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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Wall Street Journal goes to bat for the vultures who want to steal your house; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/06/04/vul…

#Pluralistic

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Tonight (5/6) at 7:15PM, I'm at the #BritishLibrary with my book *Red Team Blues* for an event hosted by @Marthalanefox:

bl.uk/events/an-even…

Tomorrow 6/6, I'm doing a remote panel on #interoperability for @rightscon:

eff.org/deeplinks/2023…

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Wall Street Journal goes to bat for the vultures who want to steal your house: When the editorial page leaks into the news.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1665653100021964800

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Hey look at this

* Undetectable #Watermarks for #LanguageModels eprint.iacr.org/2023/763 (h/t @yvessmith)

* The Best Snack for Ginger Lovers eater.com/23719817/best-… (h/t Robin Sloan)

* #StreetFighterII, paper trails fabiensanglard.net/sf2_sheets/ind… (h/t Robin Sloan)

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#20yrsago A librarian on the #PATRIOTAct latimes.com/archives/la-xp…

#20yrsago Willful #Infringement — illegal copyright documentary web.archive.org/web/2003061103…

#15yrsago #Sequoia #VotingMachines debacle in New Jersey: unguarded machines and broken tildes freedom-to-tinker.com/2008/06/03/nj-…

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#15yrsago #IndustryCanada involved in Wikipedia edit-war over Canadian #DMCA michaelgeist.ca/2008/06/prenti…

#15yrsago Photographers aren’t terrorists and vice-versa schneier.com/blog/archives/…

#15yrsago #BritishTelecom’s eavesdropping software crashed browsers wired.com/2008/06/isp-sp…

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#15yrsago Entertainment industry accuses campus laser-printers of downloading Indiana Jones archive.nytimes.com/bits.blogs.nyt…

#10yrsago Scenes from #OccupyGezi occupygezipics.tumblr.com/post/522176509…

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#10yrsago #Anonymizing is really hard really, so why is the EU acting like it’s easy? theguardian.com/technology/blo…

#10yrsago Beast Academy: grade three math textbooks in monster comics form memex.craphound.com/2013/06/05/bea…

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#10yrsago California wants an end to taxpayer subsidy for WalMart forbes.com/sites/rickunga…

#10yrsago Porno copyright trolls #Prenda: expert says they pirated their own movies to get victims to download techdirt.com/2013/06/03/new…

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#10yrsago #ThisAmericanLife on the awful, crooked mess of the #patent system thisamericanlife.org/496/when-paten…

#5yrsago How do we fix #IoT security without blocking #interoperability and creating #monopolies? nytimes.com/2018/06/03/opi…

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#5yrsago #Bavaria says its mandatory crosses aren’t religious, so there should be no problem hanging them upside-down, right? spellingmistakescostlives.com/kreuzpflicht

#5yrsago Mass protests against #IMF #austerity force #Jordan’s Prime Minister to resign bbc.com/news/world-mid…

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#5yrsago Laramie County, Wyoming Sheriffs’ department blocks public records requests for their #PrisonPhone monopoly deal techdirt.com/2018/06/04/she…

#5yrsago #BigTech has established a “kill zone” of business ideas that startups can’t get funded to try economist.com/business/2018/…

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#5yrsago Vintage internal security posters, pried loose from the #NSA’s archives governmentattic.org/28docs/NSAsecu…

#5yrsago “Originality” is just filing the serial numbers off of others’ contributions to your ideas copy-me.org/2018/06/the-cr…

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#5yrsago America: where rising productivity means longer working hours jacobin.com/2018/06/workin…

#5yrsago #RobFord crack-smoking video is “gone” gawker.com/the-rob-ford-c…

#5yrsago HOWTO make edible Aliens eggs and chestbursters

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#5yrsago Facebook is the hub of the global trade in #EndangeredSpecies: can securities law be used to force the company into action? wired.com/story/tusks-ho…

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#5yrsago For more than a decade, Facebook shared your friends’ data and other sensitive info with phone makers, even after they claimed not to (they’re still doing it) nytimes.com/interactive/20…

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#5yrsago #Bayer and #Monsanto merge into a new company called “Bayer” because #Nazis have a better reputation than #BigAg reuters.com/article/us-mon…

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#5yrsago This viral campaign video for a progressive New York Democratic primary challenger cost less than $10K and spread like wildfire #AOC theintercept.com/2018/06/05/oca…

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#5yrsago It’s really easy to steal your cellphone number, and that’s a gateway to stealing everything else consumerreports.org/scams-fraud/ce…

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#5yrsago #RobFord’s brother is running for Ontario Premier, but Rob Ford’s widow is suing him for stealing millions from the family cbc.ca/news/canada/to…

#1yrago The Big Box of Sparkly Unicorn Magic pluralistic.net/2022/06/05/hea…

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Saturday's threads: Washington State's capital gains tax proves we can have nice things; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1664912439786315776

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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:

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

* @rightscon, "#Interoperability: from buzzword to a map of solutions," Jun 6 (#CostaRica):
rightscon.org/program/

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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

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

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

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Recent appearances:

* How To Save News Media From Our Tech Overlords (@CANADALAND)
canadaland.com/podcast/888-ho…

* Most AI is not artificial or intelligent (with @jamesbridle)


* @machinekillspod
soundcloud.com/thismachinekil…

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