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Inside: Amazon's $31b "ad business" isn't; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2022/02/27/not-an-ad/
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Today (Feb 27), I'm on a panel called "False Dawns and Wandergrounds: Dystopia, Then and Now," as part of City Lights's launch of *Dangerous Visions and New Worlds: Radical Science Fiction, 1950 to 1985*:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dangerous-visions-and-new-worlds-session-eight-tickets-255699814027
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Amazon's $31b "ad business" isn't: They getcha coming and going.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/107871082642009081
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#20yrsago The Chilling Effects project https://web.archive.org/web/20020327142728/http://www.chillingeffects.org/
#20yrsago Jack Valenti pushes mandatory DRM for every computer https://www.theregister.com/2002/02/26/mpaas_valenti_pushes_for_copycontrol/
#20yrsago Michael Moore versus Bill O’Reilly https://web.archive.org/web/20020222230203/http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,46116,00.html
#10yrsago SKS, world’s largest microfinance service, drives debtors to suicide https://www.nhregister.com/news/article/Lender-s-own-probe-links-it-to-suicides-11508346.php
#10yrsago Author discovers that Amazon can reprice his indie Kindle books however they want and cut his royalties, at will http://www.jimchines.com/2012/02/amazon-ebook-price/
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#10yrsago Repo Man director urges fans to “pirate a bunch of my stuff right away” https://thequietus.com/articles/08085-repo-man-alex-cox-interview
#10yrsago Save Disney World from Disneylandification https://passport2dreams.blogspot.com/2012/02/on-integrity.html
#10yrsago Labour to Britain’s Internet: drop dead https://www.harrietharman.org/speaking-at-the-university-of-hertfordshire-on-the-uk-music-indu
#10yrsago Rumblefish claims to own copyright to ambient birdsong on YouTube https://web.archive.org/web/20120227084306/https://www.google.com/support/forum/p/youtube/thread?tid=55df85c8372461a6&hl=en
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#10yrsago Wikileaks releases “Global Intelligence Files” — 5MM emails from private spook outfit Stratfor https://wikileaks.org/gifiles/
#10yrsago Danish collecting society blocks band from playing anti-ACTA gig http://www.modspil.dk/wordpress/?p=2054
#10yrago Techdirt post about SOPA censored from Google results due to bogus DMCA complaint https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120223/15102217856/key-techdirt-sopapipa-post-censored-bogus-dmca-takedown-notice.shtml
#5yrsago The Body Orifice Security Scanner is why the rectally smuggled phone is called “Beat the BOSS” https://memex.craphound.com/2017/02/27/the-body-orifice-security-scanner-is-why-the-rectally-smuggled-phone-is-called-beat-the-boss/
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#5yrsago The Amazon reviews for a phone designed for rectal smuggling are pretty interesting reading https://memex.craphound.com/2017/02/27/the-amazon-reviews-for-a-phone-designed-for-rectal-smuggling-are-pretty-interesting-reading/
#5yrsago THEFT: A History of Music https://memex.craphound.com/2017/02/25/theft-a-history-of-music/
#5yrsago Three kinds of propaganda, and what to do about them https://memex.craphound.com/2017/02/25/three-kinds-of-propaganda-and-what-to-do-about-them/
#5yrsago The CPAC replacement speaker for Milo Yiannopoulos was a notorious Japanese cult-member http://www.mutantfrog.com/2017/02/26/politician-from-japanese-cult-happy-science-at-cpac/
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#1yrago Privacy is not property: Interests, not exclusive rights https://pluralistic.net/2021/02/26/meaningful-zombies/#luxury-goods
#1yrago K-Zombies: Zombies conquer Korea https://pluralistic.net/2021/02/26/meaningful-zombies/#oracles
#1yrago Against hygiene theater: Wired: Ventilation. Tired: Handwashing. Fired: Sterilization. https://pluralistic.net/2021/02/25/ring-down-the-curtain/#hygiene-theater
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Thursday's threads: Mass arbitration attack could bring Intuit to its knees; and more!
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/107853431540918388
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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."
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Upcoming appearances:
* Dangerous Visions and New Worlds: Radical Science Fiction, 1950 to 1985 (City Lights), Feb 27
https://citylights.com/events/dangerous-visions-and-new-worlds-radical-science-fiction-1950-to-1985/
* Seize the Means of Computation, @StowAvangarda Poland, Mar 4
https://konline.ava.waw.pl/konline
* Emerging Technologies For the Enterprise, Apr 19-20
https://2022.phillyemergingtech.com
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Recent appearances:
* The Policy Implications of Web3 (Stanford Cyber Policy Center)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fir5ujS-Dkg
* Big Tech & Surveillance Capitalism (Shaun Attwood):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqzeMlvENPs
* Bringing Back Luddites (Oh No Ross and Carrie)
https://ohnopodcast.com/investigations/2022/2/14/ross-meets-cory-doctorow-bringing-back-luddites-edition
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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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If you're a Medium subscriber, you can read these - as well as previews of upcoming magazine columns and early exclusives on doctorow.medium.com.
My latest Medium column is: "We Should Not Endure a King: Antitrust is a political cause, not an economic one"
https://doctorow.medium.com/we-should-not-endure-a-king-dfef34628153
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Today's top sources: Naked Capitalism (https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/).
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