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   Inside: All the books I reviewed in 2024; and more!

   Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/12/02/booklish/

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     All the books I reviewed in 2024: Plus three of my own.

     https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113583433857259359

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     Hey look at this

     * The 3 Design Strategies Keeping This Building Cool In Scorching Heat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGX7yosSLCc (h/t @kottke)

     * ISPs say their “excellent customer service” is why users don’t switch providers https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/11/isps-say-their-excellent-customer-service-is-why-users-dont-switch-providers/ (h/t @slashdot)

     * With its social media ban, parliament delivers a performance piece of legislative enshittification that rises to the cultural moment https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-27/social-media-ban-legislative-enshittification-cultural-moment/104648512 (h/t @metafilter)

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     #15yrsago Notes from a news-site paywall attempt https://lancewiggs.com/2009/11/29/2134-nbrs-performance-since-the-wall/

     #15yrsago Iain Banks and other prominent Scots call for reform of Royal Bank of Scotland: “Royal Bank of Sustainability” https://www.theguardian.com/business/2009/nov/29/iain-banks-royal-bank-scotland

     #15yrsago High-mag pollen photos highlight the invisible beauty of plants’ reproductive spritz https://web.archive.org/web/20091120085200/http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2009/12/pollen/oeggerli-photography

     #15yrsago CCDs: a great disruptor lurking in the tech https://bitworking.org/news/2009/11/ccd/

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     #15yrsago Games Workshop declares war on best customers. Again. https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/48933/the-games-workshop-files-purge-of-09

     #15yrsago Pub fined £8K after user infringes copyright with its WiFi https://web.archive.org/web/20091129040800/http://news.zdnet.co.uk/communications/0,1000000085,39909136,00.htm

     #15yrsago DRM versus innovation https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1496058

     #15yrsago Washington State to Microsoft: why aren’t you paying your taxes? https://web.archive.org/web/20120504044552/https://blogs.seattleweekly.com/dailyweekly/2009/11/an_open_letter_to_microsoft_ce.php

     #15yrsago Disused call-box turned into world’s smallest lending library https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/somerset/8385313.stm

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     #15yrsago EU memo on secret copyright treaty confirms US desire for global DMCA https://web.archive.org/web/20091202005204/http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/4575/125/

     #15yrsago Turkey wants universal email surveillance from birth https://foreignpolicy.com/2009/11/30/turkey-tests-new-means-of-internet-control/

     #15yrsago BBC photographer prevented from shooting St Paul’s because he might be “al Qaeda operative” https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/8384972.stm

     #15yrsago Business Software Alliance asks Britons to become paid informants https://web.archive.org/web/20091204180307/https://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/12/nark-on-your-boss/

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     #15yrsago Dane who ripped his DVDs demands to be arrested under DRM law https://torrentfreak.com/anti-piracy-group-refuses-bait-drm-breaker-goes-to-the-police-091201/

     #15yrsago Somali pirate stock-market: “we’ve made piracy a community activity.” https://www.reuters.com/article/wtUSInvestingNews/idUSTRE5B01Z920091201/

     #15yrsago Goldman Sachs bankers ready themselves to kill peasants in the inevitable uprising https://web.archive.org/web/20100131042233/http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601039&sid=ahD2WoDAL9h0

     #10yrsago A terrible restaurant for Canadian bankers called America https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/food-and-wine/restaurant-reviews/america-at-the-trump-hotel-the-food-is-amazing-but-you-shouldnt-eat-here-ever/article21833277/

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     #10yrsago Chicago schools lost $100M by letting Wall Street engineer their finances https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2014/11/chicago-public-schools-100-million-swaps-debacle-demonstrates-high-cost-high-finance.html

     #10yrsago BMG and Rightscorp sue ISP for right to decide who may use the Internet https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/11/music-publishers-finally-pull-the-trigger-sue-an-isp-over-piracy/

     #10yrsago Walmart holds food drive…for Walmart employees (again!) https://web.archive.org/web/20141127230642/http://dissenter.firedoglake.com/2014/11/26/walmart-again-holds-food-drive-for-own-underpaid-workers

     #10yrsago John Oliver on Civil Forfeiture https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kEpZWGgJks

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     #5yrsago Three women independently accuse Gordon Sondland of repeated acts of highly similar sexual misconduct https://www.propublica.org/article/multiple-women-recall-sexual-misconduct-and-retaliation-by-gordon-sondland

     #5yrsago This Thanksgiving, don’t have a political argument, have a “structured organizing conversation” https://jacobin.com/2019/11/thanksgiving-organizing-activism-friends-family-conversation-presidential-election

     #5yrsago Profile of Mariana Mazzucato, the economist who’s swaying both left and right politicians with talk of “the entrepreneurial state” https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/26/business/mariana-mazzucato.html

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     #5yrsago South Carolina’s magistrate judges are a clown-car of corrupt cronies, but they get to put people in jail https://www.propublica.org/article/these-judges-can-have-less-training-than-barbers-but-still-decide-thousands-of-cases-each-year

     #5yrsago Italian cops raid neo-Nazis, find rifles, swords and Nazi literature https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50590924.amp

     #5yrsago Writer asks for an exclusive trademark on the use of the word “dark” in “Series of fiction works, namely, novels and books” https://twitter.com/Catrambo/status/1200060433216004096

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     #5yrsago Defense contractors gleefully report record earnings in divisions that bid on “classified” projects, the fastest-growing part of the Pentagon’s budget https://www.defenseone.com/business/2019/10/secret-pentagon-spending-rising-and-defense-firms-are-cashing/160802/

     #5yrsago Meet the Krazy Klown Kavalcade of racists, homophobes, islamophobes and transphobes serving as appointed South Carolina magistrates https://www.propublica.org/article/he-defended-the-confederate-flag-and-insulted-immigrants-now-hes-a-judge#172036

     #5yrsago DC Comics kills Batman image because China insisted it was supporting the Hong Kong protests https://variety.com/2019/film/news/dc-comics-warner-brothers-batman-1203419190/

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     #5yrsago The Oligarch Game: use coin-tosses to demonstrate “winner take all” and its power to warp perceptions https://brewster.kahle.org/2019/11/30/the-game-of-oligarchy/

     #5yrsago Pennsylvania to Ohio: we see your terrible life-threatening anti-abortion bill and raise you with funerals for unimplanted, fertilized eggs https://www.vice.com/en/article/pennsylvania-fetal-burial-bill-death-certificates-for-miscarriage-abortion-fertilized-eggs-hb1890/

     #5yrsago A quick trip through the ghastly, racist, sexist, eugenicist, authoritarian things that Boris Johnson has said in recent years https://www.businessinsider.com/boris-johnson-said-britain-poorest-chavs-losers-criminals-addicts-burglars-2019-11

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     #1yrago All the books I reviewed in 2023 https://pluralistic.net/2023/12/01/bookmaker/#2023-in-review

     #1yrago Sponsored listings are a ripoff…for sellers https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/29/aethelred-the-unready/#not-one-penny-for-tribute

     #1yrago Insurance companies are making climate risk worse https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/28/re-re-reinsurance/#useless-price-signals

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     Wednesday's threads: Bossware is unfair (in the legal sense, too); and more!

     https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113548449727704405

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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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     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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     Upcoming appearances:

     * 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/

     * DeepSouthCon63 (New Orleans), Oct 10-12, 2025
     http://www.contraflowscifi.org/

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     • The Real News Network

     Recent appearances:

     * Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It (HOPE XV)
     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrciT_dc2sc&list=PLcajvRZA8E0_tLLEh1COeAv-TcaDna2k1&index=32

     * How To Keep IoT From Becoming An IoTrash (@defcon)
     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tA7bpp8qXxI

     * How Big Tech made Trump 2.0 (@therealnews)
     https://therealnews.com/how-big-tech-made-trump-2-0

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     Bought "Cahokia Jazz" and "A Natural History of Empty Lots" off Bookshop.org from this... thanks for the reviews.

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     @CynthesisToday Hurrah!

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     @CynthesisToday @pluralistic ooh I'm reading A Natural History of Empty Lots currently after seeing Cory mention it. I'm really enjoying it so far.