Cory DoctorowToday's threads (a thread)
Inside: Podcasting "Revenge Of the Chickenized Reverse Centaurs"; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2022/05/02/reverse-centaurs/
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Next weekend (May 6-8), I'm Guest of Honor at the Demicon 33 science fiction convention in Des Moines:
https://demicon.org/33/programming-grid/
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Podcasting "Revenge Of the Chickenized Reverse Centaurs": The relationship between algorithms, interoperability and worker power.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/108232929125439231
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Cory Doctorow's linkblog (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image This week on my podcast, I read my Medium column, "Revenge Of the Chickenized Reverse Centaurs," proposing a theory of the relationship between algorithms, interoperability and worker power (happy May Day!). https://onezero.medium.com/revenge-of-the-chickenized-reverse-centaurs-b2e8d5cda826 Let's break it down. Start with "chickenization": this is a labor economics term referring to industries that follow the model of the American poultry industry. 1/
Hey look at this
* Against Technocratopianism https://twitter.com/astradisastra/status/1520399559062704128 (h/t Paul Davis)
* Heritage Auctions Disneyana catalog https://www.ha.com/c/catalog-print.zx?saleNo=7258&compact=1&ctrack=2736775&type=compactlist-comic-open-Disney-7258-tem042822 (h/t Markus Wessel)
* Eugene Debs’s May Day Address to Black Workers https://jacobinmag.com/2022/05/eugene-debs-may-day-address-black-workers/
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Astra Taylor on Twitter
“I coined a new term: Technocratopian A technocratic, elitist utopianism characterized by an aversion to universal social programs and an erroneous faith that arcane bureaucratic systems can accurately distinguish the “deserving” from “undeserving” in the allocation of benefits🧵”
#15yrsago Everything is Miscellaneous – how the Web destroys categories, disciplines and hierarchies https://memex.craphound.com/2007/05/02/everything-is-miscellaneous-how-the-web-destroys-categories-disciplines-and-hierarchies/
#15yrsago XKCD's map of online communities in the style of a D&D map https://xkcd.com/256/
#15yrsago Digg users revolt over AACS key https://web.archive.org/web/20070504054516/http://blog.digg.com/?p=74
#10yrsago US copyright enemies list is worst ever, including countries whose crime is poverty https://web.archive.org/web/20120503124824/https://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/6456/125/
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#10yrsago Notes from a scratchbuilt 8-bit computer https://web.archive.org/web/20120423014125/http://8bitspaghetti.com/
#10yrsago UK MPs: Rupert Murdoch is “not a fit person” to run an international corporation https://www.theguardian.com/media/2012/may/01/rupert-murdoch-not-fit-select-committee
#10yrsago Stephen King calls on politicians to tax him and other rich people https://www.thedailybeast.com/stephen-king-tax-me-for-fands-sake
#5yrsago Senator Chris Dodd [D], father of SOPA, is stepping down as MPAA boss https://www.techdirt.com/2017/05/01/chris-dodd-stepping-down-mpaa/
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#5yrsago India’s controversial national ID scheme leaks fraud-friendly data for 130,000,000 people http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/information-security-practices-of-aadhaar-or-lack-thereof-a-documentation-of-public-availability-of-aadhaar-numbers-with-sensitive-personal-financial-information-1
#5yrsago Google order its secretive “raters'” hours cut, so now they’re going public https://arstechnica.com/features/2017/04/the-secret-lives-of-google-raters/
#5yrsago Leaked confidential memo reveals Facebook program to identify and target “insecure” kids http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/media/digital/facebook-targets-insecure-young-people-to-sell-ads/news-story/a89949ad016eee7d7a61c3c30c909fa6
#5yrsago Even by North Korean standards, the DPRK’s Ullim tablet is creepily surveillant https://www.38north.org/2017/03/mwilliams030317/
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#5yrsago Announcing the Walkaway audiobook, with Wil Wheaton, Amber Benson, Amanda Palmer and more! https://ia800607.us.archive.org/8/items/walkawaych1/001_WALKAWAY.mp3
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Saturday's threads: Disney's writer wage theft, a year on; and more!
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/108221780576129339
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Cory Doctorow's linkblog (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image Today's threads (a thread) Inside: Disney's writer wage theft, a year on; and more! Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2022/04/30/disney-still-must-pay/ #Pluralistic 1/
My latest book is Attack Surface, a sequel to my bestselling Little Brother books, now in paperback, wherever books are sold.
Signed copies at Dark Delicacies:
https://www.darkdel.com/store/p1840/Cory_Doctorow_-__Attack_Surface_HB_%26_TPB.html#/
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My book "How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism" is a critique of Big Tech connecting conspiratorial thinking to the rise of tech monopolies (proposing a way to deal with both) is now out in paperback:
https://onezero.medium.com/how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism-8135e6744d59
Signed copies here:
https://www.darkdel.com/store/p2024/Available_Now%3A__How_to_Destroy_Surveillance_Capitalism.html
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Upcoming appearances:
* Demicon 33 (Des Moines), May 6-8
https://demicon.org/33/programming-grid/
* The Sci-Fi Feedback Loop: Mapping Fiction’s Influence on Real-World Tech (Arizona State University Center for Science and the Imagination), May 12
https://asu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_qKjK9PSLQpW82ACUhHqBWg
* OpenJSWorld (Austin), Jun 8
https://events.linuxfoundation.org/openjs-world/program/schedule/
* UK Competition & Markets Authority Data Technology and Analytics conference (London), Jun 15-16
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cma-data-technology-and-analytics-conference-2022-registration-308678625077
* A New HOPE (NYC), Jul 22-24
https://www.hope.net/
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Recent appearances:
* Blockchain, Crypto & Web3 (Life Itself podcast)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eUMD5MoQdo
* Launch for Jennifer Egan's "Candy House" (Vancouver Public Library)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cbxMLxDkPM
* Surveillance Capitalism, Borders, and the Police (Tech Workers Coalition San Diego)
https://youtu.be/sN8iD-nTUWo
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Cory Doctorow on Blockchain, Crypto & Web3
My first picture book is out! It's called Poesy the Monster Slayer and it's an epic tale of bedtime-refusal, toy-hacking and monster-hunting, illustrated by Matt Rockefeller. It's the monster book I dreamt of reading to my own daughter.
https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/14/poesy-the-monster-slayer/#poesy
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My latest Medium column is "End-To-End Encryption is Too Important to Be Proprietary"
https://doctorow.medium.com/end-to-end-encryption-is-too-important-to-be-proprietary-afdf5e97822
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