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Hey look at this

* The Real Entitlement Crisis: Good Reporting Is in Short Supply https://prospect.org/economy/2024-05-16-real-entitlement-crisis-good-reporting-social-security/

* P = NP? Not exactly, but here are some research questions from the FTC Office of Technology https://www.ftc.gov/policy/advocacy-research/tech-at-ftc/2024/05/p-np-not-exactly-here-are-some-research-questions-office-technology

* The Monopoly That Gets 'Em When They're Grieving https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/the-monopoly-that-gets-em-when-theyre

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The Monopoly That Gets 'Em When They're Grieving

Estate liquidation is an industry of small businesses. Now a British middleman called the Auction Technology Group is taking it over.

^{Matt Stoller (BIG by Matt Stoller)}

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#20yrsago Bad writerly advice https://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/005212.html#005212

#20yrsago LotR movies remixed as trenchant Russian political satire https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/jun/22/film.lordoftheringsfilms

#20yrsago First-person account of Massachusetts gay marriage https://web.archive.org/web/20040605123821/http://www.circa75.com/showArticle.php?article=130

#20yrsago PayPal disgraces itself, cuts off FreeNet https://web.archive.org/web/20040604050939/http://freenet.sourceforge.net/

#15yrsago Pinkwater’s EDUCATION OF ROBERT NIFKIN: zany and inspiring tale of taking charge of your own education https://memex.craphound.com/2009/05/18/pinkwaters-education-of-robert-nifkin-zany-and-inspiring-tale-of-taking-charge-of-your-own-education/

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Russia's cult video pirate rescripts Lord of the Rings as gangster film

They call him the Goblin. He is the new toast of Russia's massive pirate video industry, his films sought all over Moscow.

^{Nick Paton Walsh (The Guardian)}

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#15yrsago Technology Bill of Rights https://web.archive.org/web/20090521124424/http://www.infoworld.com/d/data-management/toward-technology-bill-rights-867

#15yrsago Debt-collectors and credit card companies: the psychologists of predatory lending https://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/17/magazine/17credit-t.html

#10yrsago Anti-Net Neutrality Congresscritters made serious bank from the cable companies https://web.archive.org/web/20140520184355/http://maplight.org/Contributions to House Members Lobbying against Net Neutrality from Cable Interests

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Toward a Technology Bill of Rights

It's time to update an old idea: The Technology Bill of Rights -- new rights for a new era

^{web.archive.org}

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#5yrsago Apple removed a teen’s award-winning anti-Trump game “Bad Hombre” because they can’t tell the difference between apps that criticize racism and racist apps https://memex.craphound.com/2019/05/18/apple-removed-a-teens-award-winning-anti-trump-game-bad-hombre-because-they-cant-tell-the-difference-between-apps-that-criticize-racism-and-racist-apps/

#5yrsago Pangea raised $180m to buy up low-rent Chicago properties “to help poor people,” and then created the most brutally efficient eviction mill in Chicago history https://chicagoreader.com/news-politics/pangea-has-taken-thousands-to-eviction-court-the-story-of-an-apartment-empire/

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Pangea has taken thousands to eviction court. The story of an apartment empire

The company has claimed credit for reviving south and west side communities, even as it’s filed more than 9,000 eviction cases since 2009.

^{Maya Dukmasova (Chicago Reader)}

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#5yrsago AOC grills pharma exec about why the HIV-prevention drug Prep costs $8 in Australia costs $1,780 in the USA https://web.archive.org/web/20190628120032/https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/ocasio-cortez-confronts-ceo-for-nearly-2k-price-tag-on-hiv-drug-that-costs-8-in-australia/ar-AABsDP0

#1yrago How to save the news from Big Tech https://pluralistic.net/2023/05/18/stealing-money-not-content/#beyond-link-taxes

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Ocasio-Cortez confronts CEO for nearly $2K price tag on HIV drug that costs $8 in Australia

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) confronted a CEO Thursday for pricing a drug designed to reduce the risk of HIV transmission at $8 in Australia but over $1,500 in the U.S."You're the CEO of Gilead.

^{web.archive.org}

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Yesterday's threads: You were promised a jetpack by liars; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112457035116703740

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Cory Doctorow

2024-05-17 15:02:57

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: You were promised a jetpack by liars; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/17/fake-it-until-you-dont-make-it/

#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

* 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"

^{AALL Annual Meeting & Conference}

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Recent appearances:

* Libraries in Response
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUQZPn9ffSs

* Suur Futuroloogiline Kongress
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hITj793htg&t=398s

* That Word Chat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miwEy_mACEY

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Session 99: Conversation with Cory: Disenshittification and Libraries

Bezzle, n: The magic interval when a confidence trickster knows he has the money he has appropriated but the victim does not yet understand that he has lost ...

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