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This week on my podcast, I read my recent @Medium column, "View a SKU: Let’s Make Amazon Into a Dumb Pipe," about how interop can help us demonopolize Amazon and tame its market power:

doctorow.medium.com/view-a-sku-327… 1/ A modified Amazon product listing page; the buy with Amazon
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

pluralistic.net/2022/08/01/dum… 2/
To explain this proposal, I need to start with an axiom: there are lots of problems with Amazon (lots!) but the fact that Amazon is really convenient is *not* one of those problems. 3/
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You can have unofficial United States Digital citizenship for about USD$1500.

This will give you access to 100s of online services, tax exemptions, and incredible income earning potential.
🧵👇🏾
Growing up in Jamaica, migrating to the US was considered one of the best ways to find success in life. Just north of Jamaica lay the land of opportunity.

I had family members who took advantage of it and have benefitted greatly.
I also enjoy visiting the US, but I will paraphrase Ernie from Sesame Street, "I would like to visit the U.S. but I don't think I'd like to live there"
I'll never say never but there are things about life in the Caribbean that are difficult trades for me: culture, climate & beach
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We are just starting our session @hasgeek. @abh1sek talking about data breaches and how they happen.

hasgeek.com/rootconf/data-…

Join the live stream on the webpage.

#datasecurity
Thank you @hasgeek for giving us this amazing platform to talk about what we love most #datasecurity #appsec
#cloudsecurity
Agenda for the session
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Don't use the BRP OGL. #IANAL

1. It's not an open license. Clause 10 allows Chaosium to close the license at any time.

By definition, that means it's not an open license.
2. Chaosium's spokespeople are making legally dubious claims everywhere they go (for example, claiming that the WotC OGL is "invalid"), suggesting they have no idea what they're doing.
3. Unlike the WotC OGL, they prevent anyone else from designating Prohibited Content, which means anyone using this license can't protect their own trademarks and IP.
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