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Hey look at this

* Reject Definitions of Antisemitism that Encompass Protected Speech https://www.aclu.org/documents/reject-definitions-of-anti-semitism-that-encompass-protected-speech (h/t Naked Capitalism)

* Message to Congress on Curbing Monopolies https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/message-congress-curbing-monopolies (h/t Naked Capitalism)

* The Age of Cloud Capital https://www.persuasion.community/p/the-age-of-cloud-capital

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The Age of Cloud Capital

Capitalism is finished. What's replaced it is even worse.

^Persuasion

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#20yrsago Senator Franken? https://www.salon.com/1996/02/10/franken/

#20yrsago Musicians don’t understand copyright, but they don’t like the RIAA suing their fans https://web.archive.org/web/20040502072815/http://www.pewinternet.org/reports/pdfs/PIP_Musicians_Prelim_Findings.pdf

#15yrsago Warner Music to Warner Music: You are pirates! https://memex.craphound.com/2009/05/03/warner-music-to-warner-music-you-are-pirates/

#15yrsago Britain’s secret spy-on-every-call-and-email plan already well underway https://web.archive.org/web/20100106082536/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6211101.ece

#10yrsago The business/markets case for limits to copyright https://www.rstreet.org/commentary/r-street-paper-calls-for-shortened-copyright-terms-and-examination-of-international-treaties/

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R Street paper calls for shortened copyright terms and examination of international treaties - R Street Institute

WASHINGTON (April 30, 2014) — U.S. copyright term lengths must be shortened and lawmakers should heed warnings handed down by the founders about the dangers of copyright as they consider international agreements like the Trans-Pacific Partnership tre…

^{R Street Institute}

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#5yrsago AOC endorses Elizabeth Warren’s Big Tech breakup plan https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/3/18528234/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-big-tech-break-up-plan-elizabeth-warren-endorsement

#5yrsago Strange codes from the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2019/04/27/rare-and-strange-icd-10-codes/

#5yrsago In 2008 “synthetic CDOs” destroyed the global economy, and now they’re back https://www.ft.com/content/9c33cea0-6ceb-11e9-80c7-60ee53e6681d

#5yrsago Fentanyl execs found guilty of racketeering, face 20 year prison sentences https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/02/health/insys-trial-verdict-bn/index.html

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez endorses Elizabeth Warren’s Big Tech breakup plan

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was endorsing a policy previously laid out by Sen. Elizabeth Warren, arguing that because Amazon operates as both a marketplace and the seller of its own products, it has become “an antitrust issue.

^{Makena Kelly (The Verge)}

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#5yrsago “Smart” doorlocks have policies that let landlords and third parties spy on you https://onezero.medium.com/americas-favorite-door-locking-app-has-a-data-privacy-problem-f19169a8ab2e

#5yrsago Chinese urbanization has left 25 million vacant homes in rural villages https://web.archive.org/web/20190502215749/https://www.sixthtone.com/ht_news/1003928/25-million-homes-vacant-in-rural-china-due-to-migrant-workforce

#1yrago The Swivel-Eyed Loons Have A Point https://pluralistic.net/2023/05/03/paranoid-style/#eat-bugs

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America’s Favorite Door-Locking App Has a Data Privacy Problem

Latch is on a mission to digitize the front door, offering apartment entry systems that forgo traditional keys in favor of being able to unlock entries with a smartphone. The company touts…

^{Sage Lazzaro (OneZero)}

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Yesterday's threads: CDA 230 bans Facebook from blocking interoperable tools; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112371982554430361

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Cory Doctorow

2024-05-02 14:32:58

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: CDA 230 bans Facebook from blocking interoperable tools; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/02/kaiju-v-kaiju/

#Pluralistic

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My last novel was "The Lost Cause," a solarpunk novel of radical hope in the climate emergency, from Tor Books (US)/Head of Zeus (UK):

http://lost-cause.org

Signed, personalized copies available from Dark Delicacies:

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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 Lost Cause HB

Signed by Cory Doctorow.

^{Dark Delicacies}

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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:

* Wordfest (Calgary), May 3
https://wordfest.com/2024/event/wordfest-presents-cory-doctorow-2/

* Massy Arts (Vancouver), May 4
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/solo-reading-cory-doctorow-the-bezzle-tickets-876989167207

* Tartu Prima Vista Literary Fest, May 5-11
https://tartu2024.ee/en/kirjandusfestival/

* “Enshittification” and AI, with @timoreilly (virtual), May 14
https://www.oreilly.com/live-events/tim-oreilly-and-cory-doctorow-on-enshittification-and-the

* "Finding the Money" screening (LA), May 15
https://www.laemmle.com/film/finding-money?date=2024-05-15

* Authorship in an Age of Monopoly and Moral Panics (SF), May 17
https://www.authorsalliance.org/2024/03/15/authors-alliance-10th-anniversary-event-authorship-in-an-age-of-monopoly-and-moral-panics/

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Wordfest Presents Cory Doctorow - Wordfest

Wordfest welcomes back to Calgary prolific post-cyberpunk writer and activist Cory Doctorow and his new thriller, The Bezzle.

^Wordfest

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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* Media Ecology Association keynote (Amherst, NY), Jun 6-9
https://media-ecology.org/convention

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

* American Association of Law Libraries keynote (Chicago), Jul 21
https://www.aallnet.org/conference/agenda/keynote-speaker/

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Keynote Speaker - AALL Annual Meeting & Conference

2024 AALL Annual Meeting & Conference Keynote Speaker CORY DOCTOROW “ENDING THE ENSHITTOCENE: WHY EVERYTHING IS TERRIBLE BUT WE CAN … "Keynote Speaker"

^{AALL Annual Meeting & Conference}

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Recent appearances:

* Come sfuggire al “Merdocene” e costruire un Internet migliore (Torino Biennale Tecnologia)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5NC2EZCYBg

* Show Me The Money Club (The Rideshare Guy)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCETi3XqSds

* NUOVO BARETTO UTOPIA
https://videoteca.kenobit.it/w/azRmQBCenVwjSRz9WCp8JS

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Come sfuggire al “Merdocene” e costruire un Internet migliore | Cory Doctorow

21 aprile 2024LEZIONE digitale, diritti, distopia, potere, utopiaIl rapido, precipitoso declino dei servizi digitali dai quali dipendiamo non è un fatto casu...

^YouTube

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I'm touring my new, nationally bestselling novel *The Bezzle*! Catch me TONIGHT (May 3) in CALGARY and TOMORROW (May 4) in VANCOUVER. Next is Tartu, Estonia, and beyond!

https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/16/narrative-capitalism/#bezzle-tour

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