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Podcasting "Ideas Lying Around": A theory of change based on shovel-ready ideas.



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Hey look at this

* #Toronto Tenants Are Uniting in a Mass #RentStrike jacobin.com/2023/06/toront…

* France legalizes remotely turning on the camera or microphone of smartphones in criminal investigations www-francetvinfo-fr.translate.goog/societe/justic… (h/t Cooper)

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#20yrsago #TuringMachines aren’t as universal as they could be coherenceengine.com/blog/2003_06_0…

#15yrsago Ancient Roman #D20 for sale, $18,000 christies.com/lot/lot-420538…

#15yrsago #DieselSweeties: the ten-volume free @creativecommons licensed collection edition dieselsweeties.com/ebooks/

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#15yrsago Canadian DMCA is worse than the American one michaelgeist.ca/2008/06/canadi…

#15yrsago Canadian Industry Minister @JimPrentice loads the DMCA, aims it at Canada’s temple, and pulls the trigger web.archive.org/web/2008061212…

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#15yrsago One-click site to tell Amazon that you don’t want #Audible #DRM web.archive.org/web/2008061212…

#15yrsago Sabotage manual from 1944 advises acting like an average 2008 manager web.archive.org/web/2008071519… Simple Sabotage Manual.pdf

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#10yrsago Stopwatching.us: Internet companies and civil liberties groups call for investigation into the surveillance state eff.org/deeplinks/2013…

#10yrsago Edward @Snowden checks out of hotel, whereabouts unknown bbc.com/news/world-us-…

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#10yrsago @bruces Augmented World keynote speech

#10yrsago @hughhowey on why he favors self-publishing salon.com/2013/04/04/hug…

#10yrsago @sesamestreet’s materials for kids with an incarcerated parent web.archive.org/web/2013062906…

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#10yrsago Roundup of responses to the Snowden/@nsa leaks theguardian.com/world/2013/jun…

#10yrsago Photos from #OccupyGezi occupygezipics.tumblr.com/post/527301578…

#10yrsago Greek government shuts down state broadcaster, police force journalists out of the building yanisvaroufakis.eu/2013/06/11/ert…

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#10yrsago Former UK drug czar calls banning marijuana and #psychedelics “the worst case of scientific #censorship since the Catholic Church banned the works of #Copernicus and #Galileoindependent.co.uk/news/science/t…

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#10yrsago Why are the protesters in #GeziPark? technosociology.org/?p=1349

#5yrsago @Reddit sounds the alarm: the EU internet proposal would end the net as we know it! reddit.com/r/announcement…

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#5yrsago LA’s high-tech, thoughtful water management is cause for cautious optimism about climate adaptation wired.com/story/la-is-do…

#5yrsago Feds indict Florida police chief who framed a teen for burglaries so he could boast about perfect record washingtonpost.com/news/post-nati…

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#5yrsago Empirical evidence for the #PeterPrinciple (or, why bosses are so incompetent) hbr.org/2018/03/resear…

#5yrsago The EU’s terrible #copyright proposal will “carpet bomb” the whole world’s internet with censorship and surveillance newint.org/features/web-e…

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#5yrsago 70+ internet pioneers to the EU: you are transforming the internet into a “tool for automated surveillance and control” eff.org/deeplinks/2018…

#5yrsago The Freeze-Frame Revolution: mutineers unstuck in time, strung out across an aeon memex.craphound.com/2018/06/12/the…

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#5yrsago Eh, too: Canadians will also suffer under the EU’s proposed copyright rules cbc.ca/radio/asithapp…

#5yrsago Norwegian court orders volunteers to take down public domain court verdicts and pay copyright troll’s legal bills wiumlie.no/2018/rettsprak…

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#5yrsago UK security minister proposes “Digital IDs” to enforce online civility independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…

#5yrsago Infographic: buying games vs pirating them deviantart.com/dnd01/art/Why-…

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#5yrsago Trump won’t stop tearing up official papers so the White House archives employ a staff to tape them back together for the National Archives politico.com/story/2018/06/…

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#5yrsago British army targeted “stressed” 16-year-olds on exam-results day with Facebook recruitment ads independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…

#1yrago The #GeicoSTD story is the new McDonald's #HotCoffee story pluralistic.net/2022/06/12/hot…

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Saturday's threads: Links, dumped; and more!



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

Signed copies at @DarkDel (US):

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and @ForbiddenPlanet (UK):

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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:

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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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Recent appearances:

* How To Save News Media From Our Tech Overlords (@CANADALAND)
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* Most AI is not artificial or intelligent (with @jamesbridle)


* @machinekillspod
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Here's today's edition: pluralistic.net/2023/06/12/onl…

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

My latest Medium column is "The Shitty Tech Adoption Curve Has a Business Model"

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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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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.

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⹋"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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