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Inside: "Don't spy on a privacy lab" (and other career advice for university provosts); and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2022/10/07/sen…

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I'm coming to #Miami!

Tues (Oct 12): event for "Chokepoint Capitalism" @BooksandBooks (@rgibli's and my new book about creative labor markets and monopoly power)

booksandbooks.com/event/in-perso…

Weds (Oct 13): @JoinLincoln's Reboot Conference:

eventbrite.com/e/reboot-2022-… 2/

"Don't spy on a privacy lab" (and other career advice for university provosts): Northeastern grad student vs surveillance-driven austerity.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1578455842349027328

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Hey look at this

* Contrepreneurs: The Mikkelsen Twins (h/t @Metafilter)

* The Onion's first Supreme Court amicus brief supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/22/2…

* Jerry Harrison and Adrian Belew perform Remain in Light (h/t Xtrasilky) 4/

#20yrsago @neilhimself kicks McFarlane’s ass in court icv2.com/articles/comic…

#20yrsago Homeless Guy blog web.archive.org/web/2002092315…

#20yrsago 9/11, war in Iraq threaten Disney parks latimes.com/archives/la-xp…

#20yrsago 1Mb/s through mud web.archive.org/web/2002120511… 5/

#20yrsago @StevenLevy’s wireless neighbors newsweek.com/i-was-wi-fi-fr…

#15yrsago Modern phrenologists “predict” terrorism with biometrics sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/…

#15yrsago Great firewall of China blocks RSS arstechnica.com/uncategorized/… 6/

#15yrsago @cmdrtaco on 10 years of Slashdot web.archive.org/web/2007101011…

#15yrsago HMG orders Heathrow to fix its security queues theguardian.com/business/2007/…

#15yrsago Canadian mint: We own the words “one cent” and Toronto can’t use them tmcnet.com/usubmit/2007/1… 7/

#15yrsago Revolution in Jesusland: building bridges between progressives and born-agains web.archive.org/web/2007101102…

#15yrsago Unlocking an iPhone is legal slate.com/technology/200… 8/

#10yrsago 68,000 Texans no longer have to prove they’re not dead in order to vote loweringthebar.net/2012/10/texas-…

#10yrsago Maine GOP attack-flier condemns Democratic candidate for playing an orc rogue in online game arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20… 9/

#10yrsago UN’s copyright agency won’t let the Pirate Party in web.archive.org/web/2012100704… (ha ha only serious)ppi-blocked-from-becoming-observer-members-of-wipo/

#10yrsago Sailor Twain: don’t fall in love with the mermaid of the Hudson valley memex.craphound.com/2012/10/04/sai… 10/

#10yrsago Rumble in the Air-Conditioned Auditorium: @JonStewart and @BillOReilly’s debate kicked ass theguardian.com/world/2012/oct…

#10yrsago Supreme Court case will decide whether you own your stuff marketwatch.com/story/your-rig… 11/

#5yrsago After massive breach Equifax gets $7.25m no-bid IRS contract to “prevent fraud” consumerist.com/2017/10/04/irs…

#5yrsago Analysis of 22 million FCC comments show that humans love Net Neutrality and bots really, really hate it gravwell.io/blog/discoveri… 12/

#5yrsago Average Fortune 500 CEO gets a pension of $253,088 every month until they die latimes.com/business/lazar…

#5yrsago Disgraced Equifax CEO blames 145.5 million-record breach on a single forgetful flunky engadget.com/2017-10-03-for… 13/

#5yrsago Hackers hack hackers to steal their hacking tools and deflect blame theintercept.com/2017/10/04/mas…

#5yrsago “Court guardians” kidnap old people, sell all their stuff, doom victims to pharmaceutical oblivion in institutions newyorker.com/magazine/2017/… 14/

#5yrsago Theresa May coughs through a catastrophic party conference speech plagued by pranks and a crumbling set cnn.com/2017/10/04/eur…

#5yrsago Lifelong Kindergarten: how to learn like a kid, by the co-creator of Scratch memex.craphound.com/2017/10/04/lif… 15/

#5yrsago @Slashdot is 20 meta.slashdot.org/story/17/10/03…

#5yrsago Canary claws back cloud features from its IoT camera, starts charging $10/month theverge.com/circuitbreaker… 16/

#5yrsago Prisoners sent to Christian “rehab” diversion programs find themselves in forced-labor camps revealnews.org/article/they-t…

#5yrsago Seattle’s Nazi tech-bros’ plan: infiltrate tech industry, hire white supremacists thestranger.com/news/2017/10/0… 17/

#5yrsago Equifax will make hundreds of millions in extra profits from its apocalyptic breach (forever) fortune.com/2017/10/04/equ…

#5yrsago Georgia Sheriff and deputies indicted for repeatedly touching the junk of 900 students at local high-school techdirt.com/2017/10/06/she… 18/

#5yrsago JP Morgan-Chase paid its billions in fines for mortgage fraud by committing billions in mortgage fraud web.archive.org/web/2017100513… 19/

#5yrsago Corporations form coalition to ask a court to ban coalitions (of people the corporations have screwed over) theintercept.com/2017/10/06/con…

#1yrago We paid to develop Merck's covid pill: And now they're charging us a 4,000% markup on it pluralistic.net/2021/10/06/mer… 20/

#1yrago Dave Eggers' "The Every": A tragicomic look at Big Tech, following from "The Circle" pluralistic.net/2021/10/05/mas…

#1yrago USPS pilots postal banking pluralistic.net/2021/10/04/avo…

#1yrago The Pandora Papers pluralistic.net/2021/10/04/avo… 21/

#1yrago Savage Love A-Z: A bestiary of good sex pluralistic.net/2021/10/04/avo…

#1yrago Scottish Limited Partnerships are still laundering criminal millions: Offshore is actually onshore pluralistic.net/2021/10/07/mar… 22/

#1yrago "Inclusive Access" allows textbook monopolists to permanently consolidate their gains: Universities are auto-billing students for high-priced, self-destructing textbooks they can't loan or sell pluralistic.net/2021/10/07/mar… 23/

#1yrago DoS a federal agency, then charge for access: Enq carries on a tradition of genuinely terrible startup ideas pluralistic.net/2021/10/07/mar… 24/

Monday's threads: An antitrust murder whodunnit; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1577024007290880001

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My latest book is Chokepoint Capitalism (with @rgibli), nonfiction about monopoly and fairness in creative labor markets.

chokepointcapitalism.com

Signed copies available from @BookSoup:

booksoup.com/book/978080700… 26/

My latest novel 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… 27/

My ebooks and audiobooks (from @torbooks, @HoZ_Books, @mcsweeneys, @beaconPressBks et al) 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:

* Chokepoint Capitalism event, @BooksandBooks (Miami), 10/12
booksandbooks.com/event/in-perso…

* Reboot Conference, @JoinLincoln (Miami), 10/13
eventbrite.com/e/reboot-2022-…

* @LibraryJournal Day of Dialog (Zoom), 10/20
libraryjournal.com/event/library-… 29/

Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* Chokepoint Capitalism Event, @ArgoBookshop (Montreal), Oct 23
eventbrite.ca/e/cory-doctoro…

* Surviving Apocalyptic Economics, with @Rushkoff and @rgibli, Ottawa @Writersfest, 10/24
writersfestival.org/events/fall-20… 30/

Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* @WEDF_forum, 10/26-28
worldethicaldataforum.org/registration

* Arthur C Clarke Award (DC), 11/16
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Recent appearances:

* Regulating the Online Public Sphere (@ColumbiaGFoE)


* Canadians Connected 2022 with @AmberMac:


* Amazon Billing Amazon for Amazon (@trashfuturepod)
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