Welcome to my 20th Linkdump, in which I declare link bankruptcy and discharge my link-debts by telling you about all the open tabs I didn't get a chance to cover in this week's newsletters. Here's the previous 19 installments:
https://pluralistic.net/tag/linkdump/
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https://pluralistic.net/tag/linkdump/
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SarenkaPS64 🇵🇸udostępnił to.
Cory Doctorow
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https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/beehivebooks/the-inferno
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Cory Doctorow
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferno_(Niven_and_Pournelle_novel)
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novel by Larry Niven
Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)Cory Doctorow
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https://spirituallythinking.blogspot.com/2011/10/about-crows-by-john-ciardi.html
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About Crows by John Ciardi
spirituallythinking.blogspot.comCory Doctorow
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Cory Doctorow
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Cory Doctorow
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https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/13/spooky-action-at-a-close-up/#invisible-hand
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Cory Doctorow
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https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/21/the-internets-original-sin/
We should address AI's labor questions with labor rights, and we should address AI's privacy questions with privacy rights.
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Cory Doctorow
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Cory Doctorow
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https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/20/steal-your-face/#hoan-ton-that
Clearview scraped billions of images of our faces and shoveled them into their model. This led to a class action suit in Illinois, which boasts America's best biometric privacy law, under which Clearview owes tens of billions of dollars in statutory damages.
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Cory Doctorow
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https://www.theregister.com/2024/06/14/clearview_ai_reaches_creative_settlement/
To call this perverse is to go a grave injustice to good, hardworking perverts.
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Clearview AI reaches 'creative' settlement with privacy suit plaintiffs: A conditional IOU
Brandon Vigliarolo (The Register)Cory Doctorow
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Worse still: by crafting a bespoke, one-off, forgiveness-oriented regulation specifically for Clearview, we ensure that it will continue, but that it will also never be disciplined by competitors.
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Cory Doctorow
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We're in an extraordinary moment for both labor and privacy rights. Two of Biden's most powerful agency heads, Lina Khan and Rohit Chopra have made unprecedented use of their powers to create new national privacy regulations:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/16/the-second-best-time-is-now/#the-point-of-a-system-is-what-it-does
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Cory Doctorow
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Privacy_Protection_Act
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Cory Doctorow
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https://pluralistic.net/2023/12/06/privacy-first/#but-not-just-privacy
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Cory Doctorow
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Cory Doctorow
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Cory Doctorow
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https://iapp.org/news/a/explaining-model-disgorgement
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International Association of Privacy Professionals
iapp.orgCory Doctorow
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Cory Doctorow
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This is the kind of hard-nosed, public-interest-oriented rulemaking we're seeing from Biden's best anti-corporate enforcers.
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Cory Doctorow
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It's been so long since anyone in the US government treated the corporate death penalty as a serious proposition that it can be hard to believe it's even happening, but *boy* is it happening.
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Cory Doctorow
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https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/24/naming-names/#prabhakar-raghavan
And that's one of the major suits against Google that Big G is losing. Another suit, jointly brought by the feds and dozens of state AGs, is just about to start, despite Google's failed attempt to get the suit dismissed:
https://www.reuters.com/technology/google-loses-bid-end-us-antitrust-case-over-digital-advertising-2024-06-14/
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Cory Doctorow
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Cory Doctorow
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https://the.ink/p/free-noam-chomsky-life-voting-biden-the-left
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FREE FOR ALL: Noam Chomsky on voting for Joe Biden and not stopping there — and his own legacy
Anand Giridharadas (The.Ink)Cory Doctorow
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Cory Doctorow
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This makes the voting decision more obvious and less fraught for Chomsky. There's "never been a greater difference" between the candidates, so leftists should go take 15 minutes, "push the lever, and go back to work."
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Cory Doctorow
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Cory Doctorow
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Chomsky tells us that the self-described "masters of the universe" understand that something has changed: "the peasants are coming with their pitchforks."
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Cory Doctorow
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https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckvvlv3lewxo
Chomsky tells us not to bother trying to figure out Biden's personality. Instead, we should focus on "how things get done."
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The billionaires rallying behind Trump after his conviction
Bernd Debusmann Jr (BBC News)Cory Doctorow
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Chomksy himself is in his 90s and his health is reportedly in terminal decline, so this is probably the only word we'll get from him on this issue:
https://www.reddit.com/r/chomsky/comments/1aj56hj/updates_on_noams_health_from_his_longtime_mit/
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Cory Doctorow
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Cory Doctorow
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https://teachingamericanhistory.org/document/acceptance-speech-at-the-democratic-national-convention-1936/
In that speech, Roosevelt brought a new term into our political parlance: "economic royalists." He described the American plutocracy as the spiritual descendants of the hereditary nobility that Americans had overthrown in 1776.
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Cory Doctorow
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Roosevelt said that these new royalists conquered the nation's economy and then set out to seize its politics, backing candidates that would create "a new despotism wrapped in the robes of legal sanction...an industrial dictatorship."
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Cory Doctorow
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https://prospect.org/politics/2024-06-14-speech-fdr-would-give/
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The Speech FDR Would Give
David Dayen (The American Prospect)Cory Doctorow
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The thing is, FDR's policies didn't originate with him. He came from the uppermost of the American upper crust, after all, and famously refused to define the "New Deal" even as he campaigned on it. The "New Deal" became whatever activists in the Democratic Party's left could force him to do, and while it was bold and transformative, it wasn't nearly enough.
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Cory Doctorow
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https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/045dcde7333243df9b7f4ed8147979cd
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The Fall and Potential Rise of a Black Business District
Ron Knox and Susan Holmberg (Esri)Cory Doctorow
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Cory Doctorow
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Cory Doctorow
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In my lifetime, there's never been a Democratic Party that represented my values. The first Democratic President of my life, Carter, kicked off Reaganomics by dismantling of America's antitrust enforcement, in the mistaken belief that acting like a Republican would get Democrats to vote for him again.
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Cory Doctorow
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In other words, I don't give a damn about Biden, but I am entirely consumed with what we can force his administration to do, and there are lots of areas where I like our chances.
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Cory Doctorow
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https://www.icij.org/inside-icij/2024/06/how-the-irs-went-soft-on-billionaires-and-corporate-tax-cheats/
Ending elite tax cheating will make them poorer, and that will make them weaker, because their power comes from money alone (they don't wield power because their want to make us all better off!).
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How the IRS went soft on billionaires and corporate tax cheats
Spencer Woodman (International Consortium of Investigative Journalists)Cory Doctorow
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https://prospect.org/economy/2024-06-12-war-in-the-aisles/
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War in the Aisles
Jarod Facundo (The American Prospect)Cory Doctorow
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> Something the size of a baby hippo, the color of a week-old boiled potato, that lives by itself, in the dark, in a double-wide on the outskirts of Topeka. It's covered with eyes and it sweats constantly. The sweat runs into those eyes and makes them sting.
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Cory Doctorow
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The normie, corporate wing of the Democratic Party sees us that way. They decry any action against concentrated corporate power as "anti-consumer" and insist that using the law to fight against corporate *power* is a waste of our time:
https://www.thesling.org/sorry-matt-yglesias-hipster-antitrust-does-not-mean-the-abandonment-of-consumers-but-it-does-mean-new-ways-to-protect-workers-2/
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Sorry Matt Yglesias, Hipster Antitrust Does Not Mean the Abandonment of Consumers. But It Does Mean New Ways to Protect Workers. - The Sling
Hal Singer (The Sling)Cory Doctorow
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Cory Doctorow
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https://laist.com/events/go-fact-yourself-live-with-aida-rodriguez
On June 21, I'm doing an online reading for the @Locusmag Awards at 16hPT.
On 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
LAistCory Doctorow
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Jim's Photo World (modified)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/jimsphotoworld/5360343644/
CC BY-SA 2.0
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/
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Sandy's Garbage Plate, bagel and a coffee....PRICELESS!
FlickrCoach Pāṇini ®
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If they believe the promises of the Face-Eating Leopard, they deserve everything that happens to them.
The rest of us don’t.
Andreas K
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The outcome will be either Biden or Trump.
The US election system literally does not offer an option to effectively not vote, or vote for a 3rd party candidate.
So you (BTW, are you an US citizen at all?) vote for Trump (by voting for him, or in many places where it matters you have the option of voting for him by not voting at all too), or for Biden.
It's so simple.