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   Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Apr-2024 08:21:55 JST Cory Doctorow

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   Inside: The surveillance advertising to financial fraud pipeline; and more!

   Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/29/ban-surveillance-ads/

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Apr-2024 08:21:49 JST Cory Doctorow

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     #10yrsago Top UK cop calls for end to #WarOnDrugs, legalization of Class A substances https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/28/ending-war-on-drugs-cut-crime-mike-barton

     #5yrsago Twitter suspends academic who quoted #feminist #STEM research https://civic.mit.edu/2018/09/29/twitter-suspended-me-for-tweeting-feminist-academic-research-heres-why-thats-a-problem/

     #5yrsago Visualizing the relative evasiveness of #Kavanaugh and Ford https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/9/28/17914308/kavanaugh-ford-question-dodge-hearing-chart

     #5yrsago A detailed anatomy of the hack that compromised Facebook's 50 million user breach https://www.vice.com/en/article/bja7qq/how-50-million-facebook-users-were-hacked

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Apr-2024 08:21:50 JST Cory Doctorow

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     #20yrsago #Accenture puts #Verisign in charge of US Internet #voting https://web.archive.org/web/20031008122745/http://rss.com.com/2100-1029_3-5083772.html

     #15yrsago #Olympics reach a new low: trademarking the Canadian national anthem and threatening lawsuits over competing uses https://web.archive.org/web/20080928162742/http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2008/09/25/bc-vancouver-olympics-trademark-o-canada.html

     #15yrsago #PhilipPullman on the futility and evil of #BanningBooks https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/sep/29/philip.pullman.amber.spyglass.golden.compass.banned

     #10yrsago No one harmed in Whac-a-Mole/#RockAFireBand warehouse explosion https://web.archive.org/web/20130930154953/https://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/riptide/2013/09/the_guy_who_invented_the_whac-.php

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Apr-2024 08:21:51 JST Cory Doctorow

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     Hey look at this

     * #Philips Kept Complaints About Dangerous #BreathingMachines Secret While Company Profits Soared https://www.propublica.org/article/philips-kept-warnings-about-dangerous-cpaps-secret-profits-soared

     * The Philips #Hue ecosystem is collapsing into stupidity https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2023/09/26/hue/ (h/t Slashdot)

     * Breaking Down What the #WritersGuild Won https://gizmodo.com/breaking-down-what-the-writers-guild-won-1850877952

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Apr-2024 08:21:52 JST Cory Doctorow

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     The surveillance advertising to financial fraud pipeline: Finding suckers is the one thing ad-targeting is good at.

     https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/111148873425552408

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Apr-2024 08:21:54 JST Cory Doctorow

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     Monday (October 2), I'll be in #Boise to host an event with #VESchwab:

     https://www.thecabinidaho.org/all-events/ve-schwab

     On October 7-8, I'm in #Milan to keynote Wired Nextfest/#WNF23:

     https://eventi.wired.it/nextfest23-milano

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Apr-2024 08:22:32 JST Cory Doctorow

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     #5yrsago Facebook's #SpamFilter blocked the most popular articles about its 50m user breach https://memex.craphound.com/2018/09/29/facebooks-spam-filter-blocked-the-most-popular-articles-about-its-50m-user-breach/

     #1yrago #Porn on #Tumblr is a complicated subject https://pluralistic.net/2022/09/29/go-nuts-show-nuts/#chokepoints

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