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Pluralistic: 07 Jul 2020
Today's links
New Little Brother/Homeland edition is out today!: With an intro by Edward Snowden.
There is no automation employment crisis: But there is a climate emergency.
Cyberpunk Culture: An online conference, Jul 9/10.
Or What You Will: Jo Walton's new, brilliant meta-meta-novel.
#BlackOutDay2020: Pledge not to spend a dime in a store or online, except in Black-owned businesses.
Right wing press duped by state-sponsored influence campaign: Deepfakes and avatars manipulated to defeat reverse image searches.
Coronavirus tests are a taxable benefit: HMRC creates a perverse incentive.
Big 4 accounting firms headed for breakup: When the referee cheats.
Home security cameras are really insecure: Even encrypted video streams can give away sensitive info.
Why covid cases are spiking but deaths aren't: Lead-time bias.
This day in history: 2010, 2015, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading
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Author Cory DoctorowPosted on July 7, 2020Categories UncategorizedTags ai, auditors, big 4, blackoutday2020, books, boycotts, carillion, cctv, climate emergency, cyberpunk, employment, epidemiology, events, fully automated luxury communism, gift guide, green new deal, homeland, infosec, inside jobs, jobs guarantee, lead time bias, little brother, reviews, scholarship, science fiction, snowden, tax justice, technothrillers, testing, uk, ukpoli, whistleblowers1 Comment on Pluralistic: 07 Jul 2020
Pluralistic: 01 Jul 2020
Today's links
EFF on EU interoperability policy: Securing Europeans' technological self-determination.
BAHA Blues: Patrick Costello's harrowing hearing aid implant experience.
Bossware: The remote work dystopia is here.
Big Cop's corporate armorers: Corporate "charity" funds police military and surveillance black budgets.
Invigilation CEO doxes student: Proctorio's CEO "takes privacy very seriously."
Sun Ra's syllabus: Lecture and reading list from "The Black Man in the Cosmos" (UC Berkeley  1971).
Snowden on Little Brother: The new Little Brother/Homeland omnibus is almost upon us!
This day in history: 2005, 2015, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Continue reading "Pluralistic: 01 Jul 2020"
Author Cory DoctorowPosted on July 1, 2020July 1, 2020Categories UncategorizedTags adversarial interoperability, afrofuturism, baha, books, bossware, charitywashing, class war, comcom, competitive compatibility, corporatism, education, eff, eu, gift guide, guillotine watch, interoperability, invigiliation, labor, little brother, militarized policing, music, open access, open culture, police, proctorio, reddit, snowden, sun ra, surveillance1 Comment on Pluralistic: 01 Jul 2020
Pluralistic: 27 Jun 2020
Today's links
Public domain songbook: 348 popular songs with modern and traditional harmonization for both study and performance.
Santa Cruz bans predictive policing: Predpol's home town!
Snowden on tech's Oppenheimers: Better to heed reservations than be haunted by regrets.
How Hump! went online: Dan Savage on adapting dirty movie throwbacks to a pandemic world.
This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Continue reading "Pluralistic: 27 Jun 2020"
Author Cory DoctorowPosted on June 27, 2020Categories UncategorizedTags black lives matter, calexit, copyfight, dan savage, hump, law, music, oppenheimers, porn, predictive policing, predpol, public domain, santa cruz, sex, snowden, vichy nerdsLeave a comment on Pluralistic: 27 Jun 2020
Pluralistic: 13 Jun 2020
Today's links
Hank Green and me in conversation: July 10 for Minneapolis's Magers and Quinn books.
Facebook Workplace can block employees from discussing unionization: Oops, they said the quiet part out loud.
Secrets of a seventeen year old scraper: How 17 year old Avi Schiffmann built the web's leading covid case-tracker and Black Lives Matter protest-tracker.
Facebook endorses Terra Nullius: Facebook's nudity filter blocks images of Aboriginal slavery.
This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading
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Author Cory DoctorowPosted on June 13, 2020Categories UncategorizedTags Avi Schiffmann, books, class war, contact tracing, delete facebook, facebook, hank green, homeland, kids, little brother, makers, scraping, snowden, teens1 Comment on Pluralistic: 13 Jun 2020
Pluralistic: 24 May 2020
Today's links
Bloomberg editorial calls for a supersized New Deal: Noah Smith says FDR didn't go far enough.
A Database of Ruin: Another excerpt from Barton Gellman's Snowden book.
Coronagrifting and other bad design fictions: Photoshop will not win the war on the virus.
This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Continue reading "Pluralistic: 24 May 2020"
Author Cory DoctorowPosted on May 24, 2020Categories UncategorizedTags barton gellman, bloomberg, cardinal richilieu, coronagrifting, dark mirror, database of ruin, design fiction, fdr, jobs guarantee, kate wagner, mcmansion hell, mmt, modern monetary theory, new deal, noah smith, overton window, prchitecture, snowden, social graphs, stellarwind1 Comment on Pluralistic: 24 May 2020
Pluralistic: 21 May 2020
Today's links
Walt's grandson calls for Disney execs' bonuses to be canceled: Brad Lund wants the money directed to furloughed workers.
The Lost Cause and MMT: The climate emergency and centuries of full employment.
Patent troll sues ventilator makers: Swirlate IP says anyone who uses LTE is violating its patents.
Private equity's healthcare playbook is terrifying: Biopsy reveals metastatic private equity tumors throughout US healthcare's every organ.
On Madame Leota's side-table: The evolution of a fine Haunted Mansion detail.
Black Americans' covid mortality is 2.5X white mortality: AKA, "Why Republicans no longer care about coronavirus."
Spotify's trying to kill podcasting: Another federated system facing monopolistic enclosure.
Monopolies killed corporate R&D;: And that killed productivity growth.
How spy agencies targeted Snowden journalists: Barton Gellman's Dark Mirror.
This day in history: 2010, 2015, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Continue reading "Pluralistic: 21 May 2020"
Author Cory DoctorowPosted on May 21, 2020Categories UncategorizedTags automation crisis, barton gellman, books, business, butchery, class war, disney, enclosure, ethnic cleansing, haunted mansion, health care, innovation, joe rogan, long forgotten, mmt, modern monetary theory, npes, patent trolls, podcasts, private equity, r and d, science fiction, snowden, spotify, systemic racism, technological unemployment, the lost cause, themepunks, ventilators, war crimesLeave a comment on Pluralistic: 21 May 2020
Pluralistic: 11 Apr 2020
Today's links
PE companies that looted healthcare want billions in bailouts: Plute socialism.
Automating arbitration claims: Fairshake recreates class action suits in arbitration form.
Non-secret votes vs e-voting: Don't use it for elections, but maybe for elected officials.
RNC plans ex-cop/military voter intimidation squad: Rebooting the "Ballot Security Task Force."
"Job creators" are job annihilators: Bailout for me, not thee.
Snowden warns of permanent pandemic surveillance: The new normal ain't pretty.
RIP MAD's Mort Drucker: One of "the usual gang of idiots."
This day in history: 2005, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading
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Author Cory DoctorowPosted on April 11, 2020April 12, 2020Categories UncategorizedTags at&T, bailouts, ballot security task force, binding arbitration, e-voting, envision, fairshake, guillotine watch, heritage foundation, infosec, job annihilators, kkr, mort drucker, obits, pandemic, petard, plutes, rnc, security, snowden, stimulus, surveillance, true the vote, voter suppressionLeave a comment on Pluralistic: 11 Apr 2020
Pluralistic: 13 Mar 2020
Today's links
Announcing the third Little Brother book, Attack Surface: And a new Little Brother/Homeland reissue, with an intro by Ed Snowden!
Where I Write: A column for the CBC that's really about how I write.
Stream 200+ global news channels: Each hand-picked, no registration required.
AT&T's CEO fired 23,000 workers and gave himself a 10% raise: Life on the easiest setting.
Chelsea Manning is free: But she's been fined $256K for refusing to testify to the Grand Jury.
Rep Katie Porter forces CDC boss to commit to free testing: Literally the most effective questioner in Congress.
Trump's unfitness in a plague: It's not because he's an ignoramus, it's because he's a nihilist.
Malware that hides behind a realtime Covid-19 map: Peter Watts' prophecy comes true.
Locked-down Siennese sing their city's hymn: A cause for hope in the dark.
This day in history: 2015, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, current writing projects, upcoming appearances, current reading
Continue reading "Pluralistic: 13 Mar 2020"
Author Cory DoctorowPosted on March 13, 2020January 16, 2021Categories UncategorizedTags at&T, attack surface, business, cable company fuckery, cdc, chelsea manning, elite panic, evidence-based policy, evolutionary biology, go katie go, hope in the dark, inequality, infosec, katie porter, law, little brother, market concentration, mobile, monopoly, music, net neutrality, news, nihilism, peter watts, pluralism, public choice theory, Randall Stephenson, science fiction, sienna, snowden, solidarity, song of the verbena, technological self-determination, telcoms, travel, trumpism, tv, videos, whistleblowers, will stahle, writing, youtubeLeave a comment on Pluralistic: 13 Mar 2020
Pluralistic, your daily link-dose: 28 Feb 2020
Today's links
Clearview AI's customer database leaks: Sic semper grifter.
The Internet of Anal Things: Recreating Stelarc's "Amplified Body" with an IoT butt-plug.
Oakland's vintage Space Burger/Giant Burger building needs a home! Adopt a googie today.
Fan-made reproduction of the Tower of Terror: Even has a deepfaked Serling.
Drawing the Simpsons with pure CSS: Impractical, but so impressive.
Let's Encrypt issues its billionth cert: 89% of the web is now encrypted.
AI Dungeon Master: A work in progress, for sure.
How to lie with (coronavirus) maps: Lies, damned lies, and epidemiological data-visualizations.
This day in history: 2019, 2015
Colophon: Recent publications, current writing projects, upcoming appearances, current reading
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Author Cory DoctorowPosted on February 28, 2020March 6, 2020Categories UncategorizedTags architecture, art, attack surface, biometrics, butt stuff, cartography, centaurs, clearview, clearview ai, coronavirus, crypto wars, css, d&d, dataviz, deepfakes, disney, eff, epidemiology, facial recognition, fanac, geography, googies, grifters, infographics, infosec, internet of shit, iot, leaks, little brother, machine learning, mark klein, midcentury, ml, oakland, rpgs, scholarship, simpsons, smoking, snowden, stelarc, tower of terror, twilight zone, web theoryLeave a comment on Pluralistic, your daily link-dose: 28 Feb 2020
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