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Pluralistic: Rsync corrump linkdump (03 Aug 2024)
Today's links
Rsync corrump linkdump: A roundup of stray but worthy links.
This day in history: 2004, 2009, 2019, 2023
Upcoming appearances: Where to find me.
Recent appearances: Where I've been.
Latest books: You keep readin' em, I'll keep writin' 'em.
Upcoming books: Like I said, I'll keep writin' 'em.
Colophon: All the rest.
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Author Cory DoctorowPosted on August 3, 2024August 15, 2024Categories UncategorizedTags antitrust, books, clip art, collages, covid, creepy cute, crowdstrike, d and d, games, gaming, Gaynor Carradice, gift guide, halloween, linkdump, linkdumps, mask up, masks, monopoly, open content, pandemics, public domain, public health, reslience, rpgs, spooky, stickers, ttprgs4 Comments on Pluralistic: Rsync corrump linkdump (03 Aug 2024)
Pluralistic: 26 Aug 2021
Today's links
Vaccinate workers at (almost) any price: Corporate America sabotaged paid vaccination leave.
This day in history: 2001, 2011, 2020
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
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Author Cory DoctorowPosted on August 26, 2021August 26, 2021Categories UncategorizedTags corporatism, covid, pandemics, plague rats, public health, vaccination1 Comment on Pluralistic: 26 Aug 2021
Pluralistic: 25 Feb 2021
Today's links
Against hygiene theater: Wired: Ventilation. Tired: Handwashing. Fired: Sterilization.
Saving the planet is illegal: Time to torch the Energy Charter Treaty.
This day in history: 2006, 2016, 2020
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
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Author Cory DoctorowPosted on February 25, 2021Categories UncategorizedTags climate emergency, covid, ECT, Energy Charter Treaty, eu, gnd, green european deal, green new deal, hydrocarbonism, hygiene theater, public health, sanitization, treaties, ventilation1 Comment on Pluralistic: 25 Feb 2021
Pluralistic: 26 Jan 2021
Today's links
Twitter's Project Blue Sky: Fix the internet, not the platforms.
Brazil's world-beating data breach: More than 100% of the population doxed.
Evictions and utility cutoffs are covid comorbidities: 143,000 covid deaths due to economic precarity.
"North Korea" targets infosec researchers: Third party collection, taken to the logic endpoint.
This day in history: 2006, 2011, 2016, 2020
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
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Author Cory DoctorowPosted on January 26, 2021Categories UncategorizedTags apts, blue sky, brazil, covid, dprk, economics, evictions, infosec, interop, leaks, nber, north korea, protocols not platforms, public health, scholarship, thirrd party collection, twitter1 Comment on Pluralistic: 26 Jan 2021
Pluralistic: 20 Aug 2020
Today's links
Kickstarting mailbox hearts: A way to show your support for the beleaguered USPS.
The Mail: A print zine about the USPS, delivered by the USPS.
College Covid app is a security dumpster-fire: Albion College obliterates the qualitative and hopes the quantitative residue will suffice.
Boeing fixes the 737 Max problem: By renaming the 737 Max.
Crowdfunding Skycircles: The Advisory Circular network tells you about the surveillance far overhead.
This day in history: 2005, 2015, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading
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Author Cory DoctorowPosted on August 20, 2020Categories UncategorizedTags 3d printing, 737 MAX, 737-8, albion college, aura, aviation, boeing, covid, crowdfunding, drones, education, epistemology, exposure notification, gift guide, hipaa, infosec, kickstarter, motherboard, nominative determinism, pandemic, privacy, public health, safety, security research, shoe leather, skycircles, thick description, usps, zines1 Comment on Pluralistic: 20 Aug 2020
Pluralistic: 28 May 2020
Today's links
Cuomo legalizes nursing-home murders: Immunity for execs who cut corners, even when it kills someone.
"News" broadcasts air scripted Amazon commercial: Media concentration is a hell of a drug.
Why ammosexuals are REALLY pointing guns at their own dicks: Bottom line: they're pointing guns at their own dicks.
California is setting itself up for a brutal second wave: Months of lockdown, squandered at the barber-shop.
Teardown of an "anti-5g" USB stick: When the conspiracy has a business-model.
Wisconsin cases surge after voting day: Murder at the ballot box.
World video premiere of the Little Brother stage play: A benefit for the Custom Made Theater Co.
Cumgate on blast: Marina Hyde's got Dom's number.
Corporate Dems include military contractors in bailout: Billions for Beltway Bandits.
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 May 28, 2020Categories UncategorizedTags 5g, amazon, ammosexuals, andrew cuomo, beltway bandits, business models, calexit, califonia, citizens united, conspiracism, corruption, cuomo, death by voting, democrats, dominic cummings, dunks, elections, gunhumpers, heroes act, little brother, media, media theory, military-industrial complex, musketfuckers, new york state, plays, public health, quackspeak, quien es mas macho, second wave, tories, ukpoli, videos, wisconsin2 Comments on Pluralistic: 28 May 2020
Pluralistic: 23 May 2020
Today's links
Covid apps and false positives: The real killer app is public confidence.
Casio censors calculator modder's Github project: The modder says it's copyfraud.
Penguin poop turns into laughing gas: Researchers figured it out when they started getting buzzed.
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 May 23, 2020Categories UncategorizedTags biology, business, contact tracing, copyfraud, dmca, exposure notification, false positives, penguins, public health, scholarship, streisand effect, zoologyLeave a comment on Pluralistic: 23 May 2020
Pluralistic: 12 Apr 2020
Today's links
LA begins randomized covid testing: Is distancing working?
Trump and the Rapture Right: The end of the world is a feature, not a bug.
Foxconn's potemkin "Innovation Centers": Empty promises and empty buildings.
The power of collaborative note-taking: From WIPO meetings to videoconferences.
AMC is going bankrupt: Maybe allowing them to buy all their competitors was a bad idea?
This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading
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Author Cory DoctorowPosted on April 12, 2020April 13, 2020Categories UncategorizedTags amc, antitrust, bankruptcy, broadcast treaty, business, collaborative note taking, copyfight, coronavirus, covid, eschatology watch, etherpad, evangelicals, foxconn, guillotine watch, la, monopolism, public health, randomized testing, rapture christians, religion, trade war, wipo, wisconsinLeave a comment on Pluralistic: 12 Apr 2020
Pluralistic: 10 Mar 2020
Today's links
Safe and moral societies need "firewalls" between immigration and public services: The UK's "hostile environment" puts everyone at risk.
Detroit will reconnect water services during the Covid-19 emergency: But it's $25/month thereafter.
Thomas Piketty endorses Sanders: both his program and his electability.
Sonos "recycling mode" no longer bricks working speakers: Fire the person who came up with this deeply shitty idea.
Brave will randomize browser profiles to fight fingerprinting attacks: More from the most privacy-friendly browser.
This day in history: 2005, 2010
Colophon: Recent publications, current writing projects, upcoming appearances, current reading
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Author Cory DoctorowPosted on March 10, 2020March 10, 2020Categories UncategorizedTags 2020, anonymity, brave, bricking, canvas attacks, class war, covid-19, democrats, detroit, education, elections, fight for 15, firewalls, human rights, inequality, medicare for all, michigan, migration, pandemics, piketty, Pluralistic: 10 Mar 2020, populism, privacy, public health, race, recycling, refugees, sanders, sonos, war on general purpose computingLeave a comment on Pluralistic: 10 Mar 2020
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