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Emil Ferris's long-awaited "My Favorite Thing Is Monsters Book Two": A tour-de-force that was worth the wait.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112542044173788331

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Cory Doctorow

2024-06-01 15:21:52

Seven years ago, I was absolutely floored by *My Favorite Thing Is Monsters*, a wildly original, stunningly gorgeous, haunting and brilliant debut graphic novel from Emil Ferris. Every single thing about this book was *amazing*:

https://memex.craphound.com/2017/06/20/my-favorite-thing-is-monsters-a-haunting-diary-of-a-young-girl-as-a-dazzling-graphic-novel/

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/06/01/the-druid/#oh-my-papa

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Hey look at this

* Introducing the new Framework Laptop 13 with Intel Core Ultra Series 1 processors https://frame.work/blog/introducing-the-new-framework-laptop-13-with-intel-core-ultra-series-1-processors

* Right to repair is now the law in Colorado https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/29/24166894/colorado-right-to-repair-law-electronics-devices-parts-pairing

* Phanpy: A minimalistic opinionated Mastodon web client https://phanpy.social/ (h/t @nelson)

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Right to repair is now the law in Colorado

Colorado now has some of the broadest right-to-repair laws in the US, thanks to the HB24-1121 bill signed by Governor Jared Polis.

^{Jess Weatherbed (The Verge)}

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#20yrsago Adrian Mole: the text-adventure game https://web.archive.org/web/20040603000808/www.c64unlimited.net/games/s/Secret Diary of Adrian Mole/Secret Diary of Adrian Mole.htm

#15yrsago Canadian cinema fined $10,000 for privacy invasion over bag-search https://web.archive.org/web/20090529094117/https://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20090525/cinema_lawsuit_090525/20090525

#15yrsago Profile of the lock-hacker who bumped the “unbumpable” Medeco lock https://web.archive.org/web/20090525195144/http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/17-06/ff_keymaster

#15yrsago Devilish Devenish-Phibbs bench-plaques around London https://web.archive.org/web/20090529001109/https://www.timeout.com/london/big-smoke/blog/7810/london-s_benches_and_the_strange_case_of_croy_devenish-phibbs.html

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CTV.ca | Cinema ordered to pay $10K in damages for search

A Quebec court has ordered a cinema to pay $10,000 in damages after staff searched patrons' bags and turned up smuggled snacks and birth control pills -- and in the process violated their privacy rights.

^{web.archive.org}

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#10yrsago Women who’d never seen their vulvas given a mirror and a modesty screen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eC4dVe8pIGY

#10yrsago Engineering our way out of mass surveillance https://web.archive.org/web/20140603175909/smarimccarthy.is/blog/2014/05/28/engineering-our-way-out-of-fascism/

#10yrsago Harvard Bluebook: more threats to those who would cite the law https://web.archive.org/web/20140601042919/http://tinyletter.com/5ua/letters/a-cite-to-behold-5-useful-articles-vol-1-issue-10

#10yrsago Majority of Americans think Snowden was right to leak https://www.darkreading.com/endpoint-security/a-year-later-most-americans-think-snowden-did-the-right-thing

#10yrsago The English Method: UK taught modern torture to Brazil’s dictators https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-27625540

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How the UK taught Brazil's dictators interrogation techniques

The BBC has found evidence that the UK helped teach Brazil's military dictators sophisticated interrogation techniques during the 1970s.

^{Emily Buchanan (BBC News)}

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#10yrsago What’s the story with the Makerbot patent? https://memex.craphound.com/2014/05/30/whats-the-story-with-the-makerbot-patent/

#10yrsago NSA can’t find any emails from Snowden, then it can (convenient, no?) https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/29/nsa-email-snowden-surveillance-internal-whistleblowing

#5yrsago How Mexican labor unions tried to rescue Freud from the Nazis https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/mexico-attempt-save-freud-nazis/

#5yrsago Wealth is correlated with greed, dishonesty and cheating — are these effects or a causes? https://www.thejournal.ie/readme/opinion-why-do-rich-people-lie-cheat-and-steal-more-than-those-on-low-incomes-4647197-May2019/

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Mexico's Little-Known Attempt to Save Freud From the Nazis

Had the campaign to bring Freud to Mexico succeeded, the imperiled psychoanalyst would have found himself living among the world’s foremost artists and intellectuals.

^{The MIT Press Reader}

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#5yrsago New Amazon patent application reveals “solution” to missed Alexa instructions: always on recording https://www.sciencealert.com/creepy-new-amazon-patent-would-mean-alexa-records-everything-you-say-from-now-on

#5yrsago How the “prosperity gospel” convinces poor people to give everything to grifty millionaire preachers https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-47675301

#5yrsago After viral Youtube denunciations, Germany’s establishment parties falter — so the ruling party’s leader faxed her colleagues demanding action https://www.techdirt.com/2019/05/30/german-political-leader-questions-youtubers-right-to-tell-fans-not-to-vote-her-party-urgently-summons-her-advisers-response-fax/

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The preachers getting rich from poor Americans

Some televangelists ask people to give cash to earn financial favour from God - it's often the hardest-up giving their last pennies.

^{By Vicky Baker (BBC News)}

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#5yrsago Public outcry has killed an attempt turn clickthrough terms of service into legally binding obligations (for now) https://www.consumerfinancemonitor.com/2019/05/22/ali-annual-meeting-ends-with-uncertain-future-for-restatement-of-the-law-consumer-contracts/

#5yrsago Nobel-winning economist Joe Stiglitz calls neoliberalism “a failed ideology” and sketches out a “progressive capitalism” to replace it https://www.commondreams.org/views/2019/05/30/after-neoliberalism

#5yrsago Google’s API changes mean only paid enterprise users of Chrome will be able to access full adblock https://9to5google.com/2019/05/29/chrome-ad-blocking-enterprise-manifest-v3/

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Google to restrict modern ad blocking Chrome extensions to enterprise users

In a response to negative feedback, Google shared that Chrome's current ad blocking capabilities for extensions will soon be restricted to enterprise users.

^{Kyle Bradshaw (9to5Google)}

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#5yrsago Chase credit cards quietly reintroduce the binding arbitration clauses they were forced to eliminate a decade ago https://www.fastcompany.com/90357331/chase-adds-forced-arbitration-clause-to-slate-credit-cards

#5yrsago Ted Cruz backs AOC’s call for a lifetime ban on lobbying by former Congressjerks https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2019/05/aoc-calls-for-ban-on-revolving-door-as-study-shows-2-3-of-recently-departed-lawmakers-now-lobbyists.html

#5yrsago To reduce plastic packaging, ship products in solid form https://www.treehugger.com/incredibly-simple-solution-plastic-packaging-waste-4857081

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Removing Water Is a Simple Solution to Plastic Packaging Waste

When you stop to think about it, much of what we're shipping around the world is water.

^{Katherine Martinko (Treehugger)}

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#5yrsago For the first time since the 70s, New York State is set to enshrine sweeping tenants’ protections https://web.archive.org/web/20190531131740/https://www.thenation.com/article/universal-rent-regulation-new-york/

#1yrago To save the news, ban surveillance ads https://pluralistic.net/2023/05/31/context-ads/#class-formation

#1yrago Ian McDonald's "Hopeland": A novel so eerily good it almost made me angry https://pluralistic.net/2023/05/30/electromancy/#the-grace

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In the Heart of Real-Estate Power, a Housing Movement Nears Victory

As tenants organize, New York could become one of the first states to pass “universal rent control.”

^{The Nation}

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Thursday's threads: Real innovation vs Silicon Valley nonsense; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112532027653945158

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Cory Doctorow

2024-05-30 20:54:32

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Real innovation vs Silicon Valley nonsense; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/30/posiwid/

#Pluralistic

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My latest nationally bestselling novel is "The Bezzle," an ice-cold revenge story of high-tech finance crime starring the forensic accountant Martin Hench:

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250865878/thebezzle

Signed copies from Chevalier's Books:

https://www.chevaliersbooks.com/product-page/the-bezzle

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My latest nonfiction book is "The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation" from Verso Books:

http://seizethemeansofcomputation.org

Signed copies available from Book Soup:

https://www.booksoup.com/book/9781804291245

Both are national bestsellers!

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The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation (Hardcover) | Book Soup

A USA TODAY BESTSELLERWinner of the 2024 Neil Postman Award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity"An essential read for anyone that wants to understand how we lost control of our digital spaces and infrastructure to Silicon Valley’s …

^{www.booksoup.com}

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My ebooks and audiobooks (from Tor Books, Head of Zeus, McSweeneys, Beacon, Verso and others) are for sale all over the net, but I sell 'em too, and when you buy 'em from me, I earn twice as much and you get books with no DRM and no license "agreements."

https://craphound.com/shop/

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Upcoming appearances:

* Media Ecology Association keynote (Amherst, NY), Jun 6-9
https://media-ecology.org/convention

* HOPE XV, Jul 14 (Queens, NY)
https://www.hope.net/talks.html

* @Locusmag Awards keynote (Oakland), Jun 20
https://locusmag.com/2024-locus-awards-weekend/

* American Association of Law Libraries keynote (Chicago), Jul 21
https://www.aallnet.org/conference/agenda/keynote-speaker/

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2024 Locus Awards Weekend, June 19-22

We can’t wait to see you at the Locus Awards Weekend, to be held June 19-22, 2024 in Oakland, California! WEDNESDAY – FRIDAY: We’ll kick off the event with a series of online read…

^{Locus Online}

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Recent appearances:

* All Tech is Human
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKThzsYGjEQ

* RISD Debates in AI keynote:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdSEcmplaDs

* @AuthorsAlliance 10th Anniversary (at 1:55:00)
https://archive.org/details/authors-alliance-10th-anniversary-presentation

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The Enshittification of Tech Platforms w/ Cory Doctorow

Cory Doctorow (Author, Journalist) discusses the conditions that lead to the decreasing functionality of tech and online platforms and strategies to build a ...

^YouTube

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