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#20yrsago Everything we know about traffic-calming is wrong https://www.salon.com/2004/05/20/traffic_design/

#15yrsago Truth about myths about myths about file sharing in Canada https://excesscopyright.blogspot.com/2009/06/more-myths-about-myths-about-file.html

#15yrsago Everyone wants to be a copyright gatekeeper, and gatekeepers are bad for copyright https://web.archive.org/web/20090619001439/http://www.internetevolution.com/document.asp?doc_id=178058&

#10yrsago After federal document-snatch, ACLU case over Florida cops’ phone surveillance collapses https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/06/judge-allows-us-marshals-seizure-of-stingray-records-dimisses-lawsuit/

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Why don't we do it in the road?

A new school of traffic design says we should get rid of stop signs and red lights and let cars, bikes and people mingle together. It sounds insane, but it works.

^Salon.com

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#10yrsago Women in Video Games: women as background decoration https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZPSrwedvsg

#10yrsago Top US patent judge resigns after ethics breach https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/06/top-us-patent-judge-resigns-following-ethical-breach/

#10yrsago John Oliver to FCC Chairman: prove you aren’t a dingo! https://www.techdirt.com/2014/06/16/tom-wheeler-im-not-dingo-john-oliver-prove-it/

#10yrsago Econobollocks: three ways that economic figures are misused in politics https://timharford.com/2014/06/theres-more-to-life-than-money/

#5yrsago Vancouver school-board adds gender-neutral pronoun https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/vancouver-school-boards-genderless-pronouns-not-likely-to-stick-if-history-is-any-indication

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Women as Background Decoration: Part 1 - Tropes vs Women in Video Games

Please watch: "The Courageous Life of Ida B. Wells #OrdinaryWomen" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ip-SEYvRTA-~-~~-~~~-~~-~-Content Warning: This educationa...

^YouTube

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#5yrsago Berlin Senate approves five-year, citywide rent freeze https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-48677393

#5yrsago @KarlSchroeder's “Stealing Worlds”: visionary science fiction of a way through the climate and inequality crises https://memex.craphound.com/2019/06/18/karl-schroeders-stealing-worlds-visionary-science-fiction-of-a-way-through-the-climate-and-inequality-crises/

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Berlin backs five-year rent freeze amid housing pressure

Rents have soared in the German capital - and now politicians are moving to keep flats affordable.

^{BBC News}

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Yesterday's threads: Bankruptcy is very, very good; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112632885570553973

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Cory Doctorow

2024-06-17 16:24:02

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Bankruptcy is very, very good; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/06/17/lovilee-jubilee/

#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:

* Go Fact Yourself, Los Angeles, Jun 20
https://laist.com/events/go-fact-yourself-live-with-aida-rodriguez

* @Locusmag reading (virtual), Jun 21
https://locusmag.com/2024-locus-awards-weekend/

* @Locusmag Awards keynote (Oakland), Jun 22
https://locusmag.com/2024-locus-awards-weekend/

* HOPE XV, Jul 14 (Queens, NY)
https://www.hope.net/talks.html
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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Go Fact Yourself LIVE with Cory Doctorow and Aida Rodriguez

Hosts J. Keith van Straaten and Helen Hong will welcome special celebrity guests and plus super-secret experts to try to stump them in their self-proclaimed areas of expertise.

^LAist

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Recent appearances:

* Reimagining the Internet
https://publicinfrastructure.org/podcast/102-cory-doctorow-enshittification/

* Circulating ideas
https://circulatingideas.com/2024/06/11/261-the-bezzle-by-cory-doctorow-summer-reading-spectacular/

* Capitalist Realism vs. Science Fiction
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zz-iHWzqGK0

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102. Cory Doctorow Coined "Enshittification." He Sees 4 Ways to End It. - Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure at UMass Amherst

To kick off our Good Web series, Cory Doctorow joined us for a deep dive into his enshittification theory, and how regulation, labor power, competition, and user self-help will make it a thing of the past.

^{Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure}

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On Thursday (June 20), I'll be live onstage in Los Angeles for a recording of the Go Fact Yourself podcast:
https://laist.com/events/go-fact-yourself-live-with-aida-rodriguez

On Friday (June 21), I'm doing an online reading for the @Locusmag Awards at 16hPT.

On Saturday (June 22), I'll be in Oakland, CA for a panel and a keynote at the Locus Awards:

https://locusmag.com/2024-locus-awards-weekend/

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Go Fact Yourself LIVE with Cory Doctorow and Aida Rodriguez

Hosts J. Keith van Straaten and Helen Hong will welcome special celebrity guests and plus super-secret experts to try to stump them in their self-proclaimed areas of expertise.

^LAist