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Pluralistic: How Google's trial secrecy lets it control the coverage; The Lost Cause prologue, part III (09 Oct 2023)
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How Google's trial secrecy lets it control the coverage: You got it wrong, but we won't tell you how.
The Lost Cause prologue, part III: Going viral in the free world.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
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Author Cory DoctorowPosted on October 9, 2023October 15, 2023Categories UncategorizedTags antitrust, audiobook, clifi, google, kickstarter, megan grey, opacity, science fiction, secrecy, semantic matching books, solarpunk, the lost cause, trustbusting, wired, working the refs1 Comment on Pluralistic: How Google's trial secrecy lets it control the coverage; The Lost Cause prologue, part III (09 Oct 2023)
Pluralistic: Saturday linkdump, part the sixth (09 Sept 2023)
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Saturday linkdump, part the sixth: The new digital disorder.
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Author Cory DoctorowPosted on September 9, 2023September 15, 2023Categories UncategorizedTags astra taylor, autoenshittification, automotive, big tech, browser wars, burning man, calvin and hobbes, canada, cbc, chrome, chromium, climate emergency, democracy, enshittification, events, fcc, floc, fractured veil, games, google, internet con, internet of shit, iot, linkdump, linkdumps, monopoly, mozilla, munk lectures, political science, privacy, privacy without monopoly, ruben bolling, saving the news from big tech, seize the means of computation, stop making sense, surveillance, talking heads, tom the dancing bug, topics api, toronto, wired3 Comments on Pluralistic: Saturday linkdump, part the sixth (09 Sept 2023)
Pluralistic: 12 Oct 2020
Today's links
Attack Surface in Wired: Toolsmith-user solidarity.
The herd immunity conspiracy: Follow the money.
How to cheat at Clock Simulator: I got rhythm.
Someone Comes to Town, part 18: This week's podcast comes with a content warning.
Facebook vs The Big Lebowski: The Zuck abides.
Papercraft Haunted Mansion Hallowe'en: Print, color, decorate!
This day in history: None
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Author Cory DoctorowPosted on October 12, 2020October 13, 2020Categories UncategorizedTags article 13, article 17, attack surface, cda 230, censorship, cheats, clock simulator, conspiracies, content moderation, content moderation at scale, covid, crafting, death cults, deletefacebook, disney, early stage oppenheimers, facebook, games, halloween, haunted mansion, haunters, herd immunity, intermediary liability, kafka, little brother, netherlands, papercraft, parenting, science fiction, surveillance, terrreg, the big lebowski, themepunks, this will all be so great if we dont screw it up, wired3 Comments on Pluralistic: 12 Oct 2020
Pluralistic: 17 May 2020
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Instagram's slow-mo appeals court: A nanosecond to block, 28 months to review.
DOD lie-detector manual leaked: How credible is the National Center for Credibility Assessment?
Farewell to Beyond the Beyond: Wired retires Bruce Sterling's blog, and he has thoughts.
Neoliberals won't waste this crisis: When the left abandoned leninism, the right swiped it.
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Author Cory DoctorowPosted on May 17, 2020Categories UncategorizedTags algorithmic censorship, blogging, bruce sterling, cyberpunk, dead media, econopocalypse, elite panic, euthanasia, facebook, filternet, final solutions, grandparents optional party, ideas lying around, instagram, junk science, leaks, lie detectors, neoliberalism, polygraphs, publishing, shock doctrine, solnit, wiredLeave a comment on Pluralistic: 17 May 2020
Pluralistic: 13 May 2020
Today's links
University requires students to buy nonexistent webcams: Unobtanium vs. cheating.
Gadget that adds steps to your Fitbit: An open source hardware answer to Fitbit-tied insurance programs.
How Marcus Hutchins saved the world and lived to tell the tale: A nuanced portrait.
Red states prep for postal vote: Murdering the elderly won't help them at the ballot box.
Corporate Dems want to bail out lobbyists and dark money orgs: Centrism kills.
Feds want national snitchlines for bosses whose workers don't want to die: Homelessness or coronavirus.
Restaurants, hotels and bars cut the cord: The curse of bigness.
NSO Group tried to sell malware to US law enforcement: Khashoggi killers, doing deals.
Senate Dems want to ban internet disconnection: Broadband is a human right.
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Author Cory DoctorowPosted on May 13, 2020Categories UncategorizedTags 2020, andy greenberg, at&t;, bailouts, canada, cord cutting, dark money, defcon, democrats, department of labor, dinos, double dipping, education, elections, eternalblue, fitbit, health insurance, hens teeth, invigilation, k-street, lawful interception, leo, malware, malwaretech, marcus hutchins, math, nso group, oshw, pegasus, phantom, postal voting, radicalized, ransomware, snitchlines, spooks, the curse of bigness, uk, unemployment insurance, wannacry, westbridge, whitehat, wilf, wilfrid laurier, wired, wormsLeave a comment on Pluralistic: 13 May 2020
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