Cory Doctorow AFK until Sept 7’s Tweets

CIRA

@ciranews

Aug 29

📱 Appel à tous les membres de CIRA et aux internautes! Suivez-nous à distance ou joignez-vous à nous en personne le 15 septembre alors que

discute de la question du capitalisme de surveillance avec

@ambermac

. Vous pouvez vous inscrire ici : bit.ly/3pmw82S

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CIRA

@ciranews

Aug 29

📱 Calling all CIRA members and internet-users alike! Tune in remotely or join us IRL on September 15 as

discusses the issue of surveillance capitalism with

@ambermac

. This is an event you won’t want to miss! Register here: bit.ly/3QM56O2 #CIRA2022

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Creative Commons Colombia and 2 others

Fundación Karisma

@Karisma

Aug 29

Karisma's new report “Automatic copyright detection: a tool for inequality” shows the serious consequences of blocking, demonetization, or monetization for a third party of social media content due to erroneous notifications on possible infringement of copyright rules.

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Car Wars by

The Real Trolley Problem

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Prof Rebecca Giblin

@rgibli

Aug 27

Oh that’s a bit thrilling…

@publisherswkly

just named CHOKEPOINT CAPITALISM one of the Big Indie Books of Fall..!

@BeaconPressBks

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(Harry's daughter) has more. He's been off site for about a week. Was attacked by a nazi, told them to eff off, and was banned for hate speech.

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El 5 de septiembre,

publica Radicalizado, de Cory

. Siempre es una buena noticia que se traduzca algo de este autor, la verdad.

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Phil Howard

@pnhoward

Aug 27

Fabulous new book from

@rgibli

Chokepoint Capitalism about the strangling effects of DRM and our political economy of creativity. Big but actionable ideas for resetting. The best essay on time limited copyright contracts I've read. beacon.org/Chokepoint-Cap

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ACM SIGCAS Computers & Society Interest Group

@acmsigcas

Another hard-hitting op-ed by

@vardi

in which he explores how computing got so far off-base. We can't put off our responsibilities any longer. I'm also attaching a link to my article on Can Technology Support Democracy? Hoping that's OK! dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.114

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How did we get here? What went wrong? Historians will spend the next 50 years trying to answer such questions, but the crisis is upon us. We need some answers now! cacm.acm.org/magazines/2022

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Bee Ostrowsky

@beeostrowsky

Cancel culture, Canadian style. (From Science Fiction Weekly #4, 10 March 1940, fanac.org/fanzines/Sci_F) Courtesy-tagging

, who I imagine will be tickled by the explanation.

SUPERMAN BANNED IN CANADA. March 8: The comic strip Superman has been banned from Canada by order of the War Government. This comic strip, written by old-time stf fans Siegel & Schuster, features a super-powerful man from another planet. In a recent strip Superman stopped a war by capturing a character who resembled Hitler and another resembling Churchill. Because of the latter fact, Canadian newspapers have been ordered to discontinue the strip.

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Blair Fix

@blair_fix

For a dive into these patent waivers, see

's recent piece: 'Trump gave Moderna all the patent-waivers it needed to make a vaccine' pluralistic.net/2022/08/24/wai

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Steve Thomas

@stevelibrarian

Chokepoint Capitalism: an audiobook Amazon won't sell

I just backed Chokepoint Capitalism by

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on

and so should you!

"How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We'll Win Them Back" - by Rebecca Giblin and Cory Doctorow

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Yasmin Rafiei

@YasminRafiei

When Private Equity Takes Over a Nursing Home

Just over a year ago, I read a paper which showed that when private equity buys nursing homes, death rates go up 10%. I was a med student at Stanford, but I halted my studies to investigate. Today, that investigation was published in

@NewYorker

newyorker.com

After an investment firm bought St. Joseph’s Home for the Aged, in Richmond, Virginia, the company reduced staff, removed amenities, and set the stage for a deadly outbreak of COVID-19.

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Dan Hon

@hondanhon

It's distressing that one of the reasons why this doesn't exist is because of Amazon and the lack of regulation toward a common interoperable format for ebooks.

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@finding_montauk

· Aug 24

Everyday I wake up wanting the clamshell e-reader from IT FOLLOWS to be real so I can buy one

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Dr Eleanor Janega

@GoingMedieval

Aug 17

Dead excited for this one. Absolutely check it out.

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My next book is *Chokepoint Capitalism*, co-written with @rgibli: it's an action-oriented look at how tech and entertainment monopolies steal creators' incomes, with detailed, shovel-ready plans to unrig creative labor markets and pay artists: beacon.org/Chokepoint-Cap 1/

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Piratenpartij

@Piratenpartij

Google bestempelt ouders als kindermisbruikers, nadat ze de dokter op verzoek foto's van hun kindje sturen Politie doet digitale huiszoeking techdirt.com/2022/08/22/hor Zie uitkomst algoritme niet als evidentie op zichzelf en behoud encryptie! #privacy #csam #chatcontrol #encryptie

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Mark's toddler had a painful, swollen penis; the nurse asked him to email a picture for a telemedicine consultation. Gmail automatically detected the picture of a child's penis and contacte the SFPD, accusing Mark of molesting his son. nytimes.com/2022/08/21/tec 1/

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Bob Garfield

@Bobosphere

There is nothing, NOTHING, that Cory has to say that I don't want to listen carefully to.

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My next book is *Chokepoint Capitalism*, co-written with @rgibli: it's an action-oriented look at how tech and entertainment monopolies steal creators' incomes, with detailed, shovel-ready plans to unrig creative labor markets and pay artists: beacon.org/Chokepoint-Cap 1/

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It went on to win the award for Best Dark Ride in the 2019 Golden Ticket Awards. And it all started with awesome concept art like this, to keep the team working toward the same vision.

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The ride took 8 years to complete, and the finishing touch was a drop of water from each of the other POTC rides. A drop is added to every new one that's created. There's a lot of science and technology at work, but a dash of Disney magic doesn't hurt either.

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As a lot of this thread is about how Imagineers direct the guest's attention, it's worth mentioning that Disney has actually filed a patent for an eye tracking system that looks at the white of the eye to figure out where riders are looking.

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Several possible layouts that will fit within the space are considered as the Imagineers try to work out which effects will be feasible several years down the road when the ride is approaching completion.

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Many of these concepts didn't end up in the final design, but it's fascinating to see which ideas were considered along the way.

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One of tricks that’s relevant to games is what I call an ‘anti-focal point’. For example, to ensure guests don’t miss the mermaids on the left, they’re preceded by an uncharacteristically featureless expanse of wall on the right, which encourages you to look the other way.

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So, I think there’s a lot of inspiration to found in the way Imagineers direct attention. The way they use lighting, music, movement speed, and set design to evolve a mood and create an emotional arc, and the tools they use to connect different sections of a ride.

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Found this one I took in archives.

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Vintage privacy arguments! I was digitizing old random VHS tapes and thought you might like this. Anything advertised like that in a full page WaPo ad would have a tone to both callers indicate being recorded.🤷 Listening in on the room ("IN YOUR 👉HOUSE!").

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(have-YER Candeira) at

Hi

any comment on the bumbling idiot monopolist's anti-trust lawsuit defense?

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Obsessed with this headline.

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[4K] Amazing Shanghai Disneyland Pirates of the Caribbean Ride 2016 -...

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I'm fascinated by Imagineering & theme park design. One of the most fascinating Disney rides, to me, is the Shanghai version of Pirate of the Caribbean, which focuses attention in some really interesting ways. (thread 👇)

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[4K] Full Pirates of the Caribbean: Battle for the Sunken Treasure Ride-through at the new Shanghai Disneyland. If you guys have the chance to visit Shanghai...

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Epson boobytrapped its printers

Thanks again

for researching and explaining how our tech companies mean to profit off the active destruction of our world.

doctorow.medium.com

“For your protection.”

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Money on the Left

@moneyontheleft

Check out this project by favorite

@moneyontheleft

guest Cory Doctorow (

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My next book is *Chokepoint Capitalism*, co-written with @rgibli: it's an action-oriented look at how tech and entertainment monopolies steal creators' incomes, with detailed, shovel-ready plans to unrig creative labor markets and pay artists: beacon.org/Chokepoint-Cap 1/

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Mekki MacAulay, PEng, PhD (he/they)

Excited to see

as the keynote for

' Canadians Connected Symposium and AGM. As many of you know, I'm running for the Board of Directors of #CIRA. My platform aligns with much of Doctorow's perspective. Attend virtually for free: member.cira.ca/Events/Canadia

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Kickstarter

@Kickstarter

Chokepoint Capitalism: an audiobook Amazon won't sell

Activist, journalist, and science fiction writer Cory

@Doctorow

is back on Kickstarter with an audiobook about big tech’s influence on creative labor markets.

kickstarter.com

"How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We'll Win Them Back" - by Rebecca Giblin and Cory Doctorow

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Kike Pinel

@pinelkike

Gracias por descubrirnos a

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@Shine_McShine

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John Green

@johngreen

This is a very kind article. Workers everywhere should unionize. I am very grateful to the person who wrote this, and it brought me a lot of joy. Collective bargaining leads to better outcomes for workers and for society. Thanks to everyone who listens to my books.

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Audible

@audible_com

· Aug 24

It's @JohnGreen day! Celebrate by revisiting one of his listens that shaped your teen years or exploring the rest of his works in our essential listening guide. adbl.co/JGreen

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Jason Dean

@_Jason_Dean_

Aug 23

If the government wanted 34 year olds to pay their student loans back, they shouldn’t have let the labor market be fucked from 2008-2015

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Austin Grossman

@grossmanbooks

Aug 17

it's already happening, you may as well read about it

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My next book is *Chokepoint Capitalism*, co-written with @rgibli: it's an action-oriented look at how tech and entertainment monopolies steal creators' incomes, with detailed, shovel-ready plans to unrig creative labor markets and pay artists: beacon.org/Chokepoint-Cap 1/

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Data Ethics Advocacy

@EthicsAdvocacy

"tech companies set out to make us dependent on them for every aspect of our online lives, and they succeeded" | via

on

@EFF

#dataethics #ethicsadvocacy #Google #Facebook #Apple #Amazon #techgiant bit.ly/3pLWFHf

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Cameron Cundiff

@ckundo

made myself a software mouse jiggler using voice control 👀 video: enabling voice control on macos and playing an audio track on repeat to drive the cursor.

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