Cory DoctorowToday's threads (a thread)
Inside: When the app turns you into a robo-scab; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/30/computer-says-scab/
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Today (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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When the app turns you into a robo-scab: The implacable, inarguable tactics of disciplinary technology.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/110804039638996432
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Cory Doctorow's linkblog (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image When we talk about the abuses of #GigWork, there's some obvious targets, like #AlgorithmicWageDiscrimination, where two workers are paid different rates for the same job, in order to trick occasional gig-workers to give up their other sources of income and become dependent on the app: https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/12/algorithmic-wage-discrimination/#fishers-of-men -- If you'd like an essay-formatted version to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog: https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/30/computer-says-scab/#instawork 1/
Hey look at this
* The Coming #Enshittification of Public #Libraries https://karawynn.substack.com/p/the-coming-enshittification-of-public-libraries
* #LindseyGraham and #ElizabethWarren: We Must Regulate #BigTech https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/27/opinion/lindsey-graham-elizabeth-warren-big-tech-regulation.html (h/t Slashdot)
* #FTC readies lawsuit that could break up #Amazon https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/25/ftc-lawsuit-break-up-amazon-00108130
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#20yrsago Briefing the court on Fuck https://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/crime/passionate-defense-f-word
#15yrsago UK’s ISP-record industry deal won’t stop infringement, but will make it harder for the record industry to cash in https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2008/jul/29/internet.digitalmusic
#15yrsago #TSA destroys the #RepRap’s first child http://blog.reprap.org/2008/07/tsa-really-wreck-reprap-child.html
#15yrsago To destroy Al Qaeda, we must end the war on terror: Rand Corporation https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9351.html
#15yrsago RIP #HarrietBurns, first woman #Imagineer https://web.archive.org/web/20080917032505/http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/07/29/state/n164319D19.DTL&tsp=1
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#10yrsago Dentist sued over “I own your criticism” agreement vanishes https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/07/dentist-who-used-copyright-to-silence-her-patients-is-on-the-run/
#10yrsago #Rotolight sends fraudulent takedown notice to censor unfavorable review https://notesonvideo.blogspot.com/2013/07/using-copyright-infringement-claim-to.html
#10yrsago MIT report on #AaronSwartz's prosecution is out, and it's a "whitewash" https://tarensk.tumblr.com/post/56881327662/mit-report-is-a-whitewash-my-statement-in
#10yrsago US spies supplied intelligence on investigative journalist to NZ military http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/8972743/US-spy-agencies-eavesdrop-on-Kiwi
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#10yrsago Kill City Blues: #SandmanSlim versus the elder gods of the dead mall https://memex.craphound.com/2013/07/30/kill-city-blues-sandman-slim-versus-the-elder-gods-of-the-dead-mall/
#10yrsago #RandallMunroe finishes “Time,” the 3,099-panel XKCD serial http://geekwagon.net/projects/xkcd1190/
#5yrsago Why #DemocraticSocialists aren’t afraid to call themselves “#Socialist” anymore https://jacobin.com/2018/07/socialism-democracy-liberals-conservatives/
#5yrsago Why would a company give free tablets to prisons for inmate use? https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2018/07/24/no-cost-contract/
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#5yrsago Seattle passes America’s most comprehensive labor protections for domestic workers https://truthout.org/articles/seattle-domestic-workers-win-most-comprehensive-bill-of-rights-in-us/
#5yrsago #QuietSkies: Air Marshals are following thousands of random Americans through airports and on planes, for no articulatable purpose https://apps.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/graphics/2018/07/tsa-quiet-skies/?p1=HP_SpecialTSA
#5yrsago #SachaBaronCohen confronts #RoyMoore with a beeping “pedophile detector” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kaJaDx51iw
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#5yrsago Universal, having learned nothing from its “dancing baby” ass-kicking, is once again attacking Prince fans https://www.techdirt.com/2018/07/30/universal-right-back-it-issuing-dmca-reporters-video-prince-fans-singing-purple-rain/
#5yrsago Wall Street #landlords are slumlords https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-housing-invitation/
#5yrsago GOP candidate who campaigned with a white supremacist condemned for #BigfootErotica https://www.huffpost.com/entry/bigfoot-porn-house-race-virginia_n_5b5ec4f5e4b0de86f4988800
#5yrsago #JohnOliver’s scorching debullshitification of Facebook’s apology ads https://www.vice.com/en/article/bjb745/john-oliver-facebook-ads-last-week-tonight
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Universal Right Back At It Issuing A DMCA For A Reporter's Video Of Prince Fans Singing 'Purple Rain'
In the Lenz v. Universal case, otherwise known as the Dancing Baby DMCA case, it can hardly be argued otherwise than the whole saga was wildly irritating and painfully lengthy. Years of fighting ov…
#1yrago Spending $200b to relocated doomed communities will save $1T https://pluralistic.net/2022/07/29/managed-retreat/#reality-based-communities
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Cory Doctorow's linkblog (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image Today's threads (a thread) Inside: Tesla's Dieselgate; and more! Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/28/edison-not-tesla/ #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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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:
* how big tech makes the internet worse (What's Gonna Happen)
https://www.stitcher.com/show/what-s-gonna-happen/episode/how-big-tech-makes-the-internet-worse-with-cory-doctorow-305645071
* 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/
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What's Gonna Happen - how big tech makes the internet worse, with cory doctorow on Stitcher
how are people like bezos, zuck, and musk able to destroy the online world a little more every day? this week evangelia and emily are excited to host renowned journalist, science fiction author, and digital rights activist, cory doctorow to discuss how exactly internet platforms cut corners to take us for all we’ve got and what we can do about it. all of the links to cory’s content are available at https://pluralistic.net/ and https://craphound.com/
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Here's today's edition: https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/30/computer-says-scab/
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My latest Medium column is "Microincentives and Enshittification: How the Curse of Bigness wrecked Google Search"
https://doctorow.medium.com/microincentives-and-enshittification-574290ea196f
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