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writer: Nightscript, @DimShores.bsky.social @ThinkingHorror, @weirdfictionrev, film crit. @ patreon.com/ascannerburkely | mulchsack left. most likely to be mad online, class of 2000. he/him.

The Louisville Metro Police Department is limiting access to automated license plate reader cameras after several high-profile incidents of local officers misusing the surveillance technology. Searches will now be limited to investigators and analysts. From @byrobertor.lpm.org

Louisville police limiting officers' access to Flock network

Louisville Metro Police leaders are creating new restrictions around the controversial license plate reader technology.

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My story 'We Are Buliding' is included in the Liminal Spaces and Brings issue of Weird Fiction Quarterly, available later this week. Includes stories by Rhys Hughes, Sonya Taaffe, Ngo Binh Anh Khoa, Paolo Jose Cruz & more weirdfictionquarterly.com/coming-soon-...

Coming Soon: Liminal Spaces & Beings

We found the "Liminal Spaces & Beings" manuscript and are publishing it before it disappears between dimensions again!

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At the same time as the agency is rolling back its power plant standards, it’s launching a new study that would test the country’s water supply for abortion medication, contraception, and hormones used in gender-affirming care, along with over 1,000 other medications and chemicals.

The EPA would rather monitor abortion pills in water than pollution

The agency is easing climate rules for power plants while testing water for mifepristone.

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ME: yeah nah still didn't catch that THE WHISPER MAN: (inaudible) ME: i'm really sorry, one more time THE WHISPER MAN: (inaudible) ME: something something my son? he's not home THE WHISPER MAN: (inaudible, annoyed) ME: ok well i'll tell him you came by if we find him

9/ I had launch with Paulina Borsook last month in Oakland. Her life is hard, but she still has a lot to say! She's trying to raise funds to get a new version of the book reissued on the Internet Archive. Some of her friends have a running GoFundMe to support her: www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

Donate to Help Paulina Borsook: disabled writer, artist, activist, organized by paul Carter

Paulina's long time friend Steve Rappaport writes, "Support P… paul Carter needs your support for Help Paulina Borsook: disabled writer, artist, activist

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8/ Unfortunately, “Cyberselfish“ predicted the future but did not sell well. Borsook's writing career hit the rocks as tech fortunes skyrocketed astronomically in the 2000s. She is now elderly, disabled and struggling to survive as the rest of the world finds out what she knew a long time ago.

3/ Tech fascism in a nutshell: “Computers are so much more rule-based, controllable, fixable, and comprehensible than any human will ever be. As many political schools of thought do, these technolibertarians make a philosophy out of a personality defect.“ She wrote this in 2000!

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

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