Going to #BurningMan? Catch me Tues/1440h on Center Camp Stage for a talk about #enshittification; Weds 12h,hosting #PatrickBall at #LiminalLabs (6:15/F) for a talk on using statistics to prove high-level culpability in the recruitment of child soldiers.

Sep 6/19h, I'm hosting #NaomiKlein at #LAPublicLibrary for *Doppelganger*:

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374610326/doppelganger

Sep 9/19h, I'm at #Toronto's Another Story Bookshop with *The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation*:

https://anotherstory.ca/?q=h
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Podcasting "Enshitternet": The old, good internet deserves a new, good internet.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/110934185455366176

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Hey look at this

* Our Economy Thrives on Bad Feelings https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/18/opinion/inequality-insecurity-economic-wealth.html (h/t Naked Capitalism)

* Watch an early performance by the #TalkingHeads at The Kitchen in 1976 https://boingboing.net/2023/08/21/watch-an-early-performance-by-the-talking-heads-at-the-kitchen-in-1976.html

* Related to Items You've Viewed https://futurama.fandom.com/wiki/Related_to_Items_You%27ve_Viewed

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#20yrsago US goverment trying to sink #WIPO #OpenContent talks https://archives.lessig.org/indexcd0e.html?p=2321

#20yrsago #GilbertoGil supports CD-burning automats https://web.archive.org/web/20031001111038/https://www.estadao.com.br/divirtase/noticias/2003/ago/19/30.htm

#20yrsago Out of Blue Six: a lost gem https://memex.craphound.com/2003/08/21/out-of-blue-six-a-lost-gem/

#20yrsago Paramilitary wing of the #usability movement https://web.archive.org/web/20030823183246/http://www.oblomovka.com/entries/2003/08/19#1061283840

#20yrsago #AnalFissures in a nutshell http://www.ambiguous.org/quinn/medical/fissure.html

#20yrsago Beyond Fear: Required reading for #AshcroftsAmerica https://memex.craphound.com/2003/08/21/beyond-fear-required-reading-for-ashcrofts-america/

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#15yrsago UK gov’t loses 4 million citizens’ personal info https://cdn.computerworld.co.nz/article/494185/data_four_million_lost_one_year_uk/

#15yrsago #SlimGaillard’s #Vout dictionary: jazz #hipster argot from the 30s https://web.archive.org/web/20080913131050/http://www.pocreations.com/vout.html

#15yrsago Are images of the early #MickeyMouse still copyrighted? https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-aug-22-fi-mickey22-story.html

#15yrsago McCain’s #DandD character stats https://www.wired.com/2008/08/john-mccain-cam/

#15yrsago #RandomHouse asks young adult writers to contractually promise not to behave immorally https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2008/aug/01/childrenswritersdontmisbeha

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#15yrsago #AustralianBroadcastingCorporation launches #CreativeCommons community media site https://web.archive.org/web/20080820022723/https://pool.org.au/

#15yrsago #LittleSammySneeze: #WinsorMcCay’s anarchic precurson to #LittleNemoInSlumberland, now a beautiful, giant book https://memex.craphound.com/2008/08/20/little-sammy-sneeze-winsor-mccays-anarchic-precurson-to-little-nemo-in-slumberland-now-a-beautiful-giant-book/

#15yrsago #Printcrime in Portuguese https://cronicasredux.blogspot.com/2008/08/printcrime.html

#15yrsago Writer who photographed #HPLovecraft’s headstone ordered to delete her photo, heaped with abuse https://web.archive.org/web/20080831143307/http://greygirlbeast.livejournal.com/482449.html

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#15yrsago Cartoon depicts what went on in the #NSA’s #wiretapping room at AT&T https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/08/secret-room-eff-designers-cartoon-illegal-spying

#10yrsago #Groklaw shuts down over fears of email snooping http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20130818120421175

#10yrsago Anonymous #funeral director explains the big con behind the industry, coffins, and embalming https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1kfoy5/comment/cbp748j/

#10yrsago #BurningMan #drone rules https://web.archive.org/web/20130819020808/http://www.burningman.com/preparation/event_survival/drones.html#.UhF-LtHP1qY

#10yrsago The Expeditioners and the Treasure of Drowned Man’s Canyon https://memex.craphound.com/2013/08/20/the-expeditioners-and-the-treasure-of-drowned-mans-canyon/

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#10yrsago #EFF wins big: secret #FISA opinion will be released https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/08/eff-victory-results-expected-release-secret-court-opinion-finding-nsa-surveillance

#10yrsago UK Serious Crime Agency proposes ban on small cellphones that don’t look like phones https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-23782136

#10yrsago Swedish seventies #neoretrofuturism: the paintings of #SimonStålenhag http://www.simonstalenhag.se/index.html

#10yrsago How British spies exorcise a leak-haunted laptop https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/20/nsa-snowden-files-drives-destroyed-london

#10yrsago #DavidMiranda’s lawyers nastygram the UK government https://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2013/aug/20/david-miranda-letter-home-office

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#10yrsago EFF and #PublicResource fight back against copyrighted, paywalled laws https://www.eff.org/press/releases/publicresourceorg-fights-back-against-copyright-lawsuit

#10yrsago Monster and Chips: fun, gross-out chapter books https://memex.craphound.com/2013/08/21/monster-and-chips-fun-gross-out-chapter-books/

#5yrsago All versions of #Openssh share a critical vulnerability, including embedded code that will never be updated https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/vulnerability-affects-all-openssh-versions-released-in-the-past-two-decades/

#5yrsago Vulnerabilities in smart electric plugs give attackers a staging point for scanning and attacking your whole network https://www.theregister.com/2018/08/21/mcafee_flaws_smartplugs/

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#5yrsago #Taiwan’s legal #crowdsourcing tool is working surprisingly well to resolve thorny legislative problems https://www.technologyreview.com/2018/08/21/240284/the-simple-but-ingenious-system-taiwan-uses-to-crowdsource-its-laws/

#5yrsago The true story of #Notpetya: a Russian cyberweapon that escaped and did $10B in worldwide damage https://www.wired.com/story/notpetya-cyberattack-ukraine-russia-code-crashed-the-world/

#5yrsago European lawmaker writes post warning about dangers of automatic #CopyrightFilters, which is taken down by an automatic copyright filter https://www.techdirt.com/2018/08/21/automated-filter-removed-parliament-members-article-warning-about-censorship-automated-filters/

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#5yrsago The peculiar hazards of #megaprojects https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2424835

#5yrsago The #ClownEgg Register: photos of the painstakingly painted eggs that English clowns stake their faces on https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/8/20/17719884/clown-egg-register-luke-stephenson-helen-champion

#5yrsago How much would #UniversalHealthCare really cost? https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2018/08/calculate-costs-medicareforall-properly.html

#5yrsago 22 states jointly petition the Federal Circuit appeals court to reinstate #NetNeutrality https://web.archive.org/web/20181109180138/https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/ag-schneiderman-files-suit-stop-illegal-rollback-net-neutrality

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#5yrsago Amazon’s cloud business leads American companies in shifting its electric cost to taxpayers https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-20/amazon-isn-t-paying-its-electric-bills-you-might-be

#5yrsago Touring the haunting ruins of abandoned #SecondLife university campuses https://splinternews.com/we-took-a-tour-of-the-abandoned-college-campuses-of-sec-1793849944

#5yrsago #ElizabethWarren’s anti-#corruption bill bans foreign lobbyists, subjects domestic lobbyists to strong oversight https://theintercept.com/2018/08/21/elizabeth-warren-unveils-radical-anti-corruption-platform/

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#5yrsago Verizon to fire department: you’re exceeding your bandwidth while you fight wildfires, so we’re throttling you https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/08/verizon-throttled-fire-departments-unlimited-data-during-calif-wildfire/

#5yrsago Here’s the funniest, most scathing, most informative and most useful talk on #AIAndSecurity https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity18/presentation/mickens

#5yrsago #ZephyrTeachout wins the New York Times’s endorsement for Attorney General of New York State https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/19/opinion/zephyr-teachout-new-york-attorney-general.html

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#5yrsago Federal officers establish unconstitutional checkpoints on road to Burning Man https://memex.craphound.com/2018/08/22/federal-officers-establish-unconstitutional-checkpoints-on-road-to-burning-man/

#5yrsago Facebook sends man animation featuring cartoon characters dancing on his mother’s grave https://memex.craphound.com/2018/08/22/facebook-sends-man-animation-featuring-cartoon-characters-dancing-on-his-mothers-grave/

#1yrago Google falsely told the police that a father was a molesting his son https://pluralistic.net/2022/08/22/allopathic-risk/#snitches-get-stitches

#1yrago Workplace surveillance is coming for you: #EmpricismWashing as a form of #WageTheft https://pluralistic.net/2022/08/21/great-taylors-ghost/#solidarity-or-bust

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Saturday's threads: SoCal Gas spent millions on astroturf ops to fight climate rules; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/110916968854573063

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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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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."

https://craphound.com/shop/

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Upcoming appearances:

* #BurningMan Center Camp, 1430h, Aug 29
https://playaevents.burningman.org/2023/playa_events/03/

* @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

* 26th #ACM Conference On Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing keynote (#Minneapolis), Oct 16
https://cscw.acm.org/2023/index.php/keynotes/

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