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Hey look at this

* Google’s nightmare “#WebIntegrityAPI” wants a #DRM gatekeeper for the web https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/07/googles-web-integrity-api-sounds-like-drm-for-the-web

* retract this proposal https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/blink-dev/c/Ux5h_kGO22g/m/5Lt5cnkLCwAJ

* Lawsuit From Hell: The Battle Over a Kids’ Gym https://www.washingtonian.com/2023/07/24/how-a-battle-over-a-kids-gym-turned-into-the-lawsuit-from-hell/ (h/t John Barnes)

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How a Battle Over a Kids’ Gym Turned Into the Lawsuit From Hell

When Unleashed Brands bought a chain of children’s gyms and began changing the way they do business, local owner Tiffany Cianci pushed back. She’s paid a heavy price.

^{https://www.washingtonian.com/author/abeaujon/#author (Washingtonian)}

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#20yrsago #Verisign will have to pay for sex.com mistake https://web.archive.org/web/20031203030438/http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,59788,00.html

#15yrsago On the absurdity of “maximizing shareholder value” https://crookedtimber.org/2008/07/25/what-obligation-maximise-what/

#15yrsago #JackWomack’s underappreciated masterpiece, “Random Acts of Senseless Violence” https://www.tor.com/2008/07/25/randomacts/

#15yrsago Great opening lines from sf https://gizmodo.com/great-opening-sentences-from-science-fiction-5027128

#10yrsago Limited-edition #Makie toys come to Selfridges https://web.archive.org/web/20130730061115/http://makie.me/forum/topic/474-makies-in-selfridges-from-5th-august/

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Great Opening Sentences From Science Fiction

Click to viewYou can tell a lot about a science fiction book from its first sentence. Those first few words (or few dozen, in some cases) have to pull you into the story and bring you into a whole alternate world.

^{Charlie Jane Anders (Gizmodo)}

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#10yrsago Lies I’ve Told My 3 Year Old Recently https://www.mexicanpictures.com/headingeast/2008/03/lies-ive-told-my-3-year-old-re.html

#10yrsago Which Congresscritters voted for infinite, permanent, all-pervasive #NSA spying? https://www.techdirt.com/2013/07/24/217-representatives-who-voted-to-keep-nsa-spying-all-your-data/

#10yrsago Wired Love: a novel from 1880 that could have been written last week https://www.collisiondetection.net/mt/archives/2013/07/wired_love_a_ta.php

#10yrsago Panopticon for royals https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2013/07/monarchy-versus-the-panopticon.html

#10yrsago ANCHORY: NSA’s 1990s catalog of spook assets https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2013/jul/25/anchory-documents-offer-glimpse-90s-era-nsa-intell/

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The 217 Representatives Who Voted To Keep NSA Spying On All Your Data

We already talked about the Amash Amendment being voted down very narrowly (217 – 205). While it didn’t pass, this was still a huge victory, because a few weeks ago (hell, even last wee…

^Techdirt

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#10yrsago UK #SeriousCrimesAgency buried evidence of massive criminality by major corporations, rich people — wouldn’t even tell the cops https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/exclusive-bigger-than-phone-hacking-soca-sat-on-bluechip-dirty-tricks-evidence-for-years-8730861.html

#10yrsago #IainBanks’s The Quarry, his final novel https://memex.craphound.com/2013/07/26/iain-bankss-the-quarry-his-final-novel/

#10yrsago What @eff learned at #ComicCon https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/07/what-we-learned-san-diego-comic-con

#10yrsago PIN-punching $200 robot can brute force every Android numeric screen-password in 19 hours https://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/07/22/pin-punching-robot-can-crack-your-phones-security-code-in-less-than-24-hours/

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PIN-Punching Robot Can Crack Your Phone's Security Code In Less Than 24 Hours (Video)

Video There's nothing particularly difficult about cracking a smartphone's four-digit PIN code. All it takes is a pair of thumbs and enough persistence to try all 10,000 combinations.

^{Andy Greenberg (Forbes)}

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#10yrsago UK censorwall will also block “terrorist content,” “violence,” “circumvention tools,” “forums,” and more https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/sleepwalking-into-censorship/

#10yrsago No, Mr Cameron, you can’t solve porn with a hackathon https://www.theguardian.com/science/political-science/2013/jul/24/anti-porn-hackday-cameron

#10yrsago Teachers open camping kid’s sealed letter home; eject kid for confessing to eating chocolate https://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/10190649/Child-banned-from-school-trip-for-eating-chocolate.html

#10yrsago #DavidCameron’s favourite censorware is built and maintained by Huawei https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-23452097

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Chinese firm Huawei controls net filter praised by PM

A pornography filtering system praised by the Prime Minister is controlled by the controversial Chinese firm Huawei.

^{By Dave Lee (BBC News)}

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#10yrsago #JaneAusten to grace £10 notes https://www.theguardian.com/business/2013/jul/24/jane-austen-appear-10-note

#5yrsago #BloomCounty’s second reboot collection: the election of 2016 and beyond https://memex.craphound.com/2018/07/26/bloom-countys-second-reboot-collection-the-election-of-2016-and-beyond/

#5yrsago #BigTech’s active moderation promise is also a potential source of eternal commercial advantage over newcomers https://memex.craphound.com/2018/07/26/big-techs-active-moderation-promise-is-also-a-potential-source-of-eternal-commercial-advantage-over-newcomers/

#5yrsago Facebook shares plummet on tiny shortfall in predicted growth https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-just-learned-the-true-cost-of-fixing-its-problems/

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Facebook Just Learned the True Cost of Fixing Its Problems

Facebook shares fell 20 percent after it said revenue growth would slow and it would spend additional billions per year to tackle fake news and other concerns.

^{Fred Vogelstein (WIRED)}

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#5yrsago Appeals court kills the dirty trick of using Indian tribes as a front for #PatentTrolls and claiming sovereign immunity https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/07/court-native-american-tribe-cant-be-a-sovereign-shield-during-patent-review/

#5yrsago What it’s like when Nazis infiltrate your conference https://twitter.com/JairusKhan/status/1021576115670933511

#5yrsago Watchdog: UK spies engaged in illegal surveillance from 2001-2012 https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-44936592

#5yrsago #Equifax says it’s spent $200m on security since the breach, so everything’s OK now https://www.wired.com/story/equifax-security-overhaul-year-after-breach/

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Equifax's Security Overhaul, a Year After Its Epic Breach

Nearly a year after hackers stole the personal data of 147 million people from Equifax, the company details how it's overhauling security.

^{Lily Hay Newman (WIRED)}

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#5yrsago Student blocks deportation of Afghan asylum-seeker by refusing to sit and let the plane take off https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/25/swedish-student-plane-protest-stops-mans-deportation-afghanistan

#5yrsago FB forced to drop “feature” that let advertisers block Black people, old people and women https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/24/17609178/facebook-racial-dicrimination-ad-targeting-washington-state-attorney-general-agreement

#5yrsago A/B testing tools have created a golden age of shitty statistical practices https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3204791

#5yrsago Rockstar: a programming language whose code takes the form of power ballads https://github.com/dylanbeattie/rockstar

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Facebook signs agreement saying it won’t let housing advertisers exclude users by race

Facebook has signed a new, legally binding agreement with the state of Washington agreeing to remove advertisers’ ability to exclude races, religions, sexual orientations, and other protected classes in certain ad-targeting sectors.

^{Nick Statt (The Verge)}

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#5yrsago EFF has published a detailed guide to #RegulatingFacebook without destroying the internet https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/07/facing-facebook-data-portability-and-interoperability-are-anti-monopoly-medicine

#1yrago Sarah Gailey's "Just Like Home": A haunted house novel that made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up https://pluralistic.net/2022/07/25/can-you-hear-me-now/#crowder-house

#1yrago Why none of my books are available on #Audible: And why Amazon owes me $3,218.55 https://pluralistic.net/2022/07/25/can-you-hear-me-now/#acx-ripoff

#1yrago "A Half-Built Garden": Ruthanna Emrys's stunning First Contact novel https://pluralistic.net/2022/07/26/aislands/#dead-ringers

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Facing Facebook: Data Portability and Interoperability Are Anti-Monopoly Medicine

Social media has a competition problem, and its name is Facebook. Today, Facebook and its subsidiaries are over ten times more valuable than the next two largest social media companies outside China—Twitter and Snapchat—combined.

^{Electronic Frontier Foundation}

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Monday's threads: Autoenshittification; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/110770881584162016

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Cory Doctorow

2023-07-24 20:11:56

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Autoenshittification; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/24/rent-to-pwn/

#Pluralistic

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My latest book is Red Team Blues, available wherever books are sold!

Signed copies at Dark Delicacies (US):

https://www.darkdel.com/store/p2873/Wed%2C_Apr_26th_6pm%3A_Red_Team_Blues%3A_A_Martin_Hench_Novel_HB.html#/

and Forbidden Planet (UK):

https://forbiddenplanet.com/385004-red-team-blues-signed-edition-hardcover/

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My latest nonfiction book is Chokepoint Capitalism (with Rebecca Giblin), nonfiction about monopoly and fairness in creative labor markets.

https://chokepointcapitalism.com

Signed copies available from Book Soup:

https://www.booksoup.com/book/9780807007068

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Wed, Apr 26th 6pm: Red Team Blues: A Martin Hench Novel HB

Signing with Cory Doctorow

^{Dark Delicacies}

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My ebooks and audiobooks (from Tor Books, Head of Zeus, McSweeneys, Beacon 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:

* Midsummer Scream (Long Beach), Jul 30
https://midsummerscream.org/

* #Armadillocon (#Austin), Aug 4-6
https://armadillocon.org/d45/

* @defcon (#LasVegas), Aug 12
https://defcon.org/

* An Evening with #VESchwab (#DesMoines), Oct 2
https://www.thecabinidaho.org/all-events/ve-schwab

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An Evening with Victoria “V.E.” Schwab and Cory Doctorow — The Cabin

Enjoy an evening with Victoria “V.E.” Schwab, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of more than twenty books, including The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue .

^{The Cabin}

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Recent appearances:

* Let The Platforms Burn: Bringing Back the Good Fire of the Old Internet (#IETF 117)
https://youtu.be/nK7JoGhF338?t=737

* Techdirt Podcast
https://www.techdirt.com/2023/07/25/techdirt-podcast-episode-359-red-team-blues-part-two-with-cory-doctorow/

* Cannibal Corp (New Models podcast)
https://soundcloud.com/newmodels/private-cannibal-corp-w-cory-doctorow-nm66

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IETF117-DINRG-20230725-2000

DINRG meeting session at IETF1172023/07/25 2000https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/117/proceedings/

^YouTube

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You can also follow these posts as a daily blog at pluralistic.net: no ads, trackers, or data-collection!

Here's today's edition: https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/26/dictators-dilemma/

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If you're a @medium subscriber, you can read these essays - as well as previews of upcoming magazine columns and early exclusives on doctorow.medium.com.

My latest Medium column is "When the Town Square Shatters: Once again, science fiction fandom shows us how to use the internet"

https://doctorow.medium.com/when-the-town-square-shatters-a7377ed4eff

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When the Town Square Shatters - Cory Doctorow - Medium

When it comes to the social internet, chances are that science fiction fans got there first. The first non-technical discussion forums on the internet — ancient mailing lists — were devoted to sf…

^{Cory Doctorow (Medium)}

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