I'm kickstarting the #audiobook for my next novel, a post-#cyberpunk anti-finance finance thriller about #SiliconValley scams called *Red Team Blues*. #Amazon's #Audible refuses to carry my audiobooks because they're #DRM free, but crowdfunding makes them possible:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/doctorow/red-team-blues-another-audiobook-that-amazon-wont-sell

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The Golden Rule (them what has the gold makes the rules): Dobbs, SVB, the Internet Archive, antitrust and the law's foundation in norms, not consistency.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/110085073838831261

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Hey look at this

* #Hachette v. @internetarchive Liveblog and Discussion https://controlleddigitallending.org/2023/03/20/hachette-v-ia-liveblog/ (h/t Kyle K. Courtney)

* #Framework's Making a 16 Inch Modular Laptop For Gamers https://gizmodo.com/framework-modular-gaming-laptop-self-repair-right-to-am-1850254964

* A Utah parent says the Bible contains porn and should be removed from school libraries. Here’s their full challenge https://www.sltrib.com/news/education/2023/03/22/utah-parent-says-bible-contains/

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#20yrsago #Mexico sells out its future by extending copyright https://web.archive.org/web/20030313230051/https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/lessig/blog/archives/2003_03.shtml

#20yrsago Google’s #SergeyBrin at #PCForum https://craphound.com/google.html

#20yrsago #SocialSoftware panel at #PCForum https://craphound.com/socialsoftware.html

#15yrsago #Walmart infection-spread timelapse video https://web.archive.org/web/20080323083145/http://blog.kiwitobes.com/?p=51

#15yrsago #ClayShirky’s Harvard talk: Here Comes Everybody https://web.archive.org/web/20161226034209/http://wilkins.law.harvard.edu/events/Misc/2008-02-28_shirky/2008-02-28_shirky320web.mp4

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#10yrsago Store wants $5 browsing fee to deter “#showrooming” by online shoppers https://consumerist.com/2013/03/25/store-combats-showrooming-with-5-just-looking-fee/

#10yrsago RPG inside an #Excel workbook https://carywalkin.ca/2013/03/17/arena-xlsm-released/

#10yrsago #Toronto Mayor #RobFord’s long history of public drunkenness and brawling https://www.thestar.com/news/city_hall/2013/03/26/rob_ford_intoxicated_toronto_mayor_asked_to_leave_military_ball.html

#10yrsago Summary of experimentally verified pricing heuristics https://cxl.com/blog/pricing-experiments-you-might-not-know-but-can-learn-from/

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#5yrsago Cyber-arms-dealer #GreyHeron really, really doesn’t want you to know about the connections between them and the disgraced #HackingTeam https://www.vice.com/en/article/bjpnad/grey-heron-hacking-team

#5yrsago Women (but not men) with high GPAs are less likely to get job offers https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0003122418762291

#5yrsago A patchwork of state “incompetence” laws cost tens of thousands of Americans their vote every year https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/blogs/stateline/2018/03/21/thousands-lose-right-to-vote-under-incompetence-laws

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#5yrsago Rail barons and the new gilded age: one-percenters travel in style by hitching private “super-luxe” railcars to #Amtrak trains https://www.wsj.com/articles/wealthy-train-buffs-are-traveling-cross-country-in-super-luxe-railcars-hitched-to-amtrak-trains-1521727200

#5yrsago Poll: #Facebook is the least trusted custodian of private information, majority of Americans do not trust it https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-facebook-poll/americans-less-likely-to-trust-facebook-than-rivals-on-personal-data-reuters-ipsos-poll-idUSKBN1H10K3

#5yrsago #ICE uses Facebook’s backend to hunt their prey, with help from #Palantir https://theintercept.com/2018/03/26/facebook-data-ice-immigration/

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#5yrsago Invisible, targeted infrared light can fool facial recognition software into thinking anyone is anyone else https://arxiv.org/pdf/1803.04683.pdf

#5yrsago London police finally admit they fed intel to UK construction cartel to build illegal #blacklist of #labour organisers https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/mar/23/officers-likely-to-have-passed-personal-files-to-blacklisters-says-met

#5yrsago Services that deliver the same functions as Facebook, for after you #DeleteFacebook https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-alternatives/

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#5yrsago Republicans and Trump kill anti-#WageTheft rule, will funnel your taxes to companies that rob and endanger workers https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-trump-wage-theft-unsafe-working-conditions-20170328-story.html

#5yrsago UK Information Commissioner’s Office raids #CambridgeAnalytica’s London office https://www.dw.com/en/british-authorities-raid-cambridge-analytica-offices-in-london/a-43111987

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