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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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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https://bpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/events?startDate=2024-09-24&endDate=2024-09-24
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The paperback edition of The Lost Cause, my nationally bestselling, hopeful solarpunk novel is out this month!
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250865946/thelostcause
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https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113170152284350289
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* Wherein the techbros are here to "disrupt" ordering drinks at a bar https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2024/09/14.html
* Pavel Durov and the BlackBerry Ratchet https://www.oblomovka.com/wp/2024/08/25/pavel-durov-and-the-blackberry-ratchet/
* Rising Threats to Democracy - Roots and Responses https://acrobat.adobe.com/link/review?uri=urn%3Aaaid%3Ascds%3AUS%3A1649f93f-16a7-4433-a73f-e8c2506db4d3&viewer%21megaVerb=group-discover (h/t Robert Kuttner)
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#20yrsago Weinberger: “free access to every work of creativity in the world is a better world” https://web.archive.org/web/20040924042126/http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/mtarchive/003080.html
#20yrsago Elvis Costello disclaims antipiracy warnings on his own CD https://web.archive.org/web/20040924000229/http://www.sciencefictiontwin.com/blog/2004/09/elvis-costello-on-anti-piracy.asp
#15yrsago Oligarch’s yacht has a laser anti-photo screen https://www.wired.com/2009/09/russian-billionaire-installs-anti-photo-shield-on-giant-yacht/
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#15yrsago FCC chairman promises net neutrality except that Hollywood can spy on you and screw up your net connection if it wants to https://web.archive.org/web/20090924234046/http://openinternet.gov/read-speech.html
#15yrsago White Sands, Red Menace: Atomic age historical sf novel for young people that is sweet, sneaky, and exciting https://memex.craphound.com/2009/09/21/white-sands-red-menace-atomic-age-historical-sf-novel-for-young-people-that-is-sweet-sneaky-and-exciting/
#5yrsago Why do people believe the Earth is flat? https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-why-do-people-believe-the-earth-is-flat/
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#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 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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https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113164769151361184
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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
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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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* 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?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0022z9r
* Annie's Book Stop Of Worcester
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYM3WOPOMC0
* @defcon 32 - Disenshittify or die! How hackers can seize the means of computation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EmstuO0Em8
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The paperback edition of The Lost Cause, my nationally bestselling, hopeful solarpunk novel is out this month!
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