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   Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Saturday, 02-Nov-2024 22:06:25 JST Cory Doctorow

   Today's threads (a thread)

   Inside: Bluesky and enshittification; and more!

   Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/02/ulysses-pact/

   #Pluralistic

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Saturday, 02-Nov-2024 22:06:59 JST Cory Doctorow

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     Next weekend (November 8-10), I'll be in Tucson, AZ: I'm the Guest of Honor at the Tuscon science fiction convention:

     https://tusconscificon.com/

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Saturday, 02-Nov-2024 22:07:14 JST Cory Doctorow

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     Bluesky and enshittification: No one is the enshittifier of their own story.

     https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113413478456191968

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Saturday, 02-Nov-2024 22:08:54 JST Cory Doctorow

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     Hey look at this

     * Vanishing Culture https://blog.archive.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Vanishing-Culture-2024.pdf (h/t Chris Freeland)

     * The Rookie: W. Kamau Bell on Olivia Rynberg-Going of the DOJ https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/interactive/2024/rookie/ (h/t thepublicdomain@mastodon.sdf.org)

     * Hey Brendan Carr, Next Time Link To Our Article That Proves You’re Full Of Shit, Coward https://www.techdirt.com/2024/10/24/hey-brendan-carr-next-time-link-to-our-article-that-proves-youre-full-of-shit-coward/ (h/t Gregory Charlin)

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Saturday, 02-Nov-2024 22:09:14 JST Cory Doctorow

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     #20yrsago Diebold voting machines hacked https://web.archive.org/web/20041102084048/http://www.blackboxvoting.org/?q=node/view/78#breaking

     #15yrsago Newspaper columnist quits over paywall https://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/02/business/media/02elderly.html

     #15yrsago Congressional record exposes military officers to identity theft, covers up https://web.archive.org/web/20100506125320/http://bulk.resource.org/courts.gov/foia/gov.ftc_20081117_from.pdf

     #15yrsago Hallowe’en night out as floppy disk and XKCD Cory https://www.flickr.com/photos/24876360@N03/4068253019/in/photostream/

     #15yrsago Mechanical computer uses matchboxes and beans to learn Tic-Tac-Toe http://shorttermmemoryloss.com/menace/

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Saturday, 02-Nov-2024 22:09:28 JST Cory Doctorow

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     #15yrsago Elegy Beach: sequel to Ariel, a sword-and-sorcery post-apocalyptic adventure story about the reinvention of software in the age of magic https://memex.craphound.com/2009/11/02/elegy-beach-sequel-to-ariel-a-sword-and-sorcery-post-apocalyptic-adventure-story-about-the-reinvention-of-software-in-the-age-of-magic/

     #10yrsago UK cultural institutions leave their WWI cases empty to protest insane copyright https://web.archive.org/web/20141105051638/http://www.cilip.org.uk/cilip/news/campaign-free-our-history-reform-copyright

     #10yrsago FBI secretly seeking legal power to hack any computer, anywhere https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/oct/29/fbi-powers-hacking-computers-surveillance

     #10yrsago 42 rich white people account for 1/3 of Super PAC spending https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/whos-buying-midterm-elections-bunch-old-white-guys/

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Saturday, 02-Nov-2024 22:09:40 JST Cory Doctorow

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     #10yrsago Philadelphia schools have $5/student/year for supplies https://www.salon.com/2014/11/01/we_must_still_hate_our_kids_philadelphia_and_education_reformers_fight_demented_war_on_elementary_schools/

     #10yrsago Mechwarrior dad/baby costume https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIln1LTtvzc

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Saturday, 02-Nov-2024 22:09:53 JST Cory Doctorow

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     Yesterday's threads: Shifting $677m from the banks to the people, every year, forever; and more!

     https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113408065997021528

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Saturday, 02-Nov-2024 22:10:05 JST Cory Doctorow

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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

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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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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Saturday, 02-Nov-2024 22:10:16 JST Cory Doctorow

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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)'s status on Saturday, 02-Nov-2024 22:10:29 JST Cory Doctorow

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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

     * 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/

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Saturday, 02-Nov-2024 22:10:44 JST Cory Doctorow

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     Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

     * Cloudfest (Europa Park), Mar 17-20
     https://cloudfest.link/

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Saturday, 02-Nov-2024 22:11:18 JST Cory Doctorow

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     • TWiT Podcasts
     • Digitalia Podcast

     Recent appearances:

     * 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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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Saturday, 02-Nov-2024 22:11:34 JST Cory Doctorow

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Saturday, 02-Nov-2024 22:11:43 JST Cory Doctorow

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     Next weekend (November 8-10), I'll be in Tucson, AZ: I'm the Guest of Honor at the Tuscon science fiction convention:

     https://tusconscificon.com/

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     Patrick Leavy (patrickleavy@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 02-Nov-2024 22:46:57 JST Patrick Leavy

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     @pluralistic EXCELLENT article!

     Have you had a look at #Nostr too? It can be bridged with #ActivityPub and it appears to be totally resistant to #enshittification by design.

     A little bitcoin-bro heavy in these early days, but it can outgrow that I think.

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     Suzanne she/her (drsuzanne@ohai.social)'s status on Saturday, 02-Nov-2024 22:47:14 JST Suzanne she/her

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     @pluralistic I very much felt this about Twitter. It was my main source of social support when died. I’ve learned the hard way how these online tools can just disappear overnight on the whim of someone who is incapable of caring. Never again.

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Sunday, 03-Nov-2024 05:43:57 JST Cory Doctorow

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     • John Deters

     @targetdrone why would that have anything to do with me? I haven't been involved with that service since 2020.

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     John Deters (targetdrone@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 03-Nov-2024 05:43:58 JST John Deters

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     @pluralistic The irony of you dropping this piece on the same day that #BoingBoing paywalled their forum behind Substack is indescribable.

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     aeroplain (aeroplain@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 03-Nov-2024 05:44:35 JST aeroplain

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     @pluralistic You should enable Bridgy by following @bsky.brid.gy, which would allow for Bluesky users to reply to your posts on Mastodon.

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     @aeroplain @bsky.brid.gy I tried but it appeared that I needed to open a Blue sky account to do that.

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     T_X (t_x@chaos.social)'s status on Sunday, 03-Nov-2024 07:47:55 JST T_X

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     @pluralistic "Whenever you take a measure during a moment of strength that guards against your own future self's weakness, you enter into a Ulysses Pact – think throwing away the Oreos when you start your diet."

     This reminded me of a construct some initiative came up for houses here in Germany: Mietshäuser Syndikat ("apartment-house syndicate"). It prevents the privatization of a house. You manage your house but the syndicate can veto selling it.

     https://www.syndikat.org/en/
     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mietsh%C3%A4user_Syndikat

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     John Deters (targetdrone@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 03-Nov-2024 07:50:49 JST John Deters

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     @pluralistic You were once very a popular presence on it; and you cast a long shadow.

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     @targetdrone so it's ironic that don't accord with policies of a business that I left? I would think that that would be the opposite of ironic, eg, expected.

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     Matěj Cepl 🇪🇺 🇨🇿 🇺🇦 (mcepl@floss.social)'s status on Monday, 04-Nov-2024 00:39:58 JST Matěj Cepl 🇪🇺 🇨🇿 🇺🇦

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     That made me think about an awesome article by @spolsky at https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/06/03/strategy-letter-iii-let-me-go-back/ … why the most important #Excel function was to export TO #Lotus 123 format.