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Inside: Podcast: Part 2 of "Someone Comes to Town"; President Supervillain; What "writing rules" actually mean; Negativland's "This is Not Normal"; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2020/05/05/the…

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Podcast: Part 2 of "Someone Comes to Town": Matrioshka babies.



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President Supervillain: Coronavirus Trump is Red Skull.



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What "writing rules" actually mean: It's not list of rules, it's a list of pitfalls.



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Negativland's "This is Not Normal": Gnomic, sad and celebratory.



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Leaked Trump doc projects 3000 US deaths/day: A new 9/11, every day, by the end of this month.



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Pandemic profiteering could create social chaos: Societies with 25-35% unemployment do not produce vaccines.



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Papercraft re-creations of classic Kenner Star Wars toys: From Marc "Paper Dandy" Hagan-Guirey.



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A federal jobs guarantee: MMT has its moment in the sun.



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Teen Vogue on socialist feminism: "No boss" beats "Girl boss."



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#15yrsago DRM and music research web.archive.org/web/2006021201…

#10yrsago Cutting Libraries in a Recession... flickr.com/photos/daniel_…

#10yrsago How I got phished locusmag.com/2010/05/cory-d…

#10yrsago Scholarly essay nails Gilligan's Island's hidden subtext web.archive.org/web/2005020500…

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#10yrsago HOWTO Tell a debt-collector to go to hell consumerist.com/2010/05/this-i…

#10yrsago Cognitive Bias song

#10yrsago Windsor Executive Solutions: Bruce Sterling and Chris Nakashima-Brown's transhuman monarch story futurismic.com/2010/05/04/new…

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#10yrsago London cops' signs in Internet cafe warn against loading porn and "extremism" flickr.com/photos/doctoro…

#10yrsago Canadian Prime Minister promises to enact a Canadian DMCA in six weeks michaelgeist.ca/2010/05/pmo-de…

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#5yrsago Talent, practice & doing hard stuff locusmag.com/2015/05/cory-d…

#5yrsago What it's like to share consciousness with an octopus rifters.com/crawl/?p=5875

#5yrsago House Republicans hold hearing on politics in science, don't invite any scientists sciencemag.org/news/2015/05/h…

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#1yrago Amazon's staffing up a news vertical full of crime stories designed to scare you into buying a spying, snitching "smart" doorbell theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

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#1yrago Big Tech lobbyists and "open for business" Tories killed Ontario's Right-to-Repair legislation vice.com/en_us/article/…

#1yrago Evil Clippy: a tool for making undetectable malicious Microsoft Office docs outflank.nl/blog/2019/05/0…

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Yesterday's threads: Lovecraft Country; $150,000 "Magic" grants; Pandemic could make Big Tech our permanent overlords; Hospital CEOs making millions amid cuts; Wired workers have unionized; The failure of software licensing and more!



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On Jul 14, my first picture book comes 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 Rockefeller. It's the monster book I dreamt of reading to my own daughter.



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Wechat from @TencentGlobal is the third most popular social media platform in the world, primarily because it is the de facto standard for Chinese social media, rolling up many other services like identity and payment.

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Having conquered China, Wechat's new growth will come from the rest of the world, and it has aggressively courted non-Chinese users - and while Tencent acts as an arm of the Chinese state in conducting surveillance and censorship in China, non-Chinese users weren't censored.

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But that doesn't mean they weren't being spied upon - nor that the usage of non-Chinese users didn't power Chinese censorship efforts.

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Sidewalk Labs is the Google/Alphabet division that did a deal with the City of Toronto to turn part of the downtown into a private surveillance-city where people who opted out of data-collection would be punished for their privacy choices.

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From the start, the company acted in deceptive and disreputable ways, and suffered waves of resignations of its high-profile privacy board and denunciations from the indigenous leaders it consulted with (and then roundly ignored).

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It became increasingly clear that even if "smart cities" were a good idea, Sidewalk Labs wasn't. The company became a lightning rod for criticism, but the city kept greenlighting new phases of the project.

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AT&T invented the Unix operating system in 1969. Since then, it has grown to be the basis of almost every computer you use today, from OS X to GNU/Linux, Ios to Android, and all the embedded systems in the "smart" gadgets in your world.

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In the early days of Unix, all kinds of companies made their own commercial versions: Sun, SGI, IBM, Apple, DEC, etc.

But AT&T didn't.

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The story of how AT&T - a vicious monopolist that jealously guarded its treasures - sat by while others commercialized, popularized and perfected Unix is a fantastic parable about how anti-monopoly laws connect with #AdversarialInteroperability.

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