Cory Doctorow
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I really enjoyed #RedTeamBlues by @pluralistic so picked up #TheBezzle from the #library
Can't wait to dig in!
Cory Doctorow
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Hallo Cyber Freunde! Das fantastische Buch 'red team blues' von @pluralistic ist jetzt als deutsches Audiobuch erhältlich. Da alle Werke Cory's ohne DRM verkauft werden, ist es nur ueber kickstarter zu bekommen. (hintergrund hier: https://pluralistic.net/2025/07/21/martin-mensch/#horbuch)
Unterstuetzt DRM freie Werke und Autoren die weiterhin ohne DRM verkaufen. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/doctorow/red-team-blues-auf-deutsche-drm-freie
#CoryDoctorow hat versehentlich eine deutsche Hörbuchfassung von #RedTeamBlues am Start, die über #Kickstarter bestellt werden kann: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/doctorow/red-team-blues-auf-deutsche-drm-freie (gelesen von #UveTeschner, übersetzt von #JürgenLangowski).
Solche G'schichten schreibt nur das Leben, und da mir das Buch sehr gefallen hat (auf Englisch) und es #DRMfrei ist, bewerbe ich das jetzt hier mal.
Brauche eine 🤩-Variante mit Sternen als Ohren!?! #Cory_Doctorow#Hörbuch #audiobook
Cory Doctorow
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Strong recommendation for my German-speaking followers. Unbedingte Empfehlung, wenn ihr Deutsch versteht: Cory Doctorow @pluralistic kann ein bisschen Unterstützung für die deutschsprachige DRM-freie Hörbuch-Version von "Red Team Blues" gebrauchen.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/doctorow/red-team-blues-auf-deutsche-drm-freie
Red Team Blues ist ein unterhaltsamer, spannender Kriminalroman über den charismatischen Computer-Forensiker im Ruhestand Martin Hench, der in einem High-Tech Wohnmobil in Kalifornien unterwegs ist, einen Mord und eine Crypto-Verschwörung aufklären muss und dabei selbst ins Fadenkreuz gerät.
Unterstützenswert, nicht nur weil Cory Doctorow seine Bücher und Hörbücher konsequent DRM-frei auch ohne Audible anbietet 🙏
Al Ghaff
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Last night, @pluralistic was in conversation with @mariafarrell to mark ORG's 20th birthday.
This wide-ranging conversation covers everything from the 'Internet dimension' of policy-making to copyright in the age of AI and how to fight for digital rights.
Plus much more!
Missed it live? No worries, you can watch it in full on Youtube 📺
https://www.youtube.com/live/M9H2An_D6io
#ORG20 #digitalrights #corydoctorow #AI #copyright #dataprotection #bigtech
"That's right: at the first hint of competition, the self-described libertarians who insisted that computers would make governments obsolete went running to the government, demanding a state-backed monopoly that would put their rivals in prison for daring to interfere with their business model. Plus ça change: today, their intellectual descendants are demanding that the US government bail out their 'anti-state', 'independent' cryptocurrency"
#CoryDoctorow, 2025
https://pluralistic.net/2025/03/04/object-permanence/#picks-and-shovels
Cory Doctorow
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When Google’s slop meets webslop, search stops: https://pluralistic.net/2025/07/15/inhuman-gigapede/#coprophagic-ai
A very good article on awful Google AI search results and how Google have ruined their own reputation by wrecking their workforce, by @pluralistic. A quote:
'Publishers and advertisers have more concentrated money than readers, but the dominant theory of antitrust since the Reagan administration is something called "consumer welfare," which holds that monopolistic conduct is only to be condemned if it makes consumers worse off. If a company screws its workers or suppliers in order to deliver better products and/or better prices, then "consumer welfare" holds that the government should celebrate and protect the monopolist for improving "efficiency."
But all that is true only if Google AI Overviews are good. And they are very, very bad.'
Don't use Google for search.
#google#AI#ArtificialIntelligence#AISlop#CoryDoctorow #search #slop
But what is TPM and why do you need to avoid it?
TPM stands for Trusted Computing Module. Counterintuitively, this does not mean that your computer can be trusted to faithfully carry out instructions given by you, the person who owns and operates it. But rather by the vendors who made it and sold it to you.
Cory Doctorow ( @pluralistic) warned us about this more than a decade ago, as a major offensive in a "coming war on general-purpose computing";
https://boingboing.net/2012/01/10/lockdown.html
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"... [TPM is ideal for] lobbies and interest groups far more influential than Hollywood and big content. Every one of them will arrive at the same place: 'Can't you just make us a general-purpose computer that runs all the programs, except the ones that scare and anger us? Can't you just make us an Internet that transmits any message over any protocol between any two points, unless it upsets us?'"
#CoryDoctorow, 2012
https://boingboing.net/2012/01/10/lockdown.html
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Cory Doctorow
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On the latest episode of the Future Knowledge podcast:
In this episode, author CORY DOCTOROW ( @pluralistic) breaks down THE INTERNET CON: how platforms took over the web, & what it’ll take to take it back.
🎧 Listen now ➡️ https://futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/the-internet-con
#podcast#FutureKnowledge#CoryDoctorow#TechPolicy#DigitalFreedom
Jim Killock
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ORG turns 20 this year and we've lined up a special event! 🎂
Join us for Cory Doctorow @pluralistic in conversation with Maria Farrell.
They'll be getting into Cory's work and taking the fight to Big Tech ✊
🗓️ 16 July
🕕 6pm BST
💻 Zoom
Don't miss it! Register now ⬇️
https://www.openrightsgroup.org/events/org-at-20-cory-doctorow-in-conversation-with-maria-farrell/
#digitalrights#ORG20 #bigtech #surveillancecapitalism #corydoctorow