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

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Fintech bullies stole your kid's lunch money; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/07/26/taanstafl/

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On the left, a boxer in trunks, fists raised. His head has been replaced with the staring eye of HAL 9000 from Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' He wears a top hat. On the right, a squinting child in 19th century ragamuffin garb. Behind the boxer, a cascade of gold coins pours out of a giant sack. Beside the kid, a piggy bank. They stand in a school playground with a tumbledown tenement behind it.

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https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en — On the left, a boxer in trunks, fists raised. His head has been replaced with the staring eye of HAL 9000 from Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' He wears a top hat. On the right, a squinting child in 19th century ragamuffin garb. Behind the boxer, a cascade of gold coins pours out of a giant sack. Beside the kid, a piggy bank. They stand in a school playground with a tumbledown tenement behind it. Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en

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

I'm coming to @defcon!

8/9:

12h: Emceeing @eff Poker Tournament (Horseshoe Poker Room)

17h: Bricked and Abandoned panel (track 1).

8/10, 12h: Disenshittify or die! How hackers can seize the means of computation and build a new, good internet, hardened against our bosses' horniness for enshittification (track 1).

Support me this summer on the Clarion Write-A-Thon and help raise money for the Clarion Science Fiction/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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Fintech bullies stole your kid's lunch money: Taking 60 cents out of every reduced-lunch public school dollar.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112854231684333875

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

CC BY 3.0
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en — Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en

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

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Hey look at this

* Secure Boot is completely broken on 200+ models from 5 big device makers https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/07/secure-boot-is-completely-compromised-on-200-models-from-5-big-device-makers/

* Electronic Frontier Foundation to Present Annual EFF Awards to Carolina Botero, Connecting Humanity, and 404 Media https://www.eff.org/press/releases/electronic-frontier-foundation-present-annual-eff-awards-carolina-botero-connecting

* Bad Trades Are Also Valuable https://archive.is/VH0V0 (h/t DSHR)

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

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#20yrsago Woody Guthrie’s copyright used to defile his memory in lawsuit threat https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2004/07/land-isnt-your-land

#15yrsago New Adrian Mole diary is dark, hopeless and hilarious https://memex.craphound.com/2009/07/26/new-adrian-mole-diary-is-dark-hopeless-and-hilarious/

#5yrsago Claiming your $125 from Equifax is a “moral duty” https://slate.com/technology/2019/07/equifax-settlement-money-how-to-claim.html

#5yrsago Make the internet better by empowering users, not by demanding that platforms implement automated filters https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/07/key-safety-online-user-empowerment-not-censorship

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

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#5yrsago The Airbus 350 needs a hard reboot every 149 hours https://www.theregister.com/2019/07/25/a350_power_cycle_software_bug_149_hours/

#5yrsago Amazon struck secret deals with local cops to get them to push surveillance-camera doorbells https://www.vice.com/en/article/mb88za/amazon-requires-police-to-shill-surveillance-cameras-in-secret-agreement

#5yrsago Siemens contractor hid “logic bomb” in complicated spreadsheet, guaranteeing future maintenance work https://www.zdnet.com/article/siemens-contractor-pleads-guilty-to-planting-logic-bomb-in-company-spreadsheets/

#5yrsago Activist blacksmith teaches gun violence survivors to melt down guns and turn them into farm implements https://billypenn.com/2019/07/25/using-fire-and-force-this-philly-author-turns-guns-into-garden-tools/

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

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#5yrsago Grifty conservative PACs raised millions pushing racist Obama conspiracies to elderly, low-income supporters, then kept almost all of it https://www.propublica.org/article/conservative-majority-fund-political-fundraising-pac-kelley-rogers

#1yrago The surprising truth about data-driven dictatorships https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/26/dictators-dilemma/#garbage-in-garbage-out-garbage-back-in

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

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Yesterday's threads: AI's productivity theater; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112848383951746469

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

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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

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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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."

https://craphound.com/shop/

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

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Upcoming appearances:

* @eff Charity Poker Tournament ( @defcon, Las Vegas, Horseshoe Poker Room), Aug 9 12h
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/06/betting-your-digital-rights-eff-benefit-poker-tournament-def-con-32

* Bricked & Abandoned: How To Keep The IoT From Becoming An Internet of Trash ( @defcon, Las Vegas, Track 1), Aug 9 17h
https://info.defcon.org/event/?id=54844

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

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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* Disenshittify or die! How hackers can seize the means of computation and build a new, good internet that is hardened against our asshole bosses' insatiable horniness for enshittification ( @defcon, Las Vegas, Track 1), Aug 10 12h
https://info.defcon.org/event/?id=54861

* Disenshittify or die! (Burning Man, Palenque Norte, 7&E), Aug 27, 13h

* 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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