Cory DoctorowToday's threads (a thread)
Inside: Ireland's privacy regulator is a gamekeeper-turned-poacher; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2023/05/15/finnegans-snooze
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This Saturday (May 20), I'll be at the #Gaithersburg Book Festival with my novel *Red Team Blues*:
https://www.gaithersburgbookfestival.org/featured_author/cory-doctorow/
On May 22, I'm keynoting #PublicKnowledge's Emerging Tech conference in #DC:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/emerging-tech-tickets-600582126307
On May 23, I'll be in #Toronto for a book launch that's part of #WEPFest, a benefit for the *#WestEndPhoenix*, onstage with #DaveBidini (The #Rheostatics), Ron Diebert (#CitizenLab) and the #whistleblower Dr #NancyOlivieri:
https://www.westendphoenix.com/shop/wepfest-spring-fundraiser
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Cory Doctorow - Gaithersburg Book Festival
Cory Doctorow is a regular contributor to the Guardian, Locus and many other publications. He is a special consultant to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an MIT Media Lab Research Associate and a visiting professor of Computer Science at the Open… Continue Reading
Ireland's privacy regulator is a gamekeeper-turned-poacher: Dublin is a made town.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/110373705302300239
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Cory Doctorow's linkblog (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image When the #EU passed its landmark #GeneralDataProtectionRegulation (#GDPR), it seemed like a #privacy miracle. Despite the most aggressive lobbying Europe had ever seen, 500 million Europeans were now guaranteed a digital private life. Could this really be? -- 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/2023/05/15/finnegans-snooze/#dirty-old-town 1/
Hey look at this
* Behold! The cover of my next novel, "The Lost Cause," (Tor, Nov 2023) by Will Staehle https://twitter.com/torbooks/status/1658125096874131458
* #HP disables customers’ printers if they use ink cartridges from cheaper rivals https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/consumer-affairs/hp-printers-computers-ink-cartridges-rivals/ (h/t @slashdot)
* Can a #WritersStrike Save Hollywood from #Monopoly? https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/can-a-writers-strike-save-hollywood
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#20yrsago Five perspectives on #SpectrumAllocation https://memex.craphound.com/2003/05/14/five-perspectives-on-spectrum-allocation/
#20yrsago #Vonnegut on “#ShockAndAwe” https://web.archive.org/web/20030512065845/https://inthesetimes.com/comments.php?id=191_0_4_0_C
#20yrsago Does #MediaConcentration matter if we have the Internet? https://web.archive.org/web/20030503062143/https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/lessig/blog/archives/2003_05.shtml
#15yrsago Canada’s #DMCA Minister weasels and fumbles when asked about his copyright plans https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5-wvCSy_y4
#15yrsago HOWTO keep your laptop’s data out of customs’ hands https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2008/may/15/computing.security
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#15yrsago #UniversalMusic: when we get hit with copyright damages, that’s “unconstitutionally excessive” https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2008/05/double-standard-umg-fights-excessive-infringement-damages/
#10yrsago Inside the world’s largest #GhostMall, America finds schadenfreude and comfort for its fears of a Chinese century https://edition.cnn.com/videos/world/2013/05/07/watson-china-ghost-mall.cnn
#10yrsago #Osaka’s fascist mayor defends WWII policy of sexual enslavement: “a #ComfortWomen system is necessary. Anyone can understand that.” https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-22519384
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#10yrsago Highest-paid state employees: usually a school sports coach, sometimes a med school dean https://deadspin.com/infographic-is-your-states-highest-paid-employee-a-co-489635228
#10yrsago Canadian govt turns the national science agenda over to incumbent big businesses https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/research-councils-makeover-leaves-canadian-industry-setting-the-agenda/article11745246/
#10yrsago Abusive restaurateurs stage spectacular social media meltdown https://www.buzzfeed.com/ryanhatesthis/this-is-the-most-epic-brand-meltdown-on-facebook-ever
#10yrsago #PirateBay co-founder #PeterSunde is a candidate for #PirateParty MEP in Finland https://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-cofounder-to-run-for-european-parliament-130514/
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#10yrsago Canadian anti-piracy bounty hunters ripped off photos for their website https://www.vice.com/en/article/ppqn38/canadian-copyright-canipre-images-without-permission
#10yrsago #PrinceCharles’s housing charity gets into bed with torturing Bahraini dictatorship https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2013/may/14/prince-charles-criticised-bahrain-housing-deal
#10yrsago Rich New Yorkers hire disabled “guides” to #DisneyWorld in order to skip lines https://nypost.com/2013/05/14/rich-manhattan-moms-hire-handicapped-tour-guides-so-kids-can-cut-lines-at-disney-world/
#10yrsago Odd Duck: great picture book about eccentricity and ducks https://memex.craphound.com/2013/05/15/odd-duck-great-picture-book-about-eccentricity-and-ducks/
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The Company Helping Movie Studios Sue You for Illegal Downloading Has Been Using Images Without Permission
Canipre, the company in question, has written "they all know it's wrong and they're still doing it." Referring to copyright theft. On top of an image that they are using without the permission of the copyright holder. On their official website. Whoops!
#5yrsago #JohnScalzi wrote a science fiction story about the #DMCA to help @eff's #RightToRepair campaign https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/05/eff-presents-john-scalzi-science-fiction-story-about-our-right-repair-petition
#5yrsago A dozen googlers quit over Google’s military #drone contract https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/05/google-employees-resign-in-protest-of-googlepentagon-drone-program/
#5yrsago Kansas finally bans cops from having sex with detainees, people undergoing questioning, witnesses, and people they pull over during traffic stops https://www.kansas.com/news/politics-government/article210902319.html
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EFF Presents John Scalzi's Science Fiction Story About Our Right to Repair Petition to the Copyright Office
Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA 1201) makes it illegal to get around any sort of lock that controls access to copyrighted material. Getting exemptions to that prohibitions is a long, complicated process that often results in long, complicated exemptions that are difficult...
#5yrsago EFF has comprehensively killed the bullshit #PodcastingPatent https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/05/eff-wins-final-victory-over-podcasting-patent
#5yrsago Judge to Facebook: stop deliberately misinterpreting my privacy rulings https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-14/facebook-faulted-by-judge-for-troubling-theme-in-privacy-case
#5yrsago How the “global super-rich” have honeycombed London’s posh neighbourhoods with sub-basements, sub-sub-basements, and sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-basements https://www.theguardian.com/money/2018/may/07/pool-basement-wealth-super-rich-digging-down-london
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EFF Wins Final Victory Over Podcasting Patent
Back in early 2013, the podcasting community was freaking out. A patent troll called Personal Audio LLC had sued comedian Adam Carolla and was threatening a bunch of smaller podcasters. Personal Audio claimed that the podcasters infringed U.S. Patent 8,112,504, which claims a “system for...
#5yrsago Efail: researchers reveal worrying, unpatched vulnerabilities in encrypted email https://efail.de/#faq
#5yrsago UK government will deputise newsagents to collect and retain identity documents from the nation’s pornography viewers https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/porn-passes-newsagents-shops-online-pornography-website-id-uk-government-a8349281.html
#5yrsago London cops are using an unregulated, 98% inaccurate #FacialRecognition tech https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/met-police-facial-recognition-success-south-wales-trial-home-office-false-positive-a8345036.html
#5yrsago A vital guide to the Canadian encryption debate https://citizenlab.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Shining-A-Light-Encryption-CitLab-CIPPIC.pdf
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#5yrsago Realtor claims #Uber and #Lyft erode the premium homebuyers pay for good public transit links https://www.businessinsider.com/uber-and-lyft-are-changing-where-rich-people-buy-homes-2018-5
#5yrsago The CIA is psyopsing America to help torturer #GinaHaspel get the job of #CIA boss https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/20/us/politics/gina-haspel-cia-director-influence-campaign.html
#5yrsago To understand the future sainthood of Donald J Trump, just look at George W Bush https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/donald-trump-may-be-the-best-thing-that-ever-happened-to-george-w-bush/2018/05/11/69ae6c7a-5319-11e8-9c91-7dab596e8252_story.html
#5yrsago Profiles of #FlatEarthers: report from the front lines of weaponized media literacy https://www.vice.com/en/article/zm8b74/i-went-to-a-flat-earth-convention-to-meet-flat-earthers-like-my-mum
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Uber and Lyft are changing where rich people buy homes
In 2017 luxury real estate broker, Leonard Steinberg, told Business Insider that Uber and Lyft are changing where wealthy people buy homes in the New York City, and a report released this week from MetLife Inc.'s asset-management business confirmed that the premium cost of apartments near public transit has begun to decline.
#5yrsago Exit West: beautifully wrought novel about refugees, mobility and borders https://memex.craphound.com/2018/05/14/exit-west-beautifully-wrought-novel-about-refugees-mobility-and-borders/
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Saturday's threads: 'Revenge of the Linkdumps; and more!
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/110363588494295105
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Cory Doctorow's linkblog (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image Today's threads (a thread) Inside: Revenge of the Linkdumps; and more! Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2023/05/13/four-bar-linkage/ #Pluralistic 1/
My latest book is Red Team Blues, available wherever books are sold!
Signed copies at Dark Delicacies:
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My latest nonfiction 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 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:
* #Gaithersburg Book Festival, May 20
https://www.gaithersburgbookfestival.org/featured_author/cory-doctorow/
* Public Knowledge Emerging Tech keynote (#DC), May 22
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/emerging-tech-tickets-600582126307
* WEPFest with Ron Diebert, Dave Bidini and Nancy Olivieri (#Toronto), May 23
https://www.westendphoenix.com/shop/wepfest-spring-fundraiser
* #HowTheLightGetsIn (Hay), May 28
https://howthelightgetsin.org/events/the-ai-enigma-12147
* #HowTheLightGetsIn (Hay), May 29
https://howthelightgetsin.org/events/the-danger-and-desire-of-the-frontier-12246
* Red Team Blues event with @TimHarford (#Oxford), May 29
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cory-doctorow-red-team-blues-with-tim-harford-tickets-574673793787
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Cory Doctorow - Gaithersburg Book Festival
Cory Doctorow is a regular contributor to the Guardian, Locus and many other publications. He is a special consultant to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an MIT Media Lab Research Associate and a visiting professor of Computer Science at the Open… Continue Reading
Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* Red Team Blues event with Christian Riley (#Nottingham), May 30
https://www.waterstones.com/events/an-evening-with-cory-doctorow/nottingham
* Red Team Blues event with @cubicgarden (#Manchester), May 31
https://www.waterstones.com/events/in-conversation-with-cory-doctorow/manchester-deansgate
* UCL Peter Kirstein Lecture, Jun 1 (#London):
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/peter-kirstein-lecture-2023-featuring-cory-doctorow-registration-539205788027
* #Cymera23 Festival, Jun 3 (#Edinburgh)
https://www.cymerafestival.co.uk/cymera23-events/2023/4/4/connection-interrupted-with-nina-allan-cory-doctorow-and-ian-mcdonald
* Red Team Blues with #MarthaLaneFox at the #BritishLibrary, Jun 5 (#London):
https://www.bl.uk/events/an-evening-with-cory-doctorow-techno-thriller
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* Re:publica keynote, Jun 7 (#Berlin)
https://re-publica.com/de/news/rp23-keynote-von-cory-doctorow-rebecca-giblin-kreative-arbeitsmaerkte-und-monopole
* Otherland event for Red Team Blues, Jun 8 (#Berlin)
https://www.otherland-berlin.de/de/event-details/cory-doctorow-autorenabend.html
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Recent appearances:
* Chokepoint Capitalism's Stranglehold on the Arts (News Beat)
https://radiopublic.com/news-beat-GKkdOB/s1!ded55
* Enshittification Part 2: The Mechanisms That Helped Big Digital Go Bad (@onthemedia)
https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/enshittification-part-2-mechanisms-helped-big-digital-go-bad-on-the-media
* Slurry With The Turd On Top (Jordan, Jesse, Go!)
https://maximumfun.org/episodes/jordan-jesse-go/slurry-with-the-turd-on-top-with-cory-doctorow/
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News Beat – Chokepoint Capitalism's Stranglehold on the Arts – 50:41
In this episode, we feature insights from writer and activist Cory Doctorow, who along with Rebecca Giblin, a professor at Melbourne Law School, co-authored the book ‘Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We’ll Win Them Back.’ It's a story about the stranglehold megacorporations have on their respective industries. For artists and creators, it means they're receiving fewer and fewer percentages of overall profits, despite their work enriching our corporate overlords. “The reason creative workers are receiving a declining share of the wealth generated by their work is the same reason all workers are receiving a smaller share—we have structured society to make rich people richer at everyone else’s expense,” Doctorow and his co-author Rebecca Giblin write. News Beat is a Morey Creative Studios production, in association with Manny Faces Media. Sign up for our free newsletter at newsbeat.substack.com Producer/Audio Editor: Michael "Manny Faces" ConfortiEditor-In-Chief: Chris TwarowskiManaging Editor: Rashed MianEpisode Art: Jeff MainExecutive Producer: Jed Morey Support the show: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?token=EYkdQRkbZ6vNTGfNSGWZjx7_15orqqDl8vkmrAg3TkxLprft1OguFwxlheC3tAkNd-KVPG&country.x=US&locale.x=USSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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My latest Medium column is "Google's AI Hype Circle: We have to do Bard because everyone else is doing AI; everyone else is doing AI because we're doing Bard"
https://doctorow.medium.com/googles-ai-hype-circle-6158804d1299
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