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Richard R John's "Network Nation": The definitive history of the Bell System is a must-read for 21st century Big Tech trustbusters.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112808182314840083

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Cory Doctorow

2024-07-18 15:24:18

The telegraph and the telephone have a special place in the history and future of competition and Big Tech. After all, they were the original tech monopolists. Every discussion of tech and monopoly takes place in their shadow.

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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/2024/07/18/the-bell-system/#were-the-phone-company-we-dont-have-to-care

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Hey look at this

* Inside the Mafia of Pharma Pricing https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/inside-the-mafia-of-pharma-pricing

* Panquake Me https://pnqk.me (h/t Sean O'Brien)

* Cory Doctorow: Reckoning https://locusmag.com/2024/07/cory-doctorow-reckoning/

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Inside the Mafia of Pharma Pricing

4% of all the money in America flows through a few mafia-like health care conglomerates. The FTC just released a ground-breaking report on how they operate. And it is gearing up to sue.

^{Matt Stoller (BIG by Matt Stoller)}

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#20yrsago Walkmen changed our social norms https://web.archive.org/web/20040803222231/http://www.belleville.com/mld/belleville/entertainment/music/9144361.htm

#20yrsago Ultima preservation efforts: a guide https://web.archive.org/web/20040721014058/http://www.nelson.monkey.org/~nelson/weblog/culture/games/ultimaPreservation.html

#15yrsago ATMs that spray attackers with pepper-spray https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/jul/12/south-africa-cash-machine-pepper-spray

#10yrsago TSA employee to security theater skeptics: “You don’t have shit for rights” https://memex.craphound.com/2014/07/18/tsa-employee-to-security-theater-skeptics-you-dont-have-shit-for-rights/

#10yrsago Documentary on the making of the Homeland audiobook with Wil Wheaton https://vimeo.com/100956787

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Pepper-spray defence means South Africa robbers face loss of balance at cash machines

• Thieves face squirt of eye-watering chemical• New security feature to thwart exploding cash machine raids

^{David Smith (The Guardian)}

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#10yrsago Ontario police’s Big Data assigns secret guilt to people looking for jobs, crossing borders https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/police-chiefs-call-for-presumed-innocence-in-background-checks/article_f479a149-f184-5824-80ee-0427abfe4b71.html

#10yrsago UK government “dries out” its “water damaged” CIA torture files https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/10969535/Lost-US-extraordinary-rendition-files-have-dried-out-Foreign-Office-says.html

#5yrsago SAMBA versus SMB: Adversarial interoperability is judo for network effects https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/07/samba-versus-smb-adversarial-interoperability-judo-network-effects

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Police chiefs call for presumed innocence in background checks

New voluntary guidelines call on police forces to keep mental health contacts and other non-conviction records confidential in most cases. Police chiefs are also calling on the province to bring in legislation on what police can and can’t disclose.

^{Robert Cribb (Toronto Star)}

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#5yrsago An Indian research university has assembled 73 million journal articles (without permission) and is offering the archive for unfettered scientific text-mining https://memex.craphound.com/2019/07/18/an-indian-research-university-has-assembled-73-million-journal-articles-without-permission-and-is-offering-the-archive-for-unfettered-scientific-text-mining/

#5yrsago How deceptive browser extensions snaffled up 4m users’ browsing history, including Nest videos, medical history and tax returns https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/07/dataspii-inside-the-debacle-that-dished-private-data-from-apple-tesla-blue-origin-and-4m-people/

#5yrsago Thousands of elderly Hong Kongers march in solidarity with young human rights activists https://hongkongfp.com/2019/07/17/no-rioters-tyrannical-regime-thousands-hong-kong-seniors-march-support-young-extradition-law-protesters/

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'No rioters, only a tyrannical regime': Thousands of Hong Kong seniors march in support of young extradition law protesters

Thousands of elderly Hongkongers marched on Wednesday in solidarity with young anti-extradition bill protesters. Photo: May James. Billed as a march for the “silver-haired,” the event drew large cr…

^{Holmes Chan (Hong Kong Free Press HKFP)}

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#5yrsago Interactive map of public facial recognition systems in America https://www.banfacialrecognition.com/map/

#5yrsago Sony’s copyright bots remove a band’s own release of its new video https://memex.craphound.com/2019/07/18/sonys-copyright-bots-remove-a-bands-own-release-of-its-new-video/

#1yrago Let the Platforms Burn https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/18/urban-wildlife-interface/#combustible-walled-gardens

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Ban Facial Recognition Map

Facial recognition technology is broken, unfair, and a threat to personal liberty.

^{Fight for the Future}

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Tuesday's threads: Bowen McCurdy and Jordan Morris's "Youth Group"; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112795928992210476

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Cory Doctorow

2024-07-16 11:28:07

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Bowen McCurdy and Jordan Morris's "Youth Group"; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/06/16/satanic-panic/

#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:

* Exile in Bookville, (Chicago), July 20
https://exileinbookville.com/events/39808

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

* @defcon 32 (Las Vegas), Aug 8-11
https://shop.defcon.org/products/def-con-32-las-vegas-convention-center

* Albacon (Albuquerque/remote), Sep 13-15
https://albacon.org/2024/

* TusCon (Tucson), Nov 8-10
https://tusconscificon.com/

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Authors on Tap: Cory Doctorow

Indie bookstore located in the historic Fine Arts Building on Chicago's Michigan Avenue. Where books and music meet.

^{exileinbookville.com}

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Recent appearances:

* The Paradigm Shift
https://paradigm-shift-on-4zzz.pinecast.co/episode/dbf12eaf/tech-criticism-with-cory-doctorow

* How To Fix The Internet (@eff)
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/06/podcast-episode-fighting-enshittification

* Big Tech and the News (Tech Policy Press)
https://www.techpolicy.press/big-tech-and-the-news/

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Big Tech and the News

Rebecca Rand and Justin Hendrix explore perspectives on what to do about journalism, drawing on ideas from Anya Schiffrin and Cory Doctorow.

^{Rebecca Rand (Tech Policy Press)}

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This Saturday (July 20), I'm appearing at Chicago's Exile in Bookville:

https://exileinbookville.com/events/39808

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Support me this summer on the Clarion Write-A-Thon and help raise money for the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers' Workshop!

https://clarionwriteathon.com/members/profile.php?writerid=293388

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Authors on Tap: Cory Doctorow

Indie bookstore located in the historic Fine Arts Building on Chicago's Michigan Avenue. Where books and music meet.

^{exileinbookville.com}