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   Inside: Canada sues Google; and more!

   Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/12/03/clementsy/

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     Canada sues Google: This is the US playbook we SHOULD be following.

     https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113589355654764825

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     • Slashdot :verified:

     Hey look at this

     * GIMP 3.0 — a milestone for open-source image editing https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/998793/6c8d00bd1b2a7948/

     * Between the Lines of Google Ad Tech's Closing Arguments https://www.bigtechontrial.com/p/between-the-lines-of-google-ad-techs

     * Microsoft faces wide-ranging US antitrust probe https://www.reuters.com/technology/microsoft-faces-wide-ranging-us-antitrust-probe-2024-11-27/ (h/t @slashdot)

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     #10yrago UK police arrest man who built anti-immigrant nail-bomb, decline to press terrorism charges https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/nov/28/soldier-jailed-nailbomb-ryan-mcgee-manchester-bomb

     #10yrsago Library’s seed sharing system threatened by Big Ag regulations https://www.mprnews.org/story/2014/11/30/duluth-librarys-seed-sharing-program-hits-a-hurdle

     #10yrsago Haunted Mansion leg sleeve tattoo https://www.reddit.com/r/tattoos/comments/2o20s0/haunted_mansion_leg_sleeve_in_progress_by_darin/

     #10yrsago Interview with fantasy writer Tim Powers about being a “secret historian” https://web.archive.org/web/20150103220737/http://likeiwassayingblog.com/2014/12/02/tim-powers-interview-with-a-secret-historian/

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     #5yrsago McKinsey designed ICE’s gulags, recommending minimal food, medical care and supervision https://www.propublica.org/article/how-mckinsey-helped-the-trump-administration-implement-its-immigration-policies#172207

     #5yrsago Frustrated game devs automated the production of 1,500 terrible slot machine apps and actually made money https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1025766/1-500-Slot-Machines-Walk

     #5yrsago The Supreme Court just heard the State of Georgia’s argument for copyrighting the law and charging for access to it https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/12/justices-debate-allowing-state-law-to-be-hidden-behind-a-pay-wall/

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     #5yrsago UK Apostrophe Protection Society surrender’s, saying “ignorance and lazines’s have won” https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/apostrophe-society-shuts-down-because-ignorance-has-won-a4301391.html

     #5yrsago MMT: when does government deficit spending improve debt-to-GDP ratios? https://carnegieendowment.org/china-financial-markets/2019/10/mmt-heaven-and-mmt-hell-for-chinese-investment-and-us-fiscal-spending

     #5yrsago Using the Challenger Disaster to illustrate the 8 symptoms of groupthink https://web.archive.org/web/20150326031934/https://courses.washington.edu/psii101/Powerpoints/Symptoms of Groupthink.htm

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     #5yrsago A sweeping new tech bill from Silicon Valley Democrats promises privacy, interoperability, and protection from algorithmic discrimination and manipulation https://web.archive.org/web/20191105215639/https://eshoo.house.gov/news-stories/press-releases/eshoo-lofgren-introduce-the-online-privacy-act/

     #5yrsago Harry Shearer interviews Uber’s smartest critic: Hubert “Bezzle” Horan https://harryshearer.com/le-shows/december-01-2019/#t=10:10

     #5yrsago Reading the “victory letter” a white nationalist sent to his followers after getting $2.5m from UNC, it’s obvious why he tried to censor it https://twitter.com/greg_doucette/status/1201547992748216322

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     #5yrsago “Harbinger households”: neighborhoods that consistently buy products that get discontinued, buy real-estate that underperforms, and donate to losing political candidates https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0022243719867935

     #5yrsago White nationalists who got a $2.5m payout from UNC abuse the DMCA to censor lawyer’s trove of documents about it https://twitter.com/greg_doucette/status/1201635924158881792

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     Yesterday's threads: All the books I reviewed in 2024; and more!

     https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113583683376580610

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Dec-2024 23:49:05 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 Tuesday, 03-Dec-2024 23:49:16 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 Tuesday, 03-Dec-2024 23:49:30 JST Cory Doctorow

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

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