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Inside: Facebook vs Robert Bork; Why we can't have nice things; and more!
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Inside: Facebook vs Robert Bork; Why we can't have nice things; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2020/12/10/bor…
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Facebook vs Robert Bork: The FTC finally found a casus belli for killing off borkism.
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https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1336832819675316227
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Why we can't have nice things: "Lobbying Expenditures and Campaign Contributions by the Pharmaceutical and Health Product Industry in the United States, 1999-2018."
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https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1337070530445205510
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#15yrsago Dykes on Bikes gives the Trademark Office a linguistics lesson sfgate.com/news/article/T…
#15yrsago Only 2% of music-store downloaders care about legality of their music web.archive.org/web/2005121711…
#10yrsago Rogue Archivist beer web.archive.org/web/2010121406…
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#15yrsago Only 2% of music-store downloaders care about legality of their music web.archive.org/web/2005121711…
#10yrsago Rogue Archivist beer web.archive.org/web/2010121406…
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#10yrsago Student protesters in London use Google Maps to outwit police “kettling” web.archive.org/web/2010121204…
#10yrsago Theory and practice of queue design passport2dreams.blogspot.com/2010/12/third-…
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#10yrsago Theory and practice of queue design passport2dreams.blogspot.com/2010/12/third-…
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#5yrsago Robert Silverberg’s government-funded guide to the psychoactive drugs of sf vice.com/en/article/3da…
#5yrsago In case you were wondering, there’s no reason to squirt coffee up your ass scienceblogs.com/insolence/2015…
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#5yrsago In case you were wondering, there’s no reason to squirt coffee up your ass scienceblogs.com/insolence/2015…
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#5yrsago The moral character of cryptographic work web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~rogaway/paper…
#5yrsago European Commission resurrects an unkillable stupid: the link tax openmedia.org/article/item/b…
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#5yrsago European Commission resurrects an unkillable stupid: the link tax openmedia.org/article/item/b…
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#5yrsago UK National Crime Agency: if your kids like computers, they’re probably criminals web.archive.org/web/2015120903…
#5yrsago China’s top Internet censor: “There’s no Internet censorship in China” hongkongfp.com/2015/12/09/the…
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#5yrsago China’s top Internet censor: “There’s no Internet censorship in China” hongkongfp.com/2015/12/09/the…
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#5yrsago Marriott removing desks from its hotel rooms “because Millennials” web.archive.org/web/2015121003…
#1yrago Amazon’s Ring surveillance doorbell leaks its customers’ home addresses, linked to their doorbell videos gizmodo.com/ring-s-hidden-…
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#1yrago Amazon’s Ring surveillance doorbell leaks its customers’ home addresses, linked to their doorbell videos gizmodo.com/ring-s-hidden-…
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#1yrago Pete Buttigieg’s prizewinning high-school essay praising Bernie Sanders: “the power to win back the faith of a voting public weary and wary of political opportunism” jacobinmag.com/2019/12/pete-b…
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#1yrago Distinguishing between “platforms” and “aggregators” in competition law stratechery.com/2019/a-framewo…
#1yrago NYC paid McKinsey $27.5m to reduce violence at Riker’s, producing useless recommendations backed by junk evidence propublica.org/article/new-yo…
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#1yrago NYC paid McKinsey $27.5m to reduce violence at Riker’s, producing useless recommendations backed by junk evidence propublica.org/article/new-yo…
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#1yrago Church nativity scene puts the holy family in cages, because that’s how America deals with asylum-seekers like Christ
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https://twitter.com/mattrindge/status/1203556607033929729
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#1yrago As the end nears for Yahoo Groups, Verizon pulls out all the stops to keep archivists from preserving them modsandmembersblog.wordpress.com/2019/12/08/ver…
#1yrago US pharma/biotech lobbyists’ documents reveal their plan to gouge Britons in any post-Brexit trade-deal theintercept.com/2019/12/09/bre…
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#1yrago US pharma/biotech lobbyists’ documents reveal their plan to gouge Britons in any post-Brexit trade-deal theintercept.com/2019/12/09/bre…
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#1yrago In any other industry, emergency medical billing would be considered fraudulent nytimes.com/2019/12/07/opi…
#1yrago Podcast: Party Discipline, a Walkaway story (Part 2) ia803102.us.archive.org/28/items/Cory_…
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#1yrago Podcast: Party Discipline, a Walkaway story (Part 2) ia803102.us.archive.org/28/items/Cory_…
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#1yrago The student movements at the vanguard of Chile’s protests are allied with former student leaders now serving in Congress apnews.com/article/819108…
#1yrago The blood of poor Americans is now a leading export, bigger than corn or soy mintpressnews.com/harvesting-blo…
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#1yrago The blood of poor Americans is now a leading export, bigger than corn or soy mintpressnews.com/harvesting-blo…
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#1yrago Model stealing, rewarding hacking and poisoning attacks: a taxonomy of machine learning’s failure modes docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security…
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Tuesday's threads: Ford patents plutocratic lane-changes; All the books I reviewed in 2020; Armed cops terrorize Florida covid whistleblower; Uber pays to get rid of its self-driving cars; and more!
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https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1336324897413349378
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I have a (free) new book out! "How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism" is an anti-monopolist critique of Big Tech that connects the rise of conspiratorial thinking to the rise of tech monopolies and proposes a way to deal with both:
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* Colloquium on Information Security, Dec 14, eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-31st-hph…
* Keynote, NISO Plus, Feb 22-25, niso.plus/cory-doctorow-…
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* Worldshapers
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* A More Competitive Web (Techdirt Podcast): techdirt.com/articles/20201…
* Big Tech Podcast:
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