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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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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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Jun 28
In 2014, I read a political science paper that nearly convinced me to quit my lifelong career as an activist: "Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens," published in *Perspectives on Politics*:



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The paper's authors are Martin Gilens, a UCLA professor of Public Policy; and Northwestern's Benjamin Page, a professor of Decision Making. Gilens and Page studied a representative sample of 1,779 policy issues.

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Jun 24
When a company sells you something for $2 that someone else can buy for $1, they're revaluing the dollars in your pocket at half the rate of the other guy's.

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Economists praise "price discrimination" as "efficient." That's when a company charges different customers different amounts based on inferences about their willingness to pay.

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Jun 20
Private equity firms are the demon princes of the hellspace that is the imploding, life-destroying, plutocrat-generating American economy.

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Their favorite scam, the "leveraged buyout" is a mafia bustout dressed up in respectable clothes, and if you mourn a beloved, failed business, chances are that an LBO was the murder weapon, and PE was the killer:



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May 27
On a recent This Machine Kills episode, guest Hagen Blix described the ultimate form of "AI therapy" with a "human in the loop":



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> One actual therapist is just having ten chat GPT windows open where they just like have five seconds to interrupt the chatGPT. They have to scan them all and see if it says something really inappropriate. That's your job, to stop it.

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May 21
My latest *Locus Magazine* column is "Strange Bedfellows and Long Knives," about the secret engine of sweeping political upheavals (like Trumpism) and their inherent fragility:



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Stories about major change usually focus on a *group*, but groups rarely achieve big, ambitious goals. Think about all the goal-oriented groups in your orbit, with missions like alleviating hunger, or beautifying your neighborhood, or changing the health-care system.

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May 14
Something's very different in tech. Once upon a time, every bad choice by tech companies - taking away features, locking out mods or plugins, nerfing the API - was countered, nearly instantaneously, by someone writing a program that overrode that choice.

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Bad clients would be muscled aside by third-party clients. Locked bootloaders would be hacked and replaced. Code that confirmed you were using OEM parts, consumables or adapters would be found and nuked from orbit.

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