Cory DoctorowToday's threads (a thread)
Inside: Autoenshittification; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/24/rent-to-pwn/
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The #Clarion #ScienceFiction and #Fantasy #WritersWorkshop summer fundraiser is almost over! I am an alum, instructor and volunteer board member for this nonprofit workshop whose alums include Octavia Butler, Kim Stanley Robinson, Bruce Sterling, Nalo Hopkinson, Kameron Hurley, Nnedi Okorafor, Lucius Shepard, and Ted Chiang! Your donations will help us subsidize tuition for students, making Clarion - and sf/f - more accessible for all kinds of writers:
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/clarion-sf-fantasy-writers-workshop-23-campaign#/
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Autoenshittification: How the computer killed capitalism.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/110770722951156209
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Cory Doctorow's linkblog (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image Forget F1: the only car race that matters now is the race to turn your car into a digital extraction machine, a high-speed inkjet printer on wheels, stealing your private data as it picks your pocket. Your car's digital infrastructure is a costly, dangerous nightmare - but for automakers in pursuit of postcapitalist utopia, it's a dream they can't give up on. 1/
#15yrsago Elderly woman prohibited from photographing empty swimming pool “to prevent paedophilia” https://web.archive.org/web/20080726021844/https://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html
#15yrsago Living on the Edge: #DannyOBrien’s talk about moving our personal info off Web 2.0 and onto our computers https://www.oblomovka.com/wp/2008/07/24/video-from-living-on-the-edge-opentech-2008/
#15yrsago Cameraheads in Seattle protest #CCTVs in public places https://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/in_case_you_forgot_the_city_is_recording
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#15yrsago Yahoo Music shutting down its #DRM server, customers lose all their paid-for music the next time they crash or upgrade https://arstechnica.com/uncategorized/2008/07/drm-still-sucks-yahoo-music-going-dark-taking-keys-with-it/
#15yrsago British ISPs sign up for #surveillance and throttling of accused #FileSharers https://web.archive.org/web/20080908081432/http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article4387283.ece
#15yrsago Brit academics call for #BletchleyPark funding https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7517874.stm
#15yrsago New York #Yankees ban sunblock “to fight terrorism” — sell replacements at $5/oz https://nypost.com/2008/07/22/sunblockheads-at-the-stadium/
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#10yrsago Machine vision breakthrough: 100,000 objects recognized with a single CPU https://ai.googleblog.com/2013/06/fast-accurate-detection-of-100000.html
#10yrsago Book-scanning brings the 19th century to life https://www.chronicle.com/blogs/conversation/2013/07/22/how-google-rediscovered-the-19th-century/
#10yrsago 14-year-old girl who was called a “whore” for her #ProChoice sign expresses disappointment in adult world https://web.archive.org/web/20130723222641/http://www.xojane.com/issues/billy-cain-tuesday-cain-jesus-isnt-a-dick-so-keep-him-out-of-my-vagina
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