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2026-10-19 00:53:02
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Cory Doctorow
pluralistic@mamot.fr
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Inside: The technopolitics of ad-tech; and more!
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https://pluralistic.net/2026/10/19/spying-v-context/
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A halftoned, yellowing scan of a 1940s page of newspaper ads. Emerging from the ads is a halftoned fist clad in spiked brass kuckles.
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2026-10-19 00:53:44
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Cory Doctorow
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The technopolitics of ad-tech: Spying is good for tech, context is good for publishers.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/117466398959130071
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2026-10-19 00:54:37
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Hey look at this
* Trump DOJ Launches Bogus TV News Antitrust Probe
* US Rep proposes bill to give video game buyers “ownership,” not “a license”
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/10/us-rep-proposes-bill-to-give-video-game-buyers-ownership-not-a-license/
* Saviour or Scoundrel?
https://scholarsphere.psu.edu/resources/14308c3b-4f2a-4f39-a365-192c0206f886
* Tiny Little Office
https://tinylittleoffice.com/
* Future? No Thanks! - an ecosocialist game
https://futurenothanks.com/
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2026-10-19 00:55:57
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#25yrsago
Patrick Nielsen Hayden interviews Mike Ford
https://user.well.com/engaged.cgi?c=inkwell.vue&f=0&t=126
#20yrsago
Singapore bans Far East Economic Review
https://web.archive.org/web/20061010002951/https://www.feer.com/articles1/2006/0610/free/p006.html
#20yrsago
Publishing isn’t bestseller-driven
https://www.nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/conventional_un/
#20yrsago
Why architecture and security don’t mix
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/10/architecture_an.html
#20yrsago
Vista licence: Microsoft’s abusive relationship with you
https://wendy.seltzer.org/blog/archives/2006/10/19/forbidding_vistas_windows_licensing_disserves_the_user.html
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#1yrago
The mad king's digital killswitch
https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/20/post-american-internet/#huawei-with-american-characteristics
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2026-10-19 00:56:45
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#20yrsago
Boy Scouts of America Concerned About Copyright
https://web.archive.org/web/20061110065012/http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi%3Ffile%3D/news/archive/2006/10/20/entertainment/e110452D84.DTL
#15yrsago
Canadian Tories admit that Canadians don’t want DRM rules, push for them anyway
https://web.archive.org/web/20111022210131/http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/6071/125
#15yrsago
Visualizing Herman Cain’s 9-9-9 plan to redistribute wealth from the poor to the rich
https://web.archive.org/web/20111021103517/http://jaredbernsteinblog.com/9-9-9-in-one-really-long-graph/
#15yrsago
Free Bieber: campaign to kill proposed law that would send you to prison for 5 years for singing copyrighted music on YouTube
https://web.archive.org/web/20111020145336/http://freebieber.org/
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2026-10-19 00:57:17
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#15yrsago
Belarusian central bank auctions off its sugar bowls
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/oct/19/belarus-central-bank-sells-office-furniture
#15yrsago
Dataviz as defacement: OCCUPY GEORGE
https://web.archive.org/web/20111022022046/http://www.occupygeorge.com/
#15yrsago
HOWTO avoid a copyright shakedown legal threat: be famous, a politician, a cop, a soldier or a corpse
https://torrentfreak.com/undercover-cops-and-politicians-escape-bittorrent-lawsuit-111013/
#10yrsago
Popular design guides are responsible for plague of grey type
https://web.archive.org/web/20170914051800/https://www.wired.com/2016/10/how-the-web-became-unreadable/
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2026-10-19 00:57:54
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#10yrsago
Digital Defenders: a free open-licensed booklet for kids about privacy and cryptography
https://edri.org/files/privacy4kids_booklet_web.pdf
#10yrsago
Public universities and even the US Navy have sold hundreds of patents to America’s most notorious troll
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/10/inside-intellectual-ventures-portfolio-nearly-500-university-patents
#10yrsago
Airportraits: composite photos of all the daily takeoffs from the world’s airports
https://mikekelley.art/?category=airportraits
#10yrsago
Rich people can afford to buy more sleep than poor people
https://arstechnica.com/science/2016/10/the-rich-can-sleep-in-thanks-to-better-transit/
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2026-10-19 00:58:38
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#10yrsago
Harry Shearer sues studio over Spinal Tap, says he’s received $98 in royalties over 30 years
https://web.archive.org/web/20161224224142/https://www.yahoo.com/movies/harry-shearer-files-125-million-spinal-tap-fraud-suit-copyright-termination-150031664.html
#10yrsago
ACLU asks court to reveal 23 secret surveillance laws
https://web.archive.org/web/20161019224447/https://theintercept.com/2016/10/19/aclu-wants-secret-surveillance-laws-made-public/
#10yrsago
Montana judge unrepentant after sentencing man to 60 days for repeatedly raping his own 12 year old daughter
https://edition.cnn.com/2016/10/19/us/montana-judge-incest-case-trnd/index.html
#10yrago
Turkish court fines bystander/tourist who sued police for shooting out his eye
https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/kyrgyz-tourist-wounded-in-gezi-protests-ordered-to-pay-debt-to-turkish-state--104964
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2026-10-19 00:59:14
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#10yrsago
By stealing from innocents, Chicago PD amassed tens of millions in a secret black budget for surveillance gear
https://web.archive.org/web/20160929143255/https://chicagoreader.com/chicago/police-department-civil-forfeiture-investigation/Content?oid=23728922
#10yrsago
Turing’s law: UK to retroactively pardon thousands of men prosecuted for having sex with men
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-37711518
#5yrsago
The monopoly strategy behind the Google/Microsoft mobile patent wars
https://pluralistic.net/2021/10/20/vizio-vs-the-world/#capital-as-power
#5yrsago
Copyleft lawsuit against Vizio will allow anyone to defend the commons
https://pluralistic.net/2021/10/20/vizio-vs-the-world/#dumbcast
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2026-10-19 00:59:28
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#5yrsago
The true, Terry Pratchett-esque origins of the trillion-dollar coin
https://pluralistic.net/2021/10/19/moist-von-lipwig/#gimmick-v-gimmick
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