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   Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Dec-2024 23:12:01 JST Cory Doctorow

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   Inside: "That Makes Me Smart"; and more!

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Dec-2024 23:12:44 JST Cory Doctorow

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     "That Makes Me Smart": When "unfair and deceptive" becomes fair game.

     https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113594864154495956

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Dec-2024 23:13:10 JST Cory Doctorow

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     Hey look at this

     * new jersey “19th century” “eclecticism” https://mcmansionhell.com/post/768536968831401984/new-jersey-19th-century-eclecticism

     * Britain and Australia have a spy shortage and recruiting the next generation is proving difficult https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-01/inside-the-uk-push-to-recruit-more-spies/104510104 (h/t Naked Capitalism)

     * U.S. Government Tries to Stop Data Brokers That Help Dox People Through Credit Data https://www.404media.co/u-s-government-tries-to-stop-data-brokers-that-help-dox-people-through-credit-data/

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Dec-2024 23:13:29 JST Cory Doctorow

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     #15yrsago Measuring the smell of old books to find candidates for preservation https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/12/091202122041.htm

     #15yrsago Are terms-of-service enforceable? https://www.eff.org/wp/clicks-bind-ways-users-agree-online-terms-service

     #15yrsago Just look at this awesome banana bunker. https://memex.craphound.com/2009/12/04/just-look-at-this-awesome-banana-bunker/

     #15yrsago Woman jailed, charged with felony camcordering after recording 4 mins of sister’s birthday party in a movie theater https://web.archive.org/web/20091206024138/https://consumerist.com/2009/12/charged-with-felony-after-taping-4-minutes-of-new-moon.html

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Dec-2024 23:13:51 JST Cory Doctorow

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     #15yrsago Jonathan Lethem’s CHRONIC CITY, surreal and beautiful sf explores the authentic and the unreal https://memex.craphound.com/2009/12/04/jonathan-lethems-chronic-city-surreal-and-beautiful-sf-explores-the-authentic-and-the-unreal/

     #10yrsago NSA leak reveal plans to subvert mobile network security around the world https://theintercept.com/2014/12/04/nsa-auroragold-hack-cellphones/

     #10yrsago Brian Krebs’s “Spam Nation” https://memex.craphound.com/2014/12/04/brian-krebss-spam-nation/

     #10yrsago Why journalists should be free speech partisans https://medium.com/backchannel/when-journalists-must-not-be-objective-fad5aadd8cb3

     #10yrsago Fantastically detailed Boeing 777 model made from manila folders https://www.flickr.com/photos/lucaiaconistewart/sets/72157632208677161

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Dec-2024 23:14:28 JST Cory Doctorow

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     #5yrsago FCC Chairman Pai’s former employer, Verizon, lied about coverage, and then Pai tried to bury the news https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/12/fcc-tries-to-bury-finding-that-verizon-and-t-mobile-exaggerated-4g-coverage/

     #5yrsago The south’s latest culinary trend: inadequate, rotting prison food, supplemented by cattle feed https://www.southernfoodways.org/gravy/are-prison-diets-punitive-a-report-from-behind-bars/

     #5yrsago Browser plugins from Avast and AVG yanked for stealing user data https://www.zdnet.com/article/mozilla-removes-avast-and-avg-extensions-from-add-on-portal-over-snooping-claims/

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Dec-2024 23:14:39 JST Cory Doctorow

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     #5yrsago Second wave Algorithmic Accountability: from “What should algorithms do?” to “Should we use an algorithm?” https://lpeproject.org/blog/the-second-wave-of-algorithmic-accountability/

     #5yrsago How Ken Liu went from engineer to lawyer to SF writer to the foremost translator of Chinese sf into English https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/03/magazine/ken-liu-three-body-problem-chinese-science-fiction.html

     #5yrsago Opendemocracy: the Libdems tried to censor our article about their sale of voter data, then used a forged email to intimidate us https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocracyuk/what-are-jo-swinsons-liberal-democrats-so-desperate-to-hide/

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Dec-2024 23:14:46 JST Cory Doctorow

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     #1yrago Francis Spufford's "Cahokia Jazz" https://pluralistic.net/2023/12/04/cahokia/#the-sun-and-the-moon

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Dec-2024 23:14:59 JST Cory Doctorow

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     Yesterday's threads: Canada sues Google; and more!

     https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113589430209188961

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Dec-2024 23:15:12 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 Wednesday, 04-Dec-2024 23:15:23 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 Wednesday, 04-Dec-2024 23:15:39 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/

     * Should a Public Telecom Be An Election Issue/Davenport NDP (Remote), Dec 15
     https://www.davenportndp.ca/public_telecom_town_hall

     * 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 Wednesday, 04-Dec-2024 23:15:51 JST Cory Doctorow

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     Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

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

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

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Dec-2024 23:16:21 JST Cory Doctorow

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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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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Dec-2024 23:16:27 JST Cory Doctorow

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Dec-2024 23:24:09 JST Cory Doctorow

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     • Sabrina Web :privacypride: 📎

     @sabrinaweb71 Yes! Early Jan.

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     @pluralistic will there be a crowdfunding for Picks and Shovels?

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     tanya tussing (tanyatussing@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 06-Dec-2024 02:11:37 JST tanya tussing

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     @pluralistic This blog post looks excellent. I look forward to reading the rest of it later today.

     "When Congress created an agency to punish "unfair and deceptive" conduct, they were saying to the American people, "You have a right not to be cheated." While this may sound obvious, it's hardly how the world works."

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Friday, 06-Dec-2024 02:11:41 JST Cory Doctorow

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     • tanya tussing

     @tanyatussing Thanks!