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(DIR) Post #AtROeJygQgQ3DcctzE by pluralistic@mamot.fr
2025-04-23T14:28:26Z
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Today's threads (a thread)Inside: Sarah Wynn-Williams's 'Careless People'; and more!Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/23/zuckerstreisand/#Pluralistic1/
(DIR) Post #AtROeKqZCLWLujpvyS by pluralistic@mamot.fr
2025-04-23T14:29:00Z
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I'm on a 20+ city book tour for my new novel *Picks and Shovels*. Catch me in #NewZealand at UNITY BOOKS in #AUCKLAND (May 2, 6PM):https://www.eventbrite.co.nz/e/an-evening-with-cory-doctorow-tickets-1320740102199and #WELLINGTON (May 3, 3PM):https://www.unitybooks.co.nz/news-and-events/author-talk-picks-and-shovels-by-cory-doctorowMore tour dates (#PDX, #Pittsburgh, #London, #Manchester) here:http://martinhench.com2/
(DIR) Post #AtROeSB1wf36eESsLI by pluralistic@mamot.fr
2025-04-23T14:29:29Z
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Sarah Wynn-Williams's 'Careless People': "Too big to care."https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/1143875338036075483/
(DIR) Post #AtROeZGbaKfSdY7vVI by pluralistic@mamot.fr
2025-04-23T14:29:41Z
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Hey look at this* Corporate Lawlessness Comes Next https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/corporate-lawlessness-comes-next* Deconstructing Housing https://democracyjournal.org/magazine/76/deconstructing-housing/* What Happens When Private Equity Owns Your Kid’s Day Care https://jacobin.com/2025/04/private-equity-day-care-childcare/4/
(DIR) Post #AtROegm3fmzDv7te08 by pluralistic@mamot.fr
2025-04-23T14:30:04Z
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#20yrsago Free Culture Movement turns one https://web.archive.org/web/20050426022041/http://www.lessig.org/blog/archives/002838.shtml#15yrsago India’s copyright bill gets it right https://web.archive.org/web/20100425031519/https://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/4974/196/#15yrsago Hitler’s pissed off about fair use https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBO5dh9qrIQ#10yrsago Fascinating, wide-ranging discussion with William Gibson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmh29gwEy7Y#10yrsago Tory chairman accused of smearing party rivals’ Wikipedia entries https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/apr/21/grant-shapps-accused-of-editing-wikipedia-pages-of-tory-rivals5/
(DIR) Post #AtROeo2ydHgATcrkqO by pluralistic@mamot.fr
2025-04-23T14:30:19Z
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#10yrsago John Oliver on patent trolls https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bxcc3SM_KA#5yrsago Disney heiress slams top execs' compensation https://pluralistic.net/2020/04/22/filternet/#castmembers#5yrsago Covid burns through Charter Cable employees https://pluralistic.net/2020/04/22/filternet/#thomas-rutledge-murderer#5yrsago Unmasking the registrants of the "reopen" websites https://pluralistic.net/2020/04/22/filternet/#krebs#5yrsago Apartment buildings didn't cause the pandemic https://pluralistic.net/2020/04/22/filternet/#kate-wagner#5yrsago Web-wide copyright filters would be a disaster https://pluralistic.net/2020/04/22/filternet/#filternet6/
(DIR) Post #AtROeuqpKr7TZyEeNU by pluralistic@mamot.fr
2025-04-23T14:30:29Z
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#1yrago Paying for it doesn't make it a market https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/22/kargo-kult-kaptialism/#dont-buy-it7/
(DIR) Post #AtROf2Z2ere9V7yYlc by pluralistic@mamot.fr
2025-04-23T14:30:43Z
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Yesterday's threads: More Everything Faster; and more!https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/1143819642490224048/
(DIR) Post #AtROfAAWNumn5OZ5eq by pluralistic@mamot.fr
2025-04-23T14:30:58Z
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My last nationally bestselling novel was "The Bezzle," an ice-cold revenge story of high-tech finance crime starring the forensic accountant Martin Hench.https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250865878/thebezzleSigned copies from Chevalier's Books:https://www.chevaliersbooks.com/product-page/the-bezzle--My latest nonfiction book is "The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation" from Verso Books:http://seizethemeansofcomputation.orgSigned copies available from Book Soup:https://www.booksoup.com/book/9781804291245Both are national bestsellers!9/
(DIR) Post #AtROfHYstjQw0z196W by pluralistic@mamot.fr
2025-04-23T14:31:12Z
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My ebooks and audiobooks (from Tor Books, Head of Zeus, McSweeneys, Beacon, Verso 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."https://craphound.com/shop/10/
(DIR) Post #AtROfPIA9moLzRFu9Q by pluralistic@mamot.fr
2025-04-23T14:31:27Z
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Upcoming appearances:* #Auckland: Unity Books, May 2, 6PMhttps://www.eventbrite.co.nz/e/an-evening-with-cory-doctorow-tickets-1320740102199* #Wellington: Unity Books, May 3, 3PMhttps://www.unitybooks.co.nz/news-and-events/author-talk-picks-and-shovels-by-cory-doctorow* #Pittsburgh: Picks and Shovels at White Whale Books, May 15https://whitewhalebookstore.com/events/20250515* #Pittsburgh: PyCon, May 16https://us.pycon.org/2025/schedule/* Virtual: Writing to Resist (California Writers Club Berkeley):https://cwc-berkeley.org/writing-to-resist-5-18-25/11/
(DIR) Post #AtROfWcGvQ3WhpiYy0 by pluralistic@mamot.fr
2025-04-23T14:31:47Z
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):* #PDX: Teardown 2025, Jun 20-22https://www.crowdsupply.com/teardown/portland-2025* #PDX: Picks and Shovels with BUNNIE HUANG at Barnes and Noble, Jun 20https://stores.barnesandnoble.com/event/9780062183697-0* #London: How To Academy with Riley Quinn, Jul 1https://howtoacademy.com/events/cory-doctorow-the-fight-against-the-big-tech-oligarchy/* #Manchester: Picks and Shovels at Blackwell's Bookshop, Jul 2https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/an-evening-with-cory-doctorow-tickets-1308451968059* #Manchester: Co-operatives UK Co-op Congress keynote, Jul 3https://www.uk.coop/events-and-training/events-calendar/co-op-congress-2025-book-your-place12/
(DIR) Post #AtROfeOjzbzAqBRrzE by pluralistic@mamot.fr
2025-04-23T14:32:28Z
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd)* #NewOrleans: DeepSouthCon63, Oct 10-12, 2025http://www.contraflowscifi.org/13/
(DIR) Post #AtROfm7JIInQmRM3vc by pluralistic@mamot.fr
2025-04-23T14:32:41Z
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Recent appearances:* Beyond the Web (Ostrom Workshop)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WfO-9G4EgQ* Can we use the Internet for Democracy?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zh_HON6iql8* Fightback Against Trump's Tariff Attack (Avi Lewis)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9sgIAc6z_o14/
(DIR) Post #AtROfttmMUj4un5Mwq by pluralistic@mamot.fr
2025-04-23T14:32:52Z
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You can follow these posts as a daily blog at pluralistic.net: no ads, trackers, or data-collection! Here's today's edition: https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/23/zuckerstreisand/--If you prefer a newsletter, subscribe to the plura-list, which is ad-/tracker-free, and is utterly unadorned save a single daily emoji. Today's is "🧃". Suggestions solicited for future emojis!--You can also get a fulltext RSS feed, licensed CC BY 4.0:https://pluralistic.net/feed/15/
(DIR) Post #AtROg1okv3SfTWnTEG by pluralistic@mamot.fr
2025-04-23T14:33:05Z
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I'm on a 20+ city book tour for my new novel *Picks and Shovels*. Catch me in #NewZealand at UNITY BOOKS in #AUCKLAND (May 2, 6PM):https://www.eventbrite.co.nz/e/an-evening-with-cory-doctorow-tickets-1320740102199and #WELLINGTON (May 3, 3PM):https://www.unitybooks.co.nz/news-and-events/author-talk-picks-and-shovels-by-cory-doctorowMore tour dates (PDX, Pittsburgh, London, Manchester) here:http://martinhench.comeof/
(DIR) Post #AtRQ21pXeWanq7DdVQ by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2025-04-25T06:37:05Z
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"Wynn-Williams makes a very good case that Facebook is run by awful people who are also very careless – in the sense of being reckless, incurious, indifferent.But there's another meaning to "careless" that lurks just below the surface of this excellent memoir: "careless" in the sense of "arrogant" – in the sense of not caring about the consequences of their actions."@pluralistic, 2025https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/23/zuckerstreisand/#zdgaf#FaceBook #Meta #SarahWynnWilliams
(DIR) Post #AtRQPixTTCnAG7EDJo by tanepiper@tane.codes
2025-04-25T06:41:21Z
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@strypey @pluralistic been listening to the audio book version. Stunned at the lack of any connection to reality these people have
(DIR) Post #AtRQbRgxUYYGBQ5n0a by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2025-04-25T06:43:33Z
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"... Facebook's carelessness ... wasn't the result of the many grave personality defects in Facebook's top executives – it was the result of policy choices. Government decisions not to enforce antitrust law, to allow privacy law to wither on the vine, to expand IP law to give Facebook a weapon to shut down interoperable rivals – these all created the enshittogenic environment that allowed the careless people who run Facebook to stop caring."@pluralistic, 2025https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/23/zuckerstreisand/#zdgaf
(DIR) Post #AtRR7ABQ7l559DSsRE by djsumdog@djsumdog.com
2025-04-25T06:49:18.076192Z
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What the fuck is this on the right side? .. .yea I'm not reading something with some weird nonsensical fucked up EULA on the right.Just from your quote, the author has done zero real research or else the author would know Facebook was started the day after DARPA (US Navy) halted Digital LifeLog, a program to document the lives of all US residents (pure coincidence /s). One of the first principal investors was Peter Thiel, the CEO of Palantir, one of the world largest domestic spy software companies who sells services to several governments. There's nothing "careless" or "reckless" about Facebook. It's an intentional propaganda machine. It's always intended to be a propaganda machine designed to manipulate people for globalist interests. If you don't start with that foundation, you're not going to get the story straight.
(DIR) Post #AtRkcdJfkwe3bn2nbc by meowski@fluf.club
2025-04-25T10:27:53.990212Z
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@pluralistic how is charging other countries the same amount in tariffs as they charge us an "attack" long thread [of trash that i'm not going to read]
(DIR) Post #AtTB3TM9geeaVGckQC by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2025-04-26T02:58:45Z
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@tanepiper > Stunned at the lack of any connection to reality these people haveI think the point is that what's "reality" - social reality as opposed to material reality - depends on your PoV. ZuckerBorg's "reality" is that he's a flawless genuine who always wins. Of we don't want to be ruled by people who live in a bubble of their own self-importance, then we need institutional structures that oblige people to pick one; self-importance bubble *or* power and responsibility.@pluralistic
(DIR) Post #AtTBGiK5Lvp0gayBg8 by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2025-04-26T03:01:09Z
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@djsumdog you need to work on both the poor reading comprehension and the paranoia. Neither of these are serving you well.
(DIR) Post #AtTBl7rww9wabUJLfM by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2025-04-26T03:06:38Z
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@djsumdog you need to work on both the weak reading comprehension and the paranoia. Neither of these are serving you well.If you read that disclaimer carefully, you'll notice that it's a) a joke, b) satire on the way EULAs are usually used, c) not binding on you in any way, unless you're trying to tie the author into bogus "agreements" on behalf of your employer. As long as you're not planning on doing that, you're perfectly safe to read the article.Then your comments on it might in context.
(DIR) Post #AtTjfllDW8USyeAuA4 by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2025-04-26T09:26:38Z
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@hootsmcboots Muted for rubbing his own shit on the walls and calling it art. I'm open minded and all, but the smell ...@djsumdog