Oddbean new post about login | logout Hey look at this * #FCC to reintroduce rules protecting #NetNeutrality https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/26/tech/fcc-net-neutrality-internet-providers/index.html (h/t @763bf4cb) * Consumer #Surveillance and Financial Fraud https://www.nber.org/papers/w31692 (h/t Naked Capitalism) * #FTC and 17 states sue #Amazon in long-awaited lawsuit targeting #monopoly power https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/09/ftc-files-the-big-one-a-lawsuit-alleging-amazon-illegally-maintains-monopoly/ 4/ https://mamot.fr/system/media_attachments/files/111/143/120/605/217/064/original/5d67d9b385cab358.jpg
#10yrsago #FBI: We know you’re innocent, but you’re not getting off the #NoFlyList 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 courtroom victory over the #NSA: damning docs to follow https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/09/after-nsa-court-hearing-government-must-unseal-documents-december-20 #10yrsago How Miss Teen USA’s #sextortionist got caught https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/09/miss-teen-usas-webcam-spy-called-himself-cutefuzzypuppy/ #10yrsago Judge requires #PatentTroll to explain its “Mr Sham” business https://www.techdirt.com/2013/09/26/judge-takes-patent-troll-with-sham-employee-forces-troll-to-defend-practice-before-jury/ 5/ https://mamot.fr/system/media_attachments/files/111/143/122/246/159/962/original/152522a185671071.png
#5yrsago #ModernMonetaryTheory: why government spending isn’t like household checkbooks https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2018/09/26/651948323/episode-866-modern-monetary-theory #5yrsago #Defcon #VotingVillage report shows that hacking #VotingMachines takes less time than voting https://defcon.org/images/defcon-26/DEF CON 26 voting village report.pdf #1yrago Maintaining #monopolies with the #cloud: Microsoft, Oracle and other cloud giants use their #TermsOfService to prevent competition https://pluralistic.net/2022/09/28/other-peoples-computers/#clouded-over 6/ https://mamot.fr/system/media_attachments/files/111/143/123/302/730/911/original/fdd7a123650e9882.png
Yesterday's threads: Intuit: "Our fraud fights racism" https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/111138160362340385 7/ https://mamot.fr/system/media_attachments/files/111/143/124/396/543/340/original/21b4522b25afe1aa.jpg
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Upcoming appearances: * An Evening with #VESchwab (#Boise), Oct 2 https://www.thecabinidaho.org/all-events/ve-schwab * Wired Nextfest/#WNF23 (#Milano), Oct 7-8 https://eventi.wired.it/nextfest23-milano * #TheInternetCon at #MoonPalaceBooks (#Minneapolis), Oct 15 https://moonpalacebooks.com/events/30127 * 26th #ACM Conference On Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing keynote (#Minneapolis), Oct 16 https://cscw.acm.org/2023/index.php/keynotes/ 10/ https://mamot.fr/system/media_attachments/files/111/143/128/072/465/439/original/5000ba72f7c96034.jpg
Upcoming appearances (cont'd): * 41st annual McCreight Lecture in the Humanities (#Charleston, WV), Oct 19 https://festivallcharleston.com/venue/university-of-charleston/ * Seizing the Means of Computation (Edinburgh Futures Institute), Oct 25 https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/seizing-the-means-of-computation-with-cory-doctorow/ 11/ https://mamot.fr/system/media_attachments/files/111/143/128/577/084/443/original/53468a7054b77769.jpg
Recent appearances: * Seize the Means of Computation (#MovementMemos) https://open.spotify.com/episode/3OXPCnbiZHdIxUf8UTFnnu * How to Seize the Means of Computation (#rHatchery) https://www.podpage.com/rhatcherylive/how-to-seize-the-means-of-computation/ * Give Them An Argument https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhTphllBUEM 12/ https://mamot.fr/system/media_attachments/files/111/143/130/048/632/364/original/af51fd830296cf00.jpg
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