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The Pizzaburger Presidency: Why the Biden administration talks so very little about the very small number of very good things it has done.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112525720641143886

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Cory Doctorow

2024-05-29 18:10:35

The corporate wing of the Democrats has objectively terrible political instincts, because the corporate wing of the Dems wants things that are very unpopular with the electorate (this is a trait they share with the Republican establishment).

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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/2024/05/29/sub-bushel-comms-strategy/#nothing-would-fundamentally-change

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Hey look at this

* Utopian Realism, a speech by @bruces https://bruces.medium.com/utopian-realism-a-speech-by-bruce-sterling-c315be2b0f44

* Kiwis! Support Aotearoa Right to Repair legislation https://www.repairnetworkaotearoa.org.nz/right-to-repair

* We're Watching Facebook Die https://www.wheresyoured.at/were-watching-facebook-die/

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We're Watching Facebook Die

Like this newsletter? You should listen to the Better Offline episode! In the first quarter of 2024, Meta made $36.45 billion dollars - $12.37 billion dollars of which was pure profit.

^{Edward Zitron (Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At)}

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#20yrsago 1940s telephone manual https://web.archive.org/web/20040404003350/contactsheet.org/junk/telephone1.html

#20yrsago Red Mars: a very belated appreciation https://memex.craphound.com/2004/05/28/red-mars-a-very-belated-appreciation/

#15yrsago East German spy fired notorious shot that changed West German politics https://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/27/world/europe/27germany.html

#15yrsago Conference Board of Canada admits that its publicly funded, plagiarized, biased copyright “research” is junk https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/conference-board-recalls-controversial-copyright-reports-1.811430

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Contact Sheet

Contactsheet: Everything I know and more

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#15yrsago USA, Canada and the EU attempt to kill treaty to protect blind people’s access to written material https://memex.craphound.com/2009/05/28/usa-canada-and-the-eu-attempt-to-kill-treaty-to-protect-blind-peoples-access-to-written-material/

#15yrsago What will happen to your crypto-keys when you die? https://memex.craphound.com/2009/05/27/what-will-happen-to-your-crypto-keys-when-you-die/

#15yrsago Bayou: chilling ghost story, a graphic novel about race and haunts in the deep south https://memex.craphound.com/2009/05/27/bayou-chilling-ghost-story-a-graphic-novel-about-race-and-haunts-in-the-deep-south/

#15yrsago UK Tory MP added a servant’s wing to his house at public expense https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2009/may/28/john-butterfill-mps-expenses

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John Butterfill claimed £17,000 MPs' expenses for servants' … er, staff quarters

Conservative grandee built a servants' wing at his country home in Surrey

^{Nicholas Watt (The Guardian)}

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#15yrsago Cambridge study: DRM turns users into pirates https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2009/05/landmark-study-drm-truly-does-make-pirates-out-of-us-all/

#10yrsago UK Home Office’s terrorist detection checklist https://memex.craphound.com/2014/05/27/uk-home-offices-terrorist-detection-checklist/

#10yrsago Peter Watts’s The Scorched Earth Society: A Suicide Bomber’s Guide to Online Privacy https://rifters.com/real/shorts/TheScorchedEarthSociety-transcript.pdf

#10yrsago You Are Not a Digital Native: on the publication of the Homeland paperback, a letter to kids https://reactormag.com/you-are-not-a-digital-native-privacy-in-the-age-of-the-internet/

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You Are Not a Digital Native: Privacy in the Age of the Internet - Reactor

They say that the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II ordered a group of children to be raised without any human interaction so that he could observe their “natural” behavior, untainted by human culture, and find out the true, deep nature of the human an…

^{Cory Doctorow (Reactor)}

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#10yrsago Appeals court nukes the copyright troll business-model https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/05/major-victory-over-copyright-trolls-deeper-look

#10yrsago 2084 wants to have a word with 2014 about Net Neutrality https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEI9RtwcvhE

#5yrsago Congressional shaming prompts notorious Pentagon price-gouger to refund $16.1m https://theintercept.com/2019/05/28/ro-khanna-transdigm-refund-pentagon/

#5yrsago Supreme Court of Canada to rule on the enforceability of arbitration clauses https://www.osler.com/en/resources/regulations/2019/supreme-court-to-hear-arguments-about-enforceability-of-arbitration-clauses

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How Rep. Ro Khanna Got a Price-Gouging Defense Contractor to Return $16.1 Million to the Pentagon

The freshman congressman asked the Defense Department’s inspector general to look into Transdigm, a defense contractor with a monopoly over spare parts.

^{David Dayen (The Intercept)}

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#5yrsago Connecticut’s racist NIMBYs have used zoning laws and dirty tricks to make it one of the most unequal, racially segregated states in the union https://www.propublica.org/article/how-some-of-americas-richest-towns-fight-affordable-housing

#5yrsago Analysis of a far-right disinformation campaign aimed at influencing the EU elections https://blog.f-secure.com/live-coverage-of-a-disinformation-operation-against-the-2019-eu-parliamentary-elections/

#5yrsago AT&T’s dystopian advertising vision perfectly illustrates the relationship between surveillance and monopoly https://memex.craphound.com/2019/05/27/atts-dystopian-advertising-vision-perfectly-illustrates-the-relationship-between-surveillance-and-monopoly/

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Live Coverage Of A Disinformation Operation Against The 2019 EU Parliamentary Elections - F-Secure Blog

I recently worked with investigative journalists from Yle, attempting to uncover disinformation on social media around the May 2019 European elections.

^{Andrew Patel (F-Secure Blog)}

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#5yrsago Profiles of young Americans who entered voluntary exile rather than paying their student loans https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/25/they-fled-the-country-to-escape-their-student-debt.html

#1yrago Steven Brust's "Tsalmoth" https://pluralistic.net/2023/05/27/mannerpunk/#ask-anyone

#1yrago Ideas Lying Around https://pluralistic.net/2023/05/27/ideas-lying-around/

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These Americans fled the country to escape their giant student debt

Some student loan borrowers are packing their bags and fleeing to other countries, where the cost of living is lower and debt collectors wield less power.

^{Annie Nova (CNBC)}

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Monday's threads: Against lore; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112514196226202033

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Cory Doctorow

2024-05-27 17:19:46

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Against Lore; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/27/cmon-do-it-again/

#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:

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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 …

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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."

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