"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."

#CoryDoctorow

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/06/opinion/burning-man-flood-playa-climate-change.html

#resilience #solidarity #ClimateChange

@pluralistic
🥥 Mad props for your prolific output, #CoryDoctorow, 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? 🥥

#TheInternetCon #CoryDoctorow 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: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/doctorow/the-internet-con-how-to-seize-the-means-of-computation

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

By #CoryDoctorow @pluralistic

#GenerativeAI #ArtificialIntelligence

https://doctorow.medium.com/everything-made-by-an-ai-is-in-the-public-domain-caa634a8f7f1

#Enshittification should be 2023's #WordOfTheYear and #CoryDoctorow should be TIME's #PersonOfTheYear

@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.

#CoryDoctorow explains the problems with Ticketmaster/Live Nation here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfPiqgLPro8

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

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

#FreeSoftware #SoftwareLibre #InternetOfShit #internetfreedom

https://archive.org/details/Cory_Doctorow_Podcast_447

@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":

https://archive.org/details/Cory_Doctorow_Podcast_445

#podcasts #CoryDoctorow #MiltonFriedman #ToxicIndividualism

#CoryDoctorow talked in 3 episodes of 'On The Media' podcast about #Enshittification and, unsurprisingly, it was enjoyable to hear Cory talk about it.
The links are to the full show, but Cory was only on in the last part of each show.
And you'll learn about other awesome words like #SurveillanceLag and #Twiddling 😁

Part 1: https://waaa.wnyc.org/otm/otm050523_cms1323478_pod.mp3/otm050523_cms1323478_pod.mp3_ywr3ahjkcgo_d1f604e55d3c73f74ff0d946247c8ec2_50569272.mp3

Part 2: https://waaa.wnyc.org/otm/otm051223_cms1325774_pod.mp3/otm051223_cms1325774_pod.mp3_ywr3ahjkcgo_fb25f5cdd4249541bd0367bb14cc006a_51599266.mp3

Part 3: https://waaa.wnyc.org/otm/otm051923_cms1327710_pod2.mp3/otm051923_cms1327710_pod2.mp3_ywr3ahjkcgo_b553074145b6377ee4a6fc1dcfd628b9_50268834.mp3

"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."

#CoryDoctorow, 'The Internet Con', 2023

https://craphound.com/news/2023/08/01/the-internet-con-how-to-seize-the-means-of-computation-audiobook-outtake/

"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."

#CoryDoctorow, 'The Internet Con', 2023
https://craphound.com/news/2023/08/01/the-internet-con-how-to-seize-the-means-of-computation-audiobook-outtake/

#DataFarms #TechPolicy

Cory Doctorow's new book looks good...

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/doctorow/the-internet-con-how-to-seize-the-means-of-computation

#internet #enshittification #corydoctorow

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.

https://chasingdings.com/2023/08/02/speedrunning-the-apocalypse/

#Blaugust #Blaugust2023 #CoryDoctorow #TomEastman #twitter

A new book by #CoryDoctorow @pluralistic about how to take the internet back from the big tech overlords? Yes, please! I just backed this project on Kickstarter.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/110809674478602662

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/doctorow/the-internet-con-how-to-seize-the-means-of-computation

Save the #internet. #enshittification
#corydoctorow

@Lamal
👆
@heinzskunk @pedalieri @fedibikes_de

#corydoctorow

Required reading from #CoryDoctorow :
https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/24/rent-to-pwn/#kitt-is-a-demon

From Car #Enshittification via #Capitalism / #Feudalism 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."

💯

"Social media needs to burn."

@pluralistic

https://craphound.com/news/2023/07/16/let-the-platforms-burn-the-opposite-of-good-fires-is-wildfires/

#podcasts #CoryDoctorow #SocialMedia #enshittification

@valkyrie
🥥 I'm old enough to remember when "Do no evil," was a slogan at #Google.
Now Google is arguably one of the competing #DeathStars in the internet firmament.
The great #CoryDoctorow coined the phrase #Enshittification -- 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 -- #DRM. 🥥
https://www.gnu.org/proprietary/malware-google.en.html

Very interesting writing on the FTC's chair Lina Kahn, and why we should support her:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/14/making-good-trouble/#the-peoples-champion
#FTC #AntiTrust #LinaKahn #CoryDoctorow