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Inside: Tech monopolists use their market power to invade your privacy; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/09/20/water-also-wet/

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A gigantic figure whose head has been replaced with the staring red eye of HAL 9000 from Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. He peers through a magnifying glass at two boys who stand on his palm, dressed in 19th century child laborer's garb. They stare defiantly at the viewer. The scene is posed on a background whose sky is the 'code waterfall' effect seen in the Wachowskis' 'Matrix' movies and whose ground is a cracked, receding abstract pattern.


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https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.enA gigantic figure whose head has been replaced with the staring red eye of HAL 9000 from Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. He peers through a magnifying glass at two boys who stand on his palm, dressed in 19th century child laborer's garb. They stare defiantly at the viewer. The scene is posed on a background whose sky is the 'code waterfall' effect seen in the Wachowskis' 'Matrix' movies and whose ground is a cracked, receding abstract pattern.


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A gigantic figure whose head has been replaced with the staring red eye of HAL 9000 from Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. He peers through a magnifying glass at two boys who stand on his palm, dressed in 19th century child laborer's garb. They stare defiantly at the viewer. The scene is posed on a background whose sky is the 'code waterfall' effect seen in the Wachowskis' 'Matrix' movies and whose ground is a cracked, receding abstract pattern. Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.enA gigantic figure whose head has been replaced with the staring red eye of HAL 9000 from Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. He peers through a magnifying glass at two boys who stand on his palm, dressed in 19th century child laborer's garb. They stare defiantly at the viewer. The scene is posed on a background whose sky is the 'code waterfall' effect seen in the Wachowskis' 'Matrix' movies and whose ground is a cracked, receding abstract pattern. 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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#5yrsago Banksy celebrates the erasure of his Brexit mural: “I guess a big white flag says it just as well” https://www.instagram.com/p/B2UFBFYH_XE

#5yrsago Ed Snowden says he’ll stand trial and even go to prison in the USA if he can have a public trial and mount a public interest defense https://www.cbsnews.com/news/edward-snowden-nsa-cbs-this-morning-interview-today-2019-09-16/

#5yrsago On Fire: Naomi Klein’s book is a time-series of the shift from climate denial to nihilism to Green New Deal hope https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2019-09-19/on-fire-by-naomi-klein-green-new-deal

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#5yrsago Bill Gates: if we break up Big Tech, we’ll just have more bad companies https://memex.craphound.com/2019/09/21/bill-gates-if-we-break-up-big-tech-well-just-have-more-bad-companies/

#5yrsago Propublica finds millions of Americans’ medical images and data sitting on unprotected, publicly accessible servers https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/09/millions-of-americans-medical-images-and-data-are-available-on-the-internet/

#5yrsago Republic of Lies: the rise of conspiratorial thinking and the actual conspiracies that fuel it https://memex.craphound.com/2019/09/21/republic-of-lies-the-rise-of-conspiratorial-thinking-and-the-actual-conspiracies-that-fuel-it/

#1yrago "Efficiency" left the Big Three vulnerable to smart UAW tactics https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/21/eight-and-skate/#strike-to-rule

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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."

https://craphound.com/shop/

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Upcoming appearances:

* The Right to Read, Boston Public Library, Sep 24
https://bpl.bibliocommons.com/events/66cf2d8bf520192f005fcc50

* SOSS Fusion (Atlanta), Oct 22
https://sossfusion2024.sched.com/speaker/cory_doctorow.1qm5qfgn

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

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Recent appearances:

* Rethink: Is the internet getting worse?
bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0022z9r

* Annie's Book Stop Of Worcester
youtube.com/watch?v=uYM3WOPOMC

* @defcon 32 - Disenshittify or die! How hackers can seize the means of computation
youtube.com/watch?v=4EmstuO0Em

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