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Inside: Tesla's Dieselgate; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/28/edison-not-tesla/
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This Sunday (July 30) at 1530h, I'm appearing on a panel at #MidsummerScream in #LongBeach, CA, to discuss the wonderful, award-winning "#GhostPost" #HauntedMansion project I worked on for #Disney #Imagineering:
https://fan.guru/c/midsummerscream2023/e/64ac3e7a5b73190012feedaa
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Tesla's Dieselgate: How DRM let Tesla defraud every one of its customers.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/110791855391524106
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Cory Doctorow's linkblog (@pluralistic@mamot.fr)
Attached: 1 image Elon Musk lies a lot. He lies about being a "utopian socialist." He lies about being a "free speech absolutist." He lies about which companies he founded: https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-cofounder-martin-eberhard-interview-history-elon-musk-ev-market-2023-2 -- 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/2023/07/28/edison-not-tesla/#demon-haunted-world 1/
Hey look at this
* How the Ultrawealthy Use Private Foundations to Bank Millions in Tax Deductions While Giving the Public Little in Return https://www.propublica.org/article/how-private-nonprofits-ultrawealthy-tax-deductions-museums-foundation-art
* How a start-up built the search engine of the future — and then died https://www.theverge.com/23802382/search-engine-google-neeva-android
* On successor states and websites https://going-medieval.com/2023/07/26/on-successor-states-and-websites/
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How the Ultrawealthy Use Private Foundations to Bank Millions in Tax Deductions While Giving the Public Little in Return
It’s a simple bargain: The rich get huge tax breaks by donating art, property and company shares to benefit the public. But some donors collect millions while offering little or no public access.
#20yrsago #WashingtonPost embarasses itself with wifi FUD https://web.archive.org/web/20040820233734/http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A51284-2003Jul26
#15yrsago Super Man and the Bugout reading: what if Superman had been a nice Jewish boy from Toronto https://ia801603.us.archive.org/5/items/TheSuperManAndTheBugout/SMBO.mp3
#15yrsago Law prof and cop agree: never ever ever ever ever ever ever talk to the cops about a crime, even if you’re innocent http://www.tuccille.com/blog/2008/07/eight-reasons-even-innocent-shouldnt.html
#15yrsago Candian band staples CC-licensed CDs to phone-poles with anti-Canadian-DMCA messages https://web.archive.org/web/20080801204812/https://torontoist.com/2008/07/the_craft_economy_kill_bill_c61.php
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#15yrsago UK tech-czar’s ridiculous, fatuous podcast interview — hilarious gag interview https://web.archive.org/web/20080804093334/https://fishnchippapers.typepad.com/tomorrow_fish_n_chip_pape/2008/07/if-ever-there-was-a-clear-statement-of-what-is-wrong-with-transformational-government-and-the-nis.html
#15yrsago Uni of Nottingham: Grad students researching #terrorism aren’t allowed to look at terrorist documents on US anti-terror gov’t sites https://web.archive.org/web/20160315042221/https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/researchers-have-no-right-to-study-terrorist-materials/402844.article?sectioncode=26&storycode=402844
#10yrsago Researcher wins #NSA cyber-security prize, says freedom is incompatible with the NSA “in its current form” https://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2013/07/19/nsa-award-for-best-scientific-cybersecurity-paper/
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#10yrsago Bank forecloses on wrong house, changes locks, steals tons of stuff, won’t compensate owner in full https://www.popehat.com/2013/07/26/want-to-burglarize-a-house-with-impunity-then-nickle-and-dime-the-restitution-it-helps-to-be-a-bank/
#10yrsago Canadian #Tories distribute fake Braille flyers about disabled initiative https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/conservative-flyers-on-disabled-initiatives-contain-fake-braille/article_e500f631-3cc1-5b81-b4a3-db7f0b7edb2d.html
#10yrsago At #VW’s request, English court censors #UsenixSecurity presentation on keyless entry systems for luxury cars https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/jul/26/scientist-banned-revealing-codes-cars
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Want To Burglarize A House With Impunity, Then Nickle-And-Dime The Restitution? It Helps To Be A Bank. | Popehat
One common criticism of the libertarian ethos is that if we reduce government control over society, big business will have unchecked power over our lives, so that we will merely be trading one type of control for another. But concern with corporate power is not inconsistent with libertarianism, as Clark illustrated in his post on
#10yrsago Bribery: pro-#NSA Congressional voters got twice the defense industry campaign contributions https://www.wired.com/2013/07/money-nsa-vote/
#10yrsago NSA college recruiting ad, 1976 https://www.flickr.com/photos/joeholmes/9384778371/lightbox/
#10yrsago NV court marshal sexually assaults woman, then arrests her for complaining while judge looks on https://web.archive.org/web/20130726035500/https://www.8newsnow.com/story/21557505/cover-up-alleged-in-clark-clark-family-court
#10yrsago Zero tolerance schools and cops: kids are not perps https://www.techdirt.com/2013/07/26/zero-tolerance-policies-put-students-hands-bad-cops/
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Lawmakers Who Upheld NSA Phone Spying Received Double the Defense Industry Cash
House members who voted to continue the NSA's domestic phone-spying dragnet on Wednesday received more than double the campaign financing from the defense and intelligence industry than those voting to end the program, according to a new analysis commissioned by WIRED.
#10yrsago Notes from the ducking stool: wget as evidence of guilt at the Manning trial https://jacobin.com/2013/07/bradley-manning-on-trial/
#10yrsago Who is America at war with? Sorry, that’s classified https://www.propublica.org/article/who-are-we-at-war-with-thats-classified
#5yrsago #Disneyland will raise park employees’ minimum wage to $15 https://money.cnn.com/2018/07/27/news/companies/disneyland-workers-pay-15-an-hour/index.html
#5yrsago #Ghanaian parliament erupts into giggles as MPs learn about towns called “Vagina is Wise,” “Penis is a Fool” and “Testicles are Sad” https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-44982570
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#5yrsago The future of “#FakeNews”: Pepsi gets Facebook to censor jokes about plastic in its Kurkure corn puffs https://gizmodo.com/facebook-forced-to-block-20-000-posts-about-snack-food-1827892990
#5yrsago #UniversalBasicIncome vs #JobsGuarantees: which one will make us happier? https://timharford.com/2018/07/the-secret-to-happiness-after-the-robot-takeover/
#5yrsago The #HousingMarket in America’s most expensive cities is imploding https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-26/american-housing-market-is-showing-signs-of-running-out-of-steam
#5yrsago #VoiceAssistants suck, but they suck worse if you have an “accent” https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/business/alexa-does-not-understand-your-accent/
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Facebook Forced to Block 20,000 Posts About Snack Food Conspiracy After PepsiCo Sues: Report
PepsiCo really doesn’t want anyone talking shit about its corn puffs online. There is a rumor that Kurkure, a corn puff product developed by the company in India, is made of plastic. The conspiracy theory naturally thrived online, where people posted mocking videos and posts questioning whether the snack contained…
#5yrsago The #ACLU showed that Amazon’s #FacialRecognition system thinks members of Congress are felons, so now Congress is taking action https://www.aclunc.org/blog/amazon-s-face-recognition-falsely-matched-28-members-congress-mugshots
#5yrsago #FourThievesVinegarCollective: DIY #epipens were just the start, now it’s home bioreactors to thwart #BigPharma’s price-gouging https://www.vice.com/en/article/43pngb/how-to-make-your-own-medicine-four-thieves-vinegar-collective
#5yrsago Android’s keyboard will no longer autocomplete “sit” with “on my face” thanks to me https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/nicolenguyen/sit-on-my-face-android-autocomplete
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Amazon’s Face Recognition Falsely Matched 28 Members of Congress With Mugshots | ACLU of Northern CA
In a test the ACLU recently conducted of Amazon's facial recognition tool, called “Rekognition,” the software incorrectly matched 28 members of Congress, identifying them as other people who have been arrested for a crime. The false matches were disproportionately of people of color.
#5yrsago The Russian equivalent to Alexa is a “good girl” but not too friendly, and is OK with wife-beating https://aeon.co/essays/can-emotion-regulating-tech-translate-across-cultures
#5yrsago Calgary malls caught secretly using #FacialRecognition to characterise shoppers’ age and gender https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/calgary-malls-1.4760964
#5yrsago The Cyberdeck: a homebrew, #3DPrinted #CyberspaceDeck https://www.reddit.com/r/Cyberpunk/comments/8yyayp/just_designed_and_3d_printed_a_cyberdeck_time_to/
#5yrsago Trumpian #Ontario premier #DougFord will gut Toronto’s city council to punish his Tory rivals https://www.thestar.com/politics/provincial/ford-to-slash-toronto-city-council-to-25-councillors-from-47-sources-say/article_8d99a5f5-caeb-58d2-a6eb-1db261560a02.html?
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#5yrsago #JamesComey: A freak of nature with the power to cloud liberals’ minds https://clickhole.com/step-right-up-and-feast-your-eyes-on-the-unfathomable-c-1825329399/
#1yrago #PeterThiel's evil, but he's not an "evil genius": How to criticize self-mythologizing villains https://pluralistic.net/2022/07/28/descartes-was-an-optimist/#ordinary-mediocrity
#1yrago Your computer is tormented by a wicked god: Bootkits are why we can't have nice things https://pluralistic.net/2022/07/28/descartes-was-an-optimist/#uh-oh
#1yrago Dashcam repo: Cruising the streets with a license plate camera to win debt-collector bounties https://pluralistic.net/2022/07/27/boricua/#looking-for-the-joke-with-a-microscope
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#1yrago "War Against All Puerto Ricans" https://pluralistic.net/2022/07/27/boricua/#que-viva-albizu
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Wednesday's threads: The surprising truth about data-driven dictatorships; and more!
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/110781307327757628
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My latest book is Red Team Blues, available wherever books are sold!
Signed copies at Dark Delicacies (US):
and Forbidden Planet (UK):
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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
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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:
* Midsummer Scream (Long Beach), Jul 30
https://midsummerscream.org/
* #Armadillocon (#Austin), Aug 4-6
https://armadillocon.org/d45/
* @defcon (#LasVegas), Aug 12
https://defcon.org/
* @eff Awards (#SanFrancisco), Sept 14
https://www.eff.org/awards/effawards/2023
* An Evening with #VESchwab (#DesMoines), Oct 2
https://www.thecabinidaho.org/all-events/ve-schwab
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Recent appearances:
* Let The Platforms Burn: Bringing Back the Good Fire of the Old Internet (#IETF 117)
https://youtu.be/nK7JoGhF338?t=737
* Techdirt Podcast
https://www.techdirt.com/2023/07/25/techdirt-podcast-episode-359-red-team-blues-part-two-with-cory-doctorow/
* Cannibal Corp (New Models podcast)
https://soundcloud.com/newmodels/private-cannibal-corp-w-cory-doctorow-nm66
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ternajesusmaryjosephson. i'm loving @pluralistic 's recent run with the "technofeudalism" theme.
feeling it soak into how i read so many other things. like the Policy Tensor piece @70sbachchan posted yesterday.
https://policytensor.com/2019/06/02/discourse-reality-and-strategy-in-the-planetary-impasse/
