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Picks and Shovels is a new, standalone technothriller starring Marty Hench, my two-fisted, hard-fighting, tech-scam-busting forensic accountant. You can pre-order it on my latest Kickstarter, which features a brilliant audiobook read by Wil Wheaton.
#20yrsago Why is American Airlines gathering written dossiers on fliers’ friends? https://craphound.com/aadossierletter.txt
#15yrsago Mass “overdose” planned in protest of Boots pharmacy sale of “homeopathic remedies” https://web.archive.org/web/20100120080932/http://www.1023.org.uk/the-1023-overdose-event.php
#15yrsago HOWTO Read science-fiction https://reactormag.com/sf-reading-protocols/
#15yrsag 3D-printed math and science sculptures https://www.bathsheba.com/math/
#15yrsago Leaked document: How the EU planned to force changes in Canada’s copyright https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2010/01/eu-ceta-leak/
#15yrsago CBS uncovers rare Jack Benny treasures, puts them back and tosses out the key https://themoderatevoice.com/killing-comedic-heritage-cbs-reportedly-seals-some-classic-jack-benny-show-comedy-masters/
#15yrsago Disney’s Looking at Paintings: An Introduction to Fine Art for Young People https://memex.craphound.com/2010/01/18/disneys-looking-at-paintings-an-introduction-to-fine-art-for-young-people/
#10yrsago Ecstatic NSA spooks delight in spying on spies who are spying on spies https://web.archive.org/web/20150117184537/https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/new-snowden-docs-indicate-scope-of-nsa-preparations-for-cyber-battle-a-1013409.html
#5yrsago Brazilian authoritarian Bolsonaro fires his culture minister for giving a speech plagiarized from Joseph Goebbels https://theintercept.com/2020/01/18/bolsonaro-under-fire-dismisses-his-culture-minister-for-giving-a-nazi-speech-but-it-is-still-representative-of-brazils-governing-ethos/
#5yrsago Manhattan: a city of empty luxury condos and overflowing homeless shelters https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/01/american-housing-has-gone-insane/605005/
#1yrago Demon-haunted computers are back, baby https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/18/descartes-delenda-est/#self-destruct-sequence-initiated
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