Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: MIT libraries are thriving without Elsevier; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/08/16/the-public-sphere/
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Collective action is the eternal struggle ain’t it?
Individuals end up shocked when the platform-feudalism face eating leopard swipes a pound of flesh from their Patreon income.
Outrage and they’ll never buy Apple. It’s natural, who wouldn’t reject a brigand? Sure buddy, run off to Android, that’ll show Apple! 😂
Defining a medium that can pay the bills remains a collective action problem. It’s *the* problem. But first people need to grasp the problem, not it’s latest atrocity.
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I'm coming to BURNING MAN! On TUESDAY (Aug 27) at 1PM, I'm giving a talk called "DISENSHITTIFY OR DIE!" at PALENQUE NORTE (7&E). On WEDNESDAY (Aug 28) at NOON, I'm doing a "Talking Caterpillar" Q&A at LIMINAL LABS (830&C).
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Community voting for SXSW is live! If you wanna hear Rida Qadri and me talk about how gig workers can disenshittify their jobs with interoperability, vote for this one!
https://panelpicker.sxsw.com/vote/150498
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MIT libraries are thriving without Elsevier: $2 million here, $2 million there, pretty soon you're talking real money.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112972509040682466
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Hey look at this
* The West Bank: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqK3_n6pdDY
* The UAW Is Now a Chief Antagonist of Donald Trump https://jacobin.com/2024/08/uaw-fain-trump-musk-unions/
* AI has all the answers – even the wrong ones https://timharford.com/2024/08/ai-has-all-the-answers-even-the-wrong-ones/
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#15yrsago RECAP, a Firefox plugin that frees US caselaw one page at a time https://web.archive.org/web/20100106195800/https://www.recapthelaw.org/
#15yrsago Buddy Holly is Alive and Well on Ganymede, free download https://memex.craphound.com/2009/08/14/buddy-holly-is-alive-and-well-on-ganymede-free-download/
#5yrsago Schadenfreude watch: Porno copyright trolls’ investors sue, say the grifters they backed stole their money (the grifters say their lawyer stole the money from them first!) https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/malibu-media-litigious-porn-studio-sued-allegedly-cheating-financiers-1231192/
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#5yrsago Manhattan DA served Google with a “reverse search warrant” in a bid to prosecute antifa protesters https://www.thedailybeast.com/manhattan-da-cy-vance-made-google-give-up-info-on-everyone-in-area-in-hunt-for-antifa-after-proud-boys-fight
#5yrsago Training bias in AI “hate speech detector” means that tweets by Black people are far more likely to be censored https://maartensap.com/pdfs/sap2019risk.pdf
#5yrsago My appearance on the MMT podcast: compelling narratives as a means of advancing complex political and economic ideas https://pileusmmt.libsyn.com/26-cory-doctorow-radicalize-this-part-1
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#5yrsago Ohio State University files for a trademark on “THE” https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=88571984&caseType=SERIAL_NO&searchType=statusSearch
#5yrsago Grounded teen evades device confiscation by tweeting from the smart-fridge https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/aug/13/teen-smart-fridge-twitter-grounded
#1yrago Open Circuits: The hidden beauty of electronics components https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/14/hidden-worlds/#making-the-invisible-visible-and-beautiful
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Yesterday's threads: Apple vs the "free market"; and more!
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112966472808464779
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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
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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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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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Upcoming appearances:
* 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
* Talking caterpillar Q&A (Burning Man, Liminal Labs, 830&C), Aug 28, 12h
* Albacon (Albany/remote), Sep 13-15
https://albacon.org/2024/
* TusCon (Tucson), Nov 8-10
https://tusconscificon.com/
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Recent appearances:
* Tech Rights & The Future of Privacy (Synthetic Minds)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iD5iAV1YmO4
* Enzittification with @Zitron & @brianmerchant
* The Paradigm Shift
https://paradigm-shift-on-4zzz.pinecast.co/episode/dbf12eaf/tech-criticism-with-cory-doctorow
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I'm coming to BURNING MAN! On TUESDAY (Aug 27) at 1PM, I'm giving a talk called "DISENSHITTIFY OR DIE!" at PALENQUE NORTE (7&E). On WEDNESDAY (Aug 28) at NOON, I'm doing a "Talking Caterpillar" Q&A at LIMINAL LABS (830&C).
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Community voting for SXSW is live! If you wanna hear Rida Qadri and me talk about how gig workers can disenshittify their jobs with interoperability, vote for this one!
https://panelpicker.sxsw.com/vote/150498
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