Another great quote from Cory Doctorow's new book "The Internet Con How to Seize the Means of Computation". This reminds me of a beautiful bunch of people in the news:
“If I am rich, it must be because I am brilliant. How can you tell I’m brilliant? Well, for starters, I’m rich. Having proven my wealth and brilliance, it’s clear that I should be in charge of things.”
WoSo news from México, the rest of the world, and my skepticism of the “Copa ‘71” documentary (along with book recommendations).
Fútnotes, Volume 29 https://open.substack.com/pub/golazodelgringo/p/futnotes-volume-29?r=21xzhy&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
Chaos reigned this past week in @LigaBBVAFemenil. Get caught up heading into the final week of play at my Substack. #LigaMXFemEng
Liga MX Femenil Week 16 Recap https://open.substack.com/pub/golazodelgringo/p/liga-mx-femenil-week-16-recap?r=21xzhy&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
It's #IndependentBookstoreDay! I *love* bookstores, especially indies. I'm a recovering bookseller (love you, BakkaPhoenix!) and an inveterate and absurdly optimistic buyer of books - just this weekend, I bought three books at the *LA Times* Festival of Books, from Pages and Octavia's Bookshelf!
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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/2023/04/24/tax-loss-harvesting/#ibd
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How To Make a Child-Safe #TikTok: Have you tried not spying on kids?
https://doctorow.medium.com/how-to-make-a-child-safe-tiktok-be08fbf94b0d
#coppa #AgeGating #privacy #RepBuddyCarter #JustDontSpy #CommercialSurveillance
US federal #privacy laws, a club so exclusive it has two main members: 1986's #VideoPrivacyProtectionAct (banning leaks of Congress's porn-rental records) and 1998's #COPPA, banning data-collection on under-13s without parental consent.
https://doctorow.medium.com/how-to-make-a-child-safe-tiktok-be08fbf94b0d
It's been known for a while that Scott Adams is misogynist, racist, and transphobic.
If you had not heard, it may be a good idea to review the list of voices you listen to and maybe make a few adjustments.
16 February 1926 | A German Jewish girl, Margot Frank, Anne's older sister, was born in Frankfurt.
She and her family left Germany to the Netherlands. In 1942 the family went into hiding in Amsterdam. After being arrested in the fall of 1944, the sisters together with their parents - Otto & Edith - were deported to Auschwitz.
All of them were registered in the camp. Edith Frank perished in Auschwitz. Margot & Anne died in Bergen-Belsen in February 1945 because of typhus. Only Otto survived.
Carl Liebold 🚀
Eugene Rupinski
Cory Doctorow
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Auschwitz Memorial