Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: Boss politics antitrust; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/12/the-enemy-of-your-enemy/
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Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: Boss politics antitrust; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/12/the-enemy-of-your-enemy/
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Note: The purge, while it did spare Xi's cronies, did have a massive effect on them, as well: As the next president could come from the other side, they could be prosecuted, as well. So they stopped being corrupt. Since many politicians had no idea how to decide things themselves, and relied on the highest bidder in a corrupt process, this slowed down decisions.
Similar things could happen under Trump.
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https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113470443364171423
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* Sculpture BM 414162522242621331 https://chrisbathgate.blogspot.com/2024/11/sculpture-bm-414162522242621331.html
* Walt Disney's Carousel of Progress [Full Show] 2023 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_p9gayNy5Rg (h/t Sal Fadhley)
* A cat lady's survival guide for the second Trump administration https://www.salon.com/2024/11/07/a-womens-survival-guide-for-the-second-administration/ (h/t Dan Savage)
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#15yrsago Internet ghost-towns: the blocked IPs where the bad guys used to live https://web.archive.org/web/20110810225715/http://voices.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2009/11/a_year_later_a_look_back_at_mc.html
#10yrsago Stories are a fuggly hack https://locusmag.com/2014/11/cory-doctorow-stories-are-a-fuggly-hack/
#10yrsago Ambulance takes comatose, insured woman to “wrong” hospital, drives her to bankruptcy, too https://web.archive.org/web/20141112070957/https://www.channel3000.com/news/woman-taken-to-wrong-hospital-faces-bankruptcy/29648000/
#10yrsago ISPs caught sabotaging their customers’ email encryption https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/11/starttls-downgrade-attacks
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#10yrsago Peak indifference-to-surveillance https://memex.craphound.com/2014/11/12/peak-indifference-to-surveillance-2/
#5yrsago Twitter is awash in disinformation bots tweeting lies about the Kentucky gubernatorial election results https://web.archive.org/web/20191111073836/https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/newselection2020/close-election-in-kentucky-was-ripe-for-twitter-and-an-omen-for-2020/ar-BBWyujk
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https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113464732951820193
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* International Cooperative Alliance (New Delhi), Nov 24
https://icanewdelhi2024.coop/welcome/pages/Programme
* ACM Conext-2024 Workshop on the Decentralization of the Internet (Los Angeles), Dec 9
https://conferences.sigcomm.org/co-next/2024/#!/din
* IA et “merdification“ d’internet: peut-on envisager un nouveau web? (Remote), Dec 12
https://www.unige.ch/comprendre-le-numerique/conferences-publiques1/cycle-5-2024-2025/ia-et-merdification-dinternet-peut-envisager-un-nouveau-web/
* ISSA-LA Holiday Celebration keynote (Los Angeles), Dec 18
https://issala.org/event/issa-la-december-18-dinner-meeting/
* Cloudfest (Europa Park), Mar 17-20
https://cloudfest.link/
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* Enshittification Was a Choice (SOSS Fusion)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCSelmMUO0c
* Maximum Iceland Scenario ( @TWiT)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5MkCwktKz0
* Speciale intervista a Cory Doctorow ( @digitaliafm)
https://digitalia.fm/744/
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