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Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Subprime gadgets; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/03/29/boobytrap/

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@pluralistic quick typo check: "Enter "subprime" – loans advanced to people who stand no meaningful chance of every paying them back." -- should be ever. Great article so far! Now I know why Windows 11 wants you to have a TPM

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This Sunday (Mar 31), I'll be at Wondercon in Anaheim! Catch me at 10AM in room 207 for a panel on YA fantasy, at 11AM in the signing room, and at 2PM in room 213CD for a panel on teaching SF/F writing:

https://www.comic-con.org/wc/things-to-do/complete-schedule/

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Subprime gadgets: What a remote-brick app tells us about debt collection in the age of trusted computing.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112179819380679863

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Hey look at this

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Action Comics #1 scanned and posted https://web.archive.org/web/20060708114557/http://xroads.virginia.edu/~UG02/yeung/actioncomics/cover.html

Empirical data on file-sharing’s effect on album sales https://web.archive.org/web/20040531052739/https://www.unc.edu/~cigar/papers/FileSharing_March2004.pdf

Judge throws out Pooh charges against Disney https://web.archive.org/web/20040402103730/https://edition.cnn.com/2004/BUSINESS/03/29/pooh.lawsuit.reut/index.html

Microsoft changes policy: won’t read your Hotmail anymore to track down copyright infringement or theft without a court order https://memex.craphound.com/2014/03/29/microsoft-changes-policy-wont-read-your-hotmail-anymore-to-track-down-copyright-infringement-or-theft-without-a-court-order/

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Big Data Kafka: US Government Watchlists and the secrecy whose justification is a secret https://www.aclu.org/sites/default/files/assets/watchlist_briefing_paper_v3.pdf

Alex Jones’s deposition over his role in the harassment of Sandy Hook parents is a total shitshow https://www.huffpost.com/entry/we-got-alex-jones-deposition-video-it-was-a-predictable-disaster_n_5c9d06fae4b03218ee1ca133

Oklahoma Republicans introduce bill forcing doctors to warn abortion patients about the existence of an imaginary “reversible abortion” https://theintercept.com/2019/03/29/oklahoma-bill-abortion-reversal/

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The Chinese Communist Party’s newspaper has spun out an incredibly lucrative censorship business https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/29/business/tech/censorship-pays-chinese-communist-party-newspaper-expands-lucrative-online-scrubbing-business/

War criminal and snowflake Erik Prince cancels Beloit College talk after student protests, threatens lawsuit https://web.archive.org/web/20190401223159/https://beloitcollegeroundtable.com/2019/03/28/scheduled-speech-from-erik-prince-shut-down-after-protests/

After the Parkland shooting, NRA official reached out to Sandy Hook denier to discuss possibility that it was an anti-gun conspiracy https://www.huffpost.com/entry/exclusive-nra-sandy-hook-hoaxer-parkland-shooting_n_5c8aa54de4b03e83bdbe59eb

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Naomi Novik's Scholomance trilogy https://pluralistic.net/2023/03/29/hobbeswarts/#the-chosen-one

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Yesterday's threads: The credit card fee victory is a defeat; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112174076575654631

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My last novel was "The Lost Cause," a solarpunk novel of radical hope in the climate emergency, from Tor Books (US)/Head of Zeus (UK):

http://lost-cause.org

Signed, personalized copies available from Dark Delicacies:

https://www.darkdel.com/store/p3007/Pre-Order_Signed_Copies%3A_The_Lost_Cause_HB.html#/

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Signed copies available from Book Soup:

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Both are national bestsellers!

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My ebooks and audiobooks (from Tor Books, Head of Zeus, McSweeneys, Beacon, Verso 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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Today's top sources: Naked Capitalism (https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/).

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I'm touring my new, nationally bestselling novel The Bezzle! Catch me in Boston with Randall "@XKCD" Munrow (Apr 11), then Providence (Apr 12) and beyond!

https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/16/narrative-capitalism/#bezzle-tour

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