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

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



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Hey look at this

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

* #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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#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!

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

Signed copies at @DarkDel:

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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 (cont'd):

* Red Team Blues event with @christreilly (#Nottingham), 5/30
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* @uclcs Peter Kirstein Lecture, 6/1 (#London):
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* @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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Oct 11
I am an environmentalist, but I'm not a climate activist. I used to be - I even used to ring strangers' doorbells on behalf of Greenpeace.

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But a quarter of a century ago, I fell in with the Electronic Frontier Foundation and became a lifelong digital rights activist, and switched to cheering on environmental activists from the sidelines of their fight:



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Sep 27
Like you, I'm sick to the back teeth of talking about AI. Like you, I keep getting dragged into AI discussions. Unlike you‡, I spent the summer writing a book on why I'm sick of AI⹋, which @fsgbooks will publish in 2026.

‡probably

⹋"The Reverse Centaur's Guide to AI"

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A week ago, I turned that book into a speech, which I delivered as the annual Nordlander Memorial Lecture at Cornell, where I'm an AD White Professor-at-Large.

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Sep 24
Billionaires don't think we're real. How could they? How could you inflict the vast misery that generates billions while still feeling even a twinge of empathy for the sufferer in your extractive enterprise. No wonder Elon Musk calls us "NPCs":



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Ever notice how people get palpably stupider as they gain riches and power? Musk went from a cringe doofus to a world-class credulous dolt, and it seems like he loses five IQ points for every $10b that's added to his net worth.

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Sep 23
I'm only a few chapters into Bill McKibben's stupendous new book *Here Comes the Sun: A Last Chance for the Climate and a Fresh Chance for Civilization* and I already know it's going to change my outlook forever:



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McKibben is one of our preeminent climate writers and activists, noteworthy for his informed and brilliant explanations of the technical limits - and possibilities - of various climate interventions, and for his lifelong organizing work.

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Sep 22
One of the dumbest, shrewdest tricks corporate America ever pulled was teaching us all to reflexively say, "If a corporation blocks your speech, that doesn't violate the First Amendment and therefore it's not censorship":



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Censorship isn't limited to government action: it's the act of preventing a message from a willing speaker from reaching a willing listener. The fact that it's censorship doesn't (necessarily) mean that it's illegitimate or bad.

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Sep 17
Conspiratorialism is downstream of the trauma of institutional failures.

Insitutional failures are downstream of regulatory capture.

Regulatory capture is downstream of monopolization.

Monopolization is downstream of the failure to enforce antitrust law.

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Start with conspiratorialism and trauma. I am staunchly pro-vaccine. I have had so many covid jabs that I glow in the dark and can get impeccable 5g reception at the bottom of a coal-mine.

Nevertheless.

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