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Inside: What the fediverse (does/n't) solve; and more!

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Moses confronting the Pharaoh, demanding that he release the Hebrews. Pharaoh's face has been replaced with Elon Musk's. Moses holds a Twitter logo in his outstretched hand. Moses's head has been replaced with the head of Tusky, the Mastodon mascot. The faces embossed in the columns of Pharaoh's audience hall have been replaced with the menacing red eye of HAL9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey. The wall over Pharaoh's head has been replaced with a Matrix 'code waterfall' effect. Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en Heisenberg Media (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Elon_Musk_-_The_Summit_2013.jpg

Pluralistic: What the fediverse (does/n’t) solve (23 Dec 2022) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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#NewYorkers! The state legislature has passed landmark #RightToRepair legislation, but Governor Hochul hasn't signed it and it might die. This would be a travesty. If you're in New York, visit eff.org/rtr to help tell the Governor that we can't afford to wait (and tell your friends in New York, too!).

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What the fediverse (does/n't) solve: We can protect our communities from commodification, but it takes work.

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Cory Doctorow

2022-12-23 20:40:20


No matter how benevolent a dictatorship is, it's still a dictatorship, and subject to the dictator's whims. We must demand that the owners and leaders of tech platforms be fair and good - but we must also be prepared for them to fail at this, sometimes catastrophically.

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

pluralistic.net/2022/12/23/sem…

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Moses confronting the Pharaoh, demanding that he release the Hebrews. Pharaoh's face has been replaced with Elon Musk's. Moses holds a Twitter logo in his outstretched hand. Moses's head has been replaced with the head of Tusky, the Mastodon mascot. The faces embossed in the columns of Pharaoh's audience hall have been replaced with the menacing red eye of HAL9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey. The wall over Pharaoh's head has been replaced with a Matrix 'code waterfall' effect. Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en Heisenberg Media (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Elon_Musk_-_The_Summit_2013.jpg

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Hey look at this

* Speech-to-text with Whisper: How I Use It & Why harihareswara.net/posts/2022/s… (h/t @brainwane)

* A Parent’s Typical Day, as Envisioned by My Child’s Preschool mcsweeneys.net/articles/a-pare… (h/t @jkottke )

* Balkan Cosmology by Bruce Sterling (2022) bruces.medium.com/balkan-cosmo…

* In the Southeast, power company money flows to news sites that attack their critics npr.org/2022/12/19/1143753129/…

* Why the super rich are inevitable pudding.cool/2022/12/yard-sale… (h/t @andybaio)

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Balkan Cosmology by Bruce Sterling (2022) - Bruce Sterling - Medium

Raging with fever, he’d thrown some groceries into the Fiat Panda, and fled town for the Balkan mountains, so that no one else could see how sick he was. Nikola had camped and coughed for a dismal…
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Hey look at this (cont'd)

* Private Equity Gave Your Bank Password to Hackers mattstoller.substack.com/p/pri…

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Private Equity Gave Your Bank Password to Hackers

Francisco Partners and Evergreen Coast Capital Corp own LastPass. They raised prices, and then fumbled security. You had one job guys!
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#20yrsago Broadcast Flag in NYT ourmidland.com/news/article/Cr…

#20yrsago better !pout !cry netfunny.com/rhf/jokes/88old/c…

#15yrsago What waterboarding feels like boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wa…

#10yrsago Why George Bush, resigned his lifetime NRA membership nytimes.com/1995/05/11/us/lett…

#5yrsago Reviving my Xmas daddy-daughter podcast, with Poesy! ia600101.us.archive.org/25/ite…

#5yrsago Reality Winner profile is a beautiful portrait of a brilliant, principled patriot who messed up nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/1…

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Critics Decry Digital TV Signal Coding

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Yesterday's threads: Here are just two of the corporate giveaways hidden in the rushed, must-pass, end-of-year budget bill; and more!

mamot.fr/@pluralistic/10955881…

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Cory Doctorow

2022-12-22 18:47:58


Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Here are just two of the corporate giveaways hidden in the rushed, must-pass, end-of-year budget bill; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2022/12/22/mus…

#Pluralistic

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Pluralistic: Here are just two of the corporate giveaways hidden in the rushed, must-pass, end-of-year budget bill (22 Dec 2022) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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My latest book is Chokepoint Capitalism (with Rebecca Giblin), nonfiction about monopoly and fairness in creative labor markets.

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Signed copies available from Book Soup:

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a book about why creative labor markets are rigged - and how to unrig them Competition is supposed to be fundamental to capitalism.
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My latest novel is Attack Surface, a sequel to my bestselling Little Brother books, now in paperback, wherever books are sold.

Signed copies at Dark Delicacies:

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Attack Surface HB & TPB

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My ebooks and audiobooks (from Tor Books, Head of Zeus, McSweeneys, Beacon and others) 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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Shop | Cory Doctorow's craphound.com

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Upcoming appearances:

* Library Learning Experience/American Library Association (#NewOrleans), Jan 27-30
2023.alaliblearnx.org/cory-doc…

* Chokepoint Capitalism: Can It Be Defeated? (UCL Faculty of Laws), Feb 1
ucl.ac.uk/laws/events/2023/feb…

* Australian Digital Alliance Copyright Forum (#Canberra), Feb 17:
digital.org.au/2022/11/08/doct…

* #Antitrust, Regulation and the Political Economy (#Brussels), Mar 2:
brusselsconference.com/registr…

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Online | Chokepoint Capitalism: Can It Be Defeated?

An online talk in the Privacy series organised by the UCL Institute of Brand and Innovation Law
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If you're a Medium subscriber, you can read these essays - as well as previews of upcoming magazine columns and early exclusives on doctorow.medium.com.

My latest Medium column is "'Metaverse' means 'pivot to video'"

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“Metaverse” means “pivot to video” - Cory Doctorow - Medium

Fool me twice, we don’t get fooled again.. ““Metaverse” means “pivot to video”” is published by Cory Doctorow.
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I did and… it emailed my password back to me in plaintext. 😂🤦‍♂️
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@scottaw Alas, there is only one free/open self-hosted, privacy respecting mailing list program with any currency, Mailman, and it has some serious gaps.

See here for more:

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Antifafi 🖤 🍉🌻✊🏿🔻🌈🌍
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Why do you (and most of my favorite authors) write more and faster than I can read? I manage to read two books a week, but that's not enough to read all the titles in my tsundoku. 😅

Also: congratulations!

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why are you treating this like twitter? Make one post.
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@dillera As noted in my bio, I post long threads from this account and there are many ways to get my essays if you don't like my Mastodon style - RSS, newsletter, Medium, Tumblr, a blog, etc. I recommend unfollowing me here and subscribing to one of those if you prefer. Links at pluralistic.net.
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@dillera (as to treating like Twitter, I can hardly think of anything more Twitterlike than signing up for a feed that has been posting long threads for several YEARS and lecturing the author of that thread about the one true way to use Mastodon, from your 12-day-old Mastodon account)
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I’m sure others have already pointed this out, but since the mistake is still in the post: The Girl Who… is not her debut novel. Please fix that.
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