Privacy first: A powerful principle with a vast constituency.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/111533485342511943

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Hey look at this

* After $500m Zuckerberg donation, Harvard university gutted its #disinfo team studying Facebook https://boingboing.net/2023/12/04/after-500m-zuckerberg-donation-harvard-university-gutted-its-disinfo-team-studying-facebook.html

* Silicon Valley vs. teenage girls https://www.garbageday.email/p/silicon-valley-vs-teenage-girls

* Writing Documentation for Your House https://luke.hsiao.dev/blog/housing-documentation/ (h/t Jessamyn West)

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#20yrsago #WaltDisney’s FBI files https://memex.craphound.com/2003/12/06/walt-disneys-fbi-files/

#20yrsago #Ska-anthem about #DuctTape https://web.archive.org/web/20031209020640/http://www.ducktapeclub.com/contests/roll/lyrics.asp?entryid=131

#15yrsago Britain’s “Great Firewall” set to restrict access to Wikipedia https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/British_ISPs_restrict_access_to_Wikipedia_amid_child_pornography_allegations

#15yrsago Workers in Argentina taking over dead factories and running them democratically https://www.newstatesman.com/long-reads/2007/08/argentina-workers-movement

#10yrsago What #NelsonMandela’s life tells us about the legitimacy of “democratic nations” https://memex.craphound.com/2013/12/06/what-nelson-mandelas-life-tells-us-about-the-legitimacy-of-democratic-nations/

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#10yrsago Medieval kids’ birch-bark doodles https://erikkwakkel.tumblr.com/post/67681966023/medieval-kids-doodles-on-birch-bark-heres

#10yrsago Botnet of 20,000 point-of-sale machines https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/12/credit-card-fraud-comes-of-age-with-first-known-point-of-sale-botnet/

#5yrsago #JamieDimon is getting fed up with the protesters who “#occupy” him everywhere he goes https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-03/wherever-dimon-goes-activists-turn-his-speeches-into-spectacles

#5yrsago Wells Fargo blames “computer glitch” for its improper #foreclosure on 545 homes https://www.cbsnews.com/news/wells-fargo-loan-modification-error-homeowners-who-went-into-foreclosure-seek-answers/

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Yesterday's threads: Pedophiles for Purdue Pharma; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/111527546057881104

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My latest novel is "The Lost Cause," a solarpunk novel of radical hope in the climate emergency, from Tor Books (US)/Head of Zeus (UK):

http://lost-cause.org

Signed, personalized copies available from Dark Delicacies:

https://www.darkdel.com/store/p3007/Pre-Order_Signed_Copies%3A_The_Lost_Cause_HB.html#/

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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 ebooks and audiobooks (from Tor Books, Head of Zeus, McSweeneys, Beacon, Verso 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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Upcoming appearances:

* The Geneva Dialog (Dec 7)
https://genevadialogue.ch/event/geneva-manual-event/

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Recent appearances:

* AI needs to work with humans — not replace us (#CBC IDEAS)
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/artificial-intelligence-provocation-ideas-festival-1.7046841

* Explore the Future of the 🔥 Climate and Information Climate (#AndrewRevkin)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OGT-cvs4_Q

* Digital Markets Act; Interoperability; Entrenchment; Copyright; "What-About-Ism" (Digital Markets Research Hub)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xm23pO5_WKM

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