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#20yrsago SwissCom’s WiFi is crap; its executives are thin-skinned https://memex.craphound.com/2004/05/26/swisscoms-wifi-is-crap-its-executives-are-thin-skinned/

#20yrsago US troops kidnapping family members of Ba’athists and locking them in Abu Ghraib https://web.archive.org/web/20040604154034/http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/ny-woabus0526,0,2008882.story

#20yrsago Creative Commons ships 2.0 licenses https://creativecommons.org/2004/05/25/announcingandexplainingournew20licenses/

#20yrsago Japanese Broadcast Flag — welcome to the crappy future of TV https://web.archive.org/web/20040610170835/http://www.japantimes.com/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nb20040525a2.htm

#20yrsago Scorching critique of some arguments for copyright https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=494424

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Newsday.com - World News

U.S. troops wanted Jeanan Moayad's father. When they couldn't find him, they took her husband in his place.

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#15yrsago Canadian think-tank spends tax dollars to plagiarize and regurgitate talking points from US entertainment lobby group https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2009/05/conference-board-ip-reports/

#15yrsago Plagiarising Canadian think tank who used tax dollars to shill for Big Content refuses to back down https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2009/05/conference-board-response/

#15yrsago Canadian think-tank that spent tax-dollars plagiarizing US copyright lobby press-materials ignored its own expert’s conflicting research https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2009/05/conf-board-debeer-report/

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Conference Board Ignored Independent Study Commissioned For Digital Economy Report - Michael Geist

conference board debeer study

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#5yrsago The Chinese company that bought Grindr wasn’t supposed to let Chinese engineers access Americans’ data — but it did https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-china-grindr-exclusive/exclusive-behind-grindrs-doomed-hookup-in-china-a-data-misstep-and-scramble-to-make-up-idUSKCN1SS10H/

#5yrsago These corporations backed the politicians who will murder women by banning legal, safe abortions https://lifehacker.com/how-to-divest-from-the-corporations-funding-abortion-ba-1834980204

#5yrsago Remembering the pre-Netscape browsers https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/05/before-netscape-forgotten-web-browsers-of-the-early-1990s/

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How to Divest From the Corporations Funding Abortion Bans

Earlier this week, Judd Legum’s Popular Information newsletter reported that, in recent years, six corporations contributed hundreds of thousands of

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#5yrsago Europe’s surging, far-right, “anti-establishment” parties: funded by billionaires, voting for billionaire-friendly policies, lining their own pockets https://corporateeurope.org/sites/default/files/2019-05/Europe’s two-faced authoritarian right FINAL_1.pdf

#1yrago To save the news, shatter ad-tech https://pluralistic.net/2023/05/25/structural-separation/#america-act

#1yrago How (and why) Biden should overcome the Supreme Court to end the debt showdown https://pluralistic.net/2023/05/26/mint-the-coin-etc-etc/#blitz-em

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Saturday's threads: Inkjump Linkdump; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112503106819684859

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Cory Doctorow

2024-05-25 18:19:35

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Inkjump Linkdump; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/25/anthology/

#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 …

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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:

* @MediaEcology keynote (Amherst, NY), Jun 6-9
https://media-ecology.org/convention

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

* @AALL keynote, Jul 21 (Chicago)
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"

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Recent appearances:

* RISD Debates in AI keynote:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdSEcmplaDs

* @AuthorsAlliance 10th Anniversary (at 1:55:00)
https://archive.org/details/authors-alliance-10th-anniversary-presentation

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

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Author's Alliance 10th Anniversary Presentation : Author's Alliance : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Moral panics about technology are nothing new for creators. Copyright, in particular, has been a favorite tool to excite outrage. We were told that the...

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