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Cleantech has an enshittification problem: Who's gonna make a 25-year purchase from a startup with six months' worth of runway?

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112684114542052671

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Cory Doctorow

2024-06-26 17:32:14

EVs won't save the planet. Ultimately, the material bill for billions of individual vehicles and the unavoidable geometry of more cars-more traffic-more roads-greater distances-more cars dictate that the future of our cities and planet requires public transit - *lots* of it.

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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/2024/06/26/unplanned-obsolescence/#better-micetraps

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Hey look at this

* Public domain comics https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=1507 (h/t Thomas Johnson)

* Downstreaming https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4657630

* The NLRB Is Testing Out a New Tool to Stop Union Busting https://jacobin.com/2024/06/nlrb-cemex-union-busting-vegas/

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The NLRB Is Testing Out a New Tool to Stop Union Busting

This week, the NLRB handed down its first Cemex order against Station Casinos in Las Vegas, which engaged in heavy-handed union busting before workers lost a vote to unionize. The ruling may force the casino chain to bargain with the union anyway.

^jacobin.com

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#20yrsago FastCompany’s terrible linking policy https://memex.craphound.com/2004/06/25/fastcompanys-terrible-linking-policy/

#15yrsago Magic Mirror of the Mermaid Queen, sequel to CHANGELING, a modern folktale of New York https://memex.craphound.com/2009/06/25/magic-mirror-of-the-mermaid-queen-sequel-to-changeling-a-modern-folktale-of-new-york/

#15yrsago Illegal e-waste dumped in Ghana includes unencrypted hard drives full of US security secrets https://web.archive.org/web/20090628071458/https://www.itworld.com/security/69758/reporters-find-northrop-grumman-data-ghana-market

#10yrsago Once there was a show called “The Hat Squad” and it was very, very stupid https://memex.craphound.com/2014/06/25/once-there-was-a-show-called-the-hat-squad-and-it-was-very-very-stupid/

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Reporters find Northrop Grumman data in Ghana market | ITworld

A team of journalists investigating the global electronic waste business has unearthed a security problem too. In a Ghana market, they bought a computer hard drive containing sensitive documents belonging to U.S.

^{web.archive.org}

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#10yrsago UK secretary of state: “There is no surveillance state” https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-28006739

#10yrsago Cops bust cybercrook who sent heroin to Brian Krebs https://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/06/the-fly-has-been-swatted/

#10yrsago SF city attorney demands shutdown of parking-space-auctioning app https://web.archive.org/web/20140625033523/http://blog.sfgate.com/cityinsider/2014/06/23/sf-cracks-down-on-street-parking-cash-apps/

#5yrsago An 14-year-old’s Internet-of-Things worm is bricking shitty devices by the thousands https://www.zdnet.com/article/new-silex-malware-is-bricking-iot-devices-has-scary-plans/

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New Silex malware is bricking IoT devices, has scary plans

Over 2,000 devices have been bricked in the span of a few hours. Attacks still ongoing.

^{Catalin Cimpanu (ZDNET)}

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#5yrsago How Metabrainz stood up to a predatory copyright lawsuit and won https://blog.metabrainz.org/2019/06/25/we-were-sued-by-a-copyright-troll-and-we-prevailed/

#5yrsago “Massive scale” intrusion into mobile carriers’ networks exposed customers’ location, call data for years https://www.cybereason.com/blog/research/operation-soft-cell-a-worldwide-campaign-against-telecommunications-providers

#5yrsago Independent evaluation of “aggression detection” microphones used in schools and hospitals finds them to be worse than useless https://features.propublica.org/aggression-detector/the-unproven-invasive-surveillance-technology-schools-are-using-to-monitor-students/

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We were sued by a copyright troll and we prevailed!

On August 9th, 2018 we were served with a United States federal copyright infringement lawsuit over a handful of images displayed on our musicbrainz.org artist pages. These images were made availab…

^{MetaBrainz Blog}

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#5yrsago Microsoft employees want to starve its PAC, which keeps giving money to homophobic, racist, climate-denying Republicans https://onezero.medium.com/a-group-of-microsoft-employees-is-fighting-the-companys-political-action-committee-7dae732290e3

#5yrsago Cult of the Dead Cow: the untold story of the hacktivist group that presaged everything great and terrible about the internet https://memex.craphound.com/2019/06/25/cult-of-the-dead-cow-the-untold-story-of-the-hacktivist-group-that-presaged-everything-great-and-terrible-about-the-internet/

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Exclusive: A Group of Microsoft Employees Is Fighting the Company’s Political Action Committee

A group of Microsoft employees is rebelling against the company’s political action committee, arguing it supports politicians who don’t represent Microsoft’s professed values.

^{Dave Gershgorn (OneZero)}

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Yesterday's threads: Mirion Malle's "So Long Sad Love"; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112677929396930339

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Cory Doctorow

2024-06-25 15:19:16

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Mirion Malle's "So Long Sad Love"; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/06/25/missing-stair/

#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:

* HOPE XV, Jul 14 (Queens, NY)
https://www.hope.net/talks.html

* 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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Authors on Tap: Cory Doctorow

Indie bookstore located in the historic Fine Arts Building on Chicago's Michigan Avenue. Where books and music meet.

^{exileinbookville.com}

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Recent appearances:

* 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)

Cory Doctorow is an author and activist. His most recent novel is THE BEZZLE, a thriller about the private prison industry.Starring JT ParrCreated by JT Parr...

^YouTube

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Today's top sources: Katharine Trendacosta.

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On July 14, I'm giving the closing keynote for the fifteenth Hackers On Planet Earth, in Queens, NY:

https://www.hope.net/talks.html

On July 20, I'm appearing at Chicago's Exile in Bookville:

https://exileinbookville.com/events/39808

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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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Authors on Tap: Cory Doctorow

Indie bookstore located in the historic Fine Arts Building on Chicago's Michigan Avenue. Where books and music meet.

^{exileinbookville.com}