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Inside: Amy's Kitchen, a case-study in the problems with consumerism; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2022/05/16/thr…

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Amy's Kitchen, a case-study in the problems with consumerism: You are not an ambulatory wallet.

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Hey look at this

* Profoundly creepy ad for Army psyops corps (h/t @slashdot) 3/ Image
#20yrsago @creativecommons Emerging Tech conference demo with Lisa Rein, Matt Haughey and Aaron Swartz memex.craphound.com/2002/05/16/cre…

#20yrsago Creative Commons is live web.archive.org/web/2002060203…

#20yrsago @bruces on Star Wars nytimes.com/2002/05/15/opi… 4/ Image
#20yrsago @dangillmor on "the former audience" memex.craphound.com/2002/05/15/the…

#20yrsago Napster is dead, long live Napster wired.com/2002/05/last-r…

#20yrsago Roll your own tampons nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/ar… 5/ Image
#20yrsago Distributed power-strip distribution at the O'Reilly Emerging Tech conference memex.craphound.com/2002/05/14/dis…

#15yrsago Crybaby Scientologists call reporter a “terrorist” news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/ame…

#15yrsago HOWTO convert a Model T into a tractor web.archive.org/web/2007051901… 6/ Image
#15yrsago UK tax experts warn of virtual world money laundering web.archive.org/web/2007051703…

#15yrsago EL Doctorow’s gigantic Civil War novel “The March” memex.craphound.com/2007/05/15/el-…

#15yrsago Neuros OSD: a set-top box that treats you like an owner memex.craphound.com/2007/05/15/neu… 7/
#15yrago Gonzales proposes criminalizing “attempted infringement” web.archive.org/web/2007051711…

#15yrsago Falwell’s stupidest quotes, direct from hell americansexuality.blogspot.com/2007/05/rev-je…

#15yrsago Your old CD ROMs could help @EFF kill a bogus patent! web.archive.org/web/2007051805… 8/ Image
#15yrsago Today is America’s wiretap the Internet day web.archive.org/web/2014041410…

#15yrsago @cstross on the future antipope.org/charlie/blog-s…

#15yrsago Microsoft says GNU/Linux violates 235+ Windows patents money.cnn.com/magazines/fort… 9/ Image
#15yrsago Amazon to launch DRM-free music service web.archive.org/web/2007051814…

#10yrsago Reflections on the acquittal of Byron Sonne web.archive.org/web/2012051907…

#10yrsago How Mitt Romney “created jobs” csmonitor.com/USA/Elections/… 10/ Image
#10yrsago @cshirky on the relationship between physical space and creativity vimeo.com/41492835

#10yrsago Unpacking privilege: straight white male is the lowest difficulty setting in the game of life whatever.scalzi.com/2012/05/15/str… 11/ Image
#10yrsago Police loom over Byron Sonne’s victory party

#10yrsago Finnish court: open WiFi owners not responsible for copyright infringement arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…

#10yrsago “Ghosts With Shit Jobs” econopocalypse mockume 12/ Image
#10yrsago Advance praise for Pirate Cinema memex.craphound.com/2012/05/14/adv…

#10yrsago Anodyne Anonymity memex.craphound.com/2012/05/14/ano…

#10yrsago Nerd fatalism, nerd determinism: the problem with nerd politics theguardian.com/technology/201… 13/ Image
#10yrsago Forming: dirty Gnostic creation-myth comic of high and lavish weirdness memex.craphound.com/2012/05/14/for…

#10yrsago RIP, Donald “Duck” Dunn bbc.com/news/entertain… 14/ Image
#10yrsago @theyesmen punk TPP and US Trade Ambassador with fake “Corporate Power Tool Award” theyesmen.org/project/tpp/re…

#10yrsago Pirates win more seats in German state elections falkvinge.net/2012/05/13/ger… 15/
#10yrsago How @HarvardBooks combines the best of digital bookselling with the best of physical bookselling forbes.com/sites/philjohn…

#10yrsago FAQ postcard distributed by the guy who played Biff in Back to the Future hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-n… 16/ Image
#10yrsago Microsoft invests in Russian company that attacks BitTorrent swarms torrentfreak.com/microsoft-fund…

#5yrsago Insider whistleblower says London police hired Indian hackers to surveil journalists, politicians and activists bbc.com/news/uk-englan… 17/ Image
#5yrsago The virulent ransomware worm has been stopped (for now) by a hidden killswitch theguardian.com/technology/201…

#5yrsago Anti-DRM artists march on the World Wide Web Consortium today defectivebydesign.org/blog/webs_inve… 18/ Image
#5yrsago Poll has Britons in full-throated approval of Corbynism (if not Corbyn) businessinsider.com/poll-huge-publ…

#5yrsago FCC halts public comments on Net Neutrality techdirt.com/2017/05/12/fcc… 19/ Image
#5yrsago Charles Babbage wrote a “cardboard vaporware” app in 1840 and left it in Turin wired.com/beyond-the-bey…

#5yrsago Louisiana’s public defender’s office is largely nonexistent so poor people just plead guilty thedailybeast.com/louisiana-cant… 20/ Image
#5yrsago Across America, employers are using noncompetes to claim ownership of employees’ skills nytimes.com/2017/05/13/bus…

#5yrsago Big Cable push-polled America on Net Neutrality, still found the majority in favor of it consumerist.com/2017/05/12/eve… 21/ Image
#5yrsago The strange, mutating story of “willpower” and what we think it might be as of right now nautil.us/against-willpo…

#5yrsago America’s top cop-killing domestic terror threat is far-right “sovereign citizens” and militias theguardian.com/world/2017/may… 22/ Image
#1yrago Who owns the covid vaccines: Socializing risk and privatizing gain for fun and profit pluralistic.net/2021/05/16/ent…

#1yrago Big Pharma's vicious battle against universal covid vaccination pluralistic.net/2021/05/15/how… 23/
#1yrago The S&L crisis perfected finance crime: The best way to rob a bank is to own one pluralistic.net/2021/05/15/how…

#1yrago Uber (Ch)eats: Innovation in tax evasion pluralistic.net/2021/05/13/ube… 24/ Image
#1yrago The Democratic establishment: Rahm Emanuel is why we can't have nice things pluralistic.net/2021/05/13/ube…

#1yrago A weapon of mass financial destruction: Your pension is funding the destruction of the real economy…and itself pluralistic.net/2021/05/14/bil… 25/ Image
Thursday's threads: A useful, critical taxonomy of decentralization, beyond blockchains; and more!

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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:

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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:

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Signed copies here:
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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."

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Upcoming appearances:

* @ABCCopyright keynote (@WesternU)
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* @openjsf (Austin), Jun 8
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* A New @hopeconf (NYC), Jul 24
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Recent appearances:

* Revolutionizing Activism — The Power of Utopia (@theC4AA)


* A Little Patience and a Lot of Tape (@TWiT)
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* Blockchain, Crypto & Web3 (@forlifeitself podcast)
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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.

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If you're a @Medium subscriber, you can read these - as well as previews of upcoming magazine columns and early exclusives on doctorow.medium.com.

My latest Medium column is "The Fatfinger Economy"

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It's damned hard to prove an antitrust case: so often, the prosecution has to prove that the company *intended* to crush competition, and/or that they raised prices or reduced quality because they knew they didn't have to fear competitors.

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A jury has ordered Blue Cross of Louisiana to pay $421m to a hospital specializing in a much sought-after type of breast reconstruction, primarily for cancer survivors.

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It's been more than a decade in the making, but Facebook - or, if you prefer, Meta - is going on trial for antitrust violations, with the highest possible stakes and the worst possible evidence (for Facebook).

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