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Red Lobster was killed by private equity, not Endless Shrimp: Using class warfare as cover for looting.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112490468749093452

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Cory Doctorow

2024-05-23 12:45:34

A decade ago, a hedge fund had an improbable viral comedy hit: a 294-page slide deck explaining why Olive Garden was going out of business, blaming the failure on too many breadsticks and insufficiently salted pasta-water:

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/940944/000092189514002031/ex991dfan14a06297125_091114.pdf

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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/2024/05/23/spineless/#invertebrates

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Hey look at this

* ‘My songs spread like herpes’: why did satirical genius Tom Lehrer swap worldwide fame for obscurity? https://www.theguardian.com/music/article/2024/may/22/my-songs-spread-like-herpes-why-did-satirical-genius-tom-lehrer-swap-worldwide-fame-for-obscurity (h/t @metafilter)

* The last XOXO https://2024.xoxofest.com/

* The great rewiring: is social media really behind an epidemic of teenage mental illness? https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00902-2

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‘My songs spread like herpes’: why did satirical genius Tom Lehrer swap worldwide fame for obscurity?

In the 1950s and 60s, his songs stunned and delighted listeners with their irreverence, wit and nihilism. Then he gave it all up to teach mathematics. Lehrer is still alive at 96 – so I went in search of answers

^{Francis Beckett (The Guardian)}

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#15yrsago LA cop union buys stake in newspaper, demands critical writers be fired https://web.archive.org/web/20090523133759/http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2009/05/la-police-union-wants-san-diego-newspaper-writers-fired.html

#15yrsago UK towns move to extend abusive license plate surveillance grid https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/whos_watching_you/8064333.stm

#15yrsago BA getting rid of first class in new planes https://www.theguardian.com/business/2009/may/22/british-airways-first-class-loss

#15yrsago English schoolkids go on strike until CCTVs are removed from classes https://www.guardian-series.co.uk/news/4377621.LOUGHTON__Pupils_walk_out_of_lessons_in_protest_against_Big_Brother_cameras/

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LOUGHTON: Pupils walk out of lessons in protest against Big Brother cameras

PUPILS walked out of classrooms in protest against Big Brother-styled CCTV cameras recording their lessons.

^{James Colasanti (East London and West Essex Guardian Series)}

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#15yrsago Obamabot to be installed at Disney World, will robotically cover up torture, suspend habeas corpus https://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/22/us/politics/22obamatron.html

#15yrsago Obama promises to suspend Habeas Corpus https://web.archive.org/web/20090524000332/http://open.salon.com/blog/behind_blue_eyes/2009/05/22/obama_proposes_indefinite_preventive_detention_without_trial

#15yrsago Verizon to cops: we won’t help you track down sick, possibly dying man unless you pay his $20 phone bill https://web.archive.org/web/20090524071613/https://www.timesreporter.com/homepage/x862899385/Unconscious-Carroll-man-found-after-11-hour-search

#15yrsago T-Minus: graphic novel tells the history of the space race https://memex.craphound.com/2009/05/22/t-minus-graphic-novel-tells-the-history-of-the-space-race/

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Unconscious Carroll man found after 11-hour search - New Philadelphia, OH - The Times-Reporter

The Times-Reporter, your source for the latest breaking local news, sports, weather, business, jobs, real estate, shopping, health, travel, and entertainment in New Philadelphia, OH.

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#10yrsago Brandalists replace 365 outdoor ads in 10 UK cities with hand-printed works of art https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKRmVwqhEdE

#10yrsago Glorious juvenile moment of Dragon’s Lair heroism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQ9cqaVjufo

#10yrsago Edward Snowden hosted a cryptoparty and ran a Tor exit node https://www.wired.com/2014/05/snowden-cryptoparty/

#10yrsago Substitute fine old rums for bourbon and save https://web.archive.org/web/20140523092132/http://www.theawl.com/2014/05/how-to-shut-up-about-the-whiskey-shortage

#10yrsago House leaders gut NSA-curbing USA FREEDOM Act https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/05/eff-dismayed-houses-gutted-usa-freedom-act

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Brandalism 2014: 40 street artists. 10 cities. 365 ad takeovers. 2 days.

The Brandalism project saw 40 artists coming together for the biggest subvertising campaign in UK history. Over 2 days teams in 10 UK cities put up over 350 ...

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#5yrsago Exploitation of workers becomes more socially acceptable if the workers are perceived as “passionate” about their jobs https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30998042/

#5yrsago The “Uber of Live Music” will charge you $1100-1600 to book a house show, pay musicians $100 https://www.jwz.org/blog/2019/05/the-uber-of-live-music/

#5yrsago Trump’s stealth attack on Social Security: “Chained CPI” https://www.commondreams.org/views/2019/05/21/beware-trumps-sneak-attack-social-security

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Beware Trump's Sneak Attack on Social Security

"Chained CPI" might sound technical and boring, but anyone who has closely followed the Social Security debate knows better. It has long been proposed as a deceptive, hard-to-understand way to cut our earned Social Security benefits.

^{nancy-j-altman (Common Dreams)}

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#5yrsago In less than one second, a malicious web-page can uniquely fingerprint an Iphone, Pixel 2 or Pixel 3 without any explicit user interaction https://www.ieee-security.org/TC/SP2019/papers/405.pdf

#5yrsago Americans believe that they should own the mountains of data produced by their cars, but they don’t https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/20/opinion/car-repair-data-privacy.html

#5yrsago A self-appointed wing of the American judicial system is about to make it much harder to fight terms of service https://www.vice.com/en/article/a3x79a/new-proposal-would-let-companies-further-screw-you-over-with-terms-of-service

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New Proposal Would Let Companies Further Screw You Over With Terms of Service

A long line of legal experts say the American Law Institute proposal would make an already huge problem dramatically worse.

^{Karl Bode (VICE)}

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#1yrago Justice Warriors https://pluralistic.net/2023/05/22/libras-assemble/#the-uz

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Yesterday's threads: How finfluencers destroyed the housing and lives of thousands of people; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112486339488305677

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Cory Doctorow

2024-05-22 19:15:26

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: How finfluencers destroyed the housing and lives of thousands of people; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/22/koteswar-jay-gajavelli/

#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 …

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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

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