richardvenusfo, 7 months ago

@pluralistic Given Great Article. #GitHub now has a ForYou feed too - any thoughts on that particular Microsofted behemoth written somewhere? Also, thanks for all the great work this century.

RandomDamage, 7 months ago

@pluralistic enshittification is why every transaction with a commercial aggregation platform on-line (and even some that aren't) is adversarial.

Deal direct if you can and your experience ends up a lot better

pluralistic, 7 months ago

Tomorrow (Nov 4), I'm keynoting the @hackaday #Supercon in #Pasadena, CA:

https://hackaday.io/superconference/

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pluralistic, 7 months ago

Big Tech's "attention rents": Enshittification comes out of the barrel of an algorithm.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/111349281489123514

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pluralistic, 7 months ago

Hey look at this

• #Antitrust suit stalls #JetBlue deal in bid to save low-cost #Spirit https://www.csmonitor.com/Business/2023/1031/Antitrust-suit-stalls-JetBlue-deal-in-bid-to-save-low-cost-Spirit

• #BandcampUnion Files Unfair Labor Practice Charge Against #Songtradr https://www.404media.co/bandcamp-union-files-unfair-labor-practice-charge-against-songtradr/

• Beholder Jack-o'-Lantern https://twitter.com/rangleme/status/1718822323439247735 (h/t Neatorama)

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pluralistic, 7 months ago

#20yrsago #ChinaMieville on #Tolkien https://web.archive.org/web/20031025054631/https://www.panmacmillan.com/features/china/debate.htm

#15yrsago The Essential #Groucho https://memex.craphound.com/2008/11/03/the-essential-groucho/

#10yrsago Toronto Mayor #RobFord’s polls go up after he’s caught lying about crack-smoking video https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/city-hall/mayor-rob-fords-approval-rating-ticks-upward-with-news-of-crack-video/article_a70fbaa2-eb4c-53ac-b732-d1ed3ab14002.html

#10yrsago Inspired by #Snowden, more #NSA insiders are blowing the whistle https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2013/10/more-nsa-leakers-followed-snowdens-footsteps-whistleblower-lawyer-says/

#10yrsago #RIAA, #BPI websites infringe copyright https://torrentfreak.com/riaa-and-bpi-use-pirated-code-on-their-websites-131102

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pluralistic, 7 months ago

#10yrsago UK legal aid proposal: bonuses for lawyers whose clients plead guilty https://www.theguardian.com/law/2013/nov/01/lawyers-higher-legal-aid-fees-early-guilty-plea

#5yrsago Swedish ISP punishes #Elsevier for forcing it to block #SciHub by also blocking Elsevier https://torrentfreak.com/swedish-isp-protest-site-blocking-by-blocking-rightsholders-website-and-more-181102/

#5yrsago #Disneyland’s laundry used “#gamification” as an “electronic whip,” leading to worker stress and injuries https://aeon.co/essays/how-employers-have-gamified-work-for-maximum-profit

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pluralistic, 7 months ago

#5yrsago Facebook blames malicious browser plugins for leak of 81k users’ private messages and offer of account data for 120,000,000 users https://www.wired.com/story/hackers-posted-private-facebook-messages/

#5yrsago A human being at Facebook manually approved the idea of targeting ads to users interested in “#WhiteGenocide” https://theintercept.com/2018/11/02/facebook-ads-white-supremacy-pittsburgh-shooting/

#5yrsago How to tax #BigTech https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2018/10/30/how-to-tax-digital-companies/

#5yrsago America’s most notorious patent troll, now bankrupt, values its bullshit patents at $1 https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/10/stupid-patent-month-how-34-patents-worth-1-led-hundreds-lawsuits

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pluralistic, 7 months ago

#5yrsago Australia’s 2015 copyright censorship system has failed, so they’re adding (lots) more censorship https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/11/sopaau-australia-testbed-worlds-most-extreme-copyright-blocks

#5yrsago Senator Wyden proposes 20 prison sentences for CEOs who lie about data collection and protection https://www.vice.com/en/article/8xjwjz/sen-ron-wyden-introduces-bill-that-would-send-ceos-to-jail-for-violating-consumer-privacy

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pluralistic, 7 months ago

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

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My latest novel is Red Team Blues, available wherever books are sold!

Signed copies at Dark Delicacies (US):

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and Forbidden Planet (UK):

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pluralistic, 7 months ago

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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pluralistic, 7 months ago

Upcoming appearances:

• @hackaday Supercon, Nov 4 (#Pasadena)
  https://hackaday.io/superconference/

• #SecondLife Book Club, with #RebeccaGiblin, Nov 8/17hPT
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L07T82M_xzk

• The New Luddites Seizing the Means of Computation, with @brianmerchant (#HallwayTrack), Nov 9
  https://www.verylittlegravitas.com/hallwaytrack

• #CBCIDEAS, Nov 16 (#Stratford, ON)
  https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/cbc-ideas-visionaries-in-conversation-tickets-729692809837

• Inspiring the Next Generation, Nov 16 (#Stratford, ON)
  https://www.provocation.ca/upcoming-2023-events-stratford

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pluralistic, 7 months ago

Upcoming appearances (cont):

• Gibson's Bookstore, Nov 18 (#Concord, NH)
  https://www.gibsonsbookstore.com/event/doctorow-lost-cause

• Lost Cause at Simsbury Public Library, Nov 20 (#Simsbury, CT)
  https://simsbury.librarycalendar.com/event/author-visit-cory-doctorow-29257

• Generation of Lost Causes, Nov 22 (#Toronto)
  https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDMEVT495758&R=EVT495758

• Who Is Watching Big Tech? Nov 27 (#Toronto)
  https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDMEVT496408&R=EVT496408

• The Lost Cause at #TheStrand (#NYC), Nov 29
  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cory-doctorow-the-lost-cause-tickets-734958008187

• The Lost Cause at #FlyleafBooks (#ChapelHill), Dec 7
  https://www.flyleafbooks.com/doctorow-2023

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pluralistic, 7 months ago

Recent appearances:

• The Material Power That Rules Computation (#ThisMachineKills)
  https://soundcloud.com/thismachinekillspod/294-the-material-power-that-rules-computation-ft-cory-doctorow

• The Science in the Fiction
  https://www.buzzsprout.com/2201157/13896228-ep-14-cory-doctorow-on-the-lost-cause-red-team-blues-and-chokepoint-capitalism

• The Internet Con at the @internetarchive
  https://archive.org/details/the-internet-con

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pluralistic, 7 months ago

Thursday's threads: Social Security is class war, not intergenerational conflict; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/111336285495820767

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