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The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation
The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation

When the tech platforms promised a future of "connection," they were lying. They said their "walled gardens" would keep us safe, but those were prison walls.

2023

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Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow

Stories

2 hours ago

This day in history

2003, 2013, 2018. — Tonight (October 2), I’ll be in Boise to host an event with VE Schwab. October 7–8, I’m in Milan to keynote Wired Nextfest. #20yrsago EFF’s Trusted Computing white-paper https://web.archive.org/web/20031004073707/https://www.eff.org/Infra/trusted_computing/20031001_tc.php #10yrsago Toronto cops bust Mayor Rob Ford’s fixer/muscle/driver/dealer https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/city-hall/mayor-rob-ford-s-friend-sandro-lisi-who-sought-video-one-of-two-arrested-in/article_845c0feb-b9a0-5d1f-a411-aa18a6ddf58e.html…

This Day In History

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This day in history
This day in history
This Day In History

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19 hours ago

How the Writers Guild sunk AI’s ship

No one’s gonna buy enterprise AI licenses if they can’t fire their workers. — Tomorrow (October 2), I’ll be in Boise to host an event with VE Schwab. October 7–8, I’m in Milan to keynote Wired Nextfest. After a grinding, 148-day strike, the Writers Guild of America ran the table, conceding virtually nothing and winning virtually everything. The most consequential outcome will be data…

AI

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How the Writers Guild sunk AI’s ship
How the Writers Guild sunk AI’s ship
AI

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23 hours ago

This day in history

2013, 2018, 2022. — Monday (October 2), I’ll be in Boise to host an event with VE Schwab. October 7–8, I’m in Milan to keynote Wired Nextfest. #10yrsago Asteroid named after Randall “XKCD” Munroe https://blog.xkcd.com/2013/09/30/asteroid-4942-munroe/ #10yrsago HOWTO make $200,000 off of the above-inflation USPS postage hike https://qz.com/128329/a-step-by-step-guide-to-profiting-off-the-3-cent-hike-on-us-postage-stamps

This Day In History

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This day in history
This day in history
This Day In History

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1 day ago

The internet is not a (link)dump truck

It’s a series of totally tubular links. — Monday (October 2), I’ll be in Boise to host an event with VE Schwab. October 7–8, I’m in Milan to keynote Wired Nextfest. The second decade of the 21st century is truly a bounteous time. My backyard has produced a bumper crop of an invasive species of mosquito that is…

Linkdumps

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The internet is not a (link)dump truck
The internet is not a (link)dump truck
Linkdumps

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This day in history

2003, 2008, 2013, 2018. — Monday (October 2), I’ll be in Boise to host an event with VE Schwab. October 7–8, I’m in Milan to keynote Wired Nextfest. #20yrsago Bruce Sterling’s 10 technologies that deserve to die https://web.archive.org/web/20031002013533/https://www.technologyreview.com/articles/print_version/Sterling1003.asp #15yrsago Adventurer’s Club at Disney World closes https://attractionsmagazine.com/huge-crowd-gives-heartfelt-send-off-to-adventurers-club/

This Day In History

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This day in history
This day in history
This Day In History

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2 days ago

The surveillance advertising to financial fraud pipeline

Finding suckers is the one thing ad-targeting is good at. — Monday (October 2), I’ll be in Boise to host an event with VE Schwab. October 7–8, I’m in Milan to keynote Wired Nextfest. Being watched sucks. Of all the parenting mistakes I’ve made, none haunt me more than the times my daughter caught me watching her while she was learning…

Surveillance

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The surveillance advertising to financial fraud pipeline
The surveillance advertising to financial fraud pipeline
Surveillance

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3 days ago

This day in history

2003, 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022. — #20yrsago Accenture puts Verisign in charge of US Internet voting https://web.archive.org/web/20031008122745/http://rss.com.com/2100-1029_3-5083772.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=news #15yrsago Olympics reach a new low: trademarking the Canadian national anthem and threatening lawsuits over competing uses https://web.archive.org/web/20080928162742/http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2008/09/25/bc-vancouver-olympics-trademark-o-canada.html

This Day In History

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This day in history
This day in history
This Day In History

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3 days ago

Yanis Varoufakis’s “Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism?”

Socialism or barbarism. — Monday (October 2), I’ll be in Boise to host an event with VE Schwab. October 7–8, I’m in Milan to keynote Wired Nextfest. Socialists have been hotly anticipating the end of capitalism since at least 1848, when Marx and Engels published The Communist Manifesto — but the Manifesto also reminds…

Books

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Yanis Varoufakis’s “Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism?”
Yanis Varoufakis’s “Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism?”
Books

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3 days ago

This day in history

2013, 2018, 2022. — Monday (October 2), I’ll be in Boise to host an event with VE Schwab. On October 7–8, I’m in Milan to keynote Wired Nextfest. #10yrsago FBI: We know you’re innocent, but you’re not getting off the No-Fly list unless you rat out your friends https://www.aclu.org/news/national-security/no-fly-list-where-fbi-goes-fishing-informants #10yrsago EFF racks up another…

This Day In History

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This day in history
This day in history
This Day In History

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4 days ago

Intuit: “Our fraud fights racism”

Apparently, ripping off Black people with the Freefile scam is a form of reparations. — Tonight (September 27), I’ll be at Chevalier’s Books in Los Angeles with Brian Merchant for a joint launch for my new book The Internet Con and his new book, Blood in the Machine. On October 2, I’ll be in Boise to host an event with VE Schwab. Today’s key concept…

Intuit

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Intuit: “Our fraud fights racism”
Intuit: “Our fraud fights racism”
Intuit

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Cory Doctorow

Cory Doctorow

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Writer, blogger, activist. Blog: https://pluralistic.net; Mailing list: https://pluralistic.net/plura-list; Mastodon: @pluralistic@mamot.fr

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