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Inside: Neal Stephenson's "Polostan"; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/04/bomb-light/
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This weekend (November 8-10), I'll be in Tucson, AZ: I'm the Guest of Honor at the Tuscon science fiction convention:
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Neal Stephenson's "Polostan": Raising the curtain on a post-cyberpunk sf series about the dawn on the nuclear age.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113425115755198312
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Hey look at this
* Why So Few Matt Levines? https://gwern.net/matt-levine (h/t User Mag)
* L.A. County sues Pepsi and Coca-Cola over their role in ongoing plastic pollution crisis https://www.yahoo.com/news/l-county-sues-pepsi-coca-202106790.html (h/t Slashdot)
* New York Times Tech Workers Go on Strike https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/04/business/media/new-york-times-strike.html
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@pluralistic Finance may have Matt Levine, but FOSS has Liam Proven https://www.theregister.com/Author/Liam-Proven
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#20yrsago UK Public Service Publisher: a BBC for everything else? https://web.archive.org/web/20050309032840/https://www.ofcom.org.uk/media_office/latest_news/nr_20041103?a=87101
#20yrsago Pope endorses wanking, screwing https://web.archive.org/web/20060209083158/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/10/31/wvat31.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/10/31/ixnewstop.html
#15yrsago Gopher protocol reborn https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2009/11/the-web-may-have-won-but-gopher-tunnels-on/
#15yrsago Tell the FCC to say no to Hollywood’s terrible “Selectable Output Control” kill-switch https://web.archive.org/web/20091108001731/https://publicknowledge.org/action/say-no-to-soc
#15yrsago More on secret copyright treaty: your kids could go to jail for noncommercial music sharing https://web.archive.org/web/20091105223851/https://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/4511/125/
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