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#20yrsago AT&T: the hollow phone company https://web.archive.org/web/20040605001440/https://werbach.com/blog/2004/05/24.html#a1485

#15yrsago Kid keeping a lending library of banned books in her locker https://web.archive.org/web/20090525190940/http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090305151758AA7dWwd

#10yrsago Scratch-built Mold-a-Rama machine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2P7MaZUrSQQ

#5yrsago Real estate title insurance company exposed 885,000,000 customers’ records, going back 16 years: bank statements, drivers’ licenses, SSNs, and tax records https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/05/first-american-financial-corp-leaked-hundreds-of-millions-of-title-insurance-records/

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Scratch-built Injection Molding at MakerFaire

Read the entire article: http://hackaday.com/2014/05/22/mini-molder-injection-molder-scratch-built-by-single-hacker/We caught up with James Durand at the 201...

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#5yrsago Germany demands an end to working cryptography https://memex.craphound.com/2019/05/24/germany-demands-an-end-to-working-cryptography/

#5yrsago Comcast fights shareholder call for lobbying transparency, saying that it would be “burdensome” to reveal how much it spends lobbying states https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/05/comcast-does-so-much-lobbying-that-it-says-disclosing-it-all-is-too-hard/

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Comcast does so much lobbying that it says disclosing it all is too hard

Shareholders say Comcast should stop being secretive about lobbying activity.

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Yesterday's threads: They brick you because they can; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112498129085361411

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Cory Doctorow

2024-05-24 21:13:41

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: They brick you because they can; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/24/record-scratch/

#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 …

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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"

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Recent appearances:

* RISD Debates in AI keynote:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdSEcmplaDs

* @AuthorsAlliance 10th Anniversary (at 1:55:00)
https://archive.org/details/authors-alliance-10th-anniversary-presentation

* Upstream podcast
https://podscripts.co/podcasts/upstream/the-big-tech-con-w-cory-doctorow

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Author's Alliance 10th Anniversary Presentation : Author's Alliance : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Moral panics about technology are nothing new for creators. Copyright, in particular, has been a favorite tool to excite outrage. We were told that the...

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Today's top sources: @slashdot (https://slashdot.org), Bruce Schneier (https://www.schneier.com/).

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Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters

Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters. Timely news source for technology related news with a heavy slant towards Linux and Open Source issues.

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