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Inside: Tiktok's enshittification; and more!

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Tiktok's enshittification: The company manually allocates surplus to creators, and they can take it away again, too.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1616821916844572675

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Hey look at this

* Rethinking Tech Regulation and Creative Labor eff.org/deeplinks/2023…

* OGL Will Be 'Irrevocable' @CreativeCommons license gizmodo.com/dnd-wizards-of…

* AA Promises Flight Attendants Free Bowl Of Chili If They Don't Picket viewfromthewing.com/american-airli… 3/

#20yrsago Recording industry needs collaborative filtering web.archive.org/web/2003041021…

#20yrsago Origin of spam templetons.com/brad/spamterm.…

#15yrsago Joel Johnson puts AT&T on the spot over copyright spying plan web.archive.org/web/2008012208… 4/

#20yrsago SBC’s patent-shakedown: website navigation web.archive.org/web/2003020706…

#15yrsago Congress moving forward with plan to scare colleges into supporting RIAA measures eff.org/deeplinks/2008… 5/

#15yrsago @PrivacyPrivee rejects #DRM: don’t give spyware legal protection! web.archive.org/web/2008012201…

#10yrsago Guerrilla indie feature film shot at #WaltDisneyWorld web.archive.org/web/2013012002… 6/

#10yrsago Designing for the factory: makers, machines, China, and industrial design bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=2790

#10yrsago @jonathancoulton: @gleeofficial plagiarized my arrangement of “Baby Got Back” techdirt.com/2013/01/18/jon… 7/

#10yrsago More plagiarism from Glee

https://twitter.com/djearworm/status/172367818942185473

#10yrsago Podcast of my memorial for @AaronSw, and the afterword he wrote for Homeland craphound.com/news/2013/01/2…

#10yrago @EdwardTufte on Aaron Swartz and his own hacking career danwin.com/2013/01/edward… 8/

#10yrsago Montreal comp sci student reports massive bug, is expelled and threatened with arrest for checking to see if it had been fixed theregister.com/2013/01/21/daw… 9/

#10yrsago Pennsylvania kindergartener uses #HelloKitty bubble-gun at school, suspended for “terrorist threat” abcnews.go.com/blogs/headline…

#10yrsago Guy re-creates a #VIARail car, in his basement, down to the most minute detail 10/

#5yrsago Apple, Google add 45 minutes to commuter-bus run to avoid 280 highway, where the buses’ windows keep getting smashed fortune.com/2018/01/18/app… 11/

#5yrsago Racist authoritarians insisted that ending #StopAndFrisk would increase violent crime, but the opposite just happened propublica.org/article/in-new…

#5yrsago Comic-strip contracts, so no one argues they’re too confusing to be enforceable theconversation.com/comic-contract… 12/

#5yrsago City of #Sarajevo bans unsanctioned utterances of its name, threatens Facebook groups web.archive.org/web/2018012200…

#5yrsago To keep their bond-ratings, hedge-funds have to publicly demonstrate that they are the most ruthless of landlords ourfinancialsecurity.org/2018/01/afr-re… 13/

#5yrsago Self-destructing thumb drives with smoke loads, glowing elements, tiny explosives medium.com/@_MG_/mr-self-… 14/

Thursday's threads: Why the Fed wants to crush workers; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1616126675183452167

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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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