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Hey look at this

* I Debunked Evolutionary Psychology https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31e0RcImReY

* How “dark money” groups help private ISPs lobby against municipal broadband https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/05/how-dark-money-groups-help-private-isps-lobby-against-municipal-broadband/

* What Will You Do If the Election Is Stolen? https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/what-will-you-do-if-the-election

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What Will You Do If the Election Is Stolen?

It's negligent not to plan a general strike. Just in case.

^{Hamilton Nolan (How Things Work)}

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#20yrsago Matt Jones: refactor the UI https://web.archive.org/web/20040527124940/http://www.diepunyhumans.com/archives/000346.html

#15yrsago US corporations fighting to keep poor countries from getting patent-free access to green tech https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/cifamerica/2009/may/19/wto-climate-change-intellectual-property

#15yrsago How digging up expense reports led a journalist to clobber British govt https://www.seattlepi.com/seattlenews/article/former-uw-student-shakes-up-british-government-888589.php?source=rss

#10yrsago Surveillance state: the NSA doesn’t stand alone https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/05/how-nsa-transforming-law-enforcement

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Green technology should be shared

Mark Weisbrot: Big business is gearing up to fight the use of green technology by developing countries seeking to reduce carbon emissions

^{Mark Weisbrot (The Guardian)}

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#10yrsago Kleargear ruins customers’ credit over online criticism, refuses to honor US judgment https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/05/embattled-retailer-kleargear-fights-back-against-online-review-defeat/

#10yrsago Science fiction and the law: free speech, censorship, privacy and surveillance https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2439423

#10yrsago Brussels: Water cannons turned on anti-TTIP protesters fighting the Son of ACTA https://www.techdirt.com/2014/05/16/water-cannons-turned-peaceful-ttip-protestors-brussels-as-public-barred-negotiations/</a.

#10yrsago Schneier: NSA’s offense leaves Americans undefended https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/05/should-hackers-fix-cybersecurity-holes-or-exploit-them/371197/

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Should U.S. Hackers Fix Cybersecurity Holes or Exploit Them?

Maybe someday we'll patch vulnerabilities faster than the enemy can use them in an attack, but we're not there yet.

^{Bruce Schneier (The Atlantic)}

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#10yrsago 100 creeps busted in massive voyeurware sweep https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/05/more-than-100-arrested-in-global-crackdown-on-peeping-tom-malware/

#5yrsago Massive, careful study finds that social media use is generally neutral for kids’ happiness, and sometimes positive https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1902058116

#5yrsago The government of Baltimore has been taken hostage by ransomware and may remain shut down for weeks https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/05/baltimore-ransomware-nightmare-could-last-weeks-more-with-big-consequences/

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More than 100 arrested in global crackdown on peeping tom malware

As many as 700,000 victims were infected by "Blackshades" remote access trojan.

^{Ars Technica}

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#5yrsago The empirical impact of Lyft and Uber on cities: congestion (especially downtown, especially during “surges”), overworked drivers https://www.sfgate.com/technology/article/Uber-Lyft-San-Francisco-pros-cons-ride-hailing-13841277.php

#5yrsago Facebook’s Dutch Head of Policy lied to the Dutch parliament about election interference https://www.bitsoffreedom.nl/2019/05/21/facebook-lies-to-dutch-parliament-about-election-manipulation/

#5yrsago Rogess: chess with roguelike combat https://pippinbarr.com/rogess/

#1yrago Rich People’s Gain is Worth Less Than Poor People’s Pain https://pluralistic.net/2023/05/21/rich-peoples-gain-is-worth-less-than-poor-peoples-pain/

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Facebook lies to Dutch Parliament about election manipulation

Contrary to what Facebook led members of parliament to believe, there was nothing that stood in our way of targeting voters in foreign countries with political messages.

^{Bits of Freedom}

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Yesterday's threads: Linkrot; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112480135712771465

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Cory Doctorow

2024-05-21 16:57:44

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Linkrot; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/21/noway-back-machine/

#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:

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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:

* 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:

* Upstream podcast
https://podscripts.co/podcasts/upstream/the-big-tech-con-w-cory-doctorow

* Libraries in Response
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUQZPn9ffSs

* Suur Futuroloogiline Kongress
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hITj793htg&t=398s

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Upstream - The Big Tech Con w/ Cory Doctorow Transcript and Discussion

The Big Tech Con w/ Cory Doctorow - Upstream Transcript and Discussion

^podscripts

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