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Real innovation vs Silicon Valley nonsense: We're living through a revolution, but all we hear about is scams.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112531948905684238

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Cory Doctorow

2024-05-30 20:34:31

If there was any area where we needed a lot of "innovation," it's in climate tech. We've already blown through numerous points-of-no-return for a habitable Earth, and the pace is accelerating.

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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/2024/05/30/posiwid/#social-cost-of-carbon

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Hey look at this

* Was Gordon Ramsay Trying to Make Italians Angry With This Pizza Recipe Video? https://www.pmq.com/was-gordon-ramsay-trying-to-make-italians-angry-with-this-pizza-recipe-video/

* The Monopoly Case Against Ticketmaster, Explained https://www.404media.co/email/bca7bebf-0d99-4bc2-bad1-70657ac284d0/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter

* Noam Chomsky: The False Promise of ChatGPT https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/08/opinion/noam-chomsky-chatgpt-ai.html

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The Monopoly Case Against Ticketmaster, Explained

The antitrust suit against Live Nation is not about ticket scalping or ticket sales. It's about total domination over the entire concert industry.

^{Jason Koebler (404 Media)}

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#15yrsago FBI terrorist interrogator on the uselessness of torture and the efficacy of cookies https://web.archive.org/web/20090804121053/https://www.rawstory.com/blog/2009/05/cookies-al-qaeda/

#15yrsago Basil Wolverton’s Bible: the putting the grotesque into the Old Testament https://memex.craphound.com/2009/05/29/basil-wolvertons-bible-the-putting-the-grotesque-into-the-old-testament/

#10yrsago Tor.com: a new short-fiction imprint from Tor https://reactormag.com/announcing-torcom-the-imprint/

#10yrsago Sexagintuple Vanilla Bean Mocha Frappuccino: a $55 Starbucks drink https://consumerist.com/2014/05/27/new-starbucks-free-drink-record-set-with-54-sexagintuple-vanilla-bean-mocha-frappuccino/

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Announcing Tor.com the Imprint - Reactor

Tor.com is excited to announce that we will be expanding our original fiction program via a new imprint dedicated to publishing novellas, shorter novels, serializations, and any other pieces of fiction that exceed the traditional novelette length (17…

^{Tor.com (Reactor)}

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#10yrsago Mysterious announcement from Truecrypt declares the project insecure and dead https://memex.craphound.com/2014/05/29/mysterious-announcement-from-truecrypt-declares-the-project-insecure-and-dead/

#10yrsago Tor founder Tom Doherty on publishing without DRM https://reactormag.com/tom-doherty-tor-books-book-expo-of-america-2014/

#10yrsago Jonathan Lethem and Lars Eidinger’s claustrophobic, Snowden-commemorating short film https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqgKtb_BKdI

#5yrsago Open Insulin: biohackers trying to create a “microbrewery” for insulin as an answer to price-gouging https://openinsulin.org/new-frontiers-for-the-new-year/

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Removing Roadblocks to Community: Tom Doherty on DRM at Book Expo of America - Reactor

“Ultimately it comes down to the desire to be where our customers are, to play fair with them in the assumption that they’ll play fair with us. And you know something? It’s worked.

^{Chris Lough (Reactor)}

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#5yrsago How DRM has permitted Google to have an “open source” browser that is still under its exclusive control https://memex.craphound.com/2019/05/29/how-drm-has-permitted-google-to-have-an-open-source-browser-that-is-still-under-its-exclusive-control/

#5yrsago DARPA’s Spectrum Collaboration Challenge: finally some progress towards a “Cognitive Radio” future https://spectrum.ieee.org/if-darpa-has-its-way-ai-will-rule-the-wireless-spectrum

#5yrsago Chinese environment ministry finds widespread pollution coverups and corruption at the local government level https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01661-1

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If DARPA Has Its Way, AI Will Rule the Wireless Spectrum

DARPA’s Spectrum Collaboration Challenge demonstrates that autonomous radios can manage spectrum better than humans can


^{Paul Tilghman (IEEE Spectrum)}

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#5yrsago Trump’s new climate czar has repeatedly and unrepentantly compared efforts to reduce CO2 to Hitler’s slaughter of 6,000,000 Jews https://www.marketwatch.com/story/trump-climate-advisor-compared-demonization-of-carbon-dioxide-to-jews-treatment-under-hitler-2019-05-28

#5yrsago The UK grew rich by looting the world; now it launders billions for other looters https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/uk-corporate-tax-avoidance-havens-justice-network-dodging-a8933661.html

#5yrsago What the FTC should do AFTER it fines Facebook $3-5B https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/05/fines-arent-enough-heres-how-ftc-can-make-facebook-better

#1yrago Monopolizing turds https://pluralistic.net/2023/05/29/oh-shit/

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UK by far the biggest enabler of global corporate tax dodging, groundbreaking research finds | The Independent

Britain has ‘single-handedly’ done more to undermine world’s tax system than any other nation, report finds

^{Ben Chapman (The Independent)}

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Yesterday's threads: The Pizzaburger Presidency; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112525835353673252

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Cory Doctorow

2024-05-29 18:39:45

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: The Pizzaburger Presidency; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/29/sub-bushel-comms-strategy/

#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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