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#20yrsago #AnarchistU: #Toronto #FreeSchool https://web.archive.org/web/20030801233908/https://anarchistu.widge.org/bin/view/Anarchistu

#15yrsago #XKCD role-players reenact “I Love the World” strip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvGhEJyfC7U

#15yrsago Racist cop uses UK Terrorism Act to detain mixed-race family and take away their disabled child https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/7520598.stm

#15yrsago MPAA wants to randomly break your home theater depending on which channel you’re watching https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/07/eff-opposes-mpaas-selectable-output-control-fcc-pe

We Love xkcd

Life Imitates xkcd: Discovery Channel EditionIf you have no idea whats going on, please see:xkcd: http://xkcd.com/442/Discovery Commerical: http://www.youtub...

^YouTube

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#15yrsago China’s neo-con nationalist youngsters go online https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/07/28/angry-youth

#15yrsago CNN reporter says bad things about the #TSA, gets hassled every time he flies https://web.archive.org/web/20080718134827/https://www.rawstory.com/news/2008/CNN_reporter_wants_off_terror_watch_0716.html

#15yrsago Why is the TSA taking out nipple rings and pantsing amputees? https://web.archive.org/web/20080725112506/http://cbs2chicago.com/investigations/xrated.security.screenings.2.777423.html

#10yrsago #UKInternetCensorship plan no less stupid than it was last year https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2012/nov/13/children-porn-starbucks

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There's no way to stop children viewing porn in Starbucks

Cory Doctorow: Filtering doesn't work. It also puts power into censorware firms which help cover up human rights abuse

^{Cory Doctorow (The Guardian)}

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#10yrsago Get ready for the big bang as #3DPrinting #patents expire https://qz.com/106483/3d-printing-will-explode-in-2014-thanks-to-the-expiration-of-key-patents

#10yrsago Some phones can be pwned by sending 2 SMS messages to them https://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/22/technology/encryption-flaw-makes-phones-possible-accomplices-in-theft.html

#10yrsago Woo with a body-count: measles epidemic follows #AntiVax scare https://science.slashdot.org/story/13/07/22/0319243/fifteen-years-after-autism-panic-a-plague-of-measles-erupts

#10yrsago Legally binding “buzz-off” letters for #DebtCollectors https://www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/blog/debtcollection/

#10yrsago Footage of #HauntedMansion’s #HatboxGhost finally surfaces after 44 years https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnERBLhd5ac

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3D printing will explode in 2014, thanks to the expiration of key patents

Here’s what’s holding back 3D printing, the technology that’s supposed to revolutionize manufacturing and countless other industries: patents.

^{Christopher Mims (Quartz)}

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#5yrsago Florida youth voter registration up 41% since #Parkland shooting https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article215169905.html

#5yrsago Google #DRM for Email can be disabled by ticking a few boxes in Firefox https://sysadmin.simmons.ai/2018/06/24/archiving-self-destructing-gmail-with-firefox/

#5yrsago Greedy landlords create a mass-extinction event in #Burbank’s indie paradise https://www.laweekly.com/saving-magnolia-park-why-l-a-s-coolest-shopping-area-is-in-danger/

#5yrsago Disgraced #CharterSchool exec pleads guilty to criminal money laundering, resigns from LA school board https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-edu-ref-rodriguez-resigns-20180722-story.html#

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L.A. school board's Ref Rodriguez pleads guilty to conspiracy and resigns

Los Angeles school board member Ref Rodriguez resigns and pleads guilty to a felony for political money laundering. He avoids jail time.

^{Howard Blume (Los Angeles Times)}

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#5yrsago As Chinese #P2PLending #bubble bursts, “investors” mob Chinese sports-stadiums used as temporary processing centers https://www.ft.com/content/75e75628-8b27-11e8-bf9e-8771d5404543

#5yrsago Important victory in Public Resource’s tireless fight to make the law free for everyone https://www.techdirt.com/2018/07/20/appeals-court-tells-lower-court-to-consider-if-standards-incorporated-into-law-are-fair-use-could-have-done-more/

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Collapse of Chinese peer-to-peer lenders sparks investor flight

News, analysis and comment from the Financial Times, the worldʼs leading global business publication

^{Gabriel Wildau (Financial Times)}

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Thursday's threads: Private equity ghouls have a new way to steal from their investors; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/110746467185260204

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Cory Doctorow

2023-07-20 12:43:02

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Private equity ghouls have a new way to steal from their investors; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/20/continuation-fraud/

#Pluralistic

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

Signed copies at Dark Delicacies (US):

https://www.darkdel.com/store/p2873/Wed%2C_Apr_26th_6pm%3A_Red_Team_Blues%3A_A_Martin_Hench_Novel_HB.html#/

and Forbidden Planet (UK):

https://forbiddenplanet.com/385004-red-team-blues-signed-edition-hardcover/

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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

Signed copies available from Book Soup:

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

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Wed, Apr 26th 6pm: Red Team Blues: A Martin Hench Novel HB

Signing with Cory Doctorow

^{Dark Delicacies}

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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."

https://craphound.com/shop/

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Upcoming appearances:

* Decentralization of the Internet Research Group (#IETF-117)
https://dirk-kutscher.info/events/dinrg-ietf-117/

* Midsummer Scream (Long Beach), Jul 30
https://midsummerscream.org/

* #Armadillocon (#Austin), Aug 4-6
https://armadillocon.org/d45/

* @defcon (#LasVegas), Aug 10-13
https://defcon.org/

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

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IRTF Decentralization of the Internet Research Group at IETF-117

Recent years have witnessed the consolidations of the Internet applications, services, as well as the infrastructure. The Decentralization of the Internet Research Group (DINRG) aims to provide for…

^{Dirk Kutscher}

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Recent appearances:

* Cannibal Corp (New Models podcast)
https://soundcloud.com/newmodels/private-cannibal-corp-w-cory-doctorow-nm66

* UCL Peter Kirstein Lecture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yn47ptAtVH0

* The Homeless Romantic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXn9wy5bHq0

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Unlocked | Cannibal Corp w/ Cory Doctorow (NM66)

First released: 13 June 2023 | To join New Models, find us via patreon.com/newmodels & newmodels.substack.com Cory Doctorow is a science fiction novelist, journalist, and technology activist who’s be

^SoundCloud

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You can also follow these posts as a daily blog at pluralistic.net: no ads, trackers, or data-collection!

Here's today's edition: https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/23/but-i-know-what-i-like/

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If you're a @medium subscriber, you can read these essays - as well as previews of upcoming magazine columns and early exclusives on doctorow.medium.com.

My latest Medium column is "Let the Platforms Burn: The Opposite of Good Fires is Wildfires"

https://doctorow.medium.com/let-the-platforms-burn-6fb3e6c0d980

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Let the Platforms Burn - Cory Doctorow - Medium

California needs to burn. For millennia, First Nations people oversaw controlled burns in the forests they lived, played and worked in. These burns cleared out underbrush, saw off sick trees, and…

^{Cory Doctorow (Medium)}

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