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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · 2 weeks ago

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: The US Copyright Office frees the McFlurry; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/10/28/mcbroken/

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A McDonald's McFlurry cup. Under its transparent lid is a poop emoji whose eyes have been replaced with the glowing red eyes of HAL 9000 from Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' The cup is spattered with dirt. Behind it is a 'code waterfall' effect as seen in the credit reels of the Wachowskis' 'Matrix' movies.

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

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https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en — A McDonald's McFlurry cup. Under its transparent lid is a poop emoji whose eyes have been replaced with the glowing red eyes of HAL 9000 from Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' The cup is spattered with dirt. Behind it is a 'code waterfall' effect as seen in the credit reels of the Wachowskis' 'Matrix' movies. 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 · 2 weeks ago

I'll be in Tucson, AZ from November 8-10: I'm the Guest of Honor at the TusCon science fiction convention:

https://tusconscificon.com/

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · 2 weeks ago

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The US Copyright Office frees the McFlurry: The only kind of DMCA exemption that makes a difference.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1850903634848178347

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 · 2 weeks ago

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Hey look at this

* Cap'n Crunch comes from Cedar Rapids https://nealstephenson.substack.com/p/capn-crunch-comes-from-cedar-rapids

* I am my own legal department: the promise and peril of “just go independent” https://www.citationneeded.news/i-am-my-own-legal-department/

* The Color of Television ~ by Disposable Planet ~ Neuromancer Inspired Album! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTg6v5OWWa0

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · 2 weeks ago

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#20yrsago For sale: action against bloggers https://web.archive.org/web/20041103065814/http://weblog.siliconvalley.com/column/dangillmor/archives/010962.shtml#010962

#15yrsago US Department of Defense adopts “open source guidelines” https://powdermonkey.blogs.com/powdermonkey/2009/10/department-of-defense-new-guidance-on-open-source-software.html

#15yrsago Brit business secretary promises to punish accused file-sharers’ families with Internet disconnection by 2011 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2009/oct/28/mandelson-date-blocking-filesharers-connections

#10yrsago @2600 magazine profiled in the New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/print-magazine-hackers

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · 2 weeks ago

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#10yrsago LAX delays flight because someone’s wifi network had scary terrorist name https://abc7.com/american-airlines-lax-wifi/367110/

#10yrsago Who is Gamergate? Analysis of 316K tweets https://medium.com/message/72-hours-of-gamergate-e00513f7cf5d

#10yrsago The Peripheral: @GreatDismal vs William Gibson https://memex.craphound.com/2014/10/28/the-peripheral-william-gibson-vs-william-gibson/

#10yrsago Thousands of Americans got sub-broadband ISP service, thanks to telcoms shenanigans https://web.archive.org/web/20141030214728/https://www.measurementlab.net/static/observatory/M-Lab_Interconnection_Study_US.pdf

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · 2 weeks ago

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#5yrsago Teen Vogue exec editor Samhita Mukhopadhyay: “proud to be ‘the most insidious form of teen communist propaganda'” https://jacobin.com/2019/10/teen-vogue-samhita-mukhopadhyay-interview/

#5yrsago Samsung satellite crashes in family’s yard https://www.wzzm13.com/article/news/weird/satellite-lands-in-michigan-yard/69-8ea9d127-83a7-4729-9f20-6b79bbf77a11

#5yrsago Les gilets noirs: a French protest movement defending migrants’ rights https://theintercept.com/2019/10/27/france-black-vests-gilets-noirs/

#5yrsago Navy Yard worker outed by Unicorn Riot is indicted for lying to the FBI about his white nationalist group memberships https://www.inquirer.com/news/vanguard-america-unite-the-right-fred-arenas-mccormick-foley-20191025.html

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · 2 weeks ago

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#5yrsago Indigenous elder on Sidewalk Labs’s Toronto consultation: “like being given blankets and gun powder and whisky to trade for our participation” https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/indigenous-elder-slams-hollow-and-tokenistic-consultation-by-sidewalk-labs/article_450e40c2-69b4-53a4-b17d-f094be005b43.html

#5yrsago The penniless hero of the ransomware epidemic has written more decryptors than anyone else https://www.propublica.org/article/the-ransomware-superhero-of-normal-illinois

#5yrsago The top FBI lawyer who tried to force Apple to backdoor its crypto now says working crypto is essential to public safety and national security https://memex.craphound.com/2019/10/28/the-top-fbi-lawyer-who-tried-to-force-apple-to-backdoor-its-crypto-now-says-working-crypto-is-essential-to-public-safety-and-national-security/

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · 2 weeks ago

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#1yrago A media literacy handbook for Israel-Gaza https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/28/fog-o-war/##breaking-news

#1yrago A taxonomy of corporate bullshit https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/27/six-sells/#youre-holding-it-wrong

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · 2 weeks ago

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Saturday's threads: Keeping a suspense file gives you superpowers; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113374064163422866

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · 2 weeks 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 · 2 weeks 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 · 2 weeks ago

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Upcoming appearances:

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

* International Cooperative Alliance (New Delhi), Nov 24
https://icanewdelhi2024.coop/welcome/pages/Programme

* @issala Holiday Celebration keynote (Los Angeles), Dec 18
https://issala.org/event/issa-la-december-18-dinner-meeting/

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · 2 weeks ago

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Recent appearances:

* Maximum Iceland Scenario ( @TWiT)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5MkCwktKz0

* Speciale intervista a Cory Doctorow ( @digitaliafm)
https://digitalia.fm/744/

* Was There Ever An Old, Good Internet? (David Graeber Institute)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6Jlxx5TboE

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · 2 weeks ago

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