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Inside: Sterilizer company vs Right to Repair; Intro to cybersecurity; This is the EU's interoperability moment; and more!

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Sterilizer company vs Right to Repair: Steris wants Ifixit to stop distributing repair manuals.



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Intro to cybersecurity: The Open University's MOOC.



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This is the EU's interoperability moment: The Digital Services Act could challenge Big Tech -- but will it?



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#10yrsago HTTPS Everywhere: Firefox plugin that switches on crypto whenever it's available eff.org/deeplinks/2010…

#5yrsago FCC fines AT&T $100M for throttling "unlimited" customers washingtonpost.com/news/the-switc…

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#5yrsago Privacy activists mass-quit U.S. government committee on facial recognition privacy theintercept.com/2015/06/16/pri…

#5yrsago Europe, China, India & US comfortably fit into Africa's landmass scientificamerican.com/article/africa…

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#1yrago Karl Schroeder's "Stealing Worlds": visionary science fiction of a way through the climate and inequality crises boingboing.net/2019/06/18/com…

#1yrago CEO of London's Serpentine Gallery resigns after Guardian report nytimes.com/2019/06/18/art…

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#1yrago Berlin Senate approves five-year, citywide rent freeze bbc.com/news/world-eur…

#1yrago Vast majority of truck-driving jobs are not under threat from automation journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00…

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#1yrago Catherynne Valente schools her racist neighbors about the asylum seekers in their midst boingboing.net/2019/06/18/nex…

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Yesterday's threads: SF anthology to benefit covid charities; Politics and sf; Robots aren't stealing your job; Earbuddy; The Worm; CDA230; Hue and cry, posses, sheriffs; 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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Between the pandemic, the uprisings, and the gloves-off/mask-off rhetoric of the GOP's white supremacist leaders (and the dog-whistles of the reactionary elements of the Democrats), it's clear that the system is very, very broken, and can't/won't survive in its current form.

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I often return to Leonard Cohen's "Everybody Knows," an anthem for looming rupture:

Everybody knows the war is over
Everybody knows the good guys lost
Everybody knows the fight was fixed
The poor stay poor, the rich get rich
That's how it goes



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A more specific, incandescent, and contemporary version is @chsm1th's recent essay, "For the Rich to Keep Getting Richer, We Have to Sacrifice Everything Else."

charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2020/06/for-ri…

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The Trump admin has awarded 2.6B in coronavirus contracts to first-time bidders, many of them unqualified grifters who played Trump and his administration for suckers and got away clean.

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Exhibit A: Fillakit LLC, who got $7.3m to provide sterile test-tubes. Instead, they shipped FEMA soda-bottle "preforms" - these are miniature soda-bottles that you fit into a pressure blower that inflates them up 2l bottles.

propublica.org/article/the-tr…

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Not only are these miniature soda-bottles and not test-tubes, they are also in NO WAY sterile. Here's how they were packed:

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For years, Congress allocated funds to the United States Agency for Global Media for the Open Technology Fund, a nonprofit that makes grants to internet freedom tools like Tor and Wireguard, as well as research projects, conferences and initiatives.

opentech.fund/results/suppor…

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I've been a (not hugely active) volunteer member of the advisory board for years, which means that periodically I hear from people who want to know - given the US's long history of overseas spook fuckery - why they shouldn't assume this is a CIA front.

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I have a great answer for them! You can tell this isn't a nefarious scheme to backdoor the tools that marginalized and oppressed people around the world (and in the USA) rely on because all that code is free and open. You can audit it for backdoors. Others can too. They have.

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