When Trump FCC Chairman (and former telcoms executive) Ajit Pai murdered Net Neutrality, he told us the slaughter was necessary, otherwise the ISPs wouldn’t invest in their networks.
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Day: 31 January 2019
The FBI invented a fictitious “abortion extremist” movement, then warned local cops about potential acts of domestic terror from it
Anti-abortion extremists are among the most violent domestic terrorists in America, having murdered and attempted to murder dozens of people using firearms, firebombs and traditional explosives.
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As Macron and Merkel meet to rescue the #CopyrightDirective, the world’s libraries call for its rejection
The EU’s plan to censor the internet with algorithms that block anything that might be a copyright infringement has only days to go before it will be too late for a vote before the upcoming elections, and so far, progress has been stalled thanks to France’s unwillingness to accept tiny, meaningless concessions that Germany feels they must win to retain political credibility.
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18 months on, kids’ smart watches are STILL a privacy & security dumpster-fire, and a gift to stalkers everywhere
In late 2017, the Norwegian Consumer Council published its audit of kids’ smart-watches, reporting that the leading brands allowed strangers to follow your kids around and listen in on their conversations; a year later, Pen Test Partners followed up to see if anything had changed (it hadn’t).
Glossary of Broken Dreams: now available to stream!
Johannes Grenzfurthner writes, “My film ‘Glossary of Broken Dreams’ (which is getting more and more relevant, given all the political turmoil currently around) (previously) is finally available on Vimeo on Demand (buying and renting).
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Kickstarting a gorgeous slipcased edition of Crime & Punishment, illustrated by Dave McKean
The next tranche of Beehive Books’ Illuminated Editions are being crowdfunded now: three gorgeous, slipcased, deluxe illustrated hardcovers, including a new edition of Crime & Punishment, illustrated by Dave McKean, well-known for his work on Sandman (he also did the original cover for my novel Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town); the books are $100 each, and are superb. The other two titles are The Blazing World, illustrated by Margaret Cavendish; and Peter Pan, illustrated by Brecht Evans.