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Surveillance pricing: They spy on you for many reasons, but also to rip you off.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112566122616711263

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Cory Doctorow

2024-06-05 21:25:20

Noted anti-capitalist agitator Adam Smith had it right: "People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices."

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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/2024/06/05/your-price-named/#privacy-first-again

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Hey look at this

* Parable of the Sofa https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2024/06/01/Parable-of-the-Sofa

* A Grand Unified Theory of the AI Hype Cycle https://blog.glyph.im/2024/05/grand-unified-ai-hype.html (h/t Trivium)

* The World's Last Internet Cafes https://restofworld.org/2023/internet-cafes/

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The world’s last internet cafes - Rest of World

Internet cafe simulators have become more popular than actual internet cafes, which kept the world connected for a quarter of a century.

^{Michael Zelenko (Rest of World)}

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#20yrsago @danny Life Hacks https://craphound.com/lifehacks2.txt

#15yrsago New fashion copyright bill will let big companies own public domain designs and bury young, indie designers in legal costs https://memex.craphound.com/2009/06/05/new-fashion-copyright-bill-will-let-big-companies-own-public-domain-designs-and-bury-young-indie-designers-in-legal-costs/

#10yrsago A letter from Edward Snowden and the ACLU https://memex.craphound.com/2014/06/05/a-letter-from-edward-snowden-and-the-aclu/

#10yrsago Today is the day we Reset the Net https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKk8MHFLNNE

#10yrsago Crowdscrounging pennies to support Canada’s most important environmental research https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBsTH28AV58

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Reset the Net: June 5th, 2014

Don't ask for your privacy. Take it back: http://resetthenet.org

^YouTube

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#10yrsago Turn on your data for one minute, AT&T sticks you with a $750 international roaming charge https://jeffreifman.com/2014/06/04/yes-you-can-spend-750-in-international-data-roaming-in-one-minute/

#10yrsago How Wikipedia can become a no-asshole-zone https://web.archive.org/web/20140609085220/http://wikiconferenceusa.org/wiki/Sumana_Harihareswara_keynote

#10yrsago Student’s awesome non-apology for wearing leggings https://www.tumblr.com/urb4n-hipst3rr-xo/86435758488

#10yrsago Google announces end-to-end encryption for Gmail (a big deal!) https://blog.google/products/gmail/transparency-report-protecting-emails

#5yrsago AOC condemns solitary confinement for Paul Manafort https://x.com/AOC/status/1136320114335391744

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Transparency Report: Protecting emails as they travel across the web

To help you better understand whether your emails are protected by encryption, we’re launching a new section in the Transparency Report.

^{Brandon Long (Google)}

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#5yrsago This is the color of cyberspace https://www.sherwin-williams.com/en-us/color/color-family/neutral-paint-colors/SW7076-cyberspace#/7076/?s=coordinatingColors&p=PS0

#5yrsago New Jersey law would force Verizon to pay the taxes it avoided for a decade https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/06/verizon-stiffed-towns-on-millions-in-taxes-but-might-have-to-pay-it-back/

#5yrsago The best Joker is the woman Joker who snaps after a lifetime of being told to “smile, baby” by shitty men https://www.everywhereist.com/2019/06/i-tweeted-about-the-joker-being-a-woman-who-was-tired-of-this-shit-and-it-now-feels-auto-biographical/

#5yrsago 68% of “ordinary Facebook investors” voted to fire Zuckerberg https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-investors-vote-to-fire-mark-zuckerberg-as-chairman-2019-6

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Facebook investors vote to fire Mark Zuckerberg as chairman

'Arrogance is not a substitute for good corporate governance,' said Michael Connor, who helped coordinate the symbolic action by activist investors.

^{Jake Kanter (Insider)}

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#5yrsago LA’s new homelessness stats reveal a crisis that is only worsening https://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-lopez-06052019-story.html

#5yrsago Patronscan wants cities to require bars to scan your ID with its service so it can maintain a secret, unaccountable blacklist https://memex.craphound.com/2019/06/05/patronscan-wants-cities-to-require-bars-to-scan-your-id-with-its-service-so-it-can-maintain-a-secret-unaccountable-blacklist/

#5yrsago Leaked UK military “Extreme Right Wing” checklist: “using the term ‘Islamofascism'”, adding “-istan” to place names https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/05/29/army-guide-spot-right-wing-extremists-warns-identify-patriots/

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Patriotism possible sign of right-wing extremism in the army, document reveals

Patriotism is now regarded as a possible warning sign of right-wing extremism in the army, a leaked document has revealed.

^{Laura FitzPatrick (The Telegraph)}

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#1yrago Wall Street Journal goes to bat for the vultures who want to steal your house https://pluralistic.net/2023/06/05/vulture-capitalism/#distressed-assets

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Yesterday's threads: Joseph Cox's "Dark Wire"; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112558650209429939

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Cory Doctorow

2024-06-04 13:45:00

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Joseph Cox's "Dark Wire"; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/06/04/anom-nom-nom/

#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:

* 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

* @Locusmag Awards keynote (Oakland), Jun 20
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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2024 Locus Awards Weekend, June 19-22

We can’t wait to see you at the Locus Awards Weekend, to be held June 19-22, 2024 in Oakland, California! WEDNESDAY – FRIDAY: We’ll kick off the event with a series of online read…

^{Locus Online}

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Recent appearances:

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

* All Tech is Human
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKThzsYGjEQ

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

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Capitalist Realism vs. Science Fiction ft. Cory Doctorow

Science fiction is an effective way to put our current reality into context, and helps us imagine what our future might look like. For authors like Cory Doct...

^YouTube

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