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Inside: To save the news, ban surveillance ads; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/05/31/con…
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Inside: To save the news, ban surveillance ads; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/05/31/con…
#Pluralistic
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Tonight (31/5, 1830h) I'm at #Manchester @WaterstonesMCR with *Red Team Blues*, hosted by @cubicgarden:
waterstones.com/events/in-conv…
On 1/6, it's #London for @uclcs's #PeterKirstein Lecture:
eventbrite.co.uk/e/peter-kirste…
Next: #Edinburgh, #London & #Berlin!
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waterstones.com/events/in-conv…
On 1/6, it's #London for @uclcs's #PeterKirstein Lecture:
eventbrite.co.uk/e/peter-kirste…
Next: #Edinburgh, #London & #Berlin!
redteamblues.com
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To save the news, ban surveillance ads: No publisher will ever beat ad-tech at spying, but no tech company will ever understand a publisher's content better than they do.
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The Writers Guild is on strike. Hollywood is closed for business. The union's bargaining documents reveal a cartel of studios that refused to negotiate on a single position. This could go on for a long-ass time:
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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/2023/05/06/peo…
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The writers are up for it. A lot of people are saying this is the first writers' strike since 2007/8, but that's not quite right. That was the last time the writers went on strike against the *studios*.
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This week on my #podcast, I read my @Medium column, "#GigWork Is the Opposite of #Steampunk," about the worst-of-all-worlds of #bossware, where an app is your boss, and you live at work because your home and/or car is a branch office of the factory:
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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/2023/03/19/lov… 2/
pluralistic.net/2023/03/19/lov… 2/
As with so much of my work these days, the column opens with a reference to the #Luddites, and to @bcmerchant's superb, forthcoming history of the Luddite uprisings, "Blood in the Machine":
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