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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · 4 months ago

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Holy CRAP the UN Cybercrime Treaty is a nightmare; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/07/23/expanded-spying-powers/

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EFF's graphic for the UN Cybercrime Convention; it features a stylized mercator map of Earth with an iris in its center; it sits on a background of computer code and overlapping rectangles.

Image:
EFF
https://www.eff.org/files/banner_library/cybercrime-2024-2b.jpg

CC BY 3.0
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/ — EFF's graphic for the UN Cybercrime Convention; it features a stylized mercator map of Earth with an iris in its center; it sits on a background of computer code and overlapping rectangles. Image: EFF https://www.eff.org/files/banner_library/cybercrime-2024-2b.jpg CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · 4 months ago

Support me this summer on the Clarion Write-A-Thon and help raise money for the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers' Workshop!

https://clarionwriteathon.com/members/profile.php?writerid=293388

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · 4 months ago

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Holy CRAP the UN Cybercrime Treaty is a nightmare: "Cybercrime" is "anything any government dislikes" and every government will have to help every other government fight it.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112835533665086697

Image:
EFF
https://www.eff.org/files/banner_library/cybercrime-2024-2b.jpg

CC BY 3.0
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/ — Image: EFF https://www.eff.org/files/banner_library/cybercrime-2024-2b.jpg CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · 4 months ago

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Hey look at this

* ICJ says Israel’s presence in Palestinian territory is unlawful https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2024/7/19/world-court-says-israels-settlement-policies-breach-international-law

* Brenda and Dylan Are Dead https://sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/brenda-and-dylan-are-dead

* Miniatures of Madness https://only-games.co/collections/miniatures-of-madness (h/t Super Punch)

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · 4 months ago

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#15yrsago Teach kids to be safe on the net by getting them to think critically about censorware https://web.archive.org/web/20090728034546/http://www.internetevolution.com/document.asp?doc_id=179505&

#10yrsago The apology letter Google SHOULD have used to announce the end of G+ “Real Names” https://web.archive.org/web/20140716222946/https://infotrope.net/2014/07/16/meanwhile-in-an-alternate-universe/

#10yrsago White House caught secretly tracking Web visitors with sneaky spyware https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/07/white-house-website-includes-unique-non-cookie-tracker-despite-privacy-policy

#10yrsago Fewer than 10% of UK families opt into “parental” filters https://web.archive.org/web/20140724004309/www.pcpro.co.uk/news/broadband/389926/those-parental-control-filters-as-few-as-4-are-signing-up

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · 4 months ago

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#10yrsago Profile of a NYC pickpocket https://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/20/nyregion/the-pickpockets-tale.html

#10yrsago EFF unveils secure, sharing-friendly, privacy-minded router OS https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/07/building-open-wireless-router

#5yrsago J Michael Straczynski’s “Becoming Superman”: memoir of horrific abuse, war crimes, perseverance, trauma, triumph and doing what’s right https://memex.craphound.com/2019/07/23/j-michael-straczynskis-becoming-superman-a-memoir-of-horrific-abuse-war-crimes-perseverance-trauma-triumph-and-doing-whats-right/</a.

#5yrsago Clever hack that will end badly: playing copyrighted music during Nazis rallies so they can’t be posted to Youtube https://memex.craphound.com/2019/07/23/clever-hack-that-will-end-badly-playing-copyrighted-music-during-nazis-rallies-so-they-cant-be-posted-to-youtube/

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · 4 months ago

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#5yrsago Steve Bannon used nonconsensually harvested location data to advertise to people who’d been to a Catholic church https://www.techdirt.com/2019/07/23/steve-bannon-latest-to-abuse-consumer-location-data/

#5yrsago Women are much more likely to be injured in car crashes, probably because crash-test dummies are mostly male-shaped https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-18/why-women-are-likelier-to-be-hurt-in-a-car-crash

#5yrsago A deep dive into Elizabeth Warren’s plan to tame private equity https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2019/07/elizabeth-warren-seeks-to-cut-private-equity-down-to-size.html

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · 4 months ago

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#5yrsago Facebook’s alleged growth is largely coming from countries where Facebook says it has a fake account problem https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2019/07/facebook-mark-zuckerbergs-fake-accounts-ponzi-scheme.html

#5yrsago From #TelegramGate to #RickyLeaks: Puerto Rico is on fire https://web.archive.org/web/20190719213344/https://www.thenation.com/article/puerto-rico-protests-scandal-rossello/

#1yrago When the Town Square Shatters https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/23/when-the-town-square-shatters/

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · 4 months ago

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Yesterday's threads: Unpersoned; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112831007258126569

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Cryteria (modified)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · 4 months ago

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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

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:

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Both are national bestsellers!

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · 4 months ago

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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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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · 4 months ago

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Upcoming appearances:

* @defcon 32 (Las Vegas), Aug 8-11
https://shop.defcon.org/products/def-con-32-las-vegas-convention-center

* Albacon (Albany/remote), Sep 13-15
https://albacon.org/2024/

* TusCon (Tucson), Nov 8-10
https://tusconscificon.com/

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · 4 months ago

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Recent appearances:

* 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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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · 4 months ago

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