive.org/web/20140601042919/http://tinyletter.com/5ua/letters/a-cite-to-behold-5-useful-articles-vol-1-issue-10

Majority of Americans think Snowden was right to leak https://www.darkreading.com/endpoint-security/a-year-later-most-americans-think-snowden-did-the-right-thing

The English Method: UK taught modern torture to Brazil’s dictators https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-27625540

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What’s the story with the Makerbot patent? https://memex.craphound.com/2014/05/30/whats-the-story-with-the-makerbot-patent/

NSA can’t find any emails from Snowden, then it can (convenient, no?) https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/29/nsa-email-snowden-surveillance-internal-whistleblowing

How Mexican labor unions tried to rescue Freud from the Nazis https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/mexico-attempt-save-freud-nazis/

Wealth is correlated with greed, dishonesty and cheating — are these effects or a causes? https://www.thejournal.ie/readme/opinion-why-do-rich-people-lie-cheat-and-steal-more-than-those-on-low-incomes-4647197-May2019/

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New Amazon patent application reveals “solution” to missed Alexa instructions: always on recording https://www.sciencealert.com/creepy-new-amazon-patent-would-mean-alexa-records-everything-you-say-from-now-on

How the “prosperity gospel” convinces poor people to give everything to grifty millionaire preachers https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-47675301

After viral Youtube denunciations, Germany’s establishment parties falter — so the ruling party’s leader faxed her colleagues demanding action https://www.techdirt.com/2019/05/30/german-political-leader-questions-youtubers-right-to-tell-fans-not-to-vote-her-party-urgently-summons-her-advisers-response-fax/

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Public outcry has killed an attempt turn clickthrough terms of service into legally binding obligations (for now) https://www.consumerfinancemonitor.com/2019/05/22/ali-annual-meeting-ends-with-uncertain-future-for-restatement-of-the-law-consumer-contracts/

Nobel-winning economist Joe Stiglitz calls neoliberalism “a failed ideology” and sketches out a “progressive capitalism” to replace it https://www.commondreams.org/views/2019/05/30/after-neoliberalism

Google’s API changes mean only paid enterprise users of Chrome will be able to access full adblock https://9to5google.com/2019/05/29/chrome-ad-blocking-enterprise-manifest-v3/

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Chase credit cards quietly reintroduce the binding arbitration clauses they were forced to eliminate a decade ago https://www.fastcompany.com/90357331/chase-adds-forced-arbitration-clause-to-slate-credit-cards

Ted Cruz backs AOC’s call for a lifetime ban on lobbying by former Congressjerks https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2019/05/aoc-calls-for-ban-on-revolving-door-as-study-shows-2-3-of-recently-departed-lawmakers-now-lobbyists.html

To reduce plastic packaging, ship products in solid form https://www.treehugger.com/incredibly-simple-solution-plastic-packaging-waste-4857081

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For the first time since the 70s, New York State is set to enshrine sweeping tenants’ protections https://web.archive.org/web/20190531131740/https://www.thenation.com/article/universal-rent-regulation-new-york/

To save the news, ban surveillance ads https://pluralistic.net/2023/05/31/context-ads/#class-formation

Ian McDonald's "Hopeland": A novel so eerily good it almost made me angry https://pluralistic.net/2023/05/30/electromancy/#the-grace

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Thursday's threads: Real innovation vs Silicon Valley nonsense; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112532027653945158

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A suite of old, mainframe-style computers. Looming over them is a carny barker, waving a cane. Perched atop one of the mainframes is a skeleton in a robe, drinking a goblet of blood. On the right, a credulous, gap-toothed child in old-timey clothes grins in marvel at the barker's pitch. The background is an out-of-focus filing room filled with ranked filing cabinets and busy clerks.
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    Next weekend (June 7–9), I'm in Amherst, New York to keynote the 25th Annual Media Ecology Association Convention and accept the Neil Postman Award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity:

    https://media-ecology.org/convention

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    @pluralistic I think the first time I met you may have been an armadillocon in the 80s. 🤣 I’ve followed your work for decades, regardless of when I became aware of you, and I am so proud for you for this award. It is absolutely deserved. You’re a point of light in an enshittified world. 🥰

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    @MissConstrue Thank you!

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