Cory DoctorowToday's threads (a thread)
Inside: Tiktok's enshittification; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/
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Tiktok's enshittification: The company manually allocates surplus to creators, and they can take it away again, too.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/109727932676025175
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Cory Doctorow's linkblog (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image Here is how #platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die. 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/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys 1/
Hey look at this
* Have You Tried Turning It Off and On Again: Rethinking Tech Regulation and Creative Labor https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/01/have-you-tried-turning-it-and-again-rethinking-tech-regulation-and-creative-labor
* Dungeons & Dragons' New OGL Will Be an 'Irrevocable' Creative Commons License https://gizmodo.com/dnd-wizards-of-the-coast-ogl-1-1-creative-commons-licen-1850008294
* American Airlines Promises Flight Attendants A Free Bowl Of Chili If They Don't Picket Next Week https://viewfromthewing.com/american-airlines-promises-flight-attendants-a-free-bowl-of-chili-if-they-dont-picket-next-week/ (h/t /r/NotTheOnion)
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Have You Tried Turning It Off and On Again: Rethinking Tech Regulation and Creative Labor
The Internet Copyright Wars are in their third decade, and despite the billions of dollars and trillions of phosphors spilled on its battlegrounds around the world, precious little progress has been made. A quarter of a century after Napster’s founding, we’re still haunted by the same false binaries that have deadlocked us since the era of 56k modem
#20yrsago Recording industry needs collaborative filtering https://web.archive.org/web/20030410212626/http://www.shirky.com/writings/music_flip.html
#20yrsago Origin of spam https://www.templetons.com/brad/spamterm.html
#15yrsago Joel Johnson puts AT&T on the spot over copyright spying plan https://web.archive.org/web/20080122084628/http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2008/01/21/talking-about-atts-i.html
#20yrsago SBC’s patent-shakedown: website navigation https://web.archive.org/web/20030207060405/http://www2.museumtour.com/sbc.html
#15yrsago Congress moving forward with plan to scare colleges into supporting RIAA measures https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/01/digital-theft-prevention-requirements-remain-higher-education-bill
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#15yrsago Canadian Privacy Commissioner rejects #DRM: don’t give spyware legal protection! https://web.archive.org/web/20080122014445/http://www.privcom.gc.ca/parl/2008/let_080118_e.asp
#10yrsago Guerrilla indie feature film shot at #WaltDisneyWorld https://web.archive.org/web/20130120020745/http://www.hitfix.com/motion-captured/review-escape-from-tomorrow-is-a-surrealist-treat-that-will-give-disneys-lawyers-nightmares
#10yrsago Designing for the factory: makers, machines, China, and industrial design https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=2790
#10yrsago Jonathan Coulton: Glee plagiarized my arrangement of “Baby Got Back” https://www.techdirt.com/2013/01/18/jonathan-coulton-publicly-shames-fox-copying-his-arrangement-glee/
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#10yrsago More plagiarism from Glee https://twitter.com/djearworm/status/172367818942185473
#10yrsago Podcast of my memorial for #AaronSw, and the afterword he wrote for Homeland https://craphound.com/news/2013/01/21/rip-aaron-swartz/
#10yrago #EdwardTufte on #AaronSwartz and his own hacking career https://danwin.com/2013/01/edward-tufte-aaron-swartz-marvelously-different/
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#10yrsago Montreal comp sci student reports massive bug, is expelled and threatened with arrest for checking to see if it had been fixed https://www.theregister.com/2013/01/21/dawson_student_expelled_code_flaw/
#10yrsago Pennsylvania kindergartener uses Hello Kitty bubble-gun at school, suspended for “terrorist threat” https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2013/01/kindergartner-suspended-over-bubble-gun-threat/
#10yrsago Guy re-creates a #VIARail car, in his basement, down to the most minute detail https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjMnWdIWjWs
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#5yrsago Apple, Google add 45 minutes to commuter-bus run to avoid 280 highway, where the buses’ windows keep getting smashed https://fortune.com/2018/01/18/apple-google-bus-attacks/
#5yrsago Racist authoritarians insisted that ending stop-and-frisk would increase violent crime, but the opposite just happened https://www.propublica.org/article/in-new-york-crime-falls-along-with-police-stops
#5yrsago Comic-strip contracts, so no one argues they’re too confusing to be enforceable https://theconversation.com/comic-contracts-and-other-ways-to-make-the-law-understandable-90313
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#5yrsago City of #Sarajevo bans unsanctioned utterances of its name, threatens Facebook groups https://web.archive.org/web/20180122000110/https://blog.r3bl.me/en/the-city-whose-name-i-cannot-mention/
#5yrsago To keep their bond-ratings, hedge-funds have to publicly demonstrate that they are the most ruthless of landlords https://ourfinancialsecurity.org/2018/01/afr-report-wall-street-and-single-family-rentals/
#5yrsago Self-destructing thumb drives with smoke loads, glowing elements, tiny explosives https://medium.com/@_MG_/mr-self-destruct-7986998f32a8
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The city I write this in protected its name, so I am not legally allowed to use it
There’s a certain city in the Balkan peninsula whose name I cannot type here. Some of you might know it as the capital of Bosnia & Herzegovina. This is a city in which the Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria got assissinated, an event which triggered the World War I. It’s...
Thursday's threads: Why the Fed wants to crush workers; and more!
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/109717027546546723
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Cory Doctorow's linkblog (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image Today's threads (a thread) Inside: Why the Fed wants to crush workers; and more! Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/19/creditors-vs-workers/ #Pluralistic 1/
My latest 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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My latest novel is Attack Surface, a sequel to my bestselling Little Brother books, now in paperback, wherever books are sold.
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a book about why creative labor markets are rigged - and how to unrig them Competition is supposed to be fundamental to capitalism. Over the last four decades though, greedy robber barons have worked out how to lock in customers and suppliers, eliminate competitors, and shake down everyone for more than their fair share. This…
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."
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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."
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Upcoming appearances:
* Library Learning Experience/American Library Association (#NewOrleans), Jan 27-30
https://www.2023.alaliblearnx.org/cory-doctorow
* Chokepoint Capitalism: Can It Be Defeated? (UCL Faculty of Laws), Feb 1
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/laws/events/2023/feb/online-chokepoint-capitalism-can-it-be-defeated
* Avid Reader (#Brisbane), Feb 8
https://avidreader.com.au/pages/6834-ChokepointCapitalism-RebeccaGiblinandCoryDoctorow
* Future of Arts, Culture & Technology, ACMI, (#Melbourne), Feb 14
https://www.acmi.net.au/whats-on/in-conversation-cory-doctorow-rebecca-giblin-esther-anatolitis/
* State Library of NSW (#Sydney), Feb 15
https://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/events/chokepoint-capitalism-rebecca-giblin-and-cory-doctorow
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* ANU/Canberra Times Meet The Author (#Canberra), Feb 16
https://www.anu.edu.au/events/in-conversation-with-rebecca-giblin-and-cory-doctorow
* Australian Digital Alliance Copyright Forum (#Canberra), Feb 17:
https://digital.org.au/2022/11/08/doctorow-giblin-first-speaker-announcement-ada-forum-2023/
* #Antitrust, Regulation and the Political Economy (#Brussels), Mar 2:
https://www.brusselsconference.com/registration
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In conversation with Rebecca Giblin and Cory Doctorow
Rebecca Giblin and Cory Doctorow will be in conversation with Andrew Leigh on their new book, Chokepoint Capitalism, which documents how big tech and big content have captured creative labour markets and how we can win them back. Giblin and Doctorow argue we’re in a new era of ‘chokepoint capitalism’, with exploitative businesses creating insurmountable barriers to competition that enable them to capture value that should rightfully go to others. All workers are weakened by this, but the problem is especially well illustrated by the plight of creative workers.
Recent appearances:
* The Way the Music Died (Canadaland Commons):
https://www.canadaland.com/podcast/monopoly-10-the-way-the-music-died/
* The Majority Report with Sam Seder
https://majorityreportradio.com/2023/01/09/1-9-chokepoint-capitalism-the-new-content-currency-w-cory-doctorow
* Decoder:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/6pVSj7gNlizw2cPFoKBWlZ
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