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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#10yrsago #Goths of #Kenya https://thinkafricapress.com/goth-nairobi/
#10yrsago 3-Bee printing: tricking bees into making wax sculptures https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/film-80-000-bees-work-together-in-a-mould-to-make-a-3d-sculpture
#5yrsago Half a billion #IoT devices inside of businesses can be hacked through decade-old #DNSRebinding attacks https://www.armis.com/blog/dns-rebinding-exposes-half-a-billion-devices-in-the-enterprise/
#5yrsago Europe fines four electronics companies $130,000,000 for #PriceFixing https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/24/europe-fines-asus-denon-marantz-philips-pioneer-for-fixing-prices.html
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A Day in the Life of a Kenyan Goth - Think Africa Press
All dressed in black and adorned with piercings, a small but growing community of goths is one manifestation of the new cultures and subcultures emerging in Kenya. By Rowan Emslie Nairobi, Kenya: David Lith is a tattoo artist working out of Nakuru, the third largest urban centre in Kenya. On weekends he embarks on a […] More
#5yrsago #Liberaltarianism: Silicon Valley’s emerging ideology of “disruption with economic airbags” https://www.wired.com/story/political-education-silicon-valley/
#5yrsago Court orders carriers to remotely brick phones that have been smuggled into prisons https://apnews.com/article/ccd7b6429a7f43228f88c17ca469c92c
#5yrsago Voice assistants suck (empirically) https://www.nngroup.com/articles/intelligent-assistant-usability/
#5yrsago Illinois’s “anti-corruption” Republican governor handed out $300,000 in cash at a campaign rally https://www.politico.com/story/2018/07/23/illinois-governor-rauner-cash-giveaway-736244
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#5yrsago America’s economic growth has come from subprime borrowing by the poorest 60% https://web.archive.org/web/20180724011828/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-economy-consumers-insight/mortgage-groupon-and-card-debt-how-the-bottom-half-bolsters-u-s-economy-idUSKBN1KD0EM
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Mortgage, Groupon and card debt: how the bottom half bolsters U.S. economy
By almost every measure, the U.S. economy is booming. But a look behind the headlines of roaring job growth and consumer spending reveals how the boom continues in large part by the poorer half of Americans fleecing their savings and piling up debt.
Yesterday's threads: The art of Daniel Danger; and more!
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/110764391393395358
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Cory Doctorow's linkblog (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image Today's threads (a thread) Inside: The art of Daniel Danger; and more! Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/23/but-i-know-what-i-like/ #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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Andrés (personal views)@pluralistic
Reading Chokepoint Capitalism now. I wonder if the current #writersStrike2023 will change any of the really bad deals!
Keen to read Red Team Blues!