#10yrsago Former UK drug czar calls banning marijuana and #psychedelics “the worst case of scientific #censorship since the Catholic Church banned the works of #Copernicus and #Galileo” https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/the-worst-case-of-scientific-censorship-since-the-catholic-church-banned-the-works-of-galileo-scientists-call-for-drugs-to-be-legalised-to-allow-proper-study-of-their-properties-8654514.html

#10yrsago Why are the protesters in #GeziPark? https://technosociology.org/?p=1349

#5yrsago #Reddit sounds the alarm: the EU internet proposal would end the net as we know it! https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/8qfw8l/protecting_the_free_and_open_internet_european/

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#5yrsago LA’s high-tech, thoughtful water management is cause for cautious optimism about adapting to climate change https://www.wired.com/story/la-is-doing-water-better-than-your-city-yes-that-la/

#5yrsago Feds indict Florida police chief who framed a teen for burglaries so he could boast about perfect record https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2018/06/11/police-framed-a-teen-for-four-burglaries-so-chief-could-tout-perfect-clearance-rate-feds-say/

#5yrsago Empirical evidence for the #PeterPrinciple (or, why bosses are so incompetent) https://hbr.org/2018/03/research-do-people-really-get-promoted-to-their-level-of-incompetence

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#5yrsago The EU’s terrible #copyright proposal will “carpet bomb” the whole world’s internet with censorship and surveillance https://newint.org/features/web-exclusive/2018/06/11/eu-copyright-law

#5yrsago 70+ internet pioneers to the EU: you are transforming the internet into a “tool for automated surveillance and control” https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/06/internet-luminaries-ring-alarm-eu-copyright-filtering-proposal

#5yrsago The Freeze-Frame Revolution: mutineers unstuck in time, strung out across an aeon https://memex.craphound.com/2018/06/12/the-freeze-frame-revolution-mutineers-unstuck-in-time-strung-out-across-an-aeon/

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#5yrsago Eh, too: Canadians will also suffer under the EU’s proposed copyright rules https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-monday-edition-1.4700930/how-canadians-could-get-caught-up-in-the-eu-s-proposed-copyright-law-1.4700935

#5yrsago Norwegian court orders volunteers to take down public domain court verdicts and pay copyright troll’s legal bills https://www.wiumlie.no/2018/rettspraksis/06-11-blog.html

#5yrsago UK security minister proposes “Digital IDs” to enforce online civility https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/online-digital-identification-mob-rule-online-security-minister-ben-wallace-a8390841.html

#5yrsago Infographic: buying games vs pirating them https://www.deviantart.com/dnd01/art/Why-DRM-is-bad-for-the-customer-pdf-file-748886029

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#5yrsago Trump won’t stop tearing up official papers so the White House archives employ a staff to tape them back together for the National Archives https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/10/trump-papers-filing-system-635164

#5yrsago British army targeted “stressed” 16-year-olds on exam-results day with Facebook recruitment ads https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/british-army-recruit-soldiers-gcse-results-facebook-twitter-child-soliders-international-a8390961.html

#1yrago The #GeicoSTD story is the new McDonald's #HotCoffee story https://pluralistic.net/2022/06/12/hot-coffee/#mcgeico

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My latest book is Red Team Blues, available wherever books are sold!

Signed copies at Dark Delicacies (US):

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and Forbidden Planet (UK):

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My latest nonfiction book is Chokepoint Capitalism (with Rebecca Giblin), nonfiction about monopoly and fairness in creative labor markets.

https://chokepointcapitalism.com

Signed copies available from Book Soup:

https://www.booksoup.com/book/9780807007068

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My ebooks and audiobooks (from Tor Books, Head of Zeus, McSweeneys, Beacon and others) are for sale all over the net, but I sell 'em too, and when you buy 'em from me, I earn twice as much and you get books with no DRM and no license "agreements."

https://craphound.com/shop/

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Recent appearances:

* How To Save News Media From Our Tech Overlords (Canadaland)
https://www.canadaland.com/podcast/888-how-to-save-news-media-from-our-tech-overlords/

* Most AI is not artificial or intelligent (with @jamesbridle)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPvHjvZz7l0

* This Machine Kills
https://soundcloud.com/thismachinekillspod/257-red-team-blues-ft-cory-doctorow

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