Strypey · @strypey
2504 followers · 26072 posts · Server mastodon.nzoss.nz

"The world is getting more and more unpredictable... When the heavy weather hits, you’ve got to hunker down, share your snacks and pass around your flask, take care of one another, and find a way to enjoy the thing you must do, because the thing you wanted to do was just canceled. Again.

We’re all going to have to learn some MacGyver skills. We’re all going to have to cultivate patience and solidarity."

nytimes.com/2023/09/06/opinion

#corydoctorow #resilience #solidarity #climatechange

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Tucker Carlson's Nuts · @jstatepost
1195 followers · 1378 posts · Server mstdn.social

@pluralistic
🥥 Mad props for your prolific output, , which, let's face it, is unfailingly excellent.
Unfortunately, people like you make me just want to go back to bed in defeat.
Who are you anyway, the reincarnation of Leonardo Fucking DaVinci? 🥥

#corydoctorow

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Blaise Faint · @blaisefaint
10 followers · 314 posts · Server mstdn.social

My copy of _The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation_ by Cory Doctorow arrived in the mail today. I also received links for the ebook and audio book: kickstarter.com/projects/docto

#corydoctorow #theinternetcon

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Noemí Planas · @noemiplanas
30 followers · 58 posts · Server mastodonmusic.social

US Copyright Office rules that AI-generated art cannot be copyrighted - human authorship and creativity is an essential part of a valid claim.

By @pluralistic

doctorow.medium.com/everything

#Copyright #corydoctorow #generativeAI #artificialintelligence

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MOULE :MOULE_Logo: · @MOULE
728 followers · 3452 posts · Server mastodon.moule.world
LeftyLabourTechToronto · @leftylabourtech
303 followers · 1655 posts · Server mstdn.social

@LALegault The much bigger problem is that Ticketmaster/Live Nation are the biggest scalpers on earth....oh, and BTW, Dougie plans to build Live Nation a new concert venue at Ontario Place. This part of the deal has flown under the radar.

explains the problems with Ticketmaster/Live Nation here:

youtube.com/watch?v=YfPiqgLPro

#corydoctorow

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LeftyLabourTechToronto · @leftylabourtech
303 followers · 1629 posts · Server mstdn.social

reads the first chapter of his new book "The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation" here...as a podcast... free!

Looking forward to the book's official release in early September!

archive.org/details/Cory_Docto

#InternetFreedom #InternetOfShit #SoftwareLibre #FreeSoftware #DRM #corydoctorow

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Strypey · @strypey
2465 followers · 25090 posts · Server mastodon.nzoss.nz

@RL_Dane
> I think the thing that keeps collective action at bay is the culture of toxic individualism

Ae, and this is not an accident. Capitalists and their lackeys have been scattering toxic individualism seeds around since the counterculture era. Doctorow writes about this too, in the context of Milton Friedman's comments about making sure their ideas were the "ideas lying around":

archive.org/details/Cory_Docto

#podcasts #corydoctorow #miltonfriedman #toxicindividualism

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Free Pietje · @FreePietje
352 followers · 3941 posts · Server x0f.org
Strypey · @strypey
2468 followers · 25001 posts · Server mastodon.nzoss.nz

"These companies rule our digital world. The place where we find one another, form communities, and mobilize in solidarity to take collective action. Winning tech back isn't more important than preventing runaway climate change, or ending gender-based violence and discrimination. But it's hard to imagine how we'll do either, or anything else of significance, without digital infrastructure to hold us together."

, 'The Internet Con', 2023

craphound.com/news/2023/08/01/

#corydoctorow

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Strypey · @strypey
2468 followers · 24998 posts · Server mastodon.nzoss.nz

"FaceBook decides which news your see and which news you don't. If FB or InstaGram or WhatsApp kicks you off their platform, it can cost you your artistic career... Or contact with your distant family... Microsoft, AirBnB, Uber, LinkedIn, the largest tech firms structure our lives in myriad ways, without regard to our wellbeing, without fear of competition, and largely without regulation. For now."

, 'The Internet Con', 2023
craphound.com/news/2023/08/01/

#corydoctorow #datafarms #techpolicy

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Beej · @beejjorgensen
140 followers · 279 posts · Server mastodon.sdf.org
Tipa · @Tipa
243 followers · 519 posts · Server gamepad.club

Speedrunning the Apocalypse

Remember way back when when social media was a way to bring together and the internet was fun and exciting? Yeah. Me, too. Let's find a way to get back there.

chasingdings.com/2023/08/02/sp

#blaugust #blaugust2023 #corydoctorow #tomeastman #twitter

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James Bartlett :terminal: · @JamesDBartlett3
420 followers · 1420 posts · Server techhub.social

A new book by @pluralistic about how to take the internet back from the big tech overlords? Yes, please! I just backed this project on Kickstarter.
mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11080967

#corydoctorow

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Thorsten Wand · @MrWall
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· @dbx
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Free Pietje · @FreePietje
349 followers · 3912 posts · Server x0f.org

Required reading from :
pluralistic.net/2023/07/24/ren

From Car via / to G👀gle's WEI.

"It's a technology purpose-built to allow rent extraction by stripping us of our right to technological self-determination."

"Releasing a technology like this into a world where companies are willing to make their products less reliable, less attractive, less safe and less resilient in pursuit of rents is incredibly reckless and shortsighted."

💯

#corydoctorow #enshittification #capitalism #feudalism

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Strypey · @strypey
2415 followers · 24292 posts · Server mastodon.nzoss.nz
🥥 Tucker Carlson's Nuts 🥥 · @JStatePost
890 followers · 21222 posts · Server newsie.social

@valkyrie
🥥 I'm old enough to remember when "Do no evil," was a slogan at .
Now Google is arguably one of the competing in the internet firmament.
The great coined the phrase -- I really wish he had used 2 Ts instead of 3 -- and, if you're not sure just what that means, Google is currently a prime example of it with its Digital Rights Management -- . 🥥
gnu.org/proprietary/malware-go

#google #deathstars #corydoctorow #enshittification #DRM

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bazkie bumpercar · @bazkie
350 followers · 2263 posts · Server mstdn.social

Very interesting writing on the FTC's chair Lina Kahn, and why we should support her:
pluralistic.net/2023/07/14/mak

#corydoctorow #linakahn #AntiTrust #ftc

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