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Inside: Amy's Kitchen, a case-study in the problems with consumerism; and more!
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Amy's Kitchen, a case-study in the problems with consumerism: You are not an ambulatory wallet.
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Hey look at this
* Profoundly creepy ad for Army psyops corps (h/t @slashdot) 3/
#20yrsago @creativecommons Emerging Tech conference demo with Lisa Rein, Matt Haughey and Aaron Swartz memex.craphound.com/2002/05/16/cre…
#20yrsago Creative Commons is live web.archive.org/web/2002060203…
#20yrsago @bruces on Star Wars nytimes.com/2002/05/15/opi… 4/
#20yrsago @dangillmor on "the former audience" memex.craphound.com/2002/05/15/the…
#20yrsago Napster is dead, long live Napster wired.com/2002/05/last-r…
#20yrsago Roll your own tampons nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/ar… 5/
#20yrsago Distributed power-strip distribution at the O'Reilly Emerging Tech conference memex.craphound.com/2002/05/14/dis…
#15yrsago Crybaby Scientologists call reporter a “terrorist” news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/ame…
#15yrsago HOWTO convert a Model T into a tractor web.archive.org/web/2007051901… 6/
#15yrsago UK tax experts warn of virtual world money laundering web.archive.org/web/2007051703…
#15yrsago EL Doctorow’s gigantic Civil War novel “The March” memex.craphound.com/2007/05/15/el-…
#15yrsago Neuros OSD: a set-top box that treats you like an owner memex.craphound.com/2007/05/15/neu… 7/
#15yrago Gonzales proposes criminalizing “attempted infringement” web.archive.org/web/2007051711…
#15yrsago Falwell’s stupidest quotes, direct from hell americansexuality.blogspot.com/2007/05/rev-je…
#15yrsago Your old CD ROMs could help @EFF kill a bogus patent! web.archive.org/web/2007051805… 8/
#15yrsago Today is America’s wiretap the Internet day web.archive.org/web/2014041410…
#15yrsago @cstross on the future antipope.org/charlie/blog-s…
#15yrsago Microsoft says GNU/Linux violates 235+ Windows patents money.cnn.com/magazines/fort… 9/
#15yrsago Amazon to launch DRM-free music service web.archive.org/web/2007051814…
#10yrsago Reflections on the acquittal of Byron Sonne web.archive.org/web/2012051907…
#10yrsago How Mitt Romney “created jobs” csmonitor.com/USA/Elections/… 10/
#10yrsago @cshirky on the relationship between physical space and creativity vimeo.com/41492835
#10yrsago Unpacking privilege: straight white male is the lowest difficulty setting in the game of life whatever.scalzi.com/2012/05/15/str… 11/
#10yrsago Police loom over Byron Sonne’s victory party
#10yrsago Finnish court: open WiFi owners not responsible for copyright infringement arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
#10yrsago “Ghosts With Shit Jobs” econopocalypse mockume 12/
#10yrsago Advance praise for Pirate Cinema memex.craphound.com/2012/05/14/adv…
#10yrsago Anodyne Anonymity memex.craphound.com/2012/05/14/ano…
#10yrsago Nerd fatalism, nerd determinism: the problem with nerd politics theguardian.com/technology/201… 13/
#10yrsago Forming: dirty Gnostic creation-myth comic of high and lavish weirdness memex.craphound.com/2012/05/14/for…
#10yrsago RIP, Donald “Duck” Dunn bbc.com/news/entertain… 14/
#10yrsago @theyesmen punk TPP and US Trade Ambassador with fake “Corporate Power Tool Award” theyesmen.org/project/tpp/re…
#10yrsago Pirates win more seats in German state elections falkvinge.net/2012/05/13/ger… 15/
#10yrsago How @HarvardBooks combines the best of digital bookselling with the best of physical bookselling forbes.com/sites/philjohn…
#10yrsago FAQ postcard distributed by the guy who played Biff in Back to the Future hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-n… 16/
#10yrsago Microsoft invests in Russian company that attacks BitTorrent swarms torrentfreak.com/microsoft-fund…
#5yrsago Insider whistleblower says London police hired Indian hackers to surveil journalists, politicians and activists bbc.com/news/uk-englan… 17/
#5yrsago The virulent ransomware worm has been stopped (for now) by a hidden killswitch theguardian.com/technology/201…
#5yrsago Anti-DRM artists march on the World Wide Web Consortium today defectivebydesign.org/blog/webs_inve… 18/
#5yrsago Poll has Britons in full-throated approval of Corbynism (if not Corbyn) businessinsider.com/poll-huge-publ…
#5yrsago FCC halts public comments on Net Neutrality techdirt.com/2017/05/12/fcc… 19/
#5yrsago Charles Babbage wrote a “cardboard vaporware” app in 1840 and left it in Turin wired.com/beyond-the-bey…
#5yrsago Louisiana’s public defender’s office is largely nonexistent so poor people just plead guilty thedailybeast.com/louisiana-cant… 20/
#5yrsago Across America, employers are using noncompetes to claim ownership of employees’ skills nytimes.com/2017/05/13/bus…
#5yrsago Big Cable push-polled America on Net Neutrality, still found the majority in favor of it consumerist.com/2017/05/12/eve… 21/
#5yrsago The strange, mutating story of “willpower” and what we think it might be as of right now nautil.us/against-willpo…
#5yrsago America’s top cop-killing domestic terror threat is far-right “sovereign citizens” and militias theguardian.com/world/2017/may… 22/
#1yrago Who owns the covid vaccines: Socializing risk and privatizing gain for fun and profit pluralistic.net/2021/05/16/ent…
#1yrago Big Pharma's vicious battle against universal covid vaccination pluralistic.net/2021/05/15/how… 23/
#1yrago The S&L crisis perfected finance crime: The best way to rob a bank is to own one pluralistic.net/2021/05/15/how…
#1yrago Uber (Ch)eats: Innovation in tax evasion pluralistic.net/2021/05/13/ube… 24/
#1yrago The Democratic establishment: Rahm Emanuel is why we can't have nice things pluralistic.net/2021/05/13/ube…
#1yrago A weapon of mass financial destruction: Your pension is funding the destruction of the real economy…and itself pluralistic.net/2021/05/14/bil… 25/
Thursday's threads: A useful, critical taxonomy of decentralization, beyond blockchains; and more!
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My latest book is Attack Surface, a sequel to my bestselling Little Brother books, now in paperback, wherever books are sold.
Signed copies at @DarkDel:
darkdel.com/store/p1840/Co… 27/
My book "How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism" is a critique of Big Tech connecting conspiratorial thinking to the rise of tech monopolies (proposing a way to deal with both) is now out in paperback:
onezero.medium.com/how-to-destroy…
Signed copies here:
darkdel.com/store/p2024/Av… 28/
My ebooks and audiobooks (from @torbooks, @HoZ_Books, @mcsweeneys, 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."
craphound.com/shop/ 29/
Upcoming appearances:
* @ABCCopyright keynote (@WesternU)
abccopyright.com/conference-sch…
* @openjsf (Austin), Jun 8
events.linuxfoundation.org/openjs-world/p…
* @CMAgovUK Data Technology/Analytics (London), Jun 15-16
eventbrite.co.uk/e/cma-data-tec…
* A New @hopeconf (NYC), Jul 24
hope.net 30/
Recent appearances:
* Revolutionizing Activism — The Power of Utopia (@theC4AA)
* A Little Patience and a Lot of Tape (@TWiT)
twit.tv/shows/this-wee…
* Blockchain, Crypto & Web3 (@forlifeitself podcast)
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My first picture book is out! It's called Poesy the Monster Slayer and it's an epic tale of bedtime-refusal, toy-hacking and monster-hunting, illustrated by Matt @mcrockefeller. It's the monster book I dreamt of reading to my own daughter.
pluralistic.net/2020/07/14/poe… 32/
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