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Mirion Malle's "So Long Sad Love": A long drop through the missing stair.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112677871530870721

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Cory Doctorow

2024-06-25 15:04:33

In Mirion Malle's *So Long Sad Love*, a graphic novel from Drawn and Quarterly, we get an all-too-real mystery story: when do you trust the whisper network that carries the fragmentary, elliptical word of shitty men?

https://drawnandquarterly.com/books/so-long-sad-love/

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/06/25/missing-stair/#the-fog-of-love

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#20yrsago ESC-key creator dies https://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/25/us/robert-w-bemer-84-pioneer-in-computer-programming.html

#20yrsago Orrin Hatch criminalizes the iPod https://web.archive.org/web/20040627001053/https://www.eff.org/IP/Apple_Complaint.php

#20yrsago Schneier: More police power = less security https://www.schneier.com/essays/archives/2004/06/unchecked_police_and.html

#20yrsago Ernest Miller savages Orrin Hatch’s grotesque new law https://corante.com/importance/the-obsessively-annotated-introduction-to-the-induce-act/

#20yrsago MP candidates on the “Canadian DMCA” https://web.archive.org/web/20040812131225/https://ddll.sdf1.net/archives/002667.html

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EFF: Prelude to a Fake Complaint

Electronic Frontier Foundation is a nonprofit group working to protect your digital rights.

^{web.archive.org}

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#15yrsago How the Canadian copyright lobby uses fakes, fronts, and circular references to subvert the debate on copyright https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2009/06/copyright-policy-laundering/

#15yrsago Julian Comstock: Robert Charles Wilson’s masterful novel of a post-collapse feudal America: “If Jules Verne had read Karl Marx, then sat down to write The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire“ https://memex.craphound.com/2009/06/24/julian-comstock-robert-charles-wilsons-masterful-novel-of-a-post-collapse-feudal-america-if-jules-verne-had-read-karl-marx-then-sat-down-to-write-the-decline-and-fall-of-the-roman-empire/

#15yrsago Health insurance versus health https://web.archive.org/web/20090709060418/http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2009/06/the_truth_about_the_insurance.html

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Ezra Klein - The Truth About the Insurance Industry

Insurers often complain that their critics don't understand their business practices. It would be hard to say that about Wendell Potter. Potter, whose name sounds like that of a character in a Frank Capra movie, worked in the health insurance...

^{web.archive.org}

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#15yrsago Guards are the worst prison-rapists https://web.archive.org/web/20090624183205/http://nprec.us/publication/report/executive_summary.php

#15yrsago Great Firewall of Australia to block video games unsuitable for people under 15 https://www.smh.com.au/technology/web-filters-to-censor-video-games-20090625-cxrx.html

#10yrsago Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the 21st Century https://memex.craphound.com/2014/06/24/thomas-pikettys-capital-in-the-21st-century/

#10yrsago How accounting forced transparency on the aristocracy and changed the world https://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2014/06/07/the-vanished-grandeur-accounting/3zcbRBoPDNIryWyNYNMvbO/story.html

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Web filters to censor video games

The Federal Government has now set its sights on gamers, promising to use its internet censorship regime to block websites hosting and selling video games that are not suitable for 15 year olds.

^{Asher Moses (The Sydney Morning Herald)}

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#5yrsago America’s super-rich write to Democratic presidential hopefuls, demanding a wealth tax https://medium.com/@letterforawealthtax/an-open-letter-to-the-2020-presidential-candidates-its-time-to-tax-us-more-6eb3a548b2fe

#5yrsago You can’t recycle your way out of climate change https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/5/28/18629833/climate-change-2019-green-new-deal

#5yrsago US election security: still a dumpster fire https://www.wired.com/story/election-security-2020/

#5yrsago “I Shouldn’t Have to Publish This in The New York Times”: my op-ed from the future https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/24/opinion/future-free-speech-social-media-platforms.html

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I work in the environmental movement. I don’t care if you recycle.

Stop obsessing over your environmental “sins.” Fight the oil and gas industry instead.

^{Mary Annaise Heglar (Vox)}

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#5yrsago Bernie Sanders will use a tax on Wall Street speculators to wipe out $1.6 trillion in US student debt https://berniesanders.com/issues/free-college-cancel-debt/

#5yrsago Mandatory childbirth: how the anti-abortion crusade masks cruelty to women in the “sacralizing of fetuses” https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/23/opinion/anti-abortion-history.html

#5yrsago The internet has become a “low-trust society” https://www.wired.com/story/internet-made-dupes-cynics-of-us-all/

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#5yrsago “PM for a day”: dissident Tories plan to bring down the government the day after Boris Johnson becomes Prime Minister https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-48742881

#5yrsago Report: UK “Ransomware consultants” Red Mosquito promise to unlock your data, but they’re just paying off the criminals (and charging you a markup!) https://www.propublica.org/article/sting-catches-another-ransomware-firm-red-mosquito-negotiating-with-hackers

#5yrsago Lessons from Microsoft’s antitrust adventure for today’s Big Tech giants https://web.archive.org/web/20190622131345/https://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Microsoft-s-missteps-offer-antitrust-lessons-for-14030092.php

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Microsoft's missteps offer antitrust lessons for tech's Big Four

Of the five biggest tech companies in the U.S., Microsoft is the only one that isn't currently in the crosshairs of U.S. antitrust authorities.

^{Dina Bass, Bloomberg (Washington Post)}

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Yesterday's threads: Weinersmith and Boulet's "Bea Wolf"; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112672816504115897

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Cory Doctorow

2024-06-24 17:39:00

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Weinersmith and Boulet's "Bea Wolf"; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/06/24/awesome-alliteration/

#Pluralistic

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