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Facebook's right, Apple is too powerful: And so is Facebook.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/108493174109576273

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#20yrsago Can Rusty keep running Kuro5shin for free? https://web.archive.org/web/20050609081348/http://www.kuro5hin.org/?op=displaystory;sid=2002/6/17/23933/5831

#20yrsago Woody Guthrie on copyright https://web.archive.org/web/20020625051152/http://techdirt.com/articles/20020608/1555239.shtml

#15yrsago When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth wins the Locus Award! http://www.locusmag.com/2007/06_LocusWinners.html

#10yrsago Father’s day songs to learn and perform, by Groucho Marx https://memex.craphound.com/2012/06/17/fathers-day-songs-to-learn-and-perform-by-groucho-marx/

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#10yrsago FunnyJunk’s lawyer vows revenge on The Oatmeal and Matthew Inman https://www.popehat.com/2012/06/15/the-oatmeal-v-funnyjunk-part-iii-charles-carreons-lifetime-movie-style-dysfunctional-relationship-with-the-internet/

#10yrsago Rev. Ivan Stang retires from Church of the Subgenius, appoints successor https://revstang.blogspot.com/2012/06/news-release.html

#10yrsago Valve’s new economist-in-residence will publish notes on the political economy of games https://web.archive.org/web/20120617233156/http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/economics/it-all-began-with-a-strange-email/

#10yrsago Class action against PublishAmerica; claims the business is a ripoff for would-be writers http://accrispin.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/class-action-lawsuit-filed-against.html

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#5yrsago In Rhode Island, students and parents must let schools spy on them day and night through their laptops https://web.archive.org/web/20170622123813/https://riaclu.org/images/uploads/ACLU_1-1_School_Privacy_Report_Final.pdf

#5yrsago Trump’s no-experience, fake-degree wedding planner will be in charge of billions in NYC housing spending https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/trump-chooses-family-event-planner-run-n-y-housing-programs-article-1.3251314

#5yrsago The Commute Deck: a homebrew Unix terminal for tight places https://makezine.com/2017/06/15/commute-deck-keyboard-device/

#5yrsago The FBI’s Gary Gygax file calls the original Dungeon Master “eccentric and frightening” https://reason.com/2017/06/15/dd-creator-gary-gygaxs-fbi-records-make/

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#5yrsago In 1956, Hugh Hefner gave MAD’s founding editor an unlimited budget for a new satire magazine called “TRUMP” https://memex.craphound.com/2017/06/17/in-1956-hugh-hefner-gave-mads-founding-editor-an-unlimited-budget-for-a-new-satire-magazine-called-trump/

#1yrago Tali Farhadian Weinstein paid virtually no tax on millions and millions: And she wants to be the Manhattan DA and go after Trump's tax-dodging https://pluralistic.net/2021/06/17/quis-custodiet-irs/#trumps-taxes

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#1yrago Interop Sci-Fi: Inside the Clock Tower, my interoperability sf for Consumer Reports https://pluralistic.net/2021/06/16/inside-the-clock-tower/#access-act

#1yrago Suing all of ad-tech: Will an EU country finally enforce the GDPR? https://pluralistic.net/2021/06/16/inside-the-clock-tower/#inference

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Wednesday's threads: Boy, gig companies sure hire disastrously sloppy lawyers; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/108480196537452961

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My latest book is Attack Surface, a sequel to my bestselling Little Brother books, now in paperback, wherever books are sold.

Signed copies at Dark Delicacies:

https://www.darkdel.com/store/p1840/Cory_Doctorow_-__Attack_Surface_HB_%26_TPB.html#/

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My book "How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism" is a critique of Big Tech connecting conspiratorial thinking to the rise of tech monopolies (proposing a way to deal with both) is now out in paperback:

https://onezero.medium.com/how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism-8135e6744d59

Signed copies here:
https://www.darkdel.com/store/p2024/Available_Now%3A__How_to_Destroy_Surveillance_Capitalism.html

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My ebooks and audiobooks (from Tor Books, Head of Zeus, 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."

https://craphound.com/shop/

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Upcoming appearances:

* A New HOPE (NYC), Jul 24
https://www.hope.net/

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Recent appearances:

* Supp-Lie Demand (Bad Faith podcast with Briahna Joy Gray):
https://www.patreon.com/posts/67550669

* The Sci-Fi Feedback Loop: Mapping Fiction’s Influence on Real-World Tech
https://csi.asu.edu/calendar/events/the-sci-fi-feedback-loop-mapping-fictions-influence-on-real-world-tech/

* Privacy is the New Celebrity
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1806101/10643084

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My first picture book is 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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You can also follow these posts as a daily blog at pluralistic.net: no ads, trackers, or data-collection!

Here's today's edition: https://pluralistic.net/2022/06/17/no-gods-no-masters/

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If you're a Medium subscriber, you can read these essays - as well as previews of upcoming magazine columns and early exclusives on doctorow.medium.com.

My latest Medium column is "Direct: The Problem of Middlemen," a review of Kathryn Judge's debut book about the problems of the middleman economy.

https://doctorow.medium.com/direct-the-problem-of-middlemen-a3651c62a207

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