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Utah's getting some of America's best broadband: Public goods for the win.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112451309811648263

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Cory Doctorow

2024-05-16 14:46:56

Residents of 21 cities in Utah have access to some of the fastest, most competitively priced broadband in the US, at speeds up to 10gb/s and prices as low as $75/month. It's uncapped, and the connections are symmetrical: perfect for uploading *and* downloading. And it's all thanks to the government.

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/16/symmetrical-10gb-for-119/#utopia

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Hey look at this

* One (Busy) Day in the Life of EFF’s Activism Team https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/05/one-busy-day-life-effs-activism-team

* The Walls Are Closing in on John Deere’s Tractor Repair Monopoly https://www.404media.co/the-walls-are-closing-in-on-john-deeres-tractor-repair-monopoly/

* Porter's five forces analysis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porter's_five_forces_analysis (h/t Bernardo Malfitano)

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#15yrsago How kids use the net now, from @zephoria https://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2009/05/16/answers_to_ques.html

#15yrsago Danger Mouse’s EMI-killed CD will be released as a blank CD-R, just add download https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8053471.stm

#15yrsago Chicago Alderman vandalizes public art depicting CCTVs https://web.archive.org/web/20090520083519/http://www.chicagopublicradio.org/Content.aspx?audioID=34234

#10yrsago Cloud computers are computers you can only use with someone else’s permission https://memex.craphound.com/2014/05/16/cloud-computers-are-computers-you-can-only-use-with-someone-elses-permission/

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BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Danger Mouse to release blank CD

Gorillaz producer Danger Mouse is to put out a blank CD after his latest, star-studded album is derailed by "legal issues".

^{news.bbc.co.uk}

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#10yrsago Photo of NSA technicians sabotaging Cisco router prior to export https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/05/photos-of-an-nsa-upgrade-factory-show-cisco-router-getting-implant/

#5yrsago Watch: Tim Wu debates trustbusting with Tyler Cowen, who just wrote “a love letter” to Big Business https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_Jp-GJ9LM0

#5yrsago A report from the Christchurch Call, where the future of “anti-extremist” moderation was debated at the highest levels https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/05/christchurch-call-good-not-so-good-and-ugly

#5yrsago Lent: @Bluejo new novel is Dante’s Groundhog Day https://www.latimes.com/books/la-ca-jc-review-jo-walton-lent-20190516-story.html

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Like ‘Groundhog Day’ in hell, ‘Lent’ traces the recurring lives of a heretic monk

Cory Doctorow reviews Jo Walton’s ‘Lent,’ which tells the fantastical tale of monk Girolamo Savonarola’s journey through hell after being burned at the stake.

^{Cory Doctorow (Los Angeles Times)}

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#5yrsago EPA Inspector General Report finds massive waste from Trump’s Pruitt flying business class, staying in swanky hotels https://www.epa.gov/sites/default/files/2019-05/documents/_epaoig_20190516-19-p-0155.pdf

#5yrsago Under Trump, immigrants who serve in the armed forces are finding it harder to attain citizenship than those who do not serve https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article230269884.html

#5yrsago California set to legalize eating roadkill https://www.kqed.org/science/1941435/eating-roadkill-is-illegal-in-california-but-maybe-not-for-long

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Eating Roadkill Is Illegal in California. But That May Change

A bill advancing through the Legislature would allow outdoorsy and culinarily courageous Californians to engage in a very particular form of roadside dining, so long as they apply for a state permit after-the-fact.

^www.kqed.org

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#5yrsago Florida Governor says the FBI told him how the Russians hacked Florida voting machines, but swore him to secrecy https://www.tampabay.com/florida-politics/buzz/2019/05/14/which-florida-counties-had-election-hacks-russians-fbi-and-now-gov-ron-desantis-all-know-but-we-dont/

#5yrsago Grifty “information security” companies promised they could decrypt ransomware-locked computers, but they were just quietly paying the ransoms https://memex.craphound.com/2019/05/16/grifty-information-security-companies-promised-they-could-decrypt-ransomware-locked-computers-but-they-were-just-quietly-paying-the-ransoms/

#5yrsago Luna: Moon Rising, in which Ian McDonald brings the trilogy to an astounding, intricate, exciting and satisfying climax https://memex.craphound.com/2019/05/16/luna-moon-rising-in-which-ian-mcdonald-brings-the-trilogy-to-an-astounding-intricate-exciting-and-satisfying-climax/

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Ron DeSantis ‘not allowed’ to disclose which two Florida counties were hacked by Russians

Gov. Ron DeSantis said two counties had their elections information accessed, but the hackers weren’t able to change or “manipulate” any data.

^{Emily L. Mahoney (Tampa Bay Times)}

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#1yrsago Rent control works https://pluralistic.net/2023/05/16/mortgages-are-rent-control/#housing-is-a-human-right-not-an-asset

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Yesterday's threads: Even if you think AI search could be good, it won't be good; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112447081413546378

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Cory Doctorow

2024-05-15 20:51:35

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Even if you think AI search could be good, it won't be good; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/15/they-trust-me-dumb-fucks/

#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 …

^{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:

* 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/

* 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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Authors Alliance 10th Anniversary Event: Authorship in an Age of Monopoly and Moral Panics

Register here for this IN-PERSON event hosted in San Francisco at the Internet Archive on May 17 Moral panics about technology are nothing new for creators. Copyright, in particular, has been a fav…

^{Authors Alliance}

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Recent appearances:

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

* That Word Chat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miwEy_mACEY

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

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Suur Futuroloogiline Kongress: Cory Doctorow (Kanada)

Kolmapäeval, 8. mail kl 18.00 Tartu Ülikooli raamatukogu konverentsisaalis.Tunnustatud ulmekirjanik, blogija, ajakirjanik ja vaba teadmuse aktivist peab ette...

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