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Inside: California to smash prison e-profiteers; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/05/08/cap…

#Pluralistic

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This Weds (May 10), I'm in #Vancouver for a keynote at the #OSSummit:

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And a book event at #HeritageHall:

eventbrite.ca/e/red-team-blu…

On Thu (May 11), I'm in #Calgary for @WordfestTweets:

wordfest.com/2023/event/wor…

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California to smash prison e-profiteers: The Public Utility Commission to the rescue!



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Hey look at this

* The Cult of the Founders crookedtimber.org/2023/05/06/the…

* #TurboTax to begin payouts after it ‘cheated’ customers, New York AG says msn.com/en-us/news/us/…

* Cory Doctorow Explains Why Big Tech Is Making the Internet Terrible jacobin.com/2023/05/cory-d…

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#20yrsago #LinkedIn: #Friendster without the gonad-centrism memex.craphound.com/2003/05/07/lin…

#20yrsago @future_of_music coalition open letter on media consolidation web.archive.org/web/2003050402…

#20yrsago The Web makes writing better web.archive.org/web/2003050922…

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#20yrsago A (dangerous) primer on #HardwareHacking hackingthexbox.com

#15yrsago House passes bill that will let the @RIAA take away your home for downloading music govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BI…

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#15yrsago Using a record-cutter to turn old CDs into 45RPM singles web.archive.org/web/2008050202…

#15yrsago @BBC sends legal threat over fan’s #DoctorWho knitting patterns openrightsgroup.org/blog/bbc-remov…

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#15yrsago Band “shoots” video by sending #DataProtectionAct requests to #CCTVs that caught them performing web.archive.org/web/2008051019…

#15yrsago RIAA says #DRM is coming back — in the future, you won’t own music arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…

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#15yrsago UK blacklist of “suspicious” store clerks includes people never charged or convicted news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/m…

#15yrsago HOWTO detect hidden video cameras instructables.com/How-to-locate-…

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#15yrsago #PatriotAct gag-order on the @internetarchive clobbered by @EFF and @ACLU eff.org/press/archives…

#15yrsago #HarvardLawSchool goes open access! cyber.harvard.edu/node/91962

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#10yrsago #PrendaLaw judge says porno #CopyrightTrolls are frauds, identity thieves; $80K in fines and disbarment pending arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…

#10yrago @TheOnion gets hacked by Syrian propagandists, responds with funny article theonion.com/syrian-electro…

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#10yrsago @superwuster and I talk networks, policy and the future slate.com/articles/podca…

#10yrsago Nothing Can Possibly Go Wrong: YA graphic novel about robots, romance and school elections memex.craphound.com/2013/05/07/not…

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#10yrsago Content barons are the richest CEOs nytimes.com/2013/05/06/bus…

#10yrsago Hedge fund managers suck at making money (for you) cnbc.com/id/100718881

#10yrsago HOWTO build a working digital computer out of paperclips (and stuff) memex.craphound.com/2013/05/08/how…

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#10yrsago #Disney files trademark application for “Dia de Los Muertos” web.archive.org/web/2013050821…

#10yrsago Faced with excommunication threat, Irish PM explains #SeparationOfChurchAndState to Cardinal irishtimes.com/news/politicia…

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#5yrsago Georgia’s governor has vetoed #SB315, the state’s catastrophically stupid cybersecurity law eff.org/deeplinks/2018…

#5yrsago @Equifax finally publishes a tally of what got breached when it left 146.6 million credit files unsecured arstechnica.com/information-te…

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#5yrsago Over 55,000 security camera DVRs are vulnerable to an exploit so simple it fits in a tweet bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/…

#5yrsago #JeffSessions tells border guards to separate children from their parents alternet.org/2018/05/jeff-s…

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#5yrsago An upcoming Supreme Court ruling could force all workers into #ForcedArbitration, deprived of the right to class lawsuits epi.org/blog/the-supre…

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#5yrsago Welsh police deployed #FacialRecognition tech with a 92% false positive rate, but they’re sure it’s fine arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…

#5yrsago Should I use an algorithm here? @EFF’s 5-point checklist eff.org/deeplinks/2018…

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#5yrsago Google announces ad-ban for sleazy #BailBonds companies arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…

#5yrsago AT&T to the Supreme Court: “Fuck the FTC” arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…

#5yrsago Here’s why everyone in the world just emailed you a new privacy policy eff.org/deeplinks/2018…

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#5yrsago #DonaldTrump is a pathogen evolved to thrive in an attention-maximization ecosystem locusmag.com/2018/05/cory-d…

#5yrsago The BBC on #Afrofuturism bbc.com/news/newsbeat-…

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#5yrsago Torturer and coverup artist #GinaHaspel tried to bow out of CIA Directorship to avoid Senate questioning washingtonpost.com/politics/gina-…

#1yrago #Safegraph follows people into #abortion clinics and then sells the data: And then they lie about it pluralistic.net/2022/05/07/saf…

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Saturday's threads: Hollywood is the single best example of mature labor power in America; On the Media on the enshittification (pt 1); and more!



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My latest novel is Red Team Blues, available wherever books are sold!

Signed copies at @DarkDel:

darkdel.com/store/p2873/We…

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My latest nonfiction 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…

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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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Upcoming appearances:

* #OSSummit (#Vancouver), 5/10
events.linuxfoundation.org/open-source-su…

* @MassyArts Red Team Blues event with @seancranbury (#Vancouver), 5/10
eventbrite.ca/e/red-team-blu…

* Red Team Blues at @WordfestTweets (#Calgary), 5/11
wordfest.com/2023/event/wor…

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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* @GburgBookFest, (#Gaithersburg) 5/20
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* @publicknowledge Emerging Tech keynote (#DC), 5/22
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* #WEPFest w/@RonDeibert, @hockeyesque and @DrNancyOlivieri (#Toronto), 5/23
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* @HTLGIFestival (#Hay), 5/28
howthelightgetsin.org/events/the-ai-…

* @HTLGIFestival (#Hay), 5/29
howthelightgetsin.org/events/the-dan…

* Red Team Blues event with @TimHarford (#Oxford), 5/29
eventbrite.co.uk/e/cory-doctoro…

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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* Red Team Blues event with @christreilly (#Nottingham), 5/30
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* @uclcs Peter Kirstein Lecture, 6/1 (#London):
eventbrite.co.uk/e/peter-kirste…

* @CymeraF, 6/3 (#Edinburgh)
cymerafestival.co.uk/cymera23-event…

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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* Red Team Blues with @Marthalanefox at the @bl, 6/5 (#London):
bl.uk/events/an-even…

* @republica keynote, 6/7 (#Berlin)
re-publica.com/de/news/rp23-k…

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Recent appearances:

* @MarkTLive


* Enshittification Part 1: Why Every Platform Goes Bad (@onthemedia)
wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/s…

* Author Talk: Cory Doctorow and @Annaleen in Conversation/@SFPublicLibrary


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

My latest Medium column is "Don’t Curb Your Enthusiasm: Marcus Yallow + 50 Years = Marty Hench?"

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Are you trying to wean yourself off Big Tech? You can read my work elsewhere, but it is now a #TwitterCrime to tell you how. Please visit my site, pluralistic.net, for links to find me on less-unhinged places (I can only imagine that my days here are numbered).

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As a science fiction writer, I find it weird that some sf tropes - like space colonization - have become culture-war touchstones. You know, that whole "we were promised jetpacks" thing.

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I confess, I never looked too hard at the practicalities of jetpacks, because they are so obviously either used as a visual shorthand (as in the Jetsons) or as a metaphor.

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When it comes to AI art (or "art"), it's hard to find a nuanced position that respects creative workers' labor rights, free expression, copyright law's vital exceptions and limitations, and aesthetics.

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I am, on balance, opposed to AI art, but there are some important caveats to that position. For starters, I think it's unequivocally wrong - as a matter of law - to say that scraping works and training a model with them infringes copyright.

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Like Oscar Wilde, "I can resist anything except temptation," and my slow and halting journey to adulthood is really just me grappling with this fact, getting temptation out of my way before I can yield to it.

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Behavioral economists have a name for the steps we take to guard against temptation: a "Ulysses pact." That's when you take some possibility off the table during a moment of strength in recognition of some coming moment of weakness:



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May 9
Fun fact: "The Tragedy Of the Commons" is a hoax created by the white nationalist Garrett Hardin to justify stealing land from colonized people.

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The "Tragedy" hoax said that moving land from collective ownership "rescued" it from the inevitable tragedy by putting it in the hands of a private owner, who cared for it properly, thanks to "rational self-interest":



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May 6
Amazon is very good at everything it does, including being very bad at the things it doesn't want to do. Take signing up for Prime: nothing could be simpler. The company has built a greased slide from Prime-curiosity to Prime-confirmed that is the envy of every UX designer.

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But *unsubscribing* from Prime? That's a fucking *nightmare*. Somehow the company that can easily figure out how to sign up for a service is totally baffled when it comes to making it just as easy to leave.

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