Cory DoctorowToday's threads (a thread)
Inside: Saving the news from Big Tech with end-to-end social media; Hey look at this; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2023/06/13/certified-organic-reach/
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Saving the news from Big Tech with end-to-end social media: The final installment in my EFF series on saving the news.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/110538232439199341
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Cory Doctorow's linkblog (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image #BigTech steals from news, but it doesn't steal *content* - it steals *money*. In my @[email protected] series "Saving the News From Big Tech," I've documented how monopolies in #AdTech and #AppStores result in vast cash transfers from news to tech, starving newsrooms and gutting reporting: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/04/saving-news-big-tech -- 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/2023/06/13/certified-organic-reach/#e2e 1/
Hey look at this
* Company Resorts to Recruiting in American Truck Simulator Amid Driver Shortage https://gizmodo.com/american-truck-simulator-billboards-target-real-drivers-1850529432
* The Social Case for Bright-Line #Antitrust Rules https://www.thesling.org/the-social-case-for-bright-line-antitrust-rules/sling.org
* #Ontario #NDP launches province-wide hearings to lower cell phone bills and bring better internet service https://www.tomrakocevicmpp.ca/telecom
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#10yrsago Backstage at the #HauntedMansion https://hauntedmansionbackstage.tumblr.com
#10yrsago Here’s that #Beastles album you’ve been waiting for! http://djbc.net/thebeastles/
#10yrsago #EuropeanBroadcastingUnion steps in to keep the Greek national broadcaster on the air after police shut it down https://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/jun/12/ert-shutdown-european-broadcasting-union-makeshift-studio-greece
#10yrsago “By His Things Will You Know Him,” a short story https://legacy.iftf.org/fanfutures/doctorow/
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#5yrsago #Tanzania’s independent websites, podcasts and video channels have gone dark as the country’s new #BloggerTax goes into effect https://globalvoices.org/2018/06/13/leading-independent-websites-go-dark-as-tanzanias-blogger-tax-deadline-approaches/
#5yrsago Ranking the most influential computer security papers ever published https://mlsec.org/topnotch/
#1yrago #RegulatoryCapture https://pluralistic.net/2022/06/13/public-choice/#ajit-pai-still-terrible
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Yesterday's threads: Saving the news from Big Tech with end-to-end social media; and more!
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/110531360014191206
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Cory Doctorow's linkblog (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image Today's threads (a thread) Inside: Podcasting "Ideas Lying Around"; and more! Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2023/06/12/only-a-crisis/ #Pluralistic 1/
My latest book is Red Team Blues, available wherever books are sold!
Signed copies at Dark Delicacies (US):
and Forbidden Planet (UK):
https://forbiddenplanet.com/385004-red-team-blues-signed-edition-hardcover/
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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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Recent appearances:
* How To Save News Media From Our Tech Overlords (Canadaland)
https://www.canadaland.com/podcast/888-how-to-save-news-media-from-our-tech-overlords/
* Most AI is not artificial or intelligent (with @jamesbridle)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPvHjvZz7l0
* This Machine Kills
https://soundcloud.com/thismachinekillspod/257-red-team-blues-ft-cory-doctorow
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My latest Medium column is "The Shitty Tech Adoption Curve Has a Business Model"
https://doctorow.medium.com/the-shitty-tech-adoption-curve-has-a-business-model-ee025ad60951
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