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Hey look at this

* The Mystery of #WaltDisneyWorld’s Bermuda Triangle https://www.micechat.com/319186-the-mystery-of-walt-disney-worlds-bermuda-triangle/

* #Disney’s #HauntedMansion and the Invention of Halloween as You Know It https://www.micechat.com/308943-disneys-haunted-mansion-and-the-invention-of-halloween-as-you-know-it/

* Apollo Remastered https://www.apolloremastered.com/ (h/t Kottke)

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Disney's Haunted Mansion and the Invention of Halloween as You Know It

At the start of each year, Disneyland's Haunted Mansion shuts down for a short while to remove its Nightmare Before Christmas inspired overlay and revert

^{Foxx Nolte (MiceChat.com)}

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#15yrsago #MMORPG Tycoon: a video game about running a video game company https://web.archive.org/web/20080619175716/http://playthisthing.com/mmorpg-tycoon

#15yrsago South China Mall: the largest #GhostMall in the world https://web.archive.org/web/20080618001435/http://www.thenational.ae/article/20080612/REVIEW/206990272/1042

#15yrsago Hollywood wants to infect all next-gen video with #DRM https://www.latimes.com/archives/blogs/bit-player/story/2008-06-12/more-on-movies-going-to-cable-before-dvd

#10yrsago Why you should care about surveillance https://www.theguardian.com/technology/blog/2013/jun/14/nsa-prism

#10yrsago #Durian McFlurry at McDonald’s Singapore https://donaldandcathy.typepad.com/ma_vie_trouvee/2013/06/our-newest-mcflurry-form-mcdonalds.html

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The NSA's Prism: why we should care

Cory Doctorow: Politicians tell us the innocent need fear nothing from involuntary disclosure, but their actions threaten privacy and more

^{Cory Doctorow (The Guardian)}

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#10yrsago Xbox One will divide EU into different markets https://web.archive.org/web/20130621012434/http://copyfight.corante.com/archives/2013/06/14/msft_to_regionlock_xbox_one_on_launch.php

#5yrsago #CambridgeAnalytica’s key staffers formed a new company that’s working on Trump 2020 https://apnews.com/article/north-america-technology-ap-top-news-elections-donald-trump-96928216bdc341ada659447973a688e4

#5yrsago #StephenColbert explains Jesus’ position on ripping children from their parents to #JeffSessions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4KaLkYxMZ8

#5yrsago Eye tracking and fMRI confirm that we don’t even perceive #SecurityWarnings before clicking past them https://web.archive.org/web/20180606114714/https://neurosecurity.byu.edu/media/Vance_et_al._2017_MISQ.pdf

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AP: Trump 2020 working with ex-Cambridge Analytica staffers

WASHINGTON (AP) — A company run by former officials at Cambridge Analytica, the political consulting firm brought down by a scandal over how it obtained Facebook users' private data, has quietly been working for President Donald Trump's 2020 re-elect…

^{Jeff Horwitz (Associated Press)}

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#5yrsago GDP vs human thriving: a “healthy” economy means debt-haunted people, desperately searching for housing https://www.vice.com/en/article/qvnmj5/people-cant-pay-rent-debt-is-insane-and-the-economy-is-somehow-great

#5yrsago Danish anti-piracy lawyers stole millions from their clients, sentenced to years in prison https://torrentfreak.com/anti-piracy-lawyers-sentenced-to-years-in-prison-for-defrauding-copyright-holders-180612/

#5yrsago The UN’s top free speech expert just denounced the new EU copyright plan as a “potential violation of international human rights law” https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4516209-OL-OTH-41-2018.html

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Anti-Piracy Lawyers Sentenced to Years in Prison For Defrauding Copyright Holders

Three lawyers who specialized in anti-piracy litigation on behalf of the movie and TV industries have been convicted of defrauding them out of millions.

^{Andy Maxwell (TF Publishing)}

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#1yrago Boy, gig companies sure hire disastrously sloppy lawyers: $100m flushed down the drain in Massachusetts https://pluralistic.net/2022/06/15/simple-as-abc/#a-big-ask

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Yesterday's threads: How Amazon transformed the EU into a planned economy; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/110544397644035942

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Cory Doctorow

2023-06-14 20:14:05

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: How Amazon transformed the EU into a planned economy; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2023/06/14/flywheel-shyster-and-flywheel/

#Pluralistic

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My latest book is Red Team Blues, available wherever books are sold!

Signed copies at Dark Delicacies (US):

https://www.darkdel.com/store/p2873/Wed%2C_Apr_26th_6pm%3A_Red_Team_Blues%3A_A_Martin_Hench_Novel_HB.html#/

and Forbidden Planet (UK):

https://forbiddenplanet.com/385004-red-team-blues-signed-edition-hardcover/

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My latest nonfiction book is Chokepoint Capitalism (with Rebecca Giblin), nonfiction about monopoly and fairness in creative labor markets.

https://chokepointcapitalism.com

Signed copies available from Book Soup:

https://www.booksoup.com/book/9780807007068

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Wed, Apr 26th 6pm: Red Team Blues: A Martin Hench Novel HB

Signing with Cory Doctorow

^{Dark Delicacies}

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My ebooks and audiobooks (from Tor Books, Head of Zeus, McSweeneys, Beacon 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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Recent appearances:

* Red Team Blues: in Conversation with Sean Cranbury (Massy Arts/Vancouver)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXp3hSe5J7o

* How To Save News Media From Our Tech Overlords (Canadaland)
https://www.canadaland.com/podcast/888-how-to-save-news-media-from-our-tech-overlords/

* Most AI is not artificial or intelligent (with @jamesbridle)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPvHjvZz7l0

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Red Team Blues: Cory Doctorow in Conversation with Sean Cranbury

On Wednesday, May 10th at 6pm, join Massy Arts Society, Massy Books, and Tor Publishing Group at Heritage Hall for the launch of Red Team Blues, a gripping n...

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You can also follow these posts as a daily blog at pluralistic.net: no ads, trackers, or data-collection!

Here's today's edition: https://pluralistic.net/2023/06/15/paid-medical-disinformation/

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If you're a @medium subscriber, you can read these essays - as well as previews of upcoming magazine columns and early exclusives on doctorow.medium.com.

My latest Medium column is "The Shitty Tech Adoption Curve Has a Business Model"

https://doctorow.medium.com/the-shitty-tech-adoption-curve-has-a-business-model-ee025ad60951

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The Shitty Tech Adoption Curve Has a Business Model

The Shitty Tech Adoption Curve Has a Business Model. It is difficult to get a public procurement officer to understand something, when a vendor’s salary depends on his not understanding it..

^{Cory Doctorow (Medium)}

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