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   Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 19:20:39 JST Cory Doctorow

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   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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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 19:21:21 JST Cory Doctorow

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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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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 19:22:11 JST Cory Doctorow

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     • Ian Brown 👨🏻‍💻

     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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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 19:23:25 JST Cory Doctorow

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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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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 19:23:36 JST Cory Doctorow

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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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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 19:23:50 JST Cory Doctorow

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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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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 19:24:18 JST Cory Doctorow

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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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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 19:24:56 JST Cory Doctorow

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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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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 19:25:06 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 Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 19:25:19 JST Cory Doctorow

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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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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 19:25:39 JST Cory Doctorow

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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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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 19:25:48 JST Cory Doctorow

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 19:26:12 JST Cory Doctorow

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     • Slashdot :verified:

     Today's top sources: @slashdot (https://slashdot.org).

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Thursday, 21-Nov-2024 07:16:04 JST Cory Doctorow

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     @hobart https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/16/how-to-make-the-least-worst-mastodon-threads/

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     Hobart (hobart@uwu.social)'s status on Thursday, 21-Nov-2024 07:16:07 JST Hobart

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     Woo boy, I need to get a different front-end that does unrolling.