I'm kickstarting the audiobook for "The Internet Con: How To #SeizeTheMeansOfComputation," a #BigTech disassembly manual to disenshittify the web and bring back the old, good internet. It's a #DRMFree book, which means #Audible won't carry it, so this crowdfunder is essential. Back now to get the audio, Verso hardcover and ebook:

http://seizethemeansofcomputation.org

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Open Circuits: The hidden beauty of electronics components.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/110888801839296421

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Hey look at this

* Notes on using a single-person #Mastodon server https://jvns.ca/blog/2023/08/11/some-notes-on-mastodon/ (h/t @nelson)

* The Best Noir Crime Thrillers https://fivebooks.com/best-books/noir-crime-thrillers-cory-doctorow/

* These Women Tried to Warn Us About #AI https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/women-warnings-ai-danger-risk-before-chatgpt-1234804367/

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#20yrsago #P2P network originates in #Palestinian refugee camp https://www.cnet.com/tech/home-entertainment/in-refugee-camp-a-p2p-outpost/

#15yrsago Man whose US immigration notice was sent to the wrong address is detained with untreated spinal cancer until he dies, denied access to his wife and children https://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/13/nyregion/13detain.html

#15yrsago #FreeCopyrightLicense upheld Fed Circuit Court of Appeals https://archives.lessig.org/index0d61.html?m=200808&paged=2

#10yrsago #Orwell explains Nineteen Eighty-Four https://www.thedailybeast.com/george-orwells-letter-on-why-he-wrote-1984

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#10yrsago First 100 pages of #AaronSwartz’s Secret Service files https://www.wired.com/2013/08/swartz-foia-release/

#10yrsago Ruling: Copying articles for patent lawyers’ reference is #FairUse https://web.archive.org/web/20130804061153/http://gigaom.com/2013/08/01/judge-says-patent-lawyers-have-right-to-science-articles-under-fair-use/

#10yrsago #NZ prime minister #JohnKey: We have to spy on you because al-Qaeda has training camps here. Also: FISH! https://web.archive.org/web/20130803111024/http://www.rotoruadailypost.co.nz/news/john-key-defends-Al-Qaeda-statement/1967860/

#10yrsago #WinCo: #WorkerOwned grocery chain that pays benefits, pensions, living wages — and has lower prices than WalMart https://business.time.com/2013/08/07/meet-the-low-key-low-cost-grocery-chain-being-called-wal-marts-worst-nightmare/

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#10yrsago Irish government updates its Freedom of Information law with exciting new “Computers don’t exist” provision https://www.mcgarrsolicitors.ie/2013/08/12/the-irish-state-wishes-to-uninvent-computers-with-new-foi-bill/

#10yrsago Cops accidentally record themselves admitting they harassed activist at rodeo owners’ request: “God, we’re gonna get sued” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgSfCxq0hdY

#5yrsago #Disney (yes, Disney) declares war on “overzealous copyright holders” https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/disney-takes-stand-overzealous-copyright-holders-1134645/

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#5yrsago #Qanon “codes” are consistent with an English-speaker mashing a QWERTY keyboard https://www.vice.com/en/article/9km87z/qanon-codes-are-random-typing

#5yrsago To rescue journalism, journalists must defend free expression, not merely condemning Trump https://dangillmor.medium.com/dear-journalists-the-war-on-what-you-do-is-escalating-eb584529a271

#5yrsago Leaked #FBI memo warns banks of looming “unlimited ATM cashout” https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/08/fbi-warns-of-unlimited-atm-cashout-blitz/

#5yrsago #PredatoryJournals aren’t just a scam: they’re also how quacks and corporate shills #sciencewash their bullshit https://www.vice.com/en/article/3ky45y/hundreds-of-researchers-from-harvard-yale-and-stanford-were-published-in-fake-academic-journals

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#5yrsago The platforms control our public discourse, and who they disconnect is arbitrary and capricious https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/beware-the-digital-censor/2018/08/12/997e28ea-9cd0-11e8-843b-36e177f3081c_story.html

#5yrsago None of the Above won the #2016Election https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/08/09/new-data-makes-it-clear-nonvoters-handed-trump-the-presidency/

#5yrsago English and Welsh local governments use “terrorism” as the excuse to block publication of commercial vacancies https://gijn.org/2018/08/14/meet-the-man-who-filed-1400-foi-requests-to-prove-data-acquisition-isnt-terrorism/

#5yrsago @KarlSchroeder'’s “The Million”: a science fiction conspiracy novel of radically altered timescales https://memex.craphound.com/2018/08/14/karl-schroeders-the-million-a-science-fiction-conspiracy-novel-of-radically-altered-timescales/

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#5yrsago UK visitors wait 2.5 hours to get through immigration at Heathrow https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-45165222

#5yrsago Hackers find exploitable vulnerabilities in #AmazonEcho, turn one into a listening device https://www.wired.com/story/hackers-turn-amazon-echo-into-spy-bug/

#5yrsago EU resolution aims to comprehensively limit “#PlannedObsolescence” https://www.retaildetail.eu/news/electronics/eu-aims-abolish-planned-obsolescence/

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Saturday's threads: Paying consumer debts is basically optional in the United States; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/110876931212057594

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My latest book is Red Team Blues, available wherever books are sold!

Signed copies at Dark Delicacies (US):

https://www.darkdel.com/store/p2873/Wed%2C_Apr_26th_6pm%3A_Red_Team_Blues%3A_A_Martin_Hench_Novel_HB.html#/

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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