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Inside: How to screw up a whistleblower law; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/15/whistleblown/

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This is great from @pluralistic on whistleblower law - https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/15/whistleblown/

It reminded me of this other excellent piece that explains that sadly we always seem, psychologically at least, to shoot the messenger : https://www.okdoomer.io/thebadguys/

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I'm touring my new, nationally bestselling novel The Bezzle! Catch me THIS WEDNESDAY (Apr 17) in CHICAGO, then Torino (Apr 21), Marin County (Apr 27), Winnipeg (May 2), Calgary (May 3), Vancouver (May 4), and beyond!

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How to screw up a whistleblower law: We want kingpins, not powerless underlings.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112275437540814211

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Why national ID cards make us less safe https://www.schneier.com/essays/archives/2004/04/a_national_id_card_w.html

EFF guide to Gmail privacy https://web.archive.org/web/20040516090804/https://blogs.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/001425.php#001425

Stephenson’s money-centric interview on Wired News https://web.archive.org/web/20040510183726/http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,63050,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_1

Somali pirates versus European toxic-waste dumpers https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/commentators/johann-hari/johann-hari-you-are-being-lied-to-about-pirates-1225817.html

If you lose your Amazon account, your Kindle loses functionality https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=44350&highlight=amazon+banning

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Secretive US prisons hold “terrorists” including animal rights activists and people who gave to the wrong charity http://www.greenisthenewred.com/blog/communication-management-units-mcgowan/1747/

Amazon explains cataloging error that banished queer books to “adult” purgatory https://www.latimes.com/archives/blogs/technology-blog/story/2009-04-13/amazon-begins-to-re-rank-affected-adult-books-theories-swirl

Texas lawmaker: Chinese Americans should change names so “Americans” can handle them https://web.archive.org/web/20090410142836/https://thinkprogress.org/2009/04/09/brown-asian-names/

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John McDaid’s “(Nothing But) Flowers”, sweet and haunting sf story https://web.archive.org/web/20090414052546/http://www.torvex.com/jmcdaid/node/984

Terrible anti-piracy ads from the past 15 years https://www.theguardian.com/media/pda/2009/apr/08/piracy-piracy

Study: American policy exclusively reflects desires of the rich; citizens’ groups largely irrelevant https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-politics/article/testing-theories-of-american-politics-elites-interest-groups-and-average-citizens/62327F513959D0A304D4893B382B992B

HOWTO buy your way out of a California speeding ticket https://priceonomics.com/can-you-buy-a-license-to-speed/

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Japanese game-show asks celebs to eat household objects that may or may not be chocolates https://kotaku.com/can-you-tell-whats-chocolate-and-what-isnt-asks-japa-1496174116

The : crowdsourcing analysis of all correspondence between Shell and the Dutch government https://www.ftm.nl/dossier/shell-papers

Air tanker drops are often useless for fighting wildfires, but politicians order them because they make good TV https://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-wildfires29-2008jul29-story.html

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USA today feels like the last days of the Soviet Union https://eand.co/how-american-collapse-resembles-soviet-collapse-94773b44fe17

EFF to Facebook: enforce your rules banning cops from creating sockpuppet accounts and be transparent when you catch cops doing it https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/04/facebook-must-take-these-four-steps-counter-police-sock-puppets

Not just Apple: Microsoft has been quietly lobbying to kill Right to Repair bills https://medium.com/u-s-pirg/microsoft-named-as-stopping-right-to-repair-in-washington-b880bf4ad052

Silicon Valley’s techie uprisings reveal growing support for socialism in tech https://www.salon.com/2019/04/11/silicon-valley-once-a-bastion-of-libertarianism-sees-a-budding-socialist-movement/

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Investors controlling $3B in Facebook stock demand Zuckerberg’s ouster, and they will lose https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-investors-will-vote-to-oust-mark-zuckerberg-as-chairman-2019-4

Starz abuses the DMCA to remove EFF’s tweet about Starz abusing the DMCA https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/04/effs-tweet-about-overzealous-dmca-takedown-now-subject-overzealous-takedown

RIP, science fiction and fantasy Grand Master Gene Wolfe, 1931-2019 https://reactormag.com/gene-wolfe-in-memoriam-1931-2019/

Leaked, “highly classified” French report shows that the slaughter in Yemen depends on US support https://theintercept.com/2019/04/15/saudi-weapons-yemen-us-france/

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SVB bailouts for everyone – except affordable housing projects https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/15/socialism-for-the-rich/#rugged-individualism-for-the-poor

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Yesterday's threads: Twinkfrump Linkdump; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112264394096721038

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