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Inside: Ireland's privacy regulator is a gamekeeper-turned-poacher; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/05/15/fin…

#Pluralistic

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Saturday (5/20), I'm at @GburgBookFest with *Red Team Blues*:

gaithersburgbookfestival.org/featured_autho…

5/22, I'm at @publicknowledge's Emerging Tech in #DC:

eventbrite.com/e/emerging-tec…

5/23, it's #Toronto for #WEPFest, w/@hockeyesque @RonDeibert & @DrNancyOlivieri:

westendphoenix.com/shop/wepfest-s…

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Ireland's privacy regulator is a gamekeeper-turned-poacher: Dublin is a made town.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1658153680733093888

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Hey look at this

* Behold! My next book, "The Lost Cause," (11/23)

https://twitter.com/torbooks/status/1658125096874131458

* #HP disables customers’ printers if they use rivals ink telegraph.co.uk/money/consumer… (h/t @slashdot)

* Can a #WritersStrike Save Hollywood from #Monopoly? mattstoller.substack.com/p/can-a-writer…

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#20yrsago Five perspectives on #SpectrumAllocation memex.craphound.com/2003/05/14/fiv…

#20yrsago #Vonnegut on “#ShockAndAwe” web.archive.org/web/2003051206…

#20yrsago Does #MediaConcentration matter if we have the Internet? web.archive.org/web/2003050306…

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#15yrsago Canada’s #DMCA Minister weasels and fumbles when asked about his copyright plans

#15yrsago HOWTO keep your laptop’s data out of customs’ hands theguardian.com/technology/200…

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#15yrsago #UniversalMusic: when we get hit with copyright damages, that’s “unconstitutionally excessive” arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…

#10yrsago Inside the world’s largest #GhostMall, America finds schadenfreude and comfort for its fears of Chinese century edition.cnn.com/videos/world/2…

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#10yrsago #Osaka’s fascist mayor defends WWII policy of sexual enslavement: “a #ComfortWomen system is necessary. Anyone can understand that.” bbc.com/news/world-asi…

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#10yrsago Highest-paid state employees: usually a school sports coach, sometimes a med school dean deadspin.com/infographic-is…

#10yrsago Canadian govt turns the national science agenda over to incumbent big businesses theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/…

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#10yrsago Abusive restaurateurs stage spectacular social media meltdown buzzfeed.com/ryanhatesthis/…

#10yrsago #PirateBay co-founder #PeterSunde is a candidate for #PirateParty MEP in Finland torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-cof…

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#10yrsago Canadian anti-piracy bounty hunters ripped off photos for their website vice.com/en/article/ppq…

#10yrsago #PrinceCharles’s housing charity gets into bed with torturing Bahraini dictatorship theguardian.com/uk/2013/may/14…

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#10yrsago Rich New Yorkers hire disabled “guides” to #DisneyWorld in order to skip lines nypost.com/2013/05/14/ric…

#10yrsago Odd Duck: great picture book about eccentricity and ducks memex.craphound.com/2013/05/15/odd…

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#5yrsago @scalzi wrote a science fiction story about the #DMCA to help @EFF’s #RightToRepair campaign eff.org/deeplinks/2018…

#5yrsago A dozen googlers quit over Google’s military #drone contract arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/0…

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#5yrsago Kansas finally bans cops from having sex with detainees, people undergoing questioning, witnesses, and people they pull over during traffic stops kansas.com/news/politics-…

#5yrsago EFF has comprehensively killed the bullshit #PodcastingPatent eff.org/deeplinks/2018…

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#5yrsago Judge to Facebook: stop deliberately misinterpreting my privacy rulings bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

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#5yrsago How the “global super-rich” have honeycombed London’s posh neighbourhoods with sub-basements, sub-sub-basements, and sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-basements theguardian.com/money/2018/may…

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#5yrsago #Efail: researchers reveal worrying, unpatched vulnerabilities in encrypted email efail.de/#faq

#5yrsago UK government will deputise newsagents to collect and retain identity documents from the nation’s pornography viewers independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…

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#5yrsago London cops are using an unregulated, 98% inaccurate #FacialRecognition tech independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…

#5yrsago A vital guide to the Canadian encryption debate citizenlab.ca/wp-content/upl…

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#5yrsago Realtor claims #Uber and #Lyft erode the premium homebuyers pay for good public transit links businessinsider.com/uber-and-lyft-…

#5yrsago The CIA is psyopsing America to help torturer #GinaHaspel get the job of #CIA boss nytimes.com/2018/04/20/us/…

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#5yrsago To understand the future sainthood of Donald J Trump, just look at George W Bush washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/styl…

#5yrsago Profiles of #FlatEarthers: report from the front lines of weaponized media literacy vice.com/en/article/zm8…

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#5yrsago Exit West: beautifully wrought novel about refugees, mobility and borders memex.craphound.com/2018/05/14/exi…

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Saturday's threads: 'Revenge of the Linkdumps; and more!

mamot.fr/@pluralistic/1…

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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."

craphound.com/shop/

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Upcoming appearances:

* @GburgBookFest, (#Gaithersburg) 5/20
gaithersburgbookfestival.org/featured_autho…

* @publicknowledge Emerging Tech keynote (#DC), 5/22
eventbrite.com/e/emerging-tec…

* #WEPFest with @RonDeibert, @hockeyesque and @DrNancyOlivieri (#Toronto), 5/23
westendphoenix.com/shop/wepfest-s…

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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
waterstones.com/events/an-even…

* @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…

* Otherland event for Red Team Blues, 6/8 (#Berlin)
otherland-berlin.de/de/event-detai…

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Recent appearances:

* Chokepoint Capitalism's Arts Stranglehold (@USNewsBeat)
radiopublic.com/news-beat-GKkd…

* Enshittification 2: The Mechanisms That Curdled Big Tech (@onthemedia)
wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/s…

* Slurry W/The Turd On Top (@JordanJesseGo)
maximumfun.org/episodes/jorda…

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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.

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My latest @Medium column is "Google's AI Hype Circle: We have to do Bard because everyone else is doing AI; everyone else is doing AI because we're doing Bard"

doctorow.medium.com/googles-ai-hyp…

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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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Today's top sources: @johnnyryan (twitter.com/johnnyryan/).

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