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Inside: MK-Ultra and the brainwashing grift; Machine Democrats; Mattis Dover's spectacular animations; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2020/10/09/boss-politics/
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MK-Ultra and the brainwashing grift: Mind control rays are always bullshit.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/105005339361348228
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Machine Democrats: Trump-voting ex-Dems are part of a great realignment.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/105005624265497443
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Mattis Dover's spectacular animations: Monochrom GIFs for the win.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/105005686895324803
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#10yrsago Student finds GPS bug on car, uploads photo, FBI demands to have their warrantless bug back https://www.wired.com/2010/10/fbi-tracking-device/
#10yrsago THE UNIDENTIFIED: dystopian YA about education transformed into giant, heavily sponsored game https://memex.craphound.com/2010/10/08/the-unidentified-dystopian-ya-about-education-transformed-into-a-giant-heavily-sponsored-game/
#10yrsago HOWTO bake porridge in a pumpkin https://web.archive.org/web/20101011012753/www.cookingwithmykid.com/recipes/baked-pumpkin-oatmeal/
#5yrsago Prisoners’ debate team trounces national champs from Harvard https://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/oct/07/harvards-prestigious-debate-team-loses-to-new-york-prison-inmates
#5yrsago T-shirt: Bugs and Gossamer as Han and Chewy https://www.neatoshop.com/product/Scoundrels?tag=7040
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#5yrsago It’s been ten years since Sony Music infected the world with its rootkit https://fsfe.org/activities/drm/sony-rootkit-fiasco.html
#5yrsago Court tells millionaire yoga troll Bikram Choudhury that poses can’t be copyrighted http://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2015/10/08/13-55763.pdf
#1yrago The cloud vs humanity: Adobe terminates every software license in Venezuela, keeps Venezuelans’ money https://helpx.adobe.com/la/x-productkb/policy-pricing/executive-order-venezuela.html
#1yrago Podcast: Why do people believe the Earth is flat? https://ia801006.us.archive.org/35/items/Cory_Doctorow_Podcast_311/Cory_Doctorow_Podcast_311_-_Why_do_people_believe_the_Earth_is_flat.mp3
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#1yrago Facebook’s 2016 election billboards: Buy all your elections with us! https://twitter.com/MarietjeSchaake/status/1180166896294887424
#1yrago How the “Varsity Blues” admissions scam punished deserving, hard working kids so that mediocre kids of the super-rich could prosper https://www.propublica.org/article/an-unseen-victim-of-the-college-admissions-scandal-the-high-school-tennis-champion-aced-out-by-a-billionaires-family#168806
#1yrago After an injunction against Pacifica radio, New York’s WBAI is back on the air https://twitter.com/2600/status/1181423565389942786
#1yrago Checkm8: an “unstoppable” Iphone jailbreaking crack https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/09/developer-of-checkm8-explains-why-idevice-jailbreak-exploit-is-a-game-changer/
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#1yrago Supreme Court greenlights lawsuit over Amazon’s wage-theft from warehouse workers https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-amazon-com/u-s-supreme-court-rejects-amazon-warehouse-worker-wage-appeal-idUSKBN1WM1FI
#1yrago For the first time ever, taxes on the 400 richest Americans were lower than taxes on everyone else https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/10/06/opinion/income-tax-rate-wealthy.html
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Yesterday's threads: Good Intentions, Bad Inventions; Visualizing the Gartner Hype Cycle; and more!
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/105000329302258221
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I have a (free) new book out! "How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism" is an anti-monopolist critique of Big Tech that connects the rise of conspiratorial thinking to the rise of tech monopolies and proposes a way to deal with both:
https://onezero.medium.com/how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism-8135e6744d59
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My next book is ATTACK SURFACE, sequel to Little Brother and Homeland: it's a technothriller about a surveillance techie who goes home and learns the weapons she helped build are used against the racial justice movement founded by her best friend.
https://read.macmillan.com/promo/attacksurfacepreordercampaign/
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My ebooks and audiobooks (from @torbooks, @HoZ_Books, @mcsweeneys, 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."
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Upcoming talks:
* Wired Nextfest Italia, Oct 10, https://nextfest2020-milano.wired.it/speaker/cory-doctorow/
* The Attack Surface Lectures: 8 nights of bookstore-hosted events in which I and a massive group of entertaining and knowledgeable experts discourse on my latest novel's themes, Oct 13-22 https://read.macmillan.com/torforge/cory-doctorow-virtual-lecture-series/
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Recent appearances:
* Off the Hook/Hacker Radio
https://download.2600.com/mediadownload/www.2600.com/offthehook/mp3files/2020/off_the_hook__20201007-128.mp3
* Library Leaders Forum: Ways to Better Serve the Public
https://blog.archive.org/2020/10/08/library-leaders-forum-kicks-off-with-policy-discussion-ways-to-better-serve-the-public/
* The Internet Is Broken, and ISPs Are to Blame (Gizmodo System Reboot)
https://gizmodo.com/the-internet-is-broken-and-isps-are-to-blame-1845289939
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My first picture book just came out! It's called Poesy the Monster Slayer and it's an epic tale of bedtime-refusal, toy-hacking and monster-hunting, illustrated by Matt Rockefeller. It's the monster book I dreamt of reading to my own daughter.
https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/14/poesy-the-monster-slayer/#poesy
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Today's top sources: Naked Capitalism (https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/), Waxy (https://waxy.org/).
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