Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: How to design a tech regulation; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/06/20/scalesplaining/
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Inside: How to design a tech regulation; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/06/20/scalesplaining/
#Pluralistic
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Cory Doctorow
•https://laist.com/events/go-fact-yourself-live-with-aida-rodriguez
On Friday (June 21), I'm doing an online reading for the @Locusmag Awards at 16hPT.
On Saturday (June 22), I'll be in Oakland, CA for a panel and a keynote at the Locus Awards:
https://locusmag.com/2024-locus-awards-weekend/
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Go Fact Yourself LIVE with Cory Doctorow and Aida Rodriguez
LAistCory Doctorow
•Ostrzeżenie o treści: Long thread/3
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112651374338215256
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Cory Doctorow
2024-06-20 22:45:58
Cory Doctorow
•Ostrzeżenie o treści: Long thread/4
* How to Clean Up Your Bluesky Feed https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/06/how-clean-your-bluesky-feed
* Street of Satisfaction https://soundcloud.com/dj-moule/street-of-satisfaction
* I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-fucking-piledrive-you-if-you-mention-ai-again/ (h/t Tom Loosemore)
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How to Clean Up Your Bluesky Feed
Electronic Frontier FoundationCory Doctorow
•Ostrzeżenie o treści: Long thread/5
#10yrsago Supreme Court invalidates software patent because it’s a software patent https://wiki.endsoftwarepatents.org/wiki/Alice_v._CLS_Bank_ruling_by_US_Supreme_Court_on_19_June_2014
#10yrsago FabLab: a free game that creates 3D printable toys https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-w61oqAx4gI
#10yrsago California’s cell-phone kill switch is a solution that’s worse than the problem https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/06/eff-opposes-californias-cell-phone-kill-switch-bill
#10yrsago Former FCC commissioner to Washington: “You should be ashamed of yourself” https://consumerist.com/2014/06/18/former-fcc-commissioner-we-should-be-ashamed-of-ourselves-for-state-of-broadband-in-the-u-s/
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EFF Opposes California's Cell Phone "Kill Switch" Bill
Electronic Frontier FoundationCory Doctorow
•Ostrzeżenie o treści: Long thread/6
#10yrsago Best-paid CEOs perform the worst https://www.forbes.com/sites/susanadams/2014/06/16/the-highest-paid-ceos-are-the-worst-performers-new-study-says/
#10yrsago How Hachette made the rope that Amazon is hanging it with https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jun/20/how-amazon-holding-hachette-hostage
#10yrsago Public opinion of Congress reaches a new low https://news.gallup.com/poll/163052/americans-confidence-congress-falls-lowest-record.aspx
#10yrsago Congress passes anti-mass surveillance amendment with overwhelming support https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/06/eff-statement-massie-lofgren-amendment-passing-house
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Americans' Confidence in Congress Falls to Lowest on Record
by Elizabeth Mendes and Joy Wilke (Gallup)Cory Doctorow
•Ostrzeżenie o treści: Long thread/7
#10yrsago NSA helps foreign governments conduct mass surveillance at home https://web.archive.org/web/20140619092447/https://firstlook.org/theintercept/article/2014/06/18/nsa-surveillance-secret-cable-partners-revealed-rampart-a/
#5yrsago Ta-Nehisi Coates makes the case for reparations to Congress https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcCnQ3iRkys
#5yrsago Wonderful profile of Anita Sarkeesian, the feminist games critic who made an army of shitty manbabies very, very upset https://www.polygon.com/features/2019/6/19/18679678/anita-sarkeesian-feminist-frequency-interview-history-story
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The Anita Sarkeesian story
Colin Campbell (Polygon)Cory Doctorow
•Ostrzeżenie o treści: Long thread/8
#5yrsago UK government quietly cancels “age verification” system that would have compiled a database of every Briton’s sexual fantasies https://memex.craphound.com/2019/06/20/uk-government-quietly-cancels-age-verification-system-that-would-have-compiled-a-database-of-every-britons-sexual-fantasies/
#5yrsago Paper-towel dispenser with a EULA prohibiting rival brands of paper https://memex.craphound.com/2019/06/19/paper-towel-dispenser-with-a-eula-prohibiting-rival-brands-of-paper/
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Ghost networks of psychiatrists hinder patients' access to care | STAT
Jack Turban (STAT)Cory Doctorow
•Ostrzeżenie o treści: Long thread/9
#5yrsago To help the news business, subject Big Tech to antitrust — but don’t forget Big News’s antitrust problem https://memex.craphound.com/2019/06/19/to-help-the-news-business-subject-big-tech-to-antitrust-but-dont-forget-big-newss-antitrust-problem/
#5yrsago Ajit Pai promised that killing Net Neutrality would spur investment and improve service: a year later, service and investment have declined https://www.techdirt.com/2019/06/18/none-claimed-benefits-killing-net-neutrality-ever-arrived/
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None Of The Claimed Benefits Of Killing Net Neutrality Ever Arrived
TechdirtCory Doctorow
•Ostrzeżenie o treści: Long thread/10
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112638712210458307
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Cory Doctorow
2024-06-18 17:05:49
Cory Doctorow
•Ostrzeżenie o treści: Long thread/11
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
www.booksoup.comCory Doctorow
•Ostrzeżenie o treści: Long thread/12
https://craphound.com/shop/
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Cory Doctorow
•Ostrzeżenie o treści: Long thread/13
* Go Fact Yourself, Los Angeles, Jun 20
https://laist.com/events/go-fact-yourself-live-with-aida-rodriguez
* @Locusmag reading (virtual), Jun 21
https://locusmag.com/2024-locus-awards-weekend/
* @Locusmag Awards keynote (Oakland), Jun 22
https://locusmag.com/2024-locus-awards-weekend/
* HOPE XV, Jul 14 (Queens, NY)
https://www.hope.net/talks.html
https://locusmag.com/2024-locus-awards-weekend/
* Exile in Bookville, (Chicago), July 20
https://exileinbookville.com/events/39808
* American Association of Law Libraries keynote (Chicago), Jul 21
https://www.aallnet.org/conference/agenda/keynote-speaker/
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Go Fact Yourself LIVE with Cory Doctorow and Aida Rodriguez
LAistCory Doctorow
•Ostrzeżenie o treści: Long thread/14
* Living Your Principles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTfqxF5KyCc
* Reimagining the Internet
https://publicinfrastructure.org/podcast/102-cory-doctorow-enshittification/
* Circulating ideas
https://circulatingideas.com/2024/06/11/261-the-bezzle-by-cory-doctorow-summer-reading-spectacular/
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Living Your Principles with Cory Doctorow (JT talks Politics and Technology)
YouTubeCory Doctorow
•Ostrzeżenie o treści: Long thread/15
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Cory Doctorow
•Ostrzeżenie o treści: Long thread/eof
https://laist.com/events/go-fact-yourself-live-with-aida-rodriguez
TOMORROW (6/21), I'm doing an online reading for the @Locusmag Awards at 16hPT.
Saturday (June 22), I'll be in Oakland for a panel and a keynote at the Locus Awards:
https://locusmag.com/2024-locus-awards-weekend/
--
Support me this summer on the Clarion Write-A-Thon and help raise money for the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers' Workshop!
https://clarionwriteathon.com/members/profile.php?writerid=293388
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Go Fact Yourself LIVE with Cory Doctorow and Aida Rodriguez
LAist