Stellungnahme Vernehmlassung Bundesgesetz über die politischen Rechte
Avviso contenuto: Die Piraten haben ihre Stellungnahme zur Änderung des Bundesgesetzes über die politischen Rechte (BPR) und der Verordnung über die politischen Rechte (VPR) eingereicht [1]. Wir begrüssen grundsätzlich einige Änderungen der Vorlagen wie die direkte Beschwe
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American journalist now held in Russia six months
Alsu Kurmasheva, an American reporter for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, has been held in Russia for six months for her journalism. Why hasn’t the U.S. Department of State designated her as wrongfully detained?
Deník N/Ludvík Hradilek, courtesy of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
Six months ago today, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty journalist and American citizen Alsu Kurmasheva was detained in Russia. Like Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, Kurmasheva is being held by Vladimir Putin’s government on baseless charges, because she is a journalist. Kurmasheva has been jailed in poor conditions that threaten her health, and Russian authorities have repeatedly extended her pretrial detention.
Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) and many other civil society organizations and news media outlets have previously called on the Department of State to designate Kurmasheva as wrongfully detained, which would open up additional U.S. government resources dedicated to freeing her. The case for granting the designation has only grown since FPF made that call shortly after Kurmasheva’s detention became public.
If there was any question about whether Kurmasheva’s detention was based on her journalism when she was first detained, that doubt has now vanished. Kurmasheva was initially detained for failing to register her U.S. passport — she is a dual U.S.-Russian citizen — and for failing to “self-register” under Russia’s “foreign agent” law, which Russia has used against many independent journalists.
Since then, however, Russia has added a new charge accusing her of spreading falsehoods about the Russian military. Russian investigators reportedly cited Kurmasheva’s work on a book published by RFE/RL that is critical of Russia’s war in Ukraine, called “Saying No To War: 40 Stories of Russians Who Oppose the Russian Invasion of Ukraine.”
In addition, in February, Russia labeled RFE/RL an “undesirable organization,” banning it from operating in the country and making it a crime to participate in its work or distribute its content. In a statement at the time, RFE/RL President Stephen Capus condemned the move as “just the latest example of how the Russian government views this type of truthful reporting as an existential threat.”
Now that Russia has made explicitly clear that it’s targeting Kurmasheva because of her reporting, there should be no hesitation to designate her as wrongfully detained.
Kurmasheva’s family has called on the State Department to make the designation, and numerous lawmakers have condemned her detention or written to the department to urge it to designate her as wrongfully detained. President Biden has also said that the U.S. “is not giving up” until Kurmasheva, Gershkovich, and Paul Whelan (another American detained in Russia) return home.
Let’s not forget that Kurmasheva also works for a media outlet funded by Congress. You’d think lawmakers would be eager to combat any claims that RFE/RL is a foreign agent, especially since they codified the news outlet’s editorial independence in law. If the U.S. believes in the importance of RFE/RL’s reporting and press freedom more generally, that makes it all the more important for it to stand up for one of its reporters being unjustly held by an authoritarian state.
Six months is too long for Kurmasheva to languish in Russian prison because she dared to truthfully report the news. One day would have been too long. The State Department should designate Kurmasheva as wrongfully detained. Even more importantly, Russia must immediately release her.
http://freedom.press/news/american-journalist-now-held-in-russia-six-months/
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We need to calm down about AI and elections
Avviso contenuto: POLITICO’s weekly transatlantic tech newsletter for global technology elites and political influencers. By MARK SCOTT Send tips here | Subscribe for free | View in your browser THIS IS DIGITAL BRIDGE. I’m Mark Scott, POLITICO’s chief technology correspond
Abonnieren oder akzeptieren: EU-Datenschützer*innen watschen Abo-Modelle ab
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Deutscher Computerspielpreis: Es hat sich ausgespielt für die deutsche Gaming-Industrie
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Link auf Linksunten: Freiburger Journalist muss sich vor Gericht verantworten
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AI Working Group Review
Avviso contenuto: The AI Working Group convened for its 3rd meeting immediately after the social media working group. We had a lot of new faces who brought different ideas about the types of AI activities that we should engage. We began with updates on building the Ollama
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Social Media Working Group Review
Avviso contenuto: On April 17th PPI held a double working group event of the SCENE (social media) and AI groups. We present a brief overview of the social media working group here. We also announce that since the participants were so excited about the progress that we sche
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Inside: Podcasting "Capitalists Hate Capitalism"; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/18/in-extremis-veritas/
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This week on my podcast, I read "Capitalists Hate Capitalism," my latest column for @Locusmag:
https://locusmag.com/2024/03/cory-doctorow-capitalists-hate-capitalism/
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Cory Doctorow: Capitalists Hate Capitalism
In conflict, we find clarity. We all hold contradictory views: We love our families, but they drive us crazy. We want more housing in our cities, but we don’t want our property values to decrease w…Locus Online
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They can change venues, move to a different state or country, reincorporate or otherwise go play at a different table in the global casino. What they constantly complain about is that they can't just change the rules to suit themselves.
Ultimately, the only thing they want from capitalism is the freedom to unethically screw other people consequence-free.
Us four Pirate Party MEPs are working hard in the European Parliament even towards the end of the current mandate.
We work on the European Health Data Space #EHDS, #StopKillingGames, against #biometricMassSurveillance and #crypto bans.
And we fight to stop indiscriminate #ChatControl.
Learn more in our newsletter: http://press.european-pirateparty.eu/m/8305707
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Does anyone have a link or detail on this thing I half-remember?
Sometime between, say, 2015 and 2019, an airline (maybe AA) settled a strike or contract negotiation with its workers and gave them the raises they'd sought.
On an earnings call, an analyst for a major fund said something like, "Since when do workers get a bigger share of the profits that should go to shareholders?"!
FOUND IT!
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Extremism Redefined: Caught in a Mouth Trap
Avviso contenuto: Last month, the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, Michael Gove MP, announced a new and expanded definition of extremism as part of the Government’s Counter Terrorism Strategy. The announcement came after months of speculative m
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„Artificial Intelligence“: Automated Warfare and the Geneva Convention
https://netzpolitik.org/2024/artificial-intelligence-automated-warfare-and-the-geneva-convention/
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„Künstliche Intelligenz“: Automatisierte Kriegsführung und die Genfer Konvention
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Polnische Untersuchung: Knapp 600 Menschen mit Pegasus gehackt
https://netzpolitik.org/2024/polnische-untersuchung-knapp-600-menschen-mit-pegasus-gehackt/
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🇬🇧 New #leak on #ChatControl: Privacy-friendly and #E2EE encrypted messaging services are to be penalised with chat control bulk scanning orders. They want to turn the safest services into the most monitored ones!
Leak: Privacy-friendly and encrypted messaging services are to be penalised with chat control bulk scanning orders
A document leaked yesterday by the news portal netzpolitik.org reveals for the first time which messenger and chat services are to be labelled as "high risk" according to the EU Council Presidency's proposal of a Child Sexual Abuse Regulation.Patrick Breyer
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Recently I thought about all this censorship vs moderation puzzle and found that for my experience anything that declares to be censorship-resistant, either being flooded by far-right and other Kremlin crap, or nobody uses it due such reputation.
Offline & off-grid life looks better & better.
"The reality is you can't build a $100b industry around techn that's kind of useful, mostly in mundane ways, and that boasts perhaps small increases in productivity if and only if the people who use it fully understand its limitations.You certainly can't justify the kind of exploitation, extraction, and environmental cost the industry has been mostly getting away with, in part because people have believed lofty promises of someday changing the world."
- @molly0xfff
https://www.citationneeded.news/ai-isnt-useless-2/
#AI
AI isn't useless. But is it worth it?
AI can be kind of useful, but I'm not sure that a "kind of useful" tool justifies the harm.Molly White (Citation Needed)
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🇩🇪 Neuer #Leak zur #Chatkontrolle: Jetzt sollen ausgerechnet datenschutzfreundliche und verschlüsselte Messenger- und Chatdienste mit einer Verpflichtung zur #Chatkontrolle bestraft werden. Aus den sichersten sollen also die überwachtesten Dienste werden!
Alle Infos von #Piraten-Spitzenkandidatin Anja Hirschel und mir: https://www.patrick-breyer.de/leak-datenschutzfreundliche-und-verschluesselte-messengerdienste-sollen-mit-chatkontrolle-bestraft-werden/
Leak: Datenschutzfreundliche und verschlüsselte Messengerdienste sollen mit Chatkontrolle bestraft werden
Ein gestern vom Nachrichtenportal netzpolitik.org geleaktes Dokument enthüllt erstmals, wann Messenger- und Chatdiensten nach dem Vorschlag des EU-Ratsvorsitzes ein „hohes Risiko“ bescheinigt werden soll, was den Weg für ihre Verpflichtung zur Chatko…Patrick Breyer
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> I find my feelings about #AI are actually pretty similar to my feelings about #blockchains: they do a poor job of much of what people try to do with them, they can't do the things their creators claim they one day might, and many of the things they are well suited to do may not be altogether that beneficial. And while I do think that AI tools are more broadly useful than blockchains, they also come with similarly monstrous costs.
- @molly0xfff
https://www.citationneeded.news/ai-isnt-useless-2/
AI isn't useless. But is it worth it?
AI can be kind of useful, but I'm not sure that a "kind of useful" tool justifies the harm.Molly White (Citation Needed)
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There must be folk, somewhere, doing the opposite of current trends -- compact, succinct functional code that maximizes function using least resources.
Specific encoding of necessary subfunctions, not importing large libraries and modules. Avoiding bloat and excess.
I think we're at the point where the time and cost savings of large packages have been lost and now are doing the opposite.
There's reason to do so when large packages mean compatibility but I wonder how much of that is overly complex interfaces programmers (can't) understand.
Good code takes time to write.
Obviously I'm hardly first to point this out. It's like saying cars should be smaller.
(We also know we should have other transportation paradigms...)
Spielehersteller #Ubisoft löst Shitstorm aus, indem sie das bis vor kurzem verkaufte Game 'The Crew' nicht nur serverseitig unbrauchbar machen, sondern es auch noch aus den Bibliotheken der Käufer löschen.
Auch der Bayerische Rundfunk BR24 berichtet jetzt darüber, was die Gamer-Initiative #StopKillingGames und wir #Piraten dagegen tun:
Rechtmäßig? Abschalten von Rennspiel "The Crew" wirft Fragen auf
Der Publisher Ubisoft hat die Server für das Online-Game "The Crew" für alle Spieler abgeschaltet. Das passiert zwar immer wieder, doch eine Gamer-Initiative und die Piratenpartei stellen grundsätzlich infrage, ob das Vorgehen gegen Recht verstößt.Wolfgang Zehentmeier (BR24)
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Aussichtsreiche kleine Parteien wie #Tierschutzpartei, #Volt, #Piraten protestieren gegen diskriminierende Nichtausweisung in Meinungsumfragen zur #Europawahl2024: https://wiki.piratenpartei.de/wiki/images/8/8e/Brief_Wahlumfragen-diskriminierungsfrei-gestalten-2024.pdf
Reaktion von INSA, die uns bisher noch auswiesen: Künftig keine Ergebnisse mehr unter 2%. 🤦♂️
Können wir es bitte mal dem mündigen Bürger überlassen, die Aussagekraft von Umfragen zu beurteilen, ohne ihn zu bevormunden, Herr Binkert?
PS: Hier die INSA-Umfragen, die kleine Parteien noch ausgewiesen haben: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europawahl_in_Deutschland_2024#Im_Bund
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Von dem Afder- und CDU-Büttel Binkert ist nichts anderes zu erwarten.
Ceterum censeo afdem esse damnandum.
Expérimentation de la VSA : les premières autorisations sont tombées
Les premiers arrêtés préfectoraux autorisant la vidéosurveillance algorithmique (VSA) dans le cadre de la loi JO viennent d'être publiés.La Quadrature du Net
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Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: The true post-cyberpunk hero is a noir forensic accountant; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/17/panama-papers-fanfic/
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I'm touring my new, nationally bestselling novel *The Bezzle*! Catch me TONIGHT (Apr 17) in CHICAGO, then Torino (Apr 21), Marin County (Apr 27), Winnipeg (May 2), Calgary (May 3), Vancouver (May 4), and beyond!
https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/16/narrative-capitalism/#bezzle-tour
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I was reared on cyberpunk fiction, I ended up spending 25 years at my @eff day-job working at the weird edge of tech and human rights, even as I wrote sf that tried to fuse my love of cyberpunk with my urgent, lifelong struggle over who computers do things *for* and who they do them *to*.
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Chatkontrolle: Verschlüsselte Dienste sollen als erstes durchleuchtet werden
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Transparenzbericht Dezember 2023: Unsere Einnahmen und Ausgaben und eine Menge Spaß
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EU-Migrationspakt: Kritik an der digitalen Überwachung von Migrant:innen
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Attached: 1 image La mobilisation doit continuer, pour s'opposer et bâtir des alternatives, nouer de nouvelles alliances et tenir en échec ces tristes sires.La Quadrature du Net - Mastodon - Media Fédéré
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#ChatControl: EU ministers want to exempt themselves
Avviso contenuto: According to the latest draft text of the controversial EU Child Sexual Abuse Regulation proposal leaked by the French news organization Contexte, which… The post #ChatControl: EU ministers want to exempt themselves first appeared on European Pirate Party
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Pirates ask EU Commission to look into killing of video games
Avviso contenuto: Pirate Party MEP Patrick Breyer has asked the European Commission for an opinion on the decision by French computer game manufacturer Ubisoft to… The post Pirates ask EU Commission to look into killing of video games first appeared on European Pirate Part
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Pirates against EU cash cap and ban on anonymous crypto payments
Avviso contenuto: The majority of the EU Parliament’s lead committees today approved far-reaching new anti-money laundering laws: Anonymous cash payments over €3,000 will be banned… The post Pirates against EU cash cap and ban on anonymous crypto payments first appeared on
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Bastian’s Night #371 April, 18th
Avviso contenuto: Every Thursday of the week, Bastian’s Night is broadcast from 22:30 CET. Bastian’s Night is a live talk show in German with lots of music, a weekly round-up of news from around the world, and a glimpse into the host’s crazy week in the pirate movement aka
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EDRi-gram, 17 April 2024
The spring has not only draped Brussels in a vibrant tapestry of yellow daphnes but also brought around the penultimate plenary for this term of the European Parliament before the EU elections in June. Exciting, we know!
But what knocked everyone's socks off was the massive victory in Greece, where EDRi member Homo Digitalis' strategic complaint led to a record-breaking fine to the Ministry of Asylum and Migration for violating people's data protection rights in its border management systems KENTAUROS and HYPERION.
This news from Greece, immediately followed by the European Parliament's vote on the European Union's asylum system (EURODAC), makes it irrefutable that the Migration Pact is the EU's attempt to codify in law surveillance practices that not only gravely harm the rights of migrants but which are illegal. The EU can’t hide its racist double standards on migration anymore. This never-ending expansion of EURODAC continues the EU's brutal legacy of weaponising biometric surveillance against vulnerable groups and will turn the database into a tool of mass surveillance.
The post EDRi-gram, 17 April 2024 appeared first on European Digital Rights (EDRi).
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Privacy is not for sale: Meta must stop charging for people’s right to privacy
Ahead of a crucial opinion by the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) – a grouping of the EU’s chief privacy regulators - on Meta’s plan to charge for privacy, the European Commission has opened an investigation that we hope will cast light on the unlawfulness of Meta’s so-called ‘Pay or Okay’ model, which has become the ‘talk of the town’ in Brussels.
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Exploitative designs: How tech platforms harm young people
UK's "largest youth consultation" shows that health and well-being are the biggest concerns among hundreds of thousands of young people. However, these concerns go beyond the UK and enter our digital spaces worldwide. In the US, major tech corporations are facing lawsuits filed by school districts. In Europe, civil society is also raising concerns about the effects of these companies' surveillance models.
The post Exploitative designs: How tech platforms harm young people appeared first on European Digital Rights (EDRi).
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Packed with loopholes: Why the AI Act fails to protect civic space and the rule of law
The European Parliament approved the AI Act on 13 March 2024, thus marking the end of a three-year-long legislative process. Yet to come are guidelines and delegated acts to clarify the often vague requirements. In this article, ECNL takes stock of the extent to which fundamental rights, civic space and the rule of law will be safeguarded and provide an analysis of key AI Act provisions.
The post Packed with loopholes: Why the AI Act fails to protect civic space and the rule of law appeared first on European Digital Rights (EDRi).
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The two sides of web scraping: When data collection becomes a double-edged sword
Emerging AI technology often relies on methods of data collection – such as web-scraping – which can become a double edged sword when not used with safeguards and transparency or in ways that are unlawful. These methods have been used to achieve several key victories for digital rights, but can also be exploitative.
The post The two sides of web scraping: When data collection becomes a double-edged sword appeared first on European Digital Rights (EDRi).
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Greek Ministry of Asylum and Migration face a record-breaking €175,000 fine for the border management systems KENTAUROS & HYPERION
On 3 April, the Greek Data Protection Authority (DPA) slapped the Ministry of Asylum and Migration with a record-breaking €175,000 fine under the General Data Protection Regulation for the border management systems KENTAUROS and HYPERION. The DPA’s investigation started back in 2022, following a strategic complaint filed by the EDRi member Homo Digitalis and its partners in Greece.
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The colonial biometric legacy at heart of new EU asylum system
On Wednesday (10 April), the EU is set to vote on a new set of asylum and migration reforms. Among the many controversial changes proposed in the new migration pact, one went almost unnoticed — a seemingly innocent reform of the EU's asylum database, EURODAC. Although framed as purely technical adjustments, the reality is far more malicious. The changes to EURODAC will massively exacerbate violence against people on the move.
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Cory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •I'm touring my new, nationally bestselling novel *The Bezzle*! Catch me SUNDAY (Apr 21) in TORINO, then Marin County (Apr 27), Winnipeg (May 2), Calgary (May 3), Vancouver (May 4), and beyond!
https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/16/narrative-capitalism/#bezzle-tour
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Pluralistic: Come see me on tour; How America’s oligarchs lull us the be-your-own-boss fairy tale (16 Feb 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.netCory Doctorow
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Podcasting "Capitalists Hate Capitalism": "Competition is for losers."
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112291881131834000
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Hey look at this
* The town of ormož and its surroundings by Kate Wagner https://katewagner.neocities.org/ss/p/kate%20wagner%20the%20town%20of%20ormoz%CC%8C%20and%20its%20surroundings%20[final].pdf (h/t Super Punch)
* Phenomenal Katrina Christiansen campaign video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I44L1pzi4gk (h/t @bdgordon)
* The Life and Death of Hollywood https://harpers.org/archive/2024/05/the-life-and-death-of-hollywood-daniel-bessner/
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The Life and Death of Hollywood, by Daniel Bessner
Daniel Bessner (Harper's Magazine)Cory Doctorow
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#20yrsago Prison wipes creative-writing class HDDs after student wins PEN award https://www.prisonlegalnews.org/news/2005/feb/15/connecticut-prison-writers-settle-lawsuit-writing-program-reinstated/
#20yrsago EFF waging war on bullshit Internet patents https://web.archive.org/web/20040507111819/https://www.eff.org/Patent/20040419_eff_pr_patent.php
#20yrsago Brazil cracks down on sat-hackers who bounce ham signals off US military satellites https://www.wired.com/2009/04/fleetcom/
#15yrsago Clement Freud’s funniest joke https://britrish.com/2011/08/10/sir-clement-freud-and-the-funniest-joke-ever-told/
#15yrsago RIP, JG Ballard http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8007331.stm
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Sir Clement Freud and the funniest joke ever told
BRITRISH.COMCory Doctorow
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#15yrsago CIA waterboarded individual suspects up to 183 times https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/apr/20/waterboarding-alqaida-khalid-sheikh-mohammed
#10yrsago Profile of Aeropress and Aerobie inventor Alan Adler https://priceonomics.com/the-invention-of-the-aeropress/
#10yrsago UK tax authority caught sneaking in plan to sell Britons’ private financial records https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/apr/18/hmrc-to-sell-taxpayers-data
#5yrsago AOC is going to Kentucky https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/19/politics/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-kentucky-visit/index.html
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HMRC to sell taxpayers' financial data
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#5yrsago TSA admits that its pornoscanners flag Black women and others with curly hair for humiliating, invasive searches https://www.propublica.org/article/tsa-not-discriminating-against-black-women-but-their-body-scanners-might-be
#5yrsago NYC adopts law targeting the handful of skyscrapers that are spiking the city’s carbon footprint https://www.wired.com/story/new-yorks-aggressive-climate-law-takes-aim-at-skyscrapers/
#5yrsago Read the source code for every classic Infocom text-adventure game! https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/04/you-can-now-download-the-source-code-for-all-infocom-text-adventure-classics/
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New York’s Aggressive Climate Law Takes Aim at Skyscrapers
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#5yrsago Telcoms lobbyists have convinced 26 states to ban or restrict municipal broadband https://www.vice.com/en/article/kzmana/report-26-states-now-ban-or-restrict-community-broadband
#5yrsago IPOs have sent Uber and Lyft fares skyrocketing, while driver pay plummets https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/apr/18/uber-lyft-drivers-surge-pricing-wages
#1yrago Iowa's starvation strategy https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/19/whats-wrong-with-iowa/#replicable-cruelty
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Uber and Lyft drivers say apps are short-changing wages while raising fares
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Yesterday's threads: The true post-cyberpunk hero is a noir forensic accountant; and more!
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112286530989814996
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2024-04-17 12:21:30
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My last novel was "The Lost Cause," a solarpunk novel of radical hope in the climate emergency, from Tor Books (US)/Head of Zeus (UK):
http://lost-cause.org
Signed, personalized copies available from Dark Delicacies:
https://www.darkdel.com/store/p3007/Pre-Order_Signed_Copies%3A_The_Lost_Cause_HB.html#/
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My latest nonfiction book is "The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation" from Verso Books:
http://seizethemeansofcomputation.org
Signed copies available from Book Soup:
https://www.booksoup.com/book/9781804291245
Both are national bestsellers!
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The Lost Cause HB
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My ebooks and audiobooks (from Tor Books, Head of Zeus, McSweeneys, Beacon, Verso and others) are for sale all over the net, but I sell 'em too, and when you buy 'em from me, I earn twice as much and you get books with no DRM and no license "agreements."
https://craphound.com/shop/
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Upcoming appearances:
* Torino Tech Biennale, Apr 21
https://www.biennaletecnologia.it/evento/come-sfuggire-al-merdocene-e-costruire-un-internet-migliore/
* The Bezzle at Book Passage (Corte Madera, Marin), Apr 27
https://www.bookpassage.com/event/cory-doctorow-bezzle-martin-hench-novel-corte-madera-store
* Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (Winnipeg), May 2
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/cory-doctorow-tickets-798820071337
* Wordfest (Calgary), May 3
https://wordfest.com/2024/event/wordfest-presents-cory-doctorow-2/
* Massy Arts (Vancouver), May 4
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/solo-reading-cory-doctorow-the-bezzle-tickets-876989167207
* Tartu Prima Vista Literary Fest, May 5-11
https://tartu2024.ee/en/kirjandusfestival/
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Cory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* “Enshittification” and AI, with @timoreilly (virtual), May 14
https://www.oreilly.com/live-events/tim-oreilly-and-cory-doctorow-on-enshittification-and-the
* "Finding the Money" screening (LA), May 15
https://www.laemmle.com/film/finding-money?date=2024-05-15
* Authorship in an Age of Monopoly and Moral Panics (SF), May 17
https://www.authorsalliance.org/2024/03/15/authors-alliance-10th-anniversary-event-authorship-in-an-age-of-monopoly-and-moral-panics/
* Media Ecology Association keynote (Amherst, NY), Jun 6-9
https://media-ecology.org/convention
* American Association of Law Libraries keynote (Chicago), Jul 21
https://www.aallnet.org/conference/agenda/keynote-speaker/
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Authors Alliance 10th Anniversary Event: Authorship in an Age of Monopoly and Moral Panics
Authors AllianceCory Doctorow
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Recent appearances:
* NUOVO BARETTO UTOPIA
https://videoteca.kenobit.it/w/azRmQBCenVwjSRz9WCp8JS
* Cory Doctorow & Randall Munroe (Harvard Berkman-Klein Center)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulnlSRbH80Y
* Deep Dive podcast
https://open.spotify.com/episode/0bS0DS1H7ghHkiyx4KzXBV?si=fe7242019e734d61
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Episode 186: When the World Is A Bezzle w/ Cory Doctorow
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Pluralistic: Podcasting “Capitalists Hate Capitalism” (18 Apr 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.netCory Doctorow
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I'm touring my new, nationally bestselling novel *The Bezzle*! Catch me in Torino (Apr 21), Marin County (Apr 27), Winnipeg (May 2), Calgary (May 3), Vancouver (May 4), and beyond!
https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/16/narrative-capitalism/#bezzle-tour
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Pluralistic: Come see me on tour; How America’s oligarchs lull us the be-your-own-boss fairy tale (16 Feb 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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