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Podcasting "Let the Platforms Burn": It's past time to evacuate the fire-zone.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/110736012077318698

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Cory Doctorow

2023-07-18 16:24:09

This week on my #podcast, I read "Let the Platforms Burn," a recent @medium column making the case that we should focus more on making it easier for people to leave platforms, rather than making the platforms less terrible places to be:

https://doctorow.medium.com/let-the-platforms-burn-6fb3e6c0d980

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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/2023/07/18/urban-wildlife-interface/#combustible-walled-gardens

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Let the Platforms Burn - Cory Doctorow - Medium

California needs to burn. For millennia, First Nations people oversaw controlled burns in the forests they lived, played and worked in. These burns cleared out underbrush, saw off sick trees, and…

^{Cory Doctorow (Medium)}

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Hey look at this

* Alternative app that can unlock #VanMoof bikes more popular amid bankruptcy fears https://nltimes.nl/2023/07/15/alternative-app-can-unlock-vanmoof-bikes-popular-amid-bankruptcy-fears (h/t Gianfranco Cecconi)

* Talking about a ‘schism’ is ahistorical https://medium.com/@emilymenonbender/talking-about-a-schism-is-ahistorical-3c454a77220f (h/t @jjn1)

* Hollywood’s Future Belongs to People—Not Machines https://www.wired.com/story/hollywoods-future-belongs-to-people-not-machines/

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Hollywood’s Future Belongs to People—Not Machines

Artificial intelligence is poised to transform entertainment as we know it, from blockbusters to pornography. But the power is still in the hands of humans.

^{Madeline Ashby (WIRED)}

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#20yrsago Crows use tools https://web.archive.org/web/20030811085621/http://www.sciencemag.org/feature/data/crow/index.html

#20yrsago #AOL to renege on #AIM interop promises? https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2003-jul-16-fi-aol16-story.html

#20yrsago MSFT #DRM infringes on Sony/Philips DRM https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2003-jul-16-fi-patent16-story.html

#20yrsago A Brief History of Negative Space https://www.revolutionsf.com/fiction/negativespace/01.html

#20yrsago #MickeyMouse offs himself https://memex.craphound.com/2003/07/17/mickey-mouse-offs-himself/

#20yrsago How the Nerds Were Having A Perfectly Good Time Until The Businesspeople And Lawyers Showed Up And Ruined Everything http://www.onlisareinsradar.com/archives/001529.php#001529

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Ruling Boosts InterTrust Claims

Judge accepts the firm's definitions in a patent suit against Microsoft. Decision could make it easier to prove the case.

^{Jon Healey (Los Angeles Times)}

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#15yrsago I am the Very Model of a Modern SF Novelist https://jimhines.livejournal.com/382703.html

#15yrsago Cop busts guy for taking his pic: “It’s illegal to take a picture of a law enforcement officer… if you don’t give it to me, you’re going to jail” https://web.archive.org/web/20080717072712/http://www.tricities.com/tri/news/local/article/man_arrested_for_unlawful_photography/11576/

#15yrsago Progressive geek looking for 3,000 people to help him win #Kansas election against dinosauric anti-science/pro-surveillance dude http://seantevis.com/kansas/3000/running-for-office-xkcd-style/

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Modern SF Novelist

This turned out to be a little more challenging than I expected when I started, but I perservered. Why? Because I love you. And also because I'm stubborn :-) If you enjoy, please feel free to share.

^{jimhines.livejournal.com}

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#10yrsago @eff files huge lawsuit against #NSA on behalf of broad coalition https://www.eff.org/press/releases/unitarian-church-gun-groups-join-eff-sue-nsa-over-illegal-surveillance

#10yrsago #LondonPolice sorry for stealing dead kids’ identities for 40 years https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/jul/16/met-chief-spies-dead-children-identities

#10yrsago Raising a reader: how comics can help kids learn to love reading https://cbldf.org/2013/07/cbldf-releases-raising-a-reader-a-resource-for-parents-and-educators/

#10yrsago @anildash’s 10 Rules of Internet https://web.archive.org/web/20130721034729/http://dashes.com/anil/2013/07/rules-of-internet.html

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Met chief sorry for police spies using dead children's identities

Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe releases report on surveillance used since 1970s but refuses to inform any affected families

^{Rob Evans (The Guardian)}

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#10yrsago #Apple’s mobile devices have a secret list of “sensitive” words that don’t autocomplete https://web.archive.org/web/20130722005603/https://newsbeastlabs.tumblr.com/post/55590097779/today-we-published-a-data-story-looking-at-how-ios

#10yrsago Don’t worry, we only spy on terrorists (worry, because everyone we don’t like is a “terrorist”) https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/07/mission-creep-when-everything-is-terrorism/277844/

#10yrsago Death toll from the American #AntiVaccine movement https://web.archive.org/web/20130714203456/https://www.jennymccarthybodycount.com/Anti-Vaccine_Body_Count/Home.html

#10yrsago Why #librarians are needed more than ever in the 21st century https://web.archive.org/web/20130719020216/http://www.bookpage.com/the-book-case/2010/04/14/neil-gaiman-talks-about-his-love-of-libraries/

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Mission Creep: When Everything Is Terrorism

NSA apologists say spying is only used for menaces like "weapons of mass destruction" and "terror." But those terms have been radically redefined.

^{Bruce Schneier (The Atlantic)}

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#10yrsago #Toronto’s #HonestEd’s will go https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2013/07/16/honest_eds_is_up_for_sale.html

#5yrsago Hackers say they stole tens of thousands of health records of #Ontario home-care patients and they want to get paid https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/carepartners-data-breach-ransom-patients-medical-records-1.4749515

#5yrsago Leading #VotingMachine company admits it lied, reveals that its voting machines ship backdoored, with pre-installed remote access software https://www.vice.com/en/article/mb4ezy/top-voting-machine-vendor-admits-it-installed-remote-access-software-on-systems-sold-to-states

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Top Voting Machine Vendor Admits It Installed Remote-Access Software on Systems Sold to States

Remote-access software and modems on election equipment 'is the worst decision for security short of leaving ballot boxes on a Moscow street corner.'

^{Kim Zetter (VICE)}

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#5yrsago UK #RailwayArches, the last bastion of publicly owned commercial space, engines of small business, about to be killed by privatization https://theconversation.com/britains-railway-arches-are-being-sold-off-and-small-businesses-could-be-forced-out-99907

#5yrsago They said #AOC’s message wouldn’t play in the midwest, now she and #Bernie are headed to #Kansas https://theintercept.com/2018/07/17/brent-welder-kansas-primary-3rd-district-ocasio-cortez-bernie-sanders/

#5yrsago China uses sewage surveillance to detect drugs in urine and feces https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05728-3

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders Are Trying to Prove Their Case in Kansas

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders have more expansive aims than electing Brent Welder. They want to prove their theory of the progressive case.

^{David Dayen (The Intercept)}

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#5yrsago #Venmo’s “public by default” transactions reveal drug deals, breakups, more https://22-8miles.com/public-by-default/

#5yrsago Pounded in the butt by my own #DarkSEO: the weird, true story of #Cockygate https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/16/17566276/cockygate-amazon-kindle-unlimited-algorithm-self-published-romance-novel-cabal

#5yrsago Portuguese translation of Zuck’s Empire of Oily Rags https://memex.craphound.com/2018/07/16/portuguese-translation-of-zucks-empire-of-oily-rags/

#5yrsago The MEP behind Europe’s proposed #CopyrightCensorship proposal can’t explain all the copyrighted images in his social media https://www.techdirt.com/2018/07/16/guy-charge-pushing-draconian-eu-copyright-directive-evasive-about-his-own-use-copyright-protected-images/

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How a cabal of romance writers cashed in on Amazon Kindle Unlimited

In the strange universe of Amazon Kindle Unlimited, self-published romance authors collaborate and compete to game Amazon’s algorithm by any number of means.

^{Sarah Jeong (The Verge)}

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#5yrsago AOC moots a “progressive caucus” of bloc-voting Democratic congresspeople https://theintercept.com/2018/07/16/ocasio-cortez-floats-a-sub-caucus-of-progressives-willing-to-vote-together-as-a-bloc/

#5yrsago #McMansion meanings: why do America’s jumbo-sized status homes have useless “formal spaces?” https://archive.curbed.com/2018/7/11/17536876/great-room-house-size-design-square-footage

#5yrsago China’s super-rich get the lion’s share of British plutocrat visas https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/2155390/chinas-super-rich-lead-way-applications-british-millionaire-visas

#5yrsago Podcast: Zuck’s Empire of Oily Rags https://ia802809.us.archive.org/7/items/Cory_Doctorow_Podcast_296/Cory_Doctorow_Podcast_296_-_Zucks_Empire_of_Oily_Rags.mp3

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China’s super-rich lead the way as applications for British millionaire visas surge

There has been a 46 per cent increase in the number of the global super-rich prepared to invest £2 million (US$2.

^{The Guardian (South China Morning Post)}

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#5yrsago More than a million Europeans spoke out to stop internet-destroying censorship rules, but the fight’s not over https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/07/key-victory-against-european-copyright-filters-and-link-taxes-whats-next

#5yrsago Record numbers of Americans believe #ClimateChange is real, and a majority understand that humans are to blame https://web.archive.org/web/20180711151351/https://closup.umich.edu/files/ieep-nsee-2018-spring-climate-belief.pdf

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A Key Victory Against European Copyright Filters and Link Taxes - But What's Next?

Against all the odds, but with the support of nearly a million Europeans, MEPs voted earlier this month to reject the EU's proposed copyright reform—including controversial proposals to create a new "snippet" right for news publishers, and mandatory …

^{Electronic Frontier Foundation}

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Saturday's threads: Linkty Dumpty; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/110719779168355889

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Cory Doctorow

2023-07-15 19:35:55

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Linkty Dumpty; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/15/in-the-dumps/

#Pluralistic

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My latest book is Red Team Blues, available wherever books are sold!

Signed copies at Dark Delicacies (US):

https://www.darkdel.com/store/p2873/Wed%2C_Apr_26th_6pm%3A_Red_Team_Blues%3A_A_Martin_Hench_Novel_HB.html#/

and Forbidden Planet (UK):

https://forbiddenplanet.com/385004-red-team-blues-signed-edition-hardcover/

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My latest nonfiction book is Chokepoint Capitalism (with Rebecca Giblin), nonfiction about monopoly and fairness in creative labor markets.

https://chokepointcapitalism.com

Signed copies available from Book Soup:

https://www.booksoup.com/book/9780807007068

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Wed, Apr 26th 6pm: Red Team Blues: A Martin Hench Novel HB

Signing with Cory Doctorow

^{Dark Delicacies}

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My ebooks and audiobooks (from Tor Books, Head of Zeus, McSweeneys, Beacon 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:

* #Clarion Summer Write-In Series, Jul 18
https://mailchi.mp/theclarionfoundation/clarion-write-ins

* #ComicCon (#SanDiego), Jul 20-23
https://www.comic-con.org/cci/programming-schedule

* Decentralization of the Internet Research Group (#IETF-117)
https://dirk-kutscher.info/events/dinrg-ietf-117/

* @MidsummeerScream (Long Beach), Jul 30
https://midsummerscream.org/

* #Armadillocon (#Austin), Aug 4-6
https://armadillocon.org/d45/

* @defcon (#LasVegas), Aug 10-13
https://defcon.org/

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Program Schedule

Comic-Con International's complete Program Schedule will appear online about two weeks before the event.

^{Comic-Con International: San Diego}

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Recent appearances:

* UCL Peter Kirstein Lecture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yn47ptAtVH0

* The Homeless Romantic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXn9wy5bHq0

* Why the internet is getting worse
https://www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-podcasts/209-front-burner/episode/15992083-why-the-internet-is-getting-worse

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Peter Kirstein Lecture 2023 with Cory Doctorow

UCL Computer Science had the pleasure of hosting the 4th edition of the annual Peter Kirstein Lecture series. The lecture took place at UCL Cruciform Lecture...

^YouTube

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You can also follow these posts as a daily blog at pluralistic.net: no ads, trackers, or data-collection!

Here's today's edition: https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/18/urban-wildlife-interface/

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If you're a @medium subscriber, you can read these essays - as well as previews of upcoming magazine columns and early exclusives on doctorow.medium.com.

My latest Medium column is "Let the Platforms Burn: The Opposite of Good Fires is Wildfires"

https://doctorow.medium.com/let-the-platforms-burn-6fb3e6c0d980

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Let the Platforms Burn - Cory Doctorow - Medium

California needs to burn. For millennia, First Nations people oversaw controlled burns in the forests they lived, played and worked in. These burns cleared out underbrush, saw off sick trees, and…

^{Cory Doctorow (Medium)}

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