Cory DoctorowToday's threads (a thread)
Inside: Cars bricked by bankrupt EV company will stay bricked; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/10/10/software-based-car/
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On October 23 at 7PM, I'll be in Decatur, presenting my novel *The Bezzle* at Eagle Eye Books:
https://eagleeyebooks.com/event/2024-10-23/cory-doctorow
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Cars bricked by bankrupt EV company will stay bricked: "Software-based car" is a warning, not a slogan.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113284664394100845
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Cory Doctorow (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image There are few phrases in the modern lexicon more accursed than "software-based car," and yet, this is how the failed EV maker Fisker billed its products, which retailed for $40-70k in the few short years before the company collapsed, shut down its servers, and degraded all those "software-based cars": https://insideevs.com/news/723669/fisker-inc-bankruptcy-chapter-11-official/ 1/
Hey look at this
* Wait Til Daddy Gets Home: America's Sad, Craven, Masochistic Relationship with the Republican Party https://catvalente.substack.com/p/wait-til-daddy-gets-home-americas
* @molly0xfff at XOXO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTaeVVAvk-c
* FTC Findings on Commercial Surveillance Can Lead to Better Alternatives https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/10/ftc-findings-commercial-surveillance-can-lead-better-alternatives
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#15yrsago Hallowe’en is safe https://freerangekids.wordpress.com/2009/10/12/goodbye-halloween-hello-safety/
#15yrsago Big Entertainment’s century-long technophobic binge https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2009/10/100-years-of-big-content-fearing-technologyin-its-own-words/
#10yrsago Laura Poitras’s Citizenfour: the real story of Edward Snowden https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/nyff-edward-snowden-doc-citizenfour-740060/
#10yrsago There’s no back door that only works for good guys https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/oct/09/crypto-wars-redux-why-the-fbis-desire-to-unlock-your-private-life-must-be-resisted
#10yrsago Buzz Lightyear cited in legal brief https://www.loweringthebar.net/2014/10/how-to-cite-buzz-lightyear.html
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#5yrsago Bruce Schneier makes the case for “public interest technologists” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2jn4pXDZn0
#5yrsago Computer historians crack passwords of Unix’s early pioneers https://inbox.vuxu.org/tuhs/87bluxpqy0[email protected]/
#5yrsago Apple’s capitulation over Hong Kong protest app isn’t new; and the NBA is racing it to the bottom https://memex.craphound.com/2019/10/10/apples-capitulation-over-hong-kong-protest-app-isnt-new-and-the-nba-is-racing-it-to-the-bottom/
#5yrsago The Sacklers come to Sesame Street as a muppet is revealed to have had an addicted mother https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news-other-healthcare/465124-sesame-street-to-reveal-muppets-mom-suffered/
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Why technologists need to get involved in public policy? - Bruce Schneier
#5yrsago Verizon dumps another Oath property for peanuts: RIP, Mapquest https://searchengineland.com/a-eulogy-for-mapquest-322945
#5yrsago Hiding secrets in online text with zero-width characters https://web.archive.org/web/20200516062538/https://git.planetrenox.com/inzerosight/browser-extension
#5yrsago Ikea’s founder was a Nazi, and never stopped praising the Nazi leader he called “Best Brother” https://lithub.com/on-the-far-right-past-of-ingvar-kamprad-founder-of-ikea/
#5yrsago Kelly Link and Gavin Grant have bought a bookstore! https://www.bookweb.org/news/author-kelly-link-gavin-j-grant-open-book-moon-easthampton-massachusetts-574432
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#5yrsago Part two of my novella “Martian Chronicles” on Escape Pod: who cleans the toilets in libertopia? https://escapepod.org/2019/10/10/escape-pod-701-martian-chronicles-part-2/
#5yrsago 13 years later, World of Warcraft is STILL telling queer guilds they’re not allowed to advertise their queerness https://memex.craphound.com/2019/10/11/%E2%80%8B13-years-later-world-of-warcraft-is-still-telling-queer-guilds-theyre-not-allowed-to-advertise-their-queerness/
#5yrsago Fatboy Slim mashes up Greta Thunberg’s UN speech https://twitter.com/Independent/status/1181950192960131074
#1yrago Stellantis wants to make scabbing woke https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/11/equal-opportunity-class-war/#inclusive-scabbing
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#1yrago Underground Empire: Henry Farrell and Abraham Newman's must-read account of "How America Weaponized the World Economy" https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/10/weaponized-interdependence/#the-other-swifties
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Tuesday's threads: Google's new phones can't stop phoning home; and more!
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113272890366557049
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Cory Doctorow (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image Today's threads (a thread) Inside: Google's new phones can't stop phoning home; and more! Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/10/08/water-thats-not-wet/ #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:
* “Come distruggere il capitalismo della sorveglianza” (Pisa/Remote), Oct 12
https://www.internetfestival.it/programma/come-distruggere-il-capitalismo-della-sorveglianza/
* @okfn Tech We Want Online Summit (Remote), Oct 18
https://okfn.org/en/events/the-tech-we-want-online-summit/
* SOSS Fusion (Atlanta), Oct 22
https://sossfusion2024.sched.com/speaker/cory_doctorow.1qm5qfgn
* Eagle Eye Books (Decatur), Oct 23
https://eagleeyebooks.com/event/2024-10-23/cory-doctorow
* TusCon (Tucson), Nov 8-10
https://tusconscificon.com/
* International Cooperative Alliance (New Delhi), Nov 24
https://icanewdelhi2024.coop/welcome/pages/Programme
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd)
* ISSA-LA Holiday Celebration keynote (Los Angeles), Dec 18
https://issala.org/event/issa-la-december-18-dinner-meeting/
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Recent appearances:
* Was There Ever An Old, Good Internet? (David Graeber Institute)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6Jlxx5TboE
* Go Fact Yourself
https://maximumfun.org/episodes/go-fact-yourself/ep-158-aida-rodriguez-cory-doctorow/
* The great decline of everything online (Lately podcast)
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/podcasts/lately/article-cory-doctorow-podcast-interview/
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Cory Doctorow On Google & Monopolies!
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On October 23 at 7PM, I'll be in Decatur, presenting my novel *The Bezzle* at Eagle Eye Books:
https://eagleeyebooks.com/event/2024-10-23/cory-doctorow
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Tor Books has just published two new, free "Little Brother" stories: "Vigilant," about creepy surveillance in distance education:
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And "Spill," about oil pipelines and indigenous landback:
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JWarner@pluralistic well you can rent a printer through HP and not own the ability to print, and you can buy a license to view and move your show but not own copies of that movie or show. Why should cars get out of this without jumping on the profit train?
It would not surprise me if there were a million bricked Teslas in 5 years.
Nicole ParsonsAnd I had hopes of using an EV as a substitute or backup for a gas powered emergency generator... Sigh.
If there's no cell service or internet, a fully powered EV can't call home to its corporate overlord
https://insideevs.com/news/726819/houston-hurricane-beryl-electric-cars-power-homes/
https://cleantechnica.com/2024/10/09/what-if-a-hurricane-comes-you-only-have-an-electric-car/
aardvark@Npars01 @Jeanniewarner @pluralistic my EV6 does a decent job of providing some lights, hot water, hot food, and a working fridge for days. And I can find my “generator” to any available charger if I need a refill. And works great when cell service ifs out.
Infosec V'ger@Npars01 @Jeanniewarner @pluralistic Some EVs do not require a cell connection to operate, although they do have some connected features.