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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · last week

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Inside: Harpercollins wants authors to sign away AI training rights; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/18/rights-without-power/

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A bookcase. Rupert Murdoch's grinning head rests between a gap in the books. Centered in his forehead is the glaring red eye of HAL 9000 from Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.'

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · last week

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Harpercollins wants authors to sign away AI training rights: Rights come from power.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113503101152951994

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · last week

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Hey look at this

* McSWEENEY’S AUTHOR CARDS (SERIES 2) https://store.mcsweeneys.net/products/author-trading-cards-series-2

* Bypassing regulatory locks, Faraday cages and upgrading your hearing https://lagrangepoint.substack.com/p/airpods-hearing-aid-hacking

* Insults and a haka in New Zealand parliament as MPs debate Māori rights bill https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/14/nz-parliament-maori-rights-bill-mps-debate-haka-new-zealand (h/t Gregory Charlin)

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · last week

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#20yrsago The Grey Video https://random.waxy.org/video/grey_video.mov

#20yrsago Canada’s DMCA: why is it a bad idea? https://web.archive.org/web/20050428093632/http://www.digital-copyright.ca/files/The_Truth__Final__clean__Nov_16_04_DAF.html

#20yrsago @internetarchive pages are admissable into evidence https://web.archive.org/web/20041120050733/https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/packets/vol_2_no_3/002728.shtml/

#15yrsago Demonstrating TSA futility by stabbing dead pigs with pens https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17325460/

#15yrsago Chumby One: handsome successor to the cutest computer ever https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/2009/chumby-one

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · last week

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#15yrsago @eff analyzes the legal creepiness of ACTA, the secret copyright treaty https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/11/stopping-acta-juggernaut

#15yrsago Maricopa deputy steals defender’s paperwork during a court case http://www.heatcity.org/2009/11/judge-orders-officer-to-apologize-or-face-jail-for-taking-attorneys-file.html

#15yrsago SFPD cops from imaginary anti-dance-party squad steal laptops https://web.archive.org/web/20091120193839/https://www.sfweekly.com/2009-11-18/music/s-f-cops-may-have-gone-too-far-in-seizing-dj-gear-at-underground-parties/

#15yrsago David Moles’s “Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom” https://chrononaut.org/fiction/down-and-out-in-the-magic-kingdom/

#15yrsago Apple patents anti-user attention-complianceware https://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/15/business/15digi.html

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · last week

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#15yrsago Struts & Frets: an indie-rock YA novel with heart and authenticity https://memex.craphound.com/2009/11/15/struts-frets-an-indie-rock-ya-novel-with-heart-and-authenticity/

#15yrsago UN goons destroy academic poster describing China’s censorwall https://web.archive.org/web/20091118143608/http://news.idg.no/cw/art.cfm

#15yrsago Viacom’s top lawyer thinks lawsuits were “terrorism” – but he’s learned nothing from the experience https://memex.craphound.com/2009/11/17/viacoms-top-lawyer-thinks-lawsuits-were-terrorism-but-hes-learned-nothing-from-the-experience/

#10yrsago London council threatens freedom of information site for “leaking” info they say doesn’t exist https://www.mysociety.org/2014/11/17/can-you-leak-a-decision-that-has-not-yet-been-made/

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · last week

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#10yrsago What “the worst ride in Disney World” teaches us about media strategy https://passport2dreams.blogspot.com/2014/11/stitchs-great-escape-ten-years.html

#10yrsago Rudy Rucker and Terry Bisson’s “Where the Lost Things Are” https://reactormag.com/where-the-lost-things-are-rudy-rucker-terry-bisson/

#10yrsago Mesmerizing rebuild of a mechanical Fourier calculator https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0INsTTU1k2UYO9Mck-i5HNqGNW5AeEwq

#10yrsago Rightscorp is running out of money https://torrentfreak.com/anti-piracy-firm-rightscorp-on-the-brink-of-bankruptcy-141114/

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · last week

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#10yrsago @eff makes DoJ admit it lied in court about FBI secret warrants https://web.archive.org/web/20141115172425/http://www.nationaljournal.com/tech/justice-department-admits-it-misled-court-about-fbi-s-secret-surveillance-program-20141113

#10yrsago 1,000-room palace for Turkey’s President Erdogan will cost twice initial $615M pricetag https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-30061107

#10yrsago Director Lexi Alexander explains why she sides with pirates https://torrentfreak.com/why-hollywood-director-lexi-alexander-sides-with-pirates-141118/

#10yrsago Bumfights creator accused of stealing remains of dead children from Thai hospital museum https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/443837/body-parts-in-dhl-packages-stolen-from-siriraj-museum-hospital-says

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · last week

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#10yrsago New sf story: “Huxleyed into the Full Orwell” https://www.vice.com/en/article/huxleyed-into-the-full-cory-orwell-cory-doctorow/

#10yrsago Whatsapp integrates Moxie Marlinspike’s Textsecure end-to-end crypto https://www.wired.com/2014/11/whatsapp-encrypted-messaging/

#5yrsago Podcast: Jeannette Ng Was Right, John W. Campbell Was a Fascist https://ia803108.us.archive.org/19/items/Cory_Doctorow_Podcast_315/Cory_Doctorow_Podcast_315_-_Jeannette_Ng_Was_Right_John_W_Campbell_Was_a_Fascist.mp3

#5yrsago Coop’s tribute to Randotti Skulls, from the golden age of Haunted Mansion merchandise https://memex.craphound.com/2019/11/18/coops-tribute-to-randotti-skulls-from-the-golden-age-of-haunted-mansion-merchandise/

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#5yrsago Beyond antitrust: the anti-monopoly movement and what it stands for https://onezero.medium.com/the-utah-statement-reviving-antimonopoly-traditions-for-the-era-of-big-tech-e6be198012d7

#5yrsago Massive leak of Chinese government documents reveal the “no mercy” plan for Muslims in Xinjiang https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/11/16/world/asia/china-xinjiang-documents.html

#5yrsago 900 pages of leaked Iranian spy cables reveal how America’s failures after invasions allowed Iran to seize control of Iraqi politics https://theintercept.com/2019/11/18/iran-iraq-spy-cables/

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · last week

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#5yrsago Majority of Americans know they’re under constant surveillance, don’t trust the companies doing it, and feel helpless to stop it https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2019/11/15/americans-and-privacy-concerned-confused-and-feeling-lack-of-control-over-their-personal-information/

#5yrsago Supercut of British voters insulting Boris Johnson on the campaign trail https://twitter.com/TheIDSmiths/status/1194954125772853248

#5yrsago Thanks to an article about why science fiction great John M Ford’s books are out of print, they’re coming back https://slate.com/culture/2019/11/john-ford-science-fiction-fantasy-books.html

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#5yrsago Many Chinese manufacturers are behaving as though they have no future https://web.archive.org/web/20191114152903/https://www.chinalawblog.com/2019/11/how-to-conduct-business-with-chinese-companies-that-see-a-dark-future.html

#5yrsago Why are we still treating economics as if it were an empirical science that makes reliable predictions? https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2019/12/05/against-economics/

#5yrsago Uber pretended its drivers were contractors, and now it owes New Jersey $650m in employment tax https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/uber-hit-with-650-million-employment-tax-bill-in-new-jersey

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#5yrsago Labour pledges universal broadband and nationwide fibre, will renationalise the farcical, terrible BT Openreach https://www.bbc.com/news/election-2019-50427369

#5yrsago “Hope literacy,” “functional denial” and other ways to keep going in this difficult time https://www.earthisland.org/journal/index.php/articles/entry/despairing-about-climate-crisis

#5yrsago Hong Kong protesters’ little stonehenges impede police cars https://twitter.com/rhokilpatrick/status/1195350548062654465

#5yrsago Extinction Rebellion floats a drowned house down the Thames https://extinctionrebellion.uk/2019/11/10/act-now-our-house-is-flooding/

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#5yrsago After workers tried to form a union, trans rights group ditches most of its staff https://npeu.org/news/2019/11/15/nonprofit-professional-employees-union-files-unfair-labor-practice-against-national-center-for-transgender-equality-leadership-for-retaliation-against-staff-organizing

#1yrago Red-teaming the SCOTUS code of conduct https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/17/red-team-black-robes/#security-theater

#1yrago Big Train managers earn bonuses for greenlighting unsafe cars https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/15/safety-third/#all-the-livelong-day

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Friday's threads: Canada's ground-breaking, hamstrung repair and interop laws; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113486113017583726

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