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Inside: No, "convenience" isn't the problem; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/12/give-me-convenience/

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I'm touring my new, nationally bestselling novel The Bezzle! Catch me in Chicago (Apr 17), Torino (Apr 21) Marin County (Apr 27), Winnipeg (May 2), Calgary (May 3), Vancouver (May 4), and beyond!

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No, "convenience" isn't the problem: Enshittification isn't caused by "lazy consumers."

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112258392461022557

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Hey look at this

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Implicit ideology in video games https://reason.com/2004/04/01/free-play-2/

BBC tries DRM-free distribution https://web.archive.org/web/20040422090025/https://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/reith2004/mp3.shtml

Remembering gopher https://www.wired.com/2004/04/gopher-underground-technology/

MSFT pays $440MM to settle DRM patent dispute https://www.theregister.com/2004/04/12/ms_settles_intertrust/

Billboards versus the attention economy: critical essay from 1960 https://web.archive.org/web/20090414052206/http://howtolookatbillboards.com/

Statebook: how UK gov’t spooks see the Internet http://www.statebook.co.uk

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Manchester’s streets to be patrolled by CCTV cars that film you picking your nose at the wheel and then send you a fine http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/manchester/7994449.stm

Copy Me: a new critical animation series about copying, culture and copyright https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62-UT84-fXM

Everything is a Remix vs Patent Trolls https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Il9nXHoprsU

Foxconn’s inconsistent, chaotic behavior in Wisconsin looks awfully grifty https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/10/18296793/foxconn-wisconsin-location-factory-innovation-centers-technology-hub-no-news

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Victory! House of Reps passes legislation to restore Net Neutrality https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/04/victory-house-representatives-passes-net-neutrality-protections

Chicago is demanding that children on bail wear private-sector ankle-cuffs with mics that can record them without their consent https://theappeal.org/chicago-electronic-monitoring-wiretapping-juveniles/

Security keys are “transformative” and “revolutionary” for information security https://mrisher.medium.com/phishing-and-security-keys-b5c8e8e26931

RIP, Sue Townsend https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-26982680

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Text-mining journalists find that lawmakers introduced 10,000 bills that were copypasted from lobbyists’ “model legislation” https://publicintegrity.org/politics/state-politics/copy-paste-legislate/you-elected-them-to-write-new-laws-theyre-letting-corporations-do-it-instead/

Someone is targeting “critical infrastructure” safety systems in networked attacks https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/04/mysterious-safety-tampering-malware-infects-a-2nd-critical-infrastructure-site/

Courts and cops don’t know what to do with “sovereign citizens,” the delusional far-rightists who claim the law doesn’t apply to them https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_y-gLm9Hrw

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Amazon stores recordings of Alexa interactions and turns them over to internal staff and outside contractors for review https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-10/is-anyone-listening-to-you-on-alexa-a-global-team-reviews-audio

Teen Vogue explains capitalism https://www.teenvogue.com/story/what-capitalism-is

French officials call Project Gutenberg archive, 15 million ebooks, Grateful Dead recordings and Prelinger Archive “terrorism,” demands removal from Internet Archive https://www.techdirt.com/2019/04/11/eu-tells-internet-archive-that-much-site-is-terrorist-content/

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Brexit is cratering London house prices https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-10/house-prices-in-london-southeast-u-k-forecast-to-keep-falling

Alissa Quart's 'Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream' https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/10/declaration-of-interdependence/#solidarity-forever

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Wednesday's threads: The unexpected upside of global monopoly capitalism; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112247084164771738

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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."

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