Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: Forcing Google to spin off Chrome (and Android?); and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/19/breaking-up-is-hard-to-do/
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Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: Forcing Google to spin off Chrome (and Android?); and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/19/breaking-up-is-hard-to-do/
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Forcing Google to spin off Chrome (and Android?): Structural separation is the ultimate anti-cheat hack.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113509059983517757
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Hey look at this
* Distribute the Book "On Tyranny" for Free Nationwide https://www.gofundme.com/f/fight-tyranny-in-the-us-with-free-books
* Who does the Democratic party represent? https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/18/harris-biden-democratic-party (h/t @1br0wn)
* The Verge Editor-In-Chief Nilay Patel breathes fire on Elon Musk and Donald Trump's Big Tech enablers https://www.status.news/p/nilay-patel-donald-trump-big-tech-interview (h/t @mitchw )
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#20yrsago WIPO notes from day three: democracy == ignoring dissent https://web.archive.org/web/20041124024604/https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/002130.php#002130
#15yrsago Britain’s new Internet law — as bad as everyone’s been saying, and worse. Much, much worse. https://memex.craphound.com/2009/11/19/britains-new-internet-law-as-bad-as-everyones-been-saying-and-worse-much-much-worse/
#5yrsago DJ Earworm: 100 songhttps://www.tumblr.com/thevaultoftheatomicspaceage/767410440115503104s from the past decade in one mashup https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=UhIte8t6BEg
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#5yrsago Leaks reveal how the “Pitbull of PR” helped Purdue Pharma and the Sacklers ignite the opioid crisis https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-purdue-pharma-media-playbook-how-it-planted-the-opioid-anti-story#171238
#5yrsago Beyond the gig economy: “platform co-ops” that run their own apps https://www.vice.com/en/article/worker-owned-apps-are-trying-to-fix-the-gig-economys-exploitation/
#5yrsago Elizabeth Warren’s plan to denazify America https://medium.com/@teamwarren/fighting-back-against-white-nationalist-violence-87b0c550f51f
#5yrsago Youtube told them to use this “royalty-free” music; now rightsholders are forcing ads on their videos and claiming most of the revenue https://torrentfreak.com/royalty-free-music-supplied-by-youtube-results-in-mass-video-demonetization-191118/
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#5yrsago The State of South Dakota wants you to know that it’s on meth https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2019/11/18/meth-were-it-says-south-dakota-new-ad-campaign/
#5yrsago Sand thieves believed to be behind epidemic of Chinese GPS jamming https://www.technologyreview.com/2019/11/15/131940/ghost-ships-crop-circles-and-soft-gold-a-gps-mystery-in-shanghai/
#5yrsago Quiet Rooms: Illinois schools lead the nation in imprisoning very young, disabled children in isolation chambers https://features.propublica.org/illinois-seclusion-rooms/school-students-put-in-isolated-timeouts/#170648
#5yrsago Terabytes of data leaked from an oligarch-friendly offshore bank https://web.archive.org/web/20191117042726/https://data.ddosecrets.com/file/Sherwood/
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#5yrsago @naomikritzer on the CatNet”: an AI caper about the true nature of online friendship https://memex.craphound.com/2019/11/19/naomi-kritzers-catfishing-on-the-catnet-an-ai-caper-about-the-true-nature-of-online-friendship/
#5yrsago Girl on Film: a graphic novel memoir of a life in the arts and the biological basis for memory-formation https://memex.craphound.com/2019/11/19/girl-on-film-a-graphic-novel-memoir-of-a-life-in-the-arts-and-the-biological-basis-for-memory-formation/
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Yesterday's threads: Harpercollins wants authors to sign away AI training rights; and more!
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113503128066120959
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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:
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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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Upcoming appearances:
* 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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Recent appearances:
* If I Ruled the World by Gillian Burke
https://if-i-ruled-the-world-gb.captivate.fm/listen
* Enshittification Was a Choice (SOSS Fusion)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCSelmMUO0c
* Maximum Iceland Scenario - Data Caps, 3rd Party Android Stores, Nuclear Amazon (@TWIT)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5MkCwktKz0
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@hobart https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/16/how-to-make-the-least-worst-mastodon-threads/
Woo boy, I need to get a different front-end that does unrolling.
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