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Hey look at this

* Pretendians https://link.chtbl.com/pretendians

* Sunsetting Section 230 Will Hurt Internet Users, Not Big Tech https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/05/sunsetting-section-230-will-hurt-internet-users-not-big-tech

* The People Deliberately Killing Facebook https://www.wheresyoured.at/killingfacebook/

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The People Deliberately Killing Facebook

Over the last decade, few platforms have declined quite as rapidly and visibly as Facebook and Instagram.

^{Edward Zitron (Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At)}

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#15yrsago Got a cell-phone? FCC claims the right to search your house https://www.wired.com/2009/05/fcc-raid/

#15yrsago Infinite Typewriters: Goats webcomic collection is transcendantly silly without being forced https://memex.craphound.com/2009/05/20/infinite-typewriters-goats-webcomic-collection-is-transcendantly-silly-without-being-forced/

#15yrsago Fight terrorism by arresting terrorists, not by looking at our genitals at airports https://edition.cnn.com/2009/TRAVEL/05/18/airport.security.body.scans/

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Airport security bares all, or does it? - CNN.com

Privacy advocates plan to call on the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to suspend use of "whole-body imaging," the airport security technology that critics say performs "a virtual strip search" and produces "naked" pictures of passengers, CNN has…

^{edition.cnn.com}

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#15yrsago @lessig reviews Helprin’s embarrassing infinite copyright, bloggers-are-stupid, Creative Commons is evil book https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-solipsist-and-the-int_b_206021

#10yrsago Podcast: Firefox’s adoption of closed-source DRM breaks my heart https://ia802206.us.archive.org/30/items/Cory_Doctorow_Podcast_273_fixed/Cory_Doctorow_Podcast_273_Firefoxs_adoption_of_closed-source_DRM_breaks_my_heart.mp3

#10yrsago Interviews with & portraits of sex-machine makers https://web.archive.org/web/20140903013303/http://designyoutrust.com/2011/08/sex-machines-photographs-and-interviews-by-timothy-archibald/

#10yrsago Steve Wozniak explains Net Neutrality to the FCC https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2010/12/steve-wozniak-to-the-fcc-keep-the-internet-free/68294/

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Steve Wozniak to the FCC: Keep the Internet Free

If Net Neutrality opponents has been in charge back in the 1970s, I wouldn't have been able to build the first Apple computers

^{Steve Wozniak (The Atlantic)}

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#10yrsago Disneyland’s original prospectus revealed! https://memex.craphound.com/2014/05/20/disneylands-original-prospectus-revealed/

#10yrsago @Bluejo's “My Real Children”: infinitely wise, sad and uplifting novel https://memex.craphound.com/2014/05/20/jo-waltons-my-real-children-infinitely-wise-sad-and-uplifting-novel/

#5yrsago That billionaire who paid off a graduating class’s student loans also supports the hedge-fundie’s favorite tax loophole https://archive.nytimes.com/dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/04/10/a-private-equity-titan-with-a-narrow-focus-and-broad-aims/

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A Private Equity Titan With a Narrow Focus and Broad Aims

Vista Equity Partners, whose performance rivals that of the big names in the field, invests exclusively in enterprise software while seeking to transform the companies it holds.

^DealBook

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#5yrsago TOSsed out: @EFF catalogs the perverse ways that platform moderation policies hurt the people they’re supposed to protect https://www.eff.org/tossedout

#5yrsago How Warner Chappell was able to steal revenues from 25% of a popular Minecraft vlogger’s channels https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZplh8rd-I4

#5yrsago Notorious forum for account-thieves hacked, login and messages stolen and dumped https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/05/account-hijacking-forum-ogusers-hacked/

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TOSsed Out

We've been tracking the impact of social media content takedowns and account deactivations for many years.

^{Electronic Frontier Foundation}

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#5yrsago A look back at the sales training for Radio Shack’s Model 100, a groundbreaking early laptop https://www.fastcompany.com/90349201/heres-how-radioshack-sold-its-breakthrough-laptop-circa-1983

#5yrsago DRM and terms-of-service have ended true ownership, turning us into “tenants of our own devices” https://www.wired.com/story/right-to-repair-tenants-on-our-own-devices/

#5yrsago Research shows that 2FA and other basic measures are incredibly effective at preventing account hijacking https://security.googleblog.com/2019/05/new-research-how-effective-is-basic.html

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New research: How effective is basic account hygiene at preventing hijacking

Posted by Kurt Thomas and Angelika Moscicki Every day, we protect users from hundreds of thousands of account hijacking attempts. Most at...

^{Google Online Security Blog}

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#5yrsago A deep dive into the internal politics, personalities and social significance of the Googler Uprising https://fortune.com/longform/inside-googles-civil-war/

#1yrago Dumping links like Galileo dumped the orange https://pluralistic.net/2023/05/20/the-missing-links/#plunderphonics

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Inside Google’s Civil War

Some employees say Google is losing touch with its “Don’t be evil” motto. What happens when an empowered tech workforce rebels?

^{Beth Kowitt (Fortune)}

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Yesterday's threads: The new globalism is global labor; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112474745026136502

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Cory Doctorow

2024-05-20 18:06:49

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: The new globalism is global labor; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/20/a-common-foe/

#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:

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

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

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

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Upstream - The Big Tech Con w/ Cory Doctorow Transcript and Discussion

The Big Tech Con w/ Cory Doctorow - Upstream Transcript and Discussion

^podscripts

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Today's top sources: Michael Dimock.

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