Cory DoctorowToday's threads (a thread)
Inside: Kashmir Hill's "Your Face Belongs to Us"; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/20/steal-your-face/
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This Friday (September 22), I'm (virtually) presenting at the #DIGFestival in #Modena, Italy
https://dig-awards.org/en/dig-festival-2023-first-speakers-announced/
That night, I'll be in person at #LA's #BookSoup for the launch of #JustinCKey's "The World Wasn’t Ready for You"
https://www.booksoup.com/event/justin-c-key
On September 27, I'll be at Chevalier's Books in #LosAngeles with #BrianMerchant for a joint launch for my new book *The Internet Con* and his new book, *Blood in the Machine*:
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DIG Festival 2023, first speakers and title announced
From September 21 to 24 2023 Modena will once again become the international centre of investigative journalism, hosting talks, meetings, exhibitions, concerts, theatre performances and workshops. During the 4-days conference, DIG will bring nearly 100 events and speakers to the Italian city: among them Florence Aubenas, Cory Doctorow, Nicola Gratteri, Erik Gandini, Ana Juan, Daniela Pes and many more. The full speakers’ list will be revealed at the beginning of September.
Kashmir Hill's "Your Face Belongs to Us": A candid, whistleblower-informed history of Clearview AI.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/111097755013526196
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Cory Doctorow (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image *Your Face Belongs To Us* is #KashmirHill's new tell-all history of #ClearviewAI, the creepy facial recognition company whose origins are mired in far-right politics, off-the-books police misconduct, sales to authoritarian states and sleazy one-percenter one-upmanship: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/691288/your-face-belongs-to-us-by-kashmir-hill/ -- 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/2023/09/20/steal-your-face/#hoan-ton-that 1/
Hey look at this
* Mastoreader https://mastoreader.io/ (h/t Deborah Hartmann Preuss)
* #Framework Mainboard powers this modular, upgradable handheld gaming PC https://liliputing.com/framework-mainboard-powers-this-modular-upgradable-handheld-gaming-pc/ (h/t Slashdot)
* Danish artist must repay funding after submitting empty frames titled "Take the money and run" https://boingboing.net/2023/09/19/danish-artist-must-repay-funding-after-submitting-empty-frames-titled-take-the-money-and-run.html
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#20yrsago Fed cop slams #Verisign https://web.archive.org/web/20030923083005/http://dnm.sieve.net/tdw/2003_09_01_entry.html
#15yrsago #Cybersquatters register domains for potential bank-mergers https://www.theguardian.com/business/2008/sep/21/technology.banking
#10yrsago Implementing a #TuringMachine in #Excel https://www.felienne.com/archives/2974
#10yrsago #Ryanair vows to reduce fewer customers to tears https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-24171384
#10yrsago #JungleBoat skipper gives a tour of the wall around the construction site https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DakW1GtyTVA
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#10yrsago Terms and Conditions May Apply: documentary about abusive license terms, #privacy and #surveillance https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/sep/19/data-digital-identity-cullen-hoback
#5yrsago Defunct Vancouver tech retailer’s servers sold off, containing credit cards and other customer details https://www.eteknix.com/ncix-database-servers-sold-craigslist-without-wiped/
#5yrsago California farm lobby’s sellout to #JohnDeere will cost its members their #RightToRepair https://www.wired.com/story/john-deere-farmers-right-to-repair/
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#5yrsago Middle school cop who arrested seventh graders “to prove a point” may yet face consequences https://www.techdirt.com/2018/09/20/ninth-circuit-says-no-you-fucking-may-not-arrest-bunch-middle-school-students-to-prove-point/
#5yrsago #PuertoRico is a #TaxHaven for rich mainlanders and is also too broke to survive hurricanes: are these facts possibly related, somehow? https://www.gq.com/story/how-puerto-rico-became-tax-haven-for-super-rich
#5yrsago Carriers to #FCC: Americans would totally be happy with throttled, capped wireless at home instead of home fiber https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/09/despite-data-caps-and-throttling-industry-says-mobile-can-replace-home-internet/
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#5yrsago Nature’s greatest con-artists: the parasitic beetles that trick ants into barfing into their mouths https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJ-k0TBwvL0
#5yrsago #SupremeCourt decision will rip away Dark Money’s veil of secrecy https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/09/19/supreme-court-decision-dark-money-were-about-know-lot-more-about-who-funding-our
#5yrsago As Canada-US trade-war draws nigh, so does the threat to nationalise US pharma patents https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/canadian-officials-mulling-attack-u-s-pharma-says-ottawa-lawyer-165038690.html
#5yrsago Europe’s copyright catastrophe is a harbinger of bad times for Canadians https://macleans.ca/opinion/the-spectre-of-bad-internet-laws-in-europe-should-be-a-warning-shot-for-canadians/
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Myrmecophiles: beetles living in an ant nest!
#1yrago Book-banning wingnuts are a tiny, vocal minority https://pluralistic.net/2022/09/20/the-moral-majority/#is-neither
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Yesterday's threads: Justin C Key's "The World Wasn't Ready For You"; and more!
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/111091793217285873
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Cory Doctorow (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image Today's threads (a thread) Inside: Justin C Key's "The World Wasn't Ready For You"; and more! Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/19/justin-c-key/ #Pluralistic 1/
My latest nonfiction book is "The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation" from Verso Books:
http://seizethemeansofcomputation.org
Signed copies available from Book Soup:
https://www.booksoup.com/book/9781804291245
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My latest novel 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 ebooks and audiobooks (from Tor Books, Head of Zeus, McSweeneys, Beacon, Verso 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:
* DIG Festival (#Modena, Italy), Sept 22
https://dig-awards.org/en/dig-festival-2023-first-speakers-announced/
* Launch for #JustinCKey's "The World Wasn’t Ready for You," #BookSoup (#LA), Sept 22
https://www.booksoup.com/event/justin-c-key
* Launch for "#TheInternetCon" and @brianmerchant's "#BloodInTheMachine," Chevalier's Books (#LA), Sept 27
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-internet-con-by-cory-doctorow-blood-in-the-machine-by-brian-merchant-tickets-696349940417
* An Evening with #VESchwab (#Boise), Oct 2
https://www.thecabinidaho.org/all-events/ve-schwab
* Wired Nextfest/#WNF23 (#Milano), Oct 7-8
https://eventi.wired.it/nextfest23-milano
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DIG Festival 2023, first speakers and title announced
From September 21 to 24 2023 Modena will once again become the international centre of investigative journalism, hosting talks, meetings, exhibitions, concerts, theatre performances and workshops. During the 4-days conference, DIG will bring nearly 100 events and speakers to the Italian city: among them Florence Aubenas, Cory Doctorow, Nicola Gratteri, Erik Gandini, Ana Juan, Daniela Pes and many more. The full speakers’ list will be revealed at the beginning of September.
Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* #TheInternetCon at #MoonPalaceBooks (#Minneapolis), Oct 15
https://moonpalacebooks.com/events/30127
* 26th #ACM Conference On Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing keynote (#Minneapolis), Oct 16
https://cscw.acm.org/2023/index.php/keynotes/
* 41st annual McCreight Lecture in the Humanities (#Charleston, WV), Oct 19
https://festivallcharleston.com/venue/university-of-charleston/
* Seizing the Means of Computation (Edinburgh Futures Institute), Oct 25
https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/seizing-the-means-of-computation-with-cory-doctorow/
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Recent appearances:
* The #JimRutt Show
https://www.jimruttshow.com/cory-doctorow-2/
* How to Take Back the Internet (Wired Have a Nice Future)
https://www.wired.com/story/have-a-nice-future-podcast-21/
* Sci-fi and Amazon's empire (The Workers' Speculative Society)
https://soundcloud.com/reimaginevalue/doctorow
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