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wait did i not already post in this thread. i coulda sworn i did. oh well actually recently read: Jordan S. Rubin - Bizarro about a set of prosecutions under a profoundly nebulous law against the owners of one of the major synthetic cannabinoid brands' owners, detailing how you can literally go to the relevant authorities and ask if something is legal, get a yes answer, and then have the government turn around and say "nah, it's illegal now, and we reserve the right to hide what's actually illegal in general, and screw you if you try to bring in our own disagreement over the matter as evidence". a spectacular demonstration of how arbitrary and stupid US jurisprudence can be Benjamin Peters - How Not to Network a Nation and Sonja D. Schmid - Producing Power about the soviets' utterly unsuccessful attempts to develop an internet and very successful, but critically flawed efforts to develop a nuclear power industry, respectively. both broadly studies in organizational failures not recently read but whatever, it's yospos relevant: Gretchen McCulloch - Because Internet an academic linguistic study of the evolution of written language on the internet from the early days of the internet onward. it's a book about posting! or more specifically how specific media constraints shape casual written speech, focused on speech most people here are probably quite familiar with Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan - The Red Web a study of (mostly) modern Russian efforts to monitor, influence, and censor the internet by journalists with considerable access to sources within the Russian security services Chingiz Aitmatov - The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years a very well constructed novel about the tensions between the modern and traditional in soviet central asia and a very horny camel. somehow the authorities chose to censor its original title and not its entirely unsubtle criticism of the soviet nation-building project
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