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The reason you can't buy a car is the same reason that your health insurer let hackers dox you: When monopoly meets infosec, hilarity ensues.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112695178350565837

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Cory Doctorow

2024-06-28 16:25:54

In 2017, Equifax suffered the worst data-breach in history, leaking the deep, nonconsensual dossiers it had compiled on 148m Americans and 15m Britons, (and 19k Canadians) into the world, to form an immortal, undeletable reservoir of kompromat and premade identity-theft kits:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Equifax_data_breach

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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/2024/06/28/dealer-management-software/#antonin-scalia-stole-your-car

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Hey look at this

* Layoffs in tech sector reach nearly 100,000 year to date https://seekingalpha.com/news/4118529-layoffs-in-tech-sector-reach-near-100000-year-to-date (h/t @HackerNewsBot

* What We Talk About When We Talk About "The Village" https://catvalente.substack.com/p/what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about

* Two AI Truths and a Lie https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4840383

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What We Talk About When We Talk About "The Village"

As Millennials struggle to reach traditional milestones of adulthood, we romanticize & misremember a system that operated under rules we would never accept today

^{Catherynne M. Valente (Welcome to Garbagetown)}

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#15yrsago Comics creator stopped by TSA for carrying script about writer under suspicion by TSA https://web.archive.org/web/20090516205904/http://www.sfscope.com/2009/05/comics-artist-mark-sable-detai.html

#10yrsago SWAT teams claim to be private mercenaries, immune to open records laws https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2014/06/26/massachusetts-swat-teams-claim-theyre-private-corporations-immune-from-open-records-laws/

#10yrsago Poesy guest-reviews the new Ariol book https://memex.craphound.com/2014/06/27/poesy-guest-reviews-the-new-ariol-book/

#5yrsago Internet users are wising up to persuasive “nudge” techniques https://behavioralscientist.org/consumers-are-becoming-wise-to-your-nudge/

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Consumers Are Becoming Wise to Your Nudge - Behavioral Scientist

New research indicates that consumers are catching on and may be annoyed by certain nudges, potentially limiting their effectiveness.

^{Evan Nesterak (Behavioral Scientist)}

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#5yrsago Congress orders Ajit Pai: hands off San Francisco’s broadband competition law https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/06/house-votes-to-block-ajit-pais-plan-to-kill-san-francisco-broadband-law/

#5yrsago NYC Mesh, a neutral, nonprofit meshing ISP, dramatically expands access in Brooklyn https://www.vice.com/en/article/paj8z8/a-diy-internet-network-has-drastically-expanded-its-coverage-in-nyc

#5yrsago @rbreich backs Elizabeth Warren’s plan to break up Big Tech https://www.alternet.org/2019/06/robert-reich-why-we-need-to-break-up-big-tech

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Robert Reich: Here's why we need to break up Big Tech

The combined wealth of Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, and Google’s Sergey Brin, and Larry Page is larger than the combined wealth of the bottom half of the American population.

^{Robert Reich (Alternet.org)}

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#5yrsago How Memphis’s Methodist University Hospital, a “nonprofit,” sued the shit out of its Black, poor patients while raking in millions and paying execs more than a million each https://www.propublica.org/article/methodist-le-bonheur-healthcare-sues-poor-medical-debt#163801

#5yrsago Hong Kong protesters repeatedly blockade police HQ, demanding release of people arrested at #612strike demonstrations https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3016238/hong-kong-police-under-siege-again-protesters-surround

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Siege of Hong Kong police headquarters ends without clashes after 6-hour drama by extradition bill protesters

Protesters ended a six-hour siege of Hong Kong’s police headquarters – their second in a week over the now-suspended extradition bill – early on Thursday morning.

^{Sum Lok-kei (South China Morning Post)}

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Yesterday's threads: Copyright takedowns are a cautionary tale that few are heeding; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112689891714846788

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Cory Doctorow

2024-06-27 18:01:27

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Copyright takedowns are a cautionary tale that few are heeding; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/06/27/nuke-first/

#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:

* HOPE XV, Jul 14 (Queens, NY)
https://www.hope.net/talks.html

* 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/

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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:

* Living Your Principles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTfqxF5KyCc

* 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/

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Living Your Principles with Cory Doctorow (JT talks Politics and Technology)

Cory Doctorow is an author and activist. His most recent novel is THE BEZZLE, a thriller about the private prison industry.Starring JT ParrCreated by JT Parr...

^YouTube

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On July 14, I'm giving the closing keynote for the fifteenth Hackers On Planet Earth, in Queens, NY:

https://www.hope.net/talks.html

On 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}

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