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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*:

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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.



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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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#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
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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…

* 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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You can also follow these posts as a daily blog at pluralistic.net: no ads, trackers, or data-collection!

Here's today's edition: pluralistic.net/2023/05/15/fin…

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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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If you prefer a newsletter, subscribe to the plura-list, which is also ad- and tracker-free, and is utterly unadorned save a single daily emoji. Today's is "🤷🏾‍♀️". Suggestions solicited for future emojis!

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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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Jan 25
The core regulatory proposition of the tech industry is "it's not a crime if we do it with an app." It's not an unlicensed taxi if we do it with an app. It's not an illegal hotel room if we do it with an app.

1/ Two caricatures of top-hatted millionaires whose bodies are bulging money-sacks. Their heads have been replaced with potatoes. The potatoes' eyes have been replaced with the hostile red eye of HAL 9000 from Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' They stand in a potato field filled with stoop laborers. The sky is a 'code waterfall' as seen in the credit sequences of the Wachowskis' 'Matrix' movies. Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en
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Jan 24
"Boss politics" are a feature of corrupt societies. When a society is dominated by self-dealing, corrupt institutions, strongman leaders can seize control by appealing to the public's fury and desperation.

1/ An altered version of a Gilded Age editorial cartoon titled 'Who controls the Senate?' which depicts the Senate as populated by tiny, ineffectual politicians ringed by massive, bloated, brooding monopolists. A door labeled 'people's entrance.' is firmly locked. A sign reads, 'This is a senate of the monopolists, by the monopolists and for the monopolists.' The image has been altered: an editorial cartoon of Boss Tweed, portrayed as a portly man in a business suit with a money-bag for a head, stands in the foreground. He is wearing a MAGA hat. On his shoulder perches a tiny, 'big stick' swin...
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Jan 22
Turns out Donald Trump isn't the only world leader with a tech billionaire "first buddy" who gets to serve as an unaccountable, self-interested de facto business regulator. UK PM Kier Starmer has just handed the keys to the British economy over to Jeff Bezos.

1/ A vintage Puck cover illustration depicting a tophatted millionaire as a puppeteer, operating two marionettes, one dressed as a general, the other as a businessman. It has been altered: the puppeteer's face has been replaced with Jeff Bezos's. The general marionette's face has been replaced with Keir Starmer's. The other marionette's face has been replaced with a vintage oil pastel drawing of an outraged bricklayer in a folded paper hat. The puppet theater is surmounted by the UK royal crest. Image: UK Parliament/Maria Unger (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Keir_Starmer_...
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Many of us have left the big social media platforms; far more of us *wish* we could leave them; and even those of us who've escaped from Facebook/Insta and Twitter still spend a lot of time trying to figure out how to get the people we care about off of them, too.

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