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Inside: Surveillance is inequality's stabilizer; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/06/26/autostabilizer/
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I'm at the end of my 24-city book tour for my new novel Picks and Shovels!
Catch me in #LONDON with RILEY QUINN from #TRASHFUTURE NEXT TUESDAY (July 1):
https://howtoacademy.com/events/cory-doctorow-the-fight-against-the-big-tech-oligarchy/
And in #MANCHESTER at Blackwell's Bookshop on July 2:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/an-evening-with-cory-doctorow-tickets-1308451968059
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Surveillance is inequality's stabilizer: Guard labor vs guillotine insurance.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/114750843996343134
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Hey look at this
* "Hey Google" https://thisecommercelife.com/blogs/comics/hey-google
* The Rise And The Fall Of The Mail Chute https://hackaday.com/2025/06/25/the-rise-and-the-fall-of-the-mail-chute/
* Bezos Wedding Guests Given Monogrammed Plastic Bottles To Urinate In During Ceremony https://theonion.com/bezos-wedding-guests-given-monogrammed-plastic-bottles-to-urinate-in-during-ceremony/
* NPR staffers pick their favorite fiction reads of 2025 so far https://www.npr.org/2025/06/25/nx-s1-5356144/fiction-books-summer-2025
* Inside the UFC Settlement Fighters Actually Deserve https://leftsideofthev.substack.com/p/knockout-victory-inside-the-ufc-settlement
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#15yrsago Adventurer’s Club from Walt Disney World recreated in painstaking detail with Half-Life engine https://insidethemagic.net/2010/06/walt-disney-worlds-adventurers-club-virtually-recreated-for-fans-to-once-again-explore/
#15yrsago Texas GOP comes out against oral sex, the UN, and the Supreme Court https://web.archive.org/web/20100626003418/https://www.nydailynews.com/news/2010/06/22/2010-06-22_texas_gop_platform_criminalize_gay_marriage_and_ban_sodomy_outlaw_strip_clubs_an.html
#15yrsago Monkey-Pirate-Robot-Ninja-Zombie: Rock Paper Scissors 9.0 https://web.archive.org/web/20100625003931/http://markarayner.com/blog/archives/1613
#10yrsago Harry Reid tells BLM’s Burning Man squad to suck it up https://web.archive.org/web/20150628195105/http://hoh.rollcall.com/harry-reid-to-burning-man-rescue/
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#10yrsago Supreme Court upholds marriage equality! https://www.theguardian.com/law/live/2015/jun/26/supreme-court-rules-same-sex-marriage
#10yrsago Wil Wheaton on depression https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6ACzT6PCDw
#10yrsago 2.5 million data points show: America’s ISPs suck, and AT&T sucks worst https://www.measurementlab.net/blog/interconnection_and_measurement_update/
#5yrsago Microcontent guidelines for 2020 https://pluralistic.net/2020/06/26/police-riots/#nielsen-98
#5yrsago "Violent protests" vs "violent police" https://pluralistic.net/2020/06/26/police-riots/#police-riot
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#5yrsago Sympathy for the mask-shy https://pluralistic.net/2020/06/26/police-riots/#harm-reduction
#5yrsago Let's get rid of nursing homes https://pluralistic.net/2020/06/26/police-riots/#nursing-homes
#5yrsago Splash Mountain to purge Song of the South https://pluralistic.net/2020/06/26/police-riots/#minstrelsy
#5yrsago Copyright keeps police use-of-force training a secret https://pluralistic.net/2020/06/26/police-riots/#post-due
#1yrago Cleantech has an enshittification problem https://pluralistic.net/2024/06/26/unplanned-obsolescence/#better-micetraps
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