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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

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16 hours 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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18 hours 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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1 day 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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1 day ago

This day in history

2003, 2013, 2018, 2022. — 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. #20yrsago Feds snooping…

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

Brian Merchant’s “Blood In the Machine”

Reclaiming the Luddites from the victors’ history. — Tomorrow (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. In Blood In…

Luddites

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Brian Merchant’s “Blood In the Machine”
Brian Merchant’s “Blood In the Machine”
Luddites

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2 days ago

This day in history

2003, 2008, 2013, 2018. — Tomorrow (September 22), I’ll be livestreaming into the DIG Festival in Modena, Italy. On 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. #20yrsago Electronic voting machines…

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

Podcasting “How To Think About Scraping”

How to preserve the benefits of web-scraping while targeting the real harms. — Wednesday (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. This week on…

Scraping

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Podcasting “How To Think About Scraping”
Podcasting “How To Think About Scraping”
Scraping

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3 days ago

This day in history

2003, 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022. — On 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. #20yrsago WKRP in…

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

Joe Biden is headed to a UAW picket-line in Detroit

“I want to do it, now make me do it.” — Wednesday (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. Joe Biden will…

Uaw

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Joe Biden is headed to a UAW picket-line in Detroit
Joe Biden is headed to a UAW picket-line in Detroit
Uaw

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4 days ago

This day in history

2003, 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022. — On 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. #20yrsago Epic micropayments…

This Day In History

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

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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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