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Inside: The sex industry isn't technophilic; Schroedinger's streaming service just died; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2022/06/21/early-adopters/
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Sponsor me for the Clario Write-A-Thon! I'm writing 10,000 words on my prison-tech thriller "Some Men Rob You With a Fountain Pen" and raising scholarship money for the Clarion SF/F workshop, which I graduated from in 1992.
https://clarionwriteathon.com/members/profile.php?writerid=293388
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The sex industry isn't technophilic: Why sex workers are the first in - and first out - of new technologies.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/108516351986928327
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Schroedinger's streaming service just died: When is a "sale" a "license?"
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/108516694835666742
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Hey look at this
* Bob Garfield's final broadcast https://bullypulpit.substack.com/p/off-the-air#details
* Platformer Toolkit, an interactive essay https://gmtk.itch.io/platformer-toolkit (h/t Waxy)
* The Hatbox Ghost that Never Was https://longforgottenhauntedmansion.blogspot.com/2022/06/the-hatbox-ghost-that-never-was.html
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#20yrsago Perl is Internet Yiddish https://web.archive.org/web/20020621160533/http://cheerleader.yoz.com/archives/000019.html
#20yrsago The invention of Warchalking https://web.archive.org/web/20021020042305/http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,740098,00.html
#20yrsago Punk sounds for babies https://www.punkrockbaby.com/
#15yrsago Email gets fourth amendment protection again https://web.archive.org/web/20070813012710/http://www.eff.org/legal/cases/warshak_v_usa/
#15yrsago Gold farming makes the NYT https://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/17/magazine/17lootfarmers-t.html
#15yrsago Fix the FCC or die https://web.archive.org/web/20070703204716/scrawford.blogware.com/blog/_archives/2007/6/19/3034169.html
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#15yrsago North American Broadcasters Association knifes NPR and PBS at the United Nations anti-podcasting treaty negotiation https://web.archive.org/web/20070626032219/https://publicknowledge.org/node/1033
#10yrsago DMZ is finished: Brian Wood nailed the ending https://memex.craphound.com/2012/06/21/dmz-is-finished-brian-wood-nailed-the-ending/
#10yrsago G4S boss predicts mass privatisation of UK police forces https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2012/jun/20/g4s-chief-mass-police-privatisation
#10yrsago Bacigalupi: cyberpunk saved sf https://web.archive.org/web/20141225120141/https://www.wired.com/2012/06/pl_cyberpunk/
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#10yrsago Drugs Without the Hot Air: the most sensible book about drugs you’ll read this year https://memex.craphound.com/2012/06/20/drugs-without-the-hot-air-the-most-sensible-book-about-drugs-youll-read-this-year/
#10yrsago Fanfic inspired by the apocalyptic state of a ten-year-old Civilization II game https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/uxpil/ive_been_playing_the_same_game_of_civilization_ii/
#10yrsago How stupid is Charles Carreon’s lawsuit against The Oatmeal, IndieGoGo, the American Cancer Society and the National Wildlife Federation? Really, really stupid https://www.popehat.com/2012/06/19/the-oatmeal-v-funnyjunk-part-v-a-brief-review-of-charles-carreons-complaint/
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#10yrsago Oatmeal to Charles Carreon: calm down before you get yourself into trouble https://theoatmeal.com/blog/carreon
#10yrsago Aaron Swartz reviews Twilight of the Elites, an indictment of meritocracy https://crookedtimber.org/2012/06/18/guest-review-by-aaron-swartz-chris-hayes-the-twilight-of-the-elites/
#10yrsago Young man with autism sees off the Snow White ride at Walt Disney World http://www.shmoolok.com/Blog/Post/339/SWSA-Final-Night-Prelude
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#10yrsago FunnyJunk’s lawyer sues American Cancer Society and National Wildlife Federationhttps://www.popehat.com/2012/06/17/the-oatmeal-v-funnyjunk-part-iv-charles-carreon-sues-everybody/
#10yrsago Falsehoods programmers believe about time https://infiniteundo.com/post/25326999628/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-time
#5yrsago A right-wing Dem Senator who voted to sell weapons to Saudi is being primaried by an environmental activist https://theintercept.com/2017/06/19/joe-manchin-saudi-arabia-arms-primary-swearengin/
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#5yrsago New media noncompetes are destroying the careers of young journalists https://www.cjr.org/business_of_news/non-compete-agreement-journalism.php
#5yrsago Every year, Starbucks sends 4 billion nonrecyclable paper cups to landfills https://www.treehugger.com/starbucks-cups-are-not-recyclable-which-means-billion-cups-end-landfill-each-year-4857277
#5yrsago Truck-driving is a modern form of indentured slavery https://www.usatoday.com/pages/interactives/news/rigged-forced-into-debt-worked-past-exhaustion-left-with-nothing/
#5yrsago Canon Jesus was way better than fandom Jesus https://web.archive.org/web/20170423073403/https://lauralot89.tumblr.com/post/156096543036/jesus-christ-was-a-brown-jew-in-the-middle-east
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#5yrsago Israeli company’s spyware used to target corruption-fighting journalists and lawyers in Mexico https://citizenlab.ca/2017/06/reckless-exploit-mexico-nso/
#5yrsago SXSW condemns Texas’s state-level law banning “sanctuary cities” like Austin https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/sxsw-backs-austin-lawsuit-against-texas-anti-immigration-bill-199709/
#5yrsago My Favorite Thing is Monsters: a haunting diary of a young girl as a dazzling graphic novel https://memex.craphound.com/2017/06/20/my-favorite-thing-is-monsters-a-haunting-diary-of-a-young-girl-as-a-dazzling-graphic-novel/
#5yrsago The Big Bad Fox: hilarious tale of predators, parenting, and poultry https://memex.craphound.com/2017/06/20/the-big-bad-fox-hilarious-tale-of-predators-parenting-and-poultry/
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#1yrago How to cheat on your taxes: The rich are different from you and me https://pluralistic.net/2021/06/20/la-hougue/#complexity
#1yrago The doctrine of dynastic wealth: Abigail Disney on tax evasion and the American caste system https://pluralistic.net/2021/06/19/dynastic-wealth/#caste
#1yrago The gig economy's dark-money, astroturf "community groups" https://pluralistic.net/2021/06/19/dynastic-wealth/#astroturf
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Friday's threads: Facebook's right, Apple is too powerful; and more!
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/108493259219832164
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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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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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