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Inside: Podcasting "Let the Platforms Burn"; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/18/urban-wildlife-interface/
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Tonight (Jul 18), I'm hosting the first #Clarion Summer Write-In Series, an hour-long, free drop-in group writing and discussion session. It's in support of the Clarion SF/F writing workshop's fundraiser to offer tuition support to students:
https://mailchi.mp/theclarionfoundation/clarion-write-ins
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Podcasting "Let the Platforms Burn": It's past time to evacuate the fire-zone.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/110736012077318698
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Cory Doctorow's linkblog (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image This week on my #podcast, I read "Let the Platforms Burn," a recent @[email protected] column making the case that we should focus more on making it easier for people to leave platforms, rather than making the platforms less terrible places to be: https://doctorow.medium.com/let-the-platforms-burn-6fb3e6c0d980 -- 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/2023/07/18/urban-wildlife-interface/#combustible-walled-gardens 1/
Hey look at this
* Alternative app that can unlock #VanMoof bikes more popular amid bankruptcy fears https://nltimes.nl/2023/07/15/alternative-app-can-unlock-vanmoof-bikes-popular-amid-bankruptcy-fears (h/t Gianfranco Cecconi)
* Talking about a ‘schism’ is ahistorical https://medium.com/@emilymenonbender/talking-about-a-schism-is-ahistorical-3c454a77220f (h/t @jjn1)
* Hollywood’s Future Belongs to People—Not Machines https://www.wired.com/story/hollywoods-future-belongs-to-people-not-machines/
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Alternative app that can unlock VanMoof bikes more popular amid bankruptcy fears
A new app to unlock bicycles produced by the financially troubled Amsterdam firm, VanMoof, has reached the top tier of most popular iPhone apps in the Netherlands within a day. VanMoof's Belgian competitor, Cowboy, launched an app called Bikey for iOS on Thursday, and less than a day later it was one of the top three free apps in the Dutch market. Once it became public knowledge that VanMoof needed protection from its creditors, the company's e-bike owners grew more concerned about whether the VanMoof app will still work. The app is capable of unlocking the bike for its rider.
#20yrsago Crows use tools https://web.archive.org/web/20030811085621/http://www.sciencemag.org/feature/data/crow/index.html
#20yrsago #AOL to renege on #AIM interop promises? https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2003-jul-16-fi-aol16-story.html
#20yrsago MSFT #DRM infringes on Sony/Philips DRM https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2003-jul-16-fi-patent16-story.html
#20yrsago A Brief History of Negative Space https://www.revolutionsf.com/fiction/negativespace/01.html
#20yrsago #MickeyMouse offs himself https://memex.craphound.com/2003/07/17/mickey-mouse-offs-himself/
#20yrsago How the Nerds Were Having A Perfectly Good Time Until The Businesspeople And Lawyers Showed Up And Ruined Everything http://www.onlisareinsradar.com/archives/001529.php#001529
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#15yrsago I am the Very Model of a Modern SF Novelist https://jimhines.livejournal.com/382703.html
#15yrsago Cop busts guy for taking his pic: “It’s illegal to take a picture of a law enforcement officer… if you don’t give it to me, you’re going to jail” https://web.archive.org/web/20080717072712/http://www.tricities.com/tri/news/local/article/man_arrested_for_unlawful_photography/11576/
#15yrsago Progressive geek looking for 3,000 people to help him win #Kansas election against dinosauric anti-science/pro-surveillance dude http://seantevis.com/kansas/3000/running-for-office-xkcd-style/
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#10yrsago @eff files huge lawsuit against #NSA on behalf of broad coalition https://www.eff.org/press/releases/unitarian-church-gun-groups-join-eff-sue-nsa-over-illegal-surveillance
#10yrsago #LondonPolice sorry for stealing dead kids’ identities for 40 years https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/jul/16/met-chief-spies-dead-children-identities
#10yrsago Raising a reader: how comics can help kids learn to love reading https://cbldf.org/2013/07/cbldf-releases-raising-a-reader-a-resource-for-parents-and-educators/
#10yrsago @anildash’s 10 Rules of Internet https://web.archive.org/web/20130721034729/http://dashes.com/anil/2013/07/rules-of-internet.html
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Unitarian Church, Gun Groups Join EFF to Sue NSA Over Illegal Surveillance
San Francisco - Nineteen organizations including Unitarian church groups, gun ownership advocates, and a broad coalition of membership and political advocacy organizations filed suit against the National Security Agency (NSA) today for violating their First Amendment right of association by...
#10yrsago #Apple’s mobile devices have a secret list of “sensitive” words that don’t autocomplete https://web.archive.org/web/20130722005603/https://newsbeastlabs.tumblr.com/post/55590097779/today-we-published-a-data-story-looking-at-how-ios
#10yrsago Don’t worry, we only spy on terrorists (worry, because everyone we don’t like is a “terrorist”) https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/07/mission-creep-when-everything-is-terrorism/277844/
#10yrsago Death toll from the American #AntiVaccine movement https://web.archive.org/web/20130714203456/https://www.jennymccarthybodycount.com/Anti-Vaccine_Body_Count/Home.html
#10yrsago Why #librarians are needed more than ever in the 21st century https://web.archive.org/web/20130719020216/http://www.bookpage.com/the-book-case/2010/04/14/neil-gaiman-talks-about-his-love-of-libraries/
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#10yrsago #Toronto’s #HonestEd’s will go https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2013/07/16/honest_eds_is_up_for_sale.html
#5yrsago Hackers say they stole tens of thousands of health records of #Ontario home-care patients and they want to get paid https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/carepartners-data-breach-ransom-patients-medical-records-1.4749515
#5yrsago Leading #VotingMachine company admits it lied, reveals that its voting machines ship backdoored, with pre-installed remote access software https://www.vice.com/en/article/mb4ezy/top-voting-machine-vendor-admits-it-installed-remote-access-software-on-systems-sold-to-states
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#5yrsago UK #RailwayArches, the last bastion of publicly owned commercial space, engines of small business, about to be killed by privatization https://theconversation.com/britains-railway-arches-are-being-sold-off-and-small-businesses-could-be-forced-out-99907
#5yrsago They said #AOC’s message wouldn’t play in the midwest, now she and #Bernie are headed to #Kansas https://theintercept.com/2018/07/17/brent-welder-kansas-primary-3rd-district-ocasio-cortez-bernie-sanders/
#5yrsago China uses sewage surveillance to detect drugs in urine and feces https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05728-3
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#5yrsago #Venmo’s “public by default” transactions reveal drug deals, breakups, more https://22-8miles.com/public-by-default/
#5yrsago Pounded in the butt by my own #DarkSEO: the weird, true story of #Cockygate https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/16/17566276/cockygate-amazon-kindle-unlimited-algorithm-self-published-romance-novel-cabal
#5yrsago Portuguese translation of Zuck’s Empire of Oily Rags https://memex.craphound.com/2018/07/16/portuguese-translation-of-zucks-empire-of-oily-rags/
#5yrsago The MEP behind Europe’s proposed #CopyrightCensorship proposal can’t explain all the copyrighted images in his social media https://www.techdirt.com/2018/07/16/guy-charge-pushing-draconian-eu-copyright-directive-evasive-about-his-own-use-copyright-protected-images/
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#5yrsago AOC moots a “progressive caucus” of bloc-voting Democratic congresspeople https://theintercept.com/2018/07/16/ocasio-cortez-floats-a-sub-caucus-of-progressives-willing-to-vote-together-as-a-bloc/
#5yrsago #McMansion meanings: why do America’s jumbo-sized status homes have useless “formal spaces?” https://archive.curbed.com/2018/7/11/17536876/great-room-house-size-design-square-footage
#5yrsago China’s super-rich get the lion’s share of British plutocrat visas https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/2155390/chinas-super-rich-lead-way-applications-british-millionaire-visas
#5yrsago Podcast: Zuck’s Empire of Oily Rags https://ia802809.us.archive.org/7/items/Cory_Doctorow_Podcast_296/Cory_Doctorow_Podcast_296_-_Zucks_Empire_of_Oily_Rags.mp3
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#5yrsago More than a million Europeans spoke out to stop internet-destroying censorship rules, but the fight’s not over https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/07/key-victory-against-european-copyright-filters-and-link-taxes-whats-next
#5yrsago Record numbers of Americans believe #ClimateChange is real, and a majority understand that humans are to blame https://web.archive.org/web/20180711151351/https://closup.umich.edu/files/ieep-nsee-2018-spring-climate-belief.pdf
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A Key Victory Against European Copyright Filters and Link Taxes - But What's Next?
Against all the odds, but with the support of nearly a million Europeans, MEPs voted earlier this month to reject the EU's proposed copyright reform—including controversial proposals to create a new "snippet" right for news publishers, and mandatory copyright filters for sites that published user...
Cory Doctorow's linkblog (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image Today's threads (a thread) Inside: Linkty Dumpty; and more! Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/15/in-the-dumps/ #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:
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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:
* #Clarion Summer Write-In Series, Jul 18
https://mailchi.mp/theclarionfoundation/clarion-write-ins
* #ComicCon (#SanDiego), Jul 20-23
https://www.comic-con.org/cci/programming-schedule
* Decentralization of the Internet Research Group (#IETF-117)
https://dirk-kutscher.info/events/dinrg-ietf-117/
* @MidsummeerScream (Long Beach), Jul 30
https://midsummerscream.org/
* #Armadillocon (#Austin), Aug 4-6
https://armadillocon.org/d45/
* @defcon (#LasVegas), Aug 10-13
https://defcon.org/
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Recent appearances:
* UCL Peter Kirstein Lecture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yn47ptAtVH0
* The Homeless Romantic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXn9wy5bHq0
* Why the internet is getting worse
https://www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-podcasts/209-front-burner/episode/15992083-why-the-internet-is-getting-worse
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Peter Kirstein Lecture 2023 with Cory Doctorow
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https://doctorow.medium.com/let-the-platforms-burn-6fb3e6c0d980
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