Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: Naomi Alderman's 'The Future'; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/07/preppers-of-the-red-death/
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Naomi Alderman's 'The Future': Billionaire preppers vs the end of the human race.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/111369787361012782
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Hey look at this
* How the meandering legal definition of '#FairUse' cost us #Napster but gave us Spotify https://www.engadget.com/hitting-the-books-the-internet-con-cory-doctorow-verso-153018432.html
* Regarding Proposed US Restrictions on #RISCV https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=6862
* DAK and the Golden Age of Gadget Catalogs https://cabel.com/2023/11/06/dak-and-the-golden-age-of-gadget-catalogs/
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#20yrsago Economist replies to #JackValenti on #BroadcastFlag http://arnoldkling.com/~arnoldsk/aimst5/valenti.html
#10yrsago New #RobFord video: Laughable Fumblebuck drops a gigaton of F-bombs https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/rob-ford-caught-on-video-in-violent-rant/article_67244e8f-8561-5d4b-8054-c30750f36779.html
#10yrsago Google security engineer on #NSA: “Fuck these guys” https://memex.craphound.com/2013/11/07/google-security-engineer-on-nsa-fuck-these-guys/
#5yrsago AT&T disconnects whole families from the internet because someone in their house is accused of copyright infringement https://memex.craphound.com/2018/11/07/att-disconnects-whole-families-from-the-internet-because-someone-in-their-house-is-accused-of-copyright-infringement/
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#1yrago The good news is that #PenguinRandomHouse can't buy all the other publishers: Now for the bad news https://pluralistic.net/2022/11/07/random-penguins/#if-you-wanted-to-get-there-i-wouldnt-start-from-here
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Yesterday's threads: Amazon is a ripoff; and more!
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/111364579966406818
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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
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My latest novel is Red Team Blues, available wherever books are sold!
Signed copies at Dark Delicacies (US):
and Forbidden Planet (UK):
https://forbiddenplanet.com/385004-red-team-blues-signed-edition-hardcover/
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