Cory DoctorowToday's threads (a thread)
Inside: Copyright takedowns are a cautionary tale that few are heeding; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/06/27/nuke-first/
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On July 14, I'm giving the closing keynote for the fifteenth Hackers On Planet Earth, in Queens, NY:
https://www.hope.net/talks.html
On July 20, I'm appearing at Chicago's Exile in Bookville:
https://exileinbookville.com/events/39808
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Copyright takedowns are a cautionary tale that few are heeding: If you can't post a law school symposium on fair use...
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112689711815521415
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Cory Doctorow (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image We're living through one of those moments when millions of people become suddenly and overwhelmingly interested in fair use, one of the subtlest and worst-understood aspects of copyright law. It's not a subject you can master by skimming a Wikipedia article! -- 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/2024/06/27/nuke-first/#ask-questions-never 1/
Hey look at this
* Why Silicon Valley loves Donald Trump. Hint: scams https://www.salon.com/2024/06/24/a-viral-blog-post-from-a-bureaucrat-exposes-why-tech-billionaires-fear-biden-and-fund/ (h/t Wil Wheaton)
* User in the Middle: An Interoperability and Security Guide for Policymakers https://dfrlab.org/2024/06/24/user-in-the-middle-an-interoperability-and-security-guide-for-policymakers/#executive-summary
* KAMIKAZE L'AMOUR: Nervous Breakdown Edition https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kamikazerk/kamikaze-lamour
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#15yrsago Myths about Canadian healthcare https://www.denverpost.com/2009/06/04/debunking-canadian-health-care-myths/
#15yrsago Abstinence doesn’t work for IT or for teens https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2009/jun/16/computer-security-abstinence
#15yrsago Scam artists con Apple into killing app that tells you when the bus is due in San Francisco https://web.archive.org/web/20090627161346/http://sfappeal.com/news/2009/06/who-owns-sfmta-arrival-data.php
#10yrsago US inches towards decriminalizing phone unlocking https://www.techdirt.com/2014/06/25/year-half-later-unlocking-your-phone-one-step-closer-to-being-legal/
#10yrsago North Korea threatens “merciless” war against the US over Seth Rogen movie https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-28014069
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#10yrsago Copyfraud, uncertainty and doubt: the vanishing online public domain https://medium.com/@xor/houston-we-have-a-public-domain-problem-bd971c57dfdc
#10yrsago @cstross on the stop/go nature of technological change https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2014/06/yapcna-2014-keynote-programmin.html
#10yrsago Lurking inside Obama’s secret drone law: another secret drone law https://www.techdirt.com/2014/06/25/enough-secret-law-newly-released-doj-drone-killing-justification-memo-points-to-another-secret-drone-memo/
#10yrsago Kleargear must pay $306,750 for trashing a complaining customer’s credit https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/06/kleargear-must-pay-306750-to-couple-that-left-negative-review/
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#5yrsago Podcast number 300: “Adversarial Interoperability: Reviving an Elegant Weapon From a More Civilized Age to Slay Today’s Monopolies” https://ia903004.us.archive.org/11/items/Cory_Doctorow_Podcast_300/Cory_Doctorow_Podcast_300_-_Adversarial_Interoperability.mp3
#5yrsago How China ingests and adapts western culture https://aeon.co/essays/how-china-remakes-its-cultural-imports-from-the-west
#5yrsago Prosecutors and federal judges collaborate with corporations to seal evidence of public safety risks, sentencing hundreds of thousands of Americans to death https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-courts-secrecy-judges/
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#5yrsago EU expert panel calls for a ban on AI-based risk-scoring and limits on mass surveillance https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/26/18759447/eu-ai-ethical-policy-recommendations-ban-mass-scoring-surveillance
#5yrsago You treasure what you measure: how KPIs make software dystopias https://web.archive.org/web/20190622092434/https://datascience.columbia.edu/ethical-principles-okrs-and-kpis-what-youtube-and-facebook-could-learn-tukey#.XRMxf5DB5eg.twitter
#5yrsago Insulin: why the price of a 100-year-old drug has tripled in a decade https://prospect.org/health/insulin-racket/
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EU should ban AI-powered citizen scoring and mass surveillance, say experts
The EU has released a new report on how it can implement AI in a trustworthy and “human-centric” manner. The report includes recommendations from policy experts that the EU ban the use of AI for “mass-scoring” of citizens’ behavior, and restrict the use of AI for mass surveillance.
Yesterday's threads: Inside: Cleantech has an enshittification problem; and more!
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112684263858179640
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Cory Doctorow (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image Today's threads (a thread) Inside: Cleantech has an enshittification problem; and more! Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/06/26/unplanned-obsolescence/ #Pluralistic 1/
My latest nationally bestselling novel is "The Bezzle," an ice-cold revenge story of high-tech finance crime starring the forensic accountant Martin Hench:
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250865878/thebezzle
Signed copies from Chevalier's Books:
https://www.chevaliersbooks.com/product-page/the-bezzle
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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
Both are national bestsellers!
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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:
* HOPE XV, Jul 14 (Queens, NY)
https://www.hope.net/talks.html
* Exile in Bookville, (Chicago), July 20
https://exileinbookville.com/events/39808
* American Association of Law Libraries keynote (Chicago), Jul 21
https://www.aallnet.org/conference/agenda/keynote-speaker/
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Recent appearances:
* Living Your Principles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTfqxF5KyCc
* Reimagining the Internet
https://publicinfrastructure.org/podcast/102-cory-doctorow-enshittification/
* Circulating ideas
https://circulatingideas.com/2024/06/11/261-the-bezzle-by-cory-doctorow-summer-reading-spectacular/
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Living Your Principles with Cory Doctorow (JT talks Politics and Technology)
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On July 14, I'm giving the closing keynote for the fifteenth Hackers On Planet Earth, in Queens, NY:
https://www.hope.net/talks.html
On July 20, I'm appearing at Chicago's Exile in Bookville:
https://exileinbookville.com/events/39808
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Support me this summer on the Clarion Write-A-Thon and help raise money for the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers' Workshop!
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