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White House street renamed "Black Lives Matter Plaza": But when will Mayor Bowser rein in the violent white supremacists in Metro PD?

Little Green Men: Who are the secretive, armed men patrolling DC?

Kim Stanley Robinson on the Jobs Guarantee: Forced labor or dignified labor?

There's a bright side: Massive waves of voter registration, support for defunding the police.

Toxic familial surveillance: Tech supercharges intimate surveillance.

Consumer Reports joins the revolution: Which side are you on?

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Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

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Big Tech distorts our discourse: No mind-control required.
How the IoT reinforces gentrification: Smart doorbells and predictive policing are fully automated karens.
Private equity goes mainstream: If you're gonna loot, you MUST also asset-strip.
What to do about the police: 15 concrete things that should be done to reform American policing, right now.
Masks work: Source control is a thing.
Walmart's crummy anti-theft AI: Employees blow the whistle on their employers' credulous machine learning procurements.
GOP lawmaker hid his diagnosis from Democrats: Andrew Lewis wandered around Pennsylvania's statehouse, shedding virus particles.
Canadians newsrooms restructure as co-ops: And readers can join!
Get a peronalized, signed Poesy the Monster Slayer: Dark Delicacies will ship you copies signed by me and the original Poesy.
This day in history: 2005, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

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