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Title: Recommendations: Stories you should know
slug: recommendations/stories
date: 1970-01-01
modified: 2025-02-17
Status: hidden
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[**I Wrote a Story for a Friend**](https://theeggandtherock.substack.com/p/i-wrote-a-story-for-a-friend) | Julian Gough, 2022  
Julian Gough wrote the only narrative prose in Minecraft, the end poem. But due to a fluke, never signed away the rights until putting the poem in the public domain as of this post. An exploration of art, emotion, and relationships under capitalism.

[**Publishers Are Taking the Internet to Court**](https://www.thenation.com/article/society/publishers-are-taking-the-internet-to-court/) | Maria Bustillos, 2020

[**Gawker Was Murdered by Gaslight**](https://www.gawker.com/gawker-was-murdered-by-gaslight-1785456581) | Tom Scocca, 2016

[**Mississippi Secession**](https://www.nps.gov/articles/ms-secession.htm)

## Politics Quarantine

[**Republicans should know about politicizing the Supreme Court — they did it**](https://web.archive.org/web/20220403151409/https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/republicans-should-know-about-politicizing-the-supreme-court-they-did-it/) | Albert Hunt, 2022

[**A sex educator in Michigan refused to be shamed. Then came the backlash.**](https://archive.ph/2023.08.25-150333/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/interactive/2023/michigan-sex-educator-culture-wars/) | Greg Jaffe and 
Patrick Marley, 2023

[**What the Panthers Meant By Self-Defense: Race, Violence, and Gun Control**](https://firearmslaw.duke.edu/2022/08/what-the-panthers-meant-by-self-defense-race-violence-and-gun-control/) | Joshua Aiken, 2022

[**Elon Musk’s Shadow Rule**](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/08/28/elon-musks-shadow-rule) | Ronan Farrow, 2023  
![dancow: What’s crazy is that this story doesn’t have room to mention Boring or Hyperloop, two hyped up projects that encouraged local governments to hold off on mass transit projects](https://twitter.com/dancow/status/1693678760086704630)

[**A Response to the Harvard Professors**](https://equalityalec.substack.com/p/a-response-to-the-harvard-professors) | Alec Karakatsanis, 2023  
> I suppose one way of responding to a litany of careful criticisms is to say they are all wrong but not explain why.

[**SpaceX's Texas Rocket is Going To Cause A Lot More Damage Than Anyone Thinks**](https://blog.esghound.com/p/spacexs-texas-rocket-is-going-to) | Eric Roesch, 2023  
Written four days before the disasterous SpaceX launch, correctly predicting the failure and indicting the FAA for granting the permit

[**Sarah Jane Comrie Is A 2023 Version Of Carolyn Bryant**](https://newsone.com/4584822/sarah-jane-comrie-carolyn-bryant/) | Monique Judge, 2023

[**Microsoft admits it should not have argued the FTC is unconstitutional**](https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2023/01/microsoft-admits-it-should-not-have-argued-the-ftc-is-unconstitutional/) | Kevin Purdy, 2023  
Just an absolutely shameless display here, where Microsoft "threw everything at the wall" to argue their case to merge with Activision Blizzard, including that the FTC itself was an illegitimate agency.

[**Elon Musk's revival of Trump's Twitter account shows his political mission**](https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/elon-musk-trump-twitter-account-republican-rcna57861) | Zeeshan Aleem, MSNBC

[**Internet Free Expression Timeline**](https://ncac.org/resource/a-selective-timeline-of-the-internet-and-censorship) | NCAC

[**The UK Has A Voyeuristic New Propaganda Campaign Against Encryption**](https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20220118/11393948308/uk-has-voyeuristic-new-propaganda-campaign-against-encryption.shtml) | Riana Pfefferkorn, 2022  
A good look at a recent development in the [encryption war](https://blog.giovanh.com/tag/encryption/)

[**The Battle for the World’s Most Powerful Cyberweapon - The New York Times**](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/28/magazine/nso-group-israel-spyware.html) | 2022

[**The Worst Timeline: A Printer Company Is Putting DRM in Paper Now**](https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/02/worst-timeline-printer-company-putting-drm-paper-now) | EFF, 2022

[**Wyden and Heinrich: Newly Declassified Documents Reveal Previously Secret CIA Bulk Collection, Problems With CIA Handling of Americans’ Information**](https://www.wyden.senate.gov/news/press-releases/wyden-and-heinrich-newly-declassified-documents-reveal-previously-secret-cia-bulk-collection-problems-with-cia-handling-of-americans-information) | 2022