Inside: FCC strikes a blow against prison profiteering; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/07/19/martha-wright-reed/
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Inside: FCC strikes a blow against prison profiteering; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/07/19/martha-wright-reed/
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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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https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112813900433495880
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We truly do live in the depths that this is a thing and yes I know it's a thing
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* Common Ownership and Hedge Fund Activism: An Unholy Alliance? https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2024/07/08/common-ownership-and-hedge-fund-activism-an-unholy-alliance/ (h/t Nick Burch)
* What should have been said after the Trump shooting https://the.ink/p/you-should-say-true-things
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#20yrsago Academic paper about reputation systems https://web.archive.org/web/20040722060854/https://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_7/masum/index.html
#10yrsago DRM-free indie ebooks outsell DRM-locked ones 2:1 https://web.archive.org/web/20140722161213/http://authorearnings.com/july-2014-author-earnings-report/
#10yrsago Snowden: Dropbox is an NSA surveillance target, use Spideroak instead https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2014/jul/17/edward-snowden-video-interview
#10yrsago Ukrainian science fiction subgenre predicted current conflict https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2014/07/science-fiction-writers-predicted-ukraine-conflict-now-theyre-fighting-it.html
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#5yrsago After the Oliver Twist poorhouse became luxury housing with a segregated playground, London bans segregated play-areas https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/jul/19/london-officials-ban-segregated-play-areas-in-future-housing-developments
#5yrsago Using university syllabi to map the connections between every scholarly and scientific discipline https://galaxy.opensyllabus.org
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#5yrsago Vast majority of porn sites use Google Analytics and Facebook embeds that track you, even in incognito mode https://arxiv.org/pdf/1907.06520
#5yrsago Stephen Fry explains the vast superiority of UK healthcare to America’s omnishambles, which Brexiteers hope to import https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSL3z55cT_c
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Yesterday's threads: Richard R John's "Network Nation"; and more!
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112808288278573288
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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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* 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/
* @defcon 32 (Las Vegas), Aug 8-11
https://shop.defcon.org/products/def-con-32-las-vegas-convention-center
* Albacon (Albuquerque/remote), Sep 13-15
https://albacon.org/2024/
* TusCon (Tucson), Nov 8-10
https://tusconscificon.com/
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* The Paradigm Shift
https://paradigm-shift-on-4zzz.pinecast.co/episode/dbf12eaf/tech-criticism-with-cory-doctorow
* How To Fix The Internet ( @eff)
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/06/podcast-episode-fighting-enshittification
* Big Tech and the News (Tech Policy Press)
https://www.techpolicy.press/big-tech-and-the-news/
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