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Hey look at this

* UAW Endorses Nebraska Underdog Threatening to Unseat a Republican Senator https://theintercept.com/2024/06/11/nebraska-senate-deb-fischer-dan-osborn-uaw/

* Biden Administration Advances Plan To Remove Medical Debt From Credit Scores https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/biden-administration-plan-remove-medical-debt-credit-scores/

* HOPE NEEDS YOUR HELP! https://www.2600.com/content/hope-needs-your-help

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UAW Endorses Nebraska Underdog Threatening to Unseat a Republican Senator

Dan Osborn, running as an independent, has racked up endorsements in a race that could help determine Senate control in 2024.

^{Prem Thakker (The Intercept)}

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#20yrsago Canadian copyfight hots up: Liberal MPs on the take from copyright industries? https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2004/06/copyright-reform-needs-a-balanced-approach/

#15yrsago Digital TV’s history in America: the DTV transition nearly cost the USA its technological freedom https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/06/dtv-era-no-broadcast

#15yrsago Hundreds of top British cops defrauded the public for millions in phony expense racket https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2009/jun/14/expenses-fraud-detectives-scotland-yard

#15yrsago $134.5 BILLION worth of US bonds seized from smugglers at Swiss border https://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=15456&size=A

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Card fraud probe targets 300 detectives

Elite Scotland Yard officers suspected of defrauding taxpayers of millions of pounds

^{Rajeev Syal (The Guardian)}

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#10yrsago Atheism remains least-trusted characteristic in American politics https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2014/05/19/for-2016-hopefuls-washington-experience-could-do-more-harm-than-good/

#10yrsago Canadian Supreme Court’s landmark privacy ruling https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2014/06/scc-spencer-decision/

#10yrsago Court finds full-book scanning is fair use https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/06/another-fair-use-victory-book-scanning-hathitrust

#10yrsago Not selling out: Teens live in commercial online spaces because that’s their only option https://medium.com/message/selling-out-is-meaningless-3450a5bc98d2

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‘Selling Out’ Is Meaningless  - The Message - Medium

In the recent Frontline documentary “Generation Like,” Doug Rushkoff lamented that today’s youth don’t even know what the term “sell-out” means. While this surprised Rushkoff and other fuddy duddies…

^{danah boyd (The Message)}

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#5yrsago Porno copyright troll sentenced to 14 years: “a wrecking ball to trust in the administration of justice” https://torrentfreak.com/copyright-troll-lawyer-sentenced-to-14-years-in-prison-190614/

#5yrsago Ukrainian oligarchs accused of laundering $470b, buying up much of Cleveland https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/how-kolomoisky-does-business-in-the-united-states/

#5yrsago Empirical review of privacy policies reveals that they are “incomprehensible” drivel https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/06/12/opinion/facebook-google-privacy-policies.html

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Opinion | We Read 150 Privacy Policies. They Were an Incomprehensible Disaster.

The average policy took 18 minutes to finish and required a college-level reading ability.

^{Kevin Litman-Navarro (The New York Times)}

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#5yrsago Beyond lockpicking: learn about the class-breaks for doors, locks, hinges and other physical security measures https://memex.craphound.com/2019/06/14/beyond-lockpicking-learn-about-the-class-breaks-for-doors-locks-hinges-and-other-physical-security-measures/

#5yrsago Hong Kong’s #612strike uprising is alive to surveillance threats, but its countermeasures are woefully inadequate https://www.securityweek.com/surveillance-savvy-hong-kong-protesters-go-digitally-dark/

#5yrago Reverse mortgages: subprime’s “stealth aftershock” that is costing elderly African-Americans their family homes https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/investigations/2019/06/11/seniors-face-foreclosure-retirement-after-failed-reverse-mortgage/1329043001/

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Seniors were sold a risk-free retirement with reverse mortgages. Now they face foreclosure.

Urban African American neighborhoods are hardest hit as nearly 100,000 loans have failed.

^{By Nick Penzenstadler and Jeff Kelly Lowenstein (USA TODAY)}

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#5yrsago Maine’s new ISP privacy law has both California and New York beat https://thehill.com/policy/technology/447824-maine-shakes-up-debate-with-tough-internet-privacy-law/

#1yrago How Amazon transformed the EU into a planned economy https://pluralistic.net/2023/06/14/flywheel-shyster-and-flywheel/#unfulfilled-by-amazon

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Yesterday's threads: The health industry's invisible hand is a fist; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112611302576229088

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Cory Doctorow

2024-06-13 20:55:12

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: The health industry's invisible hand is a fist; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/06/13/a-punch-in-the-guts/

#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 …

^{www.booksoup.com}

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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:

* 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/

* 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

Hosts J. Keith van Straaten and Helen Hong will welcome special celebrity guests and plus super-secret experts to try to stump them in their self-proclaimed areas of expertise.

^LAist

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Recent appearances:

* 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/

* Capitalist Realism vs. Science Fiction
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zz-iHWzqGK0

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102. Cory Doctorow Coined "Enshittification." He Sees 4 Ways to End It. - Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure at UMass Amherst

To kick off our Good Web series, Cory Doctorow joined us for a deep dive into his enshittification theory, and how regulation, labor power, competition, and user self-help will make it a thing of the past.

^{Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure}

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On Thursday (June 20), I'll be live onstage in Los Angeles for a recording of the Go Fact Yourself podcast:
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

Hosts J. Keith van Straaten and Helen Hong will welcome special celebrity guests and plus super-secret experts to try to stump them in their self-proclaimed areas of expertise.

^LAist