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The new globalism is global labor: The Battle of Seattle's other shoe drops.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112474566929542266

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Cory Doctorow

2024-05-20 17:21:31

Depending on how you look at it, I either grew up in the periphery of the labor movement, or atop it, or surrounded by it. For a kid, labor issues don't really hold a lot of urgency - in places with mature labor movements, kids don't really have jobs, and the part-time jobs I had as a kid (paper route, cleaning a dance studio) were pretty benign.

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Hey look at this

* Mirlo: Directly support musicians. Buy their music. Collectively owned and managed https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mirlo/mirlo

* Help Baby Ezaias' family with medical and therapy expenses https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-baby-ezaias-family-with-medical-and-therapy-expenses (h/t Derryl Murphy)

* A Tour of the Jevons Paradox: How Energy Efficiency Backfires https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/2024/05/18/a-tour-of-the-jevons-paradox-how-energy-efficiency-backfires/

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A Tour of the Jevons Paradox: How Energy Efficiency Backfires – Economics from the Top Down

Efficiency isn't a tool for conserving energy --- it's a catalyst for technological sprawl.

^{Blair Fix (Economics from the Top Down)}

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#15yrsago Congress proposes anti-DRM law for cars https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/05/right-repair-law-pro

#15yrsago Bush cronies land jobs charging for advice on not getting eaten by the monsters they created https://web.archive.org/web/20090523162034/https://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2009-05-19-newjobs_N.htm?csp=34

#15yrsago Search Engine podcast is back on TVO https://web.archive.org/web/20090522054021/http://www.tvo.org/cfmx/tvoorg/theagendMirlo Directly support musicians. Buy their music. Collectively owned and managed. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mirlo/mirloa/index.cfm?page_id=3&action=blog&subaction=viewPost&post_id=10253&blog_id=81

#10yrsago NSA records every cell phone call in the Bahamas https://web.archive.org/web/20140519224819/https://firstlook.org/theintercept/article/2014/05/19/data-pirates-caribbean-nsa-recording-every-cell-phone-call-bahamas/

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Right-to-Repair Law Proposed ... for Cars

It's not often that you get former presidential candidates from the Green Party and the Libertarian Party to agree on legislation, but Bob Barr and Ralph Nader have done just that -- jointly supporting the Right-To-Repair Act of 2009 (H.R.

^{Electronic Frontier Foundation}

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#10yrsago U of Saskatchewan fires tenured dean for speaking out against cuts https://artssquared.wordpress.com/2014/05/18/canadas-academics-invited-to-sign-on-to-open-letter-to-university-of-saskatchewan-board-chair-ms-susan-milburn/

#10yrsago Nutritionists’ professional events catered by McD’s, sponsored by High Fructose Corn Syrup https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/05/my-trip-mcdonalds-sponsored-nutritionist-convention/

#5yrsago Bernie Sanders’ “Thurgood Marshall Plan for Public Education” will desegregate schools, defund charters, pay teachers, end the school-to-prison pipeline https://berniesanders.com/issues/reinvest-in-public-education/

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Canada’s Academics Invited to Sign On to Open Letter to University of Saskatchewan Board Chair, Ms. Susan Milburn

Update at Noon, 21 May 2014: It has been brought to my attention that there may be international academics keen to sign this letter. Please, anyone who wishes to sign on do so! I have had notes fro…

^{Arts Squared}

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#5yrsago Judge recuses himself from health insurance cancer-denial case because he considers the company “immoral” and “barbaric” https://edition.cnn.com/2019/05/16/health/judge-proton-beam-therapy-recusal-unitedhealthcare/index.html

#5yrsago Wil Wheaton’s “Dead Trees Give No Shelter”: terrifying tale, beautifully told https://wilwheaton.net/2017/04/dead-trees-give-no-shelter-audiobook/

#1yrago Venture predation https://pluralistic.net/2023/05/19/fake-it-till-you-make-it/#millennial-lifestyle-subsidy

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dead trees give no shelter – audiobook

If you enjoy listening to me read you a story, and you enjoy the stories I write, I have something that may be relevant to your interests… It’s one hour and forty minutes long, and is a…

^{WIL WHEATON dot NET}

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Saturday's threads: Monopoly is capitalism's gerrymander; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112462752363787815

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Cory Doctorow

2024-05-18 15:16:55

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Monopoly is capitalism's gerrymander; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/18/market-discipline/

#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

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

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Keynote Speaker - AALL Annual Meeting & Conference

2024 AALL Annual Meeting & Conference Keynote Speaker CORY DOCTOROW “ENDING THE ENSHITTOCENE: WHY EVERYTHING IS TERRIBLE BUT WE CAN … "Keynote Speaker"

^{AALL Annual Meeting & Conference}

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Recent appearances:

* Libraries in Response
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUQZPn9ffSs

* Suur Futuroloogiline Kongress
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hITj793htg&t=398s

* That Word Chat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miwEy_mACEY

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Session 99: Conversation with Cory: Disenshittification and Libraries

Bezzle, n: The magic interval when a confidence trickster knows he has the money he has appropriated but the victim does not yet understand that he has lost ...

^YouTube

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