Jun 29

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Abortion surveillance only incidentally involves period-trackers

It’s all your digital stuff, plus snitchy friends and doctors.

A Planned Parenthood clinic; over the roofline, we see a giant glaring red eye of HAL 9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey; it has lines radiating from it that wash out the sky. Image: Paul Sableman (modified) https://www.flickr.com/photos/pasa/6149265334 CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg CC BY 3.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en

I get it. The deeper we get into this GOP christofascist Handmaid’s Tale LARP, the more it feels like we are living in a dystopian novel and the more draw on stories to understand our experience. The idea that a cyberpunk Red State sheriff — Boss Hogg…

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Writer, blogger, activist. Blog: https://pluralistic.net; Mailing list: https://pluralistic.net/plura-list; Twitter: https://twitter.com/doctorow

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