A USA TODAY BESTSELLERWinner of the 2024 Neil Postman Award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity"An essential read for anyone that wants to understand how we lost control of our digital spaces and infrastructure to Silicon Valley’s tech giants, and how we can start fighting to get it back." –Tim Maughan, author of INFINITE DETAIL"A brilliant barn burner of a book| www.booksoup.com
88.1K Posts, 949 Following, 67.6K Followers · By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow@mamot.fr. Archived at pluralistic.net I post long threads. If you don't like these in your timeline but want to read them, I suggest unfollowing me here and subscribing to my RSS, or my newsletter, or any of my various long-form feeds. Links at https://pluralistic.net.| Mamot - Le Mastodon de La Quadrature du Net
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My Defcon 31 speech, delivered August 12 in Las Vegas.| Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
You’ve probably heard of “open source software.” If you pay attention to the politics of this stuff, you might have heard of “free software” and even know a little ab…| Locus Online
How the Curse of Bigness wrecked Google Search.| Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
“Interoperability” is the act of making a new product or service work with an existing product or service: modern civilization depends on the standards and practices that allow you to put any dish into a dishwasher or any USB charger into any car’s cigarette lighter.But interoperability is just the...| Electronic Frontier Foundation
A Seattle-based appellate judge ruled that the practice does not meet the threshold for an illegal privacy violation under state law, handing a big win to automakers Honda, Toyota, Volkswagen and General Motors.| therecord.media
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Small groups. Impromptu conversations. Interesting people. A free, ad-hoc series of gatherings, held just after an interesting discussion, for about an hour, on Zoom.| Very Little Gravitas
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