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Inside: Podcasting "Ideas Lying Around"; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/06/12/onl…
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Podcasting "Ideas Lying Around": A theory of change based on shovel-ready ideas.
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Hey look at this
* #Toronto Tenants Are Uniting in a Mass #RentStrike jacobin.com/2023/06/toront…
* France legalizes remotely turning on the camera or microphone of smartphones in criminal investigations www-francetvinfo-fr.translate.goog/societe/justic… (h/t Cooper)
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#20yrsago #TuringMachines aren’t as universal as they could be coherenceengine.com/blog/2003_06_0…
#15yrsago Ancient Roman #D20 for sale, $18,000 christies.com/lot/lot-420538…
#15yrsago #DieselSweeties: the ten-volume free @creativecommons licensed collection edition dieselsweeties.com/ebooks/
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#15yrsago Canadian DMCA is worse than the American one michaelgeist.ca/2008/06/canadi…
#15yrsago Canadian Industry Minister @JimPrentice loads the DMCA, aims it at Canada’s temple, and pulls the trigger web.archive.org/web/2008061212…
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#15yrsago One-click site to tell Amazon that you don’t want #Audible #DRM web.archive.org/web/2008061212…
#15yrsago Sabotage manual from 1944 advises acting like an average 2008 manager web.archive.org/web/2008071519… Simple Sabotage Manual.pdf
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#15yrsago @LindaStone on #TimeManagement huffpost.com/entry/is-it-ti…
#15yrsago @GreatDismal interviewed on IO9 gizmodo.com/william-gibson…
#10yrsago #AiWeiWei on #Prism theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
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#10yrsago Stopwatching.us: Internet companies and civil liberties groups call for investigation into the surveillance state eff.org/deeplinks/2013…
#10yrsago Edward @Snowden checks out of hotel, whereabouts unknown bbc.com/news/world-us-…
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#10yrsago @bruces Augmented World keynote speech
#10yrsago @hughhowey on why he favors self-publishing salon.com/2013/04/04/hug…
#10yrsago @sesamestreet’s materials for kids with an incarcerated parent web.archive.org/web/2013062906…
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#10yrsago Roundup of responses to the Snowden/@nsa leaks theguardian.com/world/2013/jun…
#10yrsago Photos from #OccupyGezi occupygezipics.tumblr.com/post/527301578…
#10yrsago Greek government shuts down state broadcaster, police force journalists out of the building yanisvaroufakis.eu/2013/06/11/ert…
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#10yrsago Former UK drug czar calls banning marijuana and #psychedelics “the worst case of scientific #censorship since the Catholic Church banned the works of #Copernicus and #Galileo” independent.co.uk/news/science/t…
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#10yrsago Why are the protesters in #GeziPark? technosociology.org/?p=1349
#5yrsago @Reddit sounds the alarm: the EU internet proposal would end the net as we know it! reddit.com/r/announcement…
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#5yrsago LA’s high-tech, thoughtful water management is cause for cautious optimism about climate adaptation wired.com/story/la-is-do…
#5yrsago Feds indict Florida police chief who framed a teen for burglaries so he could boast about perfect record washingtonpost.com/news/post-nati…
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#5yrsago Empirical evidence for the #PeterPrinciple (or, why bosses are so incompetent) hbr.org/2018/03/resear…
#5yrsago The EU’s terrible #copyright proposal will “carpet bomb” the whole world’s internet with censorship and surveillance newint.org/features/web-e…
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#5yrsago 70+ internet pioneers to the EU: you are transforming the internet into a “tool for automated surveillance and control” eff.org/deeplinks/2018…
#5yrsago The Freeze-Frame Revolution: mutineers unstuck in time, strung out across an aeon memex.craphound.com/2018/06/12/the…
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#5yrsago Eh, too: Canadians will also suffer under the EU’s proposed copyright rules cbc.ca/radio/asithapp…
#5yrsago Norwegian court orders volunteers to take down public domain court verdicts and pay copyright troll’s legal bills wiumlie.no/2018/rettsprak…
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#5yrsago UK security minister proposes “Digital IDs” to enforce online civility independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…
#5yrsago Infographic: buying games vs pirating them deviantart.com/dnd01/art/Why-…
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#5yrsago Trump won’t stop tearing up official papers so the White House archives employ a staff to tape them back together for the National Archives politico.com/story/2018/06/…
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#5yrsago British army targeted “stressed” 16-year-olds on exam-results day with Facebook recruitment ads independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…
#1yrago The #GeicoSTD story is the new McDonald's #HotCoffee story pluralistic.net/2022/06/12/hot…
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Saturday's threads: Links, dumped; and more!
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My latest novel is Red Team Blues, available wherever books are sold!
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My latest nonfiction book is Chokepoint Capitalism (with @rgibli), nonfiction about monopoly and fairness in creative labor markets.
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Recent appearances:
* How To Save News Media From Our Tech Overlords (@CANADALAND)
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* Most AI is not artificial or intelligent (with @jamesbridle)
* @machinekillspod
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