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Inside: IDing anonymized cops with facial recognition; ENDSARS; Companies target robots in disclosures; US border cruelty, powered by Google cloud; Free the law of Wisconsin; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2020/10/22/the-robots-are-listening/
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Today's Attack Surface Lecture: OpSec & Personal Cyber-Security: How Can You Be Safe?
With Runa Sandvik and Window Snyder
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IDing anonymized cops with facial recognition: Privacy for the powerless, transparency for the powerful.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/105073663337696977
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ENDSARS: Global protests over Nigeria's murdering special police.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/105073719970444747
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Companies target robots in disclosures: Sentiment analysis is finally useful for something.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/105078899759053198
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US border cruelty, powered by Google cloud: IBM at Auschwitz.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/105079074324248901
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Free the law of Wisconsin: Carl Malamud wants you to read Wisconsin's jury instructions.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/105079196584448097
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#5yrsago Fable Comics: anthology of great comics artists telling fables from around the world https://memex.craphound.com/2015/10/22/fable-comics-anthology-of-great-comics-artists-telling-fables-from-around-the-world/
#5yrsago Son of Dieselgate: second line of VWs may have used “defeat devices” https://web.archive.org/web/20151022202413/https://www.reuters.com/article/2015/10/22/us-volkswagen-emissions-engines-idUSKCN0SG0US20151022
#5yrsago DHS admits it uses Stingrays for VIPs, vows to sometimes get warrants, stop lying to judges https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/10/dhs-now-needs-warrant-for-stingray-use-but-not-when-protecting-president/
#5yrsago Half of Vanuatu’s government is going to jail https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/13/vanuatu-speaker-pardons-himself-and-13-mps
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#5yrsago Obama administration petitions judge for no mercy in student debt bankruptcy https://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/318-66/33068-obama-administration-urges-no-bankruptcy-relief-for-student-debt
#1yrago Margaret Atwood’s “The Testaments”: a long-awaited Handmaid’s Tale sequel fulfills its promise https://memex.craphound.com/2019/10/22/margaret-atwoods-the-testaments-a-long-awaited-handmaids-tale-sequel-fulfills-its-promise/
#1yrago Materiality: a new science fiction story for the Oslo Architecture Triennale about sustainable, green abundance https://ia803101.us.archive.org/16/items/Cory_Doctorow_Podcast_313/Cory_Doctorow_Podcast_313_-_Materiality.mp3
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#1yrago Ernst and Young subjected women employees to “training” about keeping the company’s men happy https://www.huffpost.com/entry/women-ernst-young-how-to-dress-act-around-men_n_5da721eee4b002e33e78606a
#1yrago NJ school district bans indebted students from prom and field trips, refuses offer to pay off lunch debt https://www.inquirer.com/education/school-lunch-shaming-cherry-hill-tuna-prom-20191018.html
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Yesterday's threads: Comedic obituary poetry; Tom Lehrer in the public domain; Trustbusting is stimulus; Falsehoods programmers believe about time; and more!
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/105073488414942994
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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 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 appearances:
* Fantasy & Dystopia with Richard Kadrey, Litquake, Oct 23, https://www.eventbrite.com/e/fantasy-and-dystopia-cory-doctorow-with-richard-kadrey-registration-116950677625
* Milehicon (Guest of Honor!), Oct 23-5, <a href="https://milehicon.org/">https://milehicon.org/</a>
* Coding Democracy/Toronto International Festival of Authors, Oct 24 https://festivalofauthors.ca/event/maureen-webb-coding-democracy/
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Recent appearances:
* TWiT: The J to J Protocol
https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech/episodes/793
* Writing Excuses: Researching the FCK out of Things
https://writingexcuses.com/2020/10/11/15-41-researching-the-fck-out-of-things-with-cory-doctorow/
* SRSLY WRONG: Stop Techno Dystopia!
https://srslywrong.com/podcast/220-stop-techno-dystopia-w-cory-doctorow/
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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: Four Short Links (https://www.oreilly.com/feed/four-short-links, Slashdot (https://slashdot.org/).
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