Cory DoctorowToday's threads (a thread)
Inside: To save the news, shatter ad-tech; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2023/05/25/structural-separation/
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I'm coming to the #HowTheLightGetsIn festival in Hay-On-Wye:
Sun (May 28), 1130h: The AI Enigma
https://howthelightgetsin.org/events/the-ai-enigma-12147
Mon (May 29), 12h: Danger and Desire at the Frontier
https://howthelightgetsin.org/events/the-danger-and-desire-of-the-frontier-12246
I'm at #Oxford's #Blackwell's on May 29 at 1930h with @TimHarford:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cory-doctorow-red-team-blues-with-tim-harford-tickets-574673793787
Then it's #Nottingham, #Manchester, #London, #Edinburgh, and #Berlin!
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To save the news, shatter ad-tech: Structural separation will help the news claim their fair share.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/110429262481542937
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Cory Doctorow's linkblog (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image #BigTech steals from news, but what it steals isn't *content*. Talking about the news isn't theft, and neither is linking to it, or excerpting it. But stealing *money*? That's *definitely* theft. -- 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/2023/05/25/structural-separation/#america-act 1/
Hey look at this
* There Is No Antitrust Exception To Rules Of Statutory Interpretation https://www.promarket.org/2023/05/19/there-is-no-antitrust-exception-to-rules-of-statutory-interpretation/ (h/t Matt Stoller)
* #Bandcamp workers have voted to unionize https://www.bandcampunited.org/updates (h/t @slashdot)
* #DouglasAdams' Hitchhiker's Guide Gets a Glorious New #FolioSociety Edition https://gizmodo.com/hitchhikers-guide-to-galaxy-folio-society-douglas-adams-1850455317
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There Is No Antitrust Exception To Rules Of Statutory Interpretation - ProMarket
Tim Wu responds to a recent ProMarket post by Herbert Hovenkamp which argues for the dismissal of the Supreme Court’s 1962 Brown Shoe decision. Wu says that the Court’s duty is to obey and interpret the intentions of laws set by Congress, and cases cannot be dismissed because they don’t align with a particular policy perspective.
#20yrsago Turn a floppy into a Klingon ship https://memex.craphound.com/2003/05/25/turn-a-floppy-into-a-klingon-ship/
#20yrsago “Facts” about printing and book-design https://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/002638.html
#20yrsago Dear Hollywood: neener neener neener https://web.archive.org/web/20030524173415/http://www.instapundit.com/archives/009672.php
#20yrsago @eff on #TotalInformationAwareness https://web.archive.org/web/20030528233343/https://www.eff.org/Privacy/TIA/20030523_tia_report_review.php
#15yrsago Villagers from three continents will confront #Chevron execs at annual meeting https://web.archive.org/web/20080520120807/https://www.chevrontoxico.com/
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#15yrsago Former #RIAA CEO is the #HuffingtonPost’s new political director https://www.wired.com/2008/05/the-huffington/
#15yrsago Canadian spooks think punk band “#SuicidePilots” are terrorists https://web.archive.org/web/20080530022051/https://canadiandimension.com/blog/2008/05/csis-spying-on-canadian-punk-band/
#15yrsago #Punk House: communal homes of the anarcho-syndicalist lifestyle https://web.archive.org/web/20080526172905/http://www.alarmpress.com/2293/book-reviews/punk-house-interiors-in-anarchy/
#10yrsago Laptop with thermite self-destruct mechanism https://hackaday.com/2013/05/23/laptop-vs-thermite-slow-motion-destruction/
#10yrsago 3D-printable model of the cover of #JoyDivision’s “#UnknownPleasures” https://web.archive.org/web/20130607163848/http://i.document.m05.de/2013/05/23/joy-divisions-unknown-pleasures-printed-in-3d/
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The Huffington Post Names Hilary Rosen Political Director
Former music industry chief Hilary Rosen, whose deep unpopularity online once earned her a description in Wired as "the Unabomber in a pantsuit," has been named political director at The Huffington Post. Rosen is best known as the Recording Industry Association of America’s former chairman and chief executive officer. She headed up the group just […]
#10yrsago Game designer creates a never-played-by-humans titanium boardgame and buries it for play in 2700 years https://www.polygon.com/2013/3/28/4157884/game-designer-jason-rohrer-designs-a-game-meant-to-be-played-2000
#10yrsago Hardwood #Escher tesselated lizard tiles https://evolulignum.blogspot.com/2011/02/diseno-geometrico-inspiracion-escher.html
#10yrsago How London cops use social media to spy on protest movements https://www.itnews.com.au/news/police-tap-social-media-in-wake-of-london-attack-344319
#10yrsago Vermont passes anti-#PatentTroll law https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/vermont-enacts-1st-u-s-law-against-patent-trolling-1.1372639
#10yrsago #RIAA losing money, firing employees, giving execs raises https://torrentfreak.com/riaa-makes-drastic-employee-cuts-as-revenue-plummets-130522/
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Game designer Jason Rohrer designs a game meant to be played 2,000 years from now, hides it in desert
The designer of Passage, The Castle Doctrine and Diamond Trust of London, Jason Rohrer, has developed a game designed to be played by people he'll never know. Rohrer hasn't played it himself, he...
#10yrsago Forging £1 coins is apparently profitable https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-22612487
#10yrsago Globe and Mail: Toronto Mayor #RobFord’s family are, variously, a drug kingpin, a gangster, and affiliated with the KKK https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/toronto/globe-investigation-the-ford-familys-history-with-drug-dealing/article12153014
#10yrsago Lamps made from cassette tapes http://www.cassetteisnotdead.com
#5yrsago A guide to the valuable electronics inside #Bird’s illegal-in-San Francisco scooters https://www.jwz.org/blog/2018/05/landfill-capitalism-you-only-have-two-weeks-to-gather-up-all-those-free-microcontrollers-servos-and-batteries-that-are-littering-the-sidewalks-of-san-francisco/
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#5yrsago #Facebook is worth much less to its users than search and email, but it keeps a larger share of the value https://timharford.com/2018/05/how-much-would-i-have-to-pay-you-to-quit-facebook/
#5yrsago The paleocomputing miracle of the 76477 #SpaceInvaders sound effects chip https://www.righto.com/2018/05/inside-76477-space-invaders-sound.html
#5yrsago Texas high-school principal fires award-winning, nationally famous journalism teacher to rein in critical student newspaper reporting https://splc.org/2018/05/0522prosper-2/
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#5yrsago 500,000 home routers have been infected with #VPNFilter, malware that steals data and bricks devices https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/05/hackers-infect-500000-consumer-routers-all-over-the-world-with-malware/
#5yrsago The #FBI’s mountain of uncrackable #crimephones was nearly entirely imaginary https://www.emptywheel.net/2018/05/23/did-the-fbi-have-a-chance-to-fix-their-lies-about-encryption-in-2016/
#5yrsago A free internet is a configurable internet https://www.oreilly.com/content/cory-doctorow-on-the-fight-for-a-configurable-and-free-internet/
#5yrsago The Democratic candidate for the Georgia governorship is a Black woman running on an “unapologetic progressive” platform https://web.archive.org/web/20180523065423/https://politics.myajc.com/news/state--regional-govt--politics/georgia-election-stacey-abrams-wins-democratic-primary/eNWNZU440VRD1tQsZ0XY2K/
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#5yrsago A hard look at the wastefulness of “#ProofOfWork,” the core of the blockchain https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2018/05/22/bitcoins-stupendous-power-waste-is-green-apparently-bad-excuses-for-proof-of-work/
#5yrsago @cstross on the “soft genocide” of eugenics-tainted, alt-right climate dystopia https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2018/05/happy-21st-century.html
#5yrsago The #ComputerHistoryMuseum just published the sourcecode for #Eudora https://computerhistory.org/blog/the-eudora-email-client-source-code/
#5yrsago The company that made #GrenfellTower’s flammable, poisonous insulation used dangerous lies to make hundreds of sales https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/grenfell-tower-fire-latest-inquiry-london-cladding-building-safety-uk-celotex-a8362186.html
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#5yrsago Court rules Trump can’t block people on Twitter https://www.eff.org/press/releases/victory-first-amendment-court-rules-government-officials-who-tweet-public-cant-block
#5yrsago #Comcast’s $1.2b/year #ModemRental scam picks your pocket, then exposes you to hackers, stalkers and identity thieves https://www.vice.com/en/article/mbkgn8/dont-rent-a-modem-from-comcast
#5yrsago Cable industry attains the impossible: makes Americans hate it even more https://www.vice.com/en/article/7xmxza/america-hates-comcast-more-than-ever
#5yrsago Mining the #PanamaPapers and other leaks to reveal the hidden looting of West Africa by its corrupt elite https://www.icij.org/investigations/west-africa-leaks/
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Victory For The First Amendment: Court Rules That Government Officials Who Tweet to the Public Can't Block Users Who They Disagree With
New York, New York—President Donald Trump's blocking of people on Twitter because they criticize him violates the First Amendment, a federal judge in New York ruled today in a resounding victory for freedom of speech and the public’s right to communicate opposing political views directly to elected...
#5yrsago Why “#leftism” is parting ways with “liberalism” and what it means for the future of American politics https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/05/americas-brand-of-capitalism-is-incompatible-with-democracy.html
#5yrsago Debugging #AI is a “hard problem” https://ai.stanford.edu/~zayd/why-is-machine-learning-hard.html
#5yrsago FBI sinkholes a key domain used by the malware that infected 500,000 home routers, declares partial victory and Russian attribution https://www.thedailybeast.com/exclusive-fbi-seizes-control-of-russian-botnet
#5yrsago Thoughtful, devastating critique of #JordanPeterson’s “12 Rules for Life” https://web.archive.org/web/20210310135608/https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/jordan-peterson-12-rules-kate-manne-review/
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#1yrago #HSBC: "Who cares if Miami is underwater?" https://pluralistic.net/2022/05/24/moral-money/#nutjobs-warning-about-the-end-of-the-world
#1yrago #SPACs were hugely successful (for banks) https://pluralistic.net/2022/05/23/you-got-spacced/#the-house-always-wins
#1yrago #KimStanleyRobinson's "The High Sierra" https://pluralistic.net/2022/05/25/the-wild-places/#sierra-people
#1yrago Talking with Kim Stanley Robinson about "The High Sierra" https://pluralistic.net/2022/05/25/the-wild-places/#ksr
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Cory Doctorow's linkblog (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image Today's threads (a thread) Inside: Justice Warriors; and more! Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2023/05/22/libras-assemble/ #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:
* #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
* 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
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* #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
* 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:
* This Machine Kills
https://soundcloud.com/thismachinekillspod/257-red-team-blues-ft-cory-doctorow
* How Big Tech Captured Culture (The Agenda/TVO)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiIovIKzBlc
* Enshittification Part 3: Saving The Internet (@onthemedia)
https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/enshittification-part-3-saving-internet-on-the-media
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257. Red Team Blues (ft. Cory Doctorow)
Cory Doctorow — returning champion, friend of the show, and author of the new novel Red Team Blues — joins us to chat about fiction (science), finance (crypto), forensics (accounting), and much more.
If you're a @medium subscriber, you can read these essays - as well as previews of upcoming magazine columns and early exclusives on doctorow.medium.com.
My latest Medium column is "Rich People's Gain is Worth Less than Poor People's Pain: A new way to think about utilitarianism, courtesy of the Office of Management and Budget"
https://doctorow.medium.com/rich-peoples-gain-is-worth-less-than-poor-people-s-pain-6c3631292841
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