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

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Rsync corrump linkdump; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/08/03/smorgasbord/

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A collection of miscellaneous, rusty hardware.

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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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Ben Ramsey @ramsey@phpc.social · 4 months ago

@pluralistic One of these years, I’d love to see the @eff invite you to the EFF track at DragonCon in Atlanta.

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

@ramsey @eff I'm invited EVERY year, but for a decade, it conflicted with my annual commitment to Worldcon, and for the next decade++, it's conflicted with my annual commitment to Burning Man!

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Ben Ramsey @ramsey@phpc.social · 4 months ago

@pluralistic @eff Maybe one day the stars will align.

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

@ramsey @eff Anything's possible!

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

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Rsync corrump linkdump: A roundup of stray but worthy links.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112898962314181057

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

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#20yrsago How cellphones change teenagers https://web.archive.org/web/20040812081823/http://www.receiver.vodafone.com/08/articles/index07.html

#20yrsago Webcomic creator turns down Universal Syndicate, offers works for free to any newspaper https://web.archive.org/web/20040810034621/http://www.pvponline.com/rants_panel.php3

#15yrsago CLIQ and other “unpickable” locks pwned at DefCon https://www.wired.com/2009/08/electronic-locks-defeated/

#15yrsago Associated Press will sell you a license to quote the public domain http://laboratorium.net/archive/2009/08/03/the_ap_will_sell_you_a_license_to_words_it_doesnt

#15yrsago Berlin’s luxury car arsonists https://www.theage.com.au/world/german-radicals-turn-to-arson-20090731-e4hf.html

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

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#5yrsago Elsevier sends copyright threat to site for linking to Sci-Hub https://twitter.com/Citationsy/status/1156626811398307840

#5yrsago Corruption is contagious: dirty cops make their partners dirty https://www.scholars.northwestern.edu/en/publications/the-network-structure-of-police-misconduct

#5yrsago We could fund the transition to green energy with 10-30% of the world’s fossil fuel subsidy https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/aug/01/fossil-fuel-subsidy-cash-pay-green-energy-transition

#5yrsago Leaks reveal that disgraced, hacked surveillance company wrote Republican Congressman’s border security talking-points https://theintercept.com/2019/08/01/perceptics-hack-license-plate-readers/

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

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#5yrsago Cathay Pacific’s new privacy policy: we are recording you with seatback cameras, spying on you in airports, and buying data on your use of competing loyalty programs https://www.flyertalk.com/articles/cathay-pacific-passengers-not-to-expect-any-privacy.html

#5yrsago Amazon’s secret deals with local cops give them access to realtime 911 data for use in scary alerts sent to Ring owners https://gizmodo.com/cops-are-giving-amazons-ring-your-real-time-911-data-1836883867

#5yrsago A visit to Bosnia’s last pigeon post office https://balkaninsight.com/2019/08/01/youve-got-mail-bosnias-last-pigeon-post-office/

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

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#5yrsago Paying for climate change: the question isn’t “How?” but “Who?” https://www.wired.com/story/dont-ask-how-to-pay-for-climate-change-ask-who/

#1yrago Forcing your computer to rat you out https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/02/self-incrimination/#wei-bai-bai

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

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Yesterday's threads: The reverse-centaur apocalypse is upon us; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112894912439728483

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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:

* Launch for @adamgreenfield's *Lifehouse* at Page Against the Machine (Long Beach), Aug 3
https://www.facebook.com/events/837938428323731

* @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

* Launch for Madeline Ashby's *Glass Houses* at Chevalier's Books (LA), Aug 16
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/book-talk-madeline-ashbys-glass-houses-tickets-965286486867

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

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

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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* 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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