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   Inside: Denise Hearn and Vass Bednar's "The Big Fix"; and more!

   Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/12/05/ted-rogers-is-a-dope/

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     Denise Hearn and Vass Bednar's "The Big Fix": Ugh, Canada.

     https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113600127905412242

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     • Electronic Frontier Foundation

     Hey look at this

     * Top Ten @eff Digital Security Resources for People Concerned About the Incoming Trump Administration https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/12/top-ten-eff-digital-security-resources-people-concerned-about-incoming-trump

     * Listen to a Led Tea Light https://www.instructables.com/Listen-to-a-led-tea-light/Listen to a Led Tea Light https://www.instructables.com/Listen-to-a-led-tea-light/

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Thursday, 05-Dec-2024 21:14:35 JST Cory Doctorow

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     #15yrsago Latest UK gov’t excuse for suppressing drug policy report: “if we release it, it will be hard to manage the news” https://transform-drugs.blogspot.com/2009/12/transform-foi-vs-home-office.html

     #10yrsago Senator Ron Wyden introduces a bill banning FBI backdoors https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/12/sen-wyden-puts-forward-a-bill-to-ban-data-backdoors/

     #10yrsago Angela Merkel calls for end to net neutrality https://www.thelocal.de/20141204/merkel-speaks-out-against-net-neutrality

     #10yrsago Why no one wants to hear from James Watson https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/dec/01/dna-james-watson-scientist-selling-nobel-prize-medal

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     #10yrsago What military gear did the Pentagon give to America’s cops? https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2014/dec/04/pentagon-finally-details-its-weapons-cops-giveaway/,/a>

     #10yrsago AT&T hates telcoms regulations, except when it insists on them https://www.techdirt.com/2014/12/04/ats-regulatory-hypocrisy-proud-display-kansas-where-its-fighting-to-keep-state-broadband-backwater/

     #5yrsago UK’s oldest ISP blames DoS attack on attempt to suppress human rights report about West Papua https://www.apc.org/en/news/call-action-defy-internet-shutdowns-and-suppression-political-opinion-online

     #5yrsago McKinsey bills the US government $3m a year for anodyne advice from 23-year-old college grads https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/why-taxpayers-pay-mckinsey-3m-a-year

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     #5yrsago Mint: late-stage adversarial interoperability demonstrates what we had (and what we lost) https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/12/mint-late-stage-adversarial-interoperability-demonstrates-what-we-had-and-what-we

     #5yrsago Owners of Tron: Evolution game can’t play it because of DRM fuckery https://www.vice.com/en/article/the-curse-of-oudated-drm-claims-another-victim-tron/

     #5yrsago Apple’s extension of “Activation Locks” to laptops will turn refurbishable electronics into e-waste https://www.ifixit.com/News/34072/apples-activation-lock-will-make-it-very-difficult-to-refurbish-macs

     #5yrsago Tiktok took less than a day to settle parents’ lawsuit over spying on their kids https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/5/20997199/tiktok-bytedance-musically-lawsuit-coppa-settlement-children-data

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     #5yrsago Woman whose vulva was probed by Burbank TSA “officers” who ignored her refusal sues https://professional-troublemaker.com/2019/12/05/california-woman-sues-tsa-for-detaining-her-forcing-her-to-submit-to-groin-search/

     #5yrsago Colombians take to the streets in the third general strike in two weeks https://www.france24.com/en/20191205-colombia-duque-general-strike-protest-government-bogota-demonstration-union-student-teacher

     #5yrsago Online freedom of expression hits a ten-year low https://www.article19.org/xpa-2019/

     #1yrago Pedophiles for Purdue Pharma https://pluralistic.net/2023/12/05/third-party-nonconsensual-releases/#au-recherche-du-pedos-perdue

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     Yesterday's threads: "That Makes Me Smart"; and more!

     https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113594959067710574

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Thursday, 05-Dec-2024 21:15:49 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 Thursday, 05-Dec-2024 21:16:01 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 Thursday, 05-Dec-2024 21:16:23 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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     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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     • 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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