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Written by Cory Doctorow on 2024-11-26 at 09:04

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Bossware is unfair (in the legal sense, too); and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/26/hawtch-hawtch/

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Written by Cory Doctorow on 2024-11-26 at 09:05

Bossware is unfair (in the legal sense, too): Neotaylorists wielding digital calipers, breaking the law.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113548349587821374

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Written by Cory Doctorow on 2024-11-26 at 09:05

Hey look at this

• Tech companies are clamoring to re-buttonize their products https://www.usermag.co/p/have-we-reached-peak-touchscreen

• The Macquarie Dictionary Word of the Year, both the Committee’s Choice and the People’s Choice, is ENSHITTIFICATION https://www.macquariedictionary.com.au/woty-2024/

• Is Elon Musk Trying to Protect Alex Jones's X Accounts? https://www.creditslips.org/creditslips/2024/11/is-elon-musk-trying-to-protect-alex-joness-x-accounts.html

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Toot

Written by Cory Doctorow on 2024-11-26 at 09:05

[#]15yrsago Concordia University has a spy-squad that snooped on novelist for “bilingual interests” https://web.archive.org/web/20101119125330/http://artthreat.net/2009/11/concordia-university-spied-novelist/

[#]10yrsago DC cops budget their asset forfeiture income years in advance https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/dc-police-plan-for-future-seizure-proceeds-years-in-advance-in-city-budget-documents/2014/11/15/7025edd2-6b76-11e4-b053-65cea7903f2e_story.html

[#]10yrsago Analysis of leaked logs from Syria’s censoring national firewall https://www.techdirt.com/2014/11/26/lessons-censorship-syrias-internet-filter-machines/

[#]10yrsago The Shibboleth, the sequel to The Twelve Fingered Boy https://memex.craphound.com/2014/11/27/the-shibboleth-the-sequel-to-the-twelve-fingered-boy/

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Descendants

Written by Cory Doctorow on 2024-11-26 at 09:06

[#]10yrsago Tiny, transforming apartment made huge with massive wheeled storage-compartments https://vimeo.com/110871691

[#]5yrsago Open Memory Box: hundreds of hours of East German home movies, 1947-1990 https://open-memory-box.de/roll/013-06/00-00-41-20

[#]5yrsago Talking Adversarial Interoperability with Y Combinator https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RsI-Vh-KWI

[#]5yrsago Debullshitifying the Right to Repair excuses Apple sent to Congress https://www.ifixit.com/News/33977/apple-told-congress-how-repair-should-work-we-respond

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Written by Cory Doctorow on 2024-11-26 at 09:06

[#]5yrsago NSO Group employees kicked off Facebook for spying for brutal dictators are suing Facebook for violating their privacy https://www.vice.com/en/article/nso-employees-take-legal-action-against-facebook-for-banning-their-accounts/

[#]5yrsago Amazon secretly planned to use facial recognition and Ring doorbells to create neighborhood “watch lists” https://theintercept.com/2019/11/26/amazon-ring-home-security-facial-recognition/

[#]5yrsago Great backgrounder on the Hong Kong protests: what’s at stake and how’d we get here? https://www.vox.com/world/2019/8/22/20804294/hong-kong-protests-9-questions

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Written by Cory Doctorow on 2024-11-26 at 09:07

[#]5yrsago Apple poses a false dichotomy between “privacy” and “competition” https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/11/26/apple-emphasizes-user-privacy-lawmakers-see-it-an-effort-edge-out-its-rivals/

[#]5yrsago China wants to lead the UN’s World Intellectual Property Organization https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/11/26/china-bids-lead-world-intellectual-property-organization-wipo/

[#]1yrago The real AI fight https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/27/10-types-of-people/#taking-up-a-lot-of-space

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Written by Cory Doctorow on 2024-11-26 at 09:07

Yesterday's threads: The far right grows through "disaster fantasies"; Upcoming books; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113541018534978907

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Written by Cory Doctorow on 2024-11-26 at 09:08

My latest nationally bestselling novel is "The Bezzle," an ice-cold revenge story of high-tech finance crime starring the forensic accountant Martin Hench:

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250865878/thebezzle

Signed copies from Chevalier's Books:

https://www.chevaliersbooks.com/product-page/the-bezzle

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My latest nonfiction book is "The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation" from Verso Books:

http://seizethemeansofcomputation.org

Signed copies available from Book Soup:

https://www.booksoup.com/book/9781804291245

Both are national bestsellers!

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Written by Cory Doctorow on 2024-11-26 at 09:08

Upcoming appearances:

• International Cooperative Alliance (New Delhi), Nov 24

https://icanewdelhi2024.coop/welcome/pages/Programme

• ACM Conext-2024 Workshop on the Decentralization of the Internet (Los Angeles), Dec 9

https://conferences.sigcomm.org/co-next/2024/#!/din

• IA et “merdification“ d’internet: peut-on envisager un nouveau web? (Remote), Dec 12

https://www.unige.ch/comprendre-le-numerique/conferences-publiques1/cycle-5-2024-2025/ia-et-merdification-dinternet-peut-envisager-un-nouveau-web/

• ISSA-LA Holiday Celebration keynote (Los Angeles), Dec 18

https://issala.org/event/issa-la-december-18-dinner-meeting/

• Cloudfest (Europa Park), Mar 17-20

https://cloudfest.link/

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Written by Cory Doctorow on 2024-11-26 at 09:08

Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

• DeepSouthCon63 (New Orleans), Oct 10-12, 2025

http://www.contraflowscifi.org/

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Written by Cory Doctorow on 2024-11-26 at 09:09

Recent appearances:

• Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It (HOPE XV)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrciT_dc2sc&list=PLcajvRZA8E0_tLLEh1COeAv-TcaDna2k1&index=32

• How To Keep IoT From Becoming An IoTrash (@defcon)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tA7bpp8qXxI

• How Big Tech made Trump 2.0 (@therealnews)

https://therealnews.com/how-big-tech-made-trump-2-0

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Written by Cory Doctorow on 2024-11-26 at 09:09

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