Hey look at this

* "In retrospect this period will be understood as an Indian summer of the old world, a winter that didn't know it was a transformative winter because it felt too warm" people.well.com/conf/inkwell.v…

* Web Hackers vs. The Auto Industry: Critical Vulnerabilities in Ferrari, BMW, Rolls Royce, Porsche, and More samcurry.net/web-hackers-vs-th… (h/t Schneier)

* The world’s biggest PR firm claims to be an expert on trust – but is it? theguardian.com/business/2023/…

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#20yrsago Lessig: Whither the Supremes’ Constitutional commitment? web.archive.org/web/2003020111…

#20yrsago Melancholy Elephants: infinite copyright = infocalypse baen.com/chapters/W200011/0671…

#20yrsago WiFi-SciFi: My open spectrum fiction on Salon salon.com/2003/01/16/liberatio…

#20yrsago Supreme Court rules against Eldred, Alexandria burns en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eldred_v…

#15yrsago Bruce Sterling’s Kiosk: geniunely 21st century science fiction web.archive.org/web/2008011508…

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#15yrsago Fair use for the 21st century: if it adds value, it’s fair; if it substitutes, it’s not archive.nytimes.com/bits.blogs…

#10yrsago “Aaron’s Law” introduced, would change computer law so violating Terms of Service isn’t a felony reddit.com/r/technology/commen…

#10yrsago Meet Zack Kopplin, the 19-year-old who started winning battles against teaching creationism in Louisiana public schools when he was 14 web.archive.org/web/2013011601…

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#10yrsago Tim Wu: what if we’d treated Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak the way we treated Aaron Swartz? newyorker.com/news/news-desk/h…

#10yrsago Free Freedom of Information Requests, in honor of #AaronSwartz muckrock.com/news/archives/201…

#5yrsago #MLK: anti-capitalist activist rawstory.com/2017/01/11-most-a…

#5yrsago Marriott fires employee for “willfully liking” a tweet in support of Tibetan independence scmp.com/news/china/society/ar…

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#5yrsago Playing low frequency noise to disrupt hard-drives: denial of service for CCTVs, data-centers, and other computing environments arxiv.org/pdf/1712.07816.pdf

#5yrsago Trump’s new assistant Drug Czar: a 24-year-old campaign volunteer with no experience, in charge of billions to end the opioid epidemic washingtonpost.com/investigati…

#5yrsago Inmate, denied health care in an Arizona private prison, chews his own fingers off newsweek.com/prison-health-car…

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Saturday's threads: Kate Beaton's "Ducks"; and more!

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Cory Doctorow

2023-01-14 11:44:42

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Kate Beaton's "Ducks"; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/01/14/har…

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Pluralistic: Kate Beaton’s “Ducks” (14 Jan 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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* @InternetArchive livecast on #ChokepointCapitalism with @rgibli and @bradstone, Jan 19, 1530hPT
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