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Inside: Amazon's relentless personal data foot-dragging; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2022/03/27/bew…

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This Thursday (Mar 31), I'm appearing on a panel at the Charles River Associates Competition & Regulation in Disrupted Times conference in Brussels. It's free to attend or stream.

cra-brusselsconference.com 2/

Amazon's relentless personal data foot-dragging: A system's purpose is what it does. 3/

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#20yrsago If the RIAA designed Napster web.archive.org/web/2002032912…

#20yrsago Doonesbury on Napster washingtonpost.com/doonesbury/str…

#15yrsago Jonathan Lethem on the Copyfight web.archive.org/web/2011112305… 5/

#15yrsago DMCA’s author says the DMCA is a failure, blames record industry web.archive.org/web/2007031500…

#15yrsago Smithsonian boss resigns in disgrace after Showtime sellout nytimes.com/2007/03/27/art… 6/

#10yrsago Liminal States: tour-de-force horror novel is also a bleak western, a noir detective story, and a dystopian sf story memex.craphound.com/2012/03/27/lim…

#10yrsago UK MPs recommend laws compelling Google to censor search results theguardian.com/technology/201… 7/

#10yrsago Haunted Mansion funnies: organist’s origin craphound.com/hm-organist.pdf

#10yrsago Norway’s new Minister of International Development is a D&D champ who thinks LARPs can change the worlds imagonem.org/2012/03/27/lar… 8/

#10yrsago Spanish record industry cartel sues business prof who called their system an illegal cartel, claims “threatened honor” torrentfreak.com/anti-piracy-gr…

#10yrsago Skull carved out of obsolete computer manuals maskulllasserre.com/artwork/250186… 9/

#10yrsago TSA gets Bruce Schneier booted from House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform hearing schneier.com/blog/archives/…

#10yrsago Copyright is alive and well on the Internet theguardian.com/technology/201… 10/

#10yrsago Turkish bootleg Star Wars figures of the 1980s theswca.com/images-speci/y…

#5yrsago Google: Chrome will no longer trust Symantec certificates, 30% of the web will need to switch Certificate Authorities arstechnica.com/information-te… 11/

#5yrsago India’s Council of Scientific and Industrial Research blew so much money on rubbish patents, it’s gone broke thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/…

#5yrsago AP stylebook now allows the “singular they” in some instances poynter.org/reporting-edit… 12/

#5yrsago CCTV-studded, teargas-shooting, water-cannon-ed riot-control killdozer web.archive.org/web/2016040205…

#5yrsago Miele’s networked disinfecting hospital dishwasher has a gaping security flaw vice.com/en/article/pg9… 13/

#1yrago Dirty NYPD cops can't lose: The secret legal defense fund for the indefensible pluralistic.net/2021/03/26/ove…

#1yrago Dreaming and overfitting: The Overfitted Brain Hypothesis has a lot of explanatory power pluralistic.net/2021/03/26/ove… 14/

#1yrago Good news about news co-ops: Save journalism, not media monopolies pluralistic.net/2021/03/25/fac…

#1yrago Zuckerpunch: Don't trust Mark Zuckerberg to solve the Facebook problem pluralistic.net/2021/03/25/fac…

#1yrago Green investing is a fraud pluralistic.net/2021/03/24/gre… 15/

Wednesday's threads: Facebook's genocide filters are really, really bad; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1506601995339190281

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Hey look at this

* Snack Data snackdata.com (h/t Josh Bays)

* The Edited Latecomer's Guide to Crypto mollywhite.net/annotations/la… 17/

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… 18/

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… 19/

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/ 20/

Upcoming appearances:

* Competition & Regulation in Disrupted Times (Charles River Associates/Brussels), Mar 31
cra-brusselsconference.com

* Seize the Means of Computation, Emerging Technologies For the Enterprise, Apr 19-20
2022.phillyemergingtech.com/talks/keynote/ 21/

Recent appearances:

* @thebtcpodcast:
thebitcoinpodcast.com/the-bitcoin-po…

* Dangerous Visions: False Dawns and Wandergrounds - Dystopia, Then and Now


* Safety Orange (@TWIT)
twit.tv/shows/this-wee… 22/

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… 23/

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