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When the app turns you into a robo-scab: The implacable, inarguable tactics of disciplinary technology.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/110804039638996432

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Cory Doctorow

2023-07-30 16:44:28

When we talk about the abuses of #GigWork, there's some obvious targets, like #AlgorithmicWageDiscrimination, where two workers are paid different rates for the same job, in order to trick occasional gig-workers to give up their other sources of income and become dependent on the app:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/12/algorithmic-wage-discrimination/#fishers-of-men

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/30/computer-says-scab/#instawork

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Hey look at this

* The Coming #Enshittification of Public #Libraries https://karawynn.substack.com/p/the-coming-enshittification-of-public-libraries

* #LindseyGraham and #ElizabethWarren: We Must Regulate #BigTech https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/27/opinion/lindsey-graham-elizabeth-warren-big-tech-regulation.html (h/t Slashdot)

* #FTC readies lawsuit that could break up #Amazon https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/25/ftc-lawsuit-break-up-amazon-00108130

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The Coming Enshittification of Public Libraries

Global investment vampires have positioned themselves to suck our libraries dry

^{Karawynn Long (Nine Lives)}

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#20yrsago Briefing the court on Fuck https://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/crime/passionate-defense-f-word

#15yrsago UK’s ISP-record industry deal won’t stop infringement, but will make it harder for the record industry to cash in https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2008/jul/29/internet.digitalmusic

#15yrsago #TSA destroys the #RepRap’s first child http://blog.reprap.org/2008/07/tsa-really-wreck-reprap-child.html

#15yrsago To destroy Al Qaeda, we must end the war on terror: Rand Corporation https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9351.html

#15yrsago RIP #HarrietBurns, first woman #Imagineer https://web.archive.org/web/20080917032505/http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/07/29/state/n164319D19.DTL&tsp=1

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Illegal filesharing: A suicide note from the music industry

The deal between record companies and ISPs will drive music-swapping underground and erode their profits still further

^{Cory Doctorow (The Guardian)}

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#10yrsago Dentist sued over “I own your criticism” agreement vanishes https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/07/dentist-who-used-copyright-to-silence-her-patients-is-on-the-run/

#10yrsago #Rotolight sends fraudulent takedown notice to censor unfavorable review https://notesonvideo.blogspot.com/2013/07/using-copyright-infringement-claim-to.html

#10yrsago MIT report on #AaronSwartz's prosecution is out, and it's a "whitewash" https://tarensk.tumblr.com/post/56881327662/mit-report-is-a-whitewash-my-statement-in

#10yrsago US spies supplied intelligence on investigative journalist to NZ military http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/8972743/US-spy-agencies-eavesdrop-on-Kiwi

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US spy agencies eavesdrop on Kiwi

The NZ military received help from US spy agencies to monitor the phone calls of Kiwi journalist.

^Stuff

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#10yrsago Kill City Blues: #SandmanSlim versus the elder gods of the dead mall https://memex.craphound.com/2013/07/30/kill-city-blues-sandman-slim-versus-the-elder-gods-of-the-dead-mall/

#10yrsago #RandallMunroe finishes “Time,” the 3,099-panel XKCD serial http://geekwagon.net/projects/xkcd1190/

#5yrsago Why #DemocraticSocialists aren’t afraid to call themselves “#Socialist” anymore https://jacobin.com/2018/07/socialism-democracy-liberals-conservatives/

#5yrsago Why would a company give free tablets to prisons for inmate use? https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2018/07/24/no-cost-contract/

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Democracy and the Socialist Revival

At a time when Democrats and Republicans flout even basic democratic standards, it's socialists who have become democracy's greatest champions.

^jacobin.com

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#5yrsago Seattle passes America’s most comprehensive labor protections for domestic workers https://truthout.org/articles/seattle-domestic-workers-win-most-comprehensive-bill-of-rights-in-us/

#5yrsago #QuietSkies: Air Marshals are following thousands of random Americans through airports and on planes, for no articulatable purpose https://apps.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/graphics/2018/07/tsa-quiet-skies/?p1=HP_SpecialTSA

#5yrsago #SachaBaronCohen confronts #RoyMoore with a beeping “pedophile detector” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kaJaDx51iw

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Seattle Domestic Workers Win Most Comprehensive Bill of Rights in US

Could a federal bill of rights for domestic workers be next on the horizon?

^{Sheila Bapat (Truthout)}

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#5yrsago Universal, having learned nothing from its “dancing baby” ass-kicking, is once again attacking Prince fans https://www.techdirt.com/2018/07/30/universal-right-back-it-issuing-dmca-reporters-video-prince-fans-singing-purple-rain/

#5yrsago Wall Street #landlords are slumlords https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-housing-invitation/

#5yrsago GOP candidate who campaigned with a white supremacist condemned for #BigfootErotica https://www.huffpost.com/entry/bigfoot-porn-house-race-virginia_n_5b5ec4f5e4b0de86f4988800

#5yrsago #JohnOliver’s scorching debullshitification of Facebook’s apology ads https://www.vice.com/en/article/bjb745/john-oliver-facebook-ads-last-week-tonight

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John Oliver Calls Facebook 'History's Most Profitable Data-Harvesting Machine'

Last Week Tonight remakes Facebook's recent string of apology ads.

^{Jason Koebler (VICE)}

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#1yrago Spending $200b to relocated doomed communities will save $1T https://pluralistic.net/2022/07/29/managed-retreat/#reality-based-communities

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Friday's threads: Tesla's Dieselgate; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/110791933258679598

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Cory Doctorow

2023-07-28 13:25:39

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Tesla's Dieselgate; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/28/edison-not-tesla/

#Pluralistic

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

Signed copies at Dark Delicacies (US):

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and Forbidden Planet (UK):

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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

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

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Red Team Blues: A Martin Hench Novel HB

Signed by Cory Doctorow

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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."

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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/

* @eff Awards (#SanFrancisco), Sept 14
https://www.eff.org/awards/effawards/2023

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

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EFF Awards 2023

For over thirty years, the Electronic Frontier Foundation has recognized leaders on the electronic frontier who are extending freedom and innovation in technology.

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Recent appearances:

* how big tech makes the internet worse (What's Gonna Happen)
https://www.stitcher.com/show/what-s-gonna-happen/episode/how-big-tech-makes-the-internet-worse-with-cory-doctorow-305645071

* 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/

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What's Gonna Happen - how big tech makes the internet worse, with cory doctorow on Stitcher

how are people like bezos, zuck, and musk able to destroy the online world a little more every day? this week evangelia and emily are excited to host renowned journalist, science fiction author, and digital rights activist, cory doctorow to discuss h…

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My latest Medium column is "Microincentives and Enshittification: How the Curse of Bigness wrecked Google Search"

https://doctorow.medium.com/microincentives-and-enshittification-574290ea196f

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Microincentives and Enshittification - Cory Doctorow - Medium

It’s hard to convey just how revolutionary Google Search was when it debuted in 1998. It blew rivals — from AskJeeves and Altavista to Yahoo — out of the water. It was so good, it was almost spooky…

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