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Inside: The conservative movement is cracking up; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/14/when-youve-lost-the-fedsoc/

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This Thursday, November 16, I’ll be in , Ontario, appearing onstage with as part of the Festival:

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/cbc-ideas-visionaries-in-conversation-tickets-729692809837

I’m also doing an afternoon session for middle-schoolers at the Stratford Public Library:

https://www.provocation.ca/upcoming-2023-events-stratford

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OhforFarkssake,

@pluralistic So happy you'll be nearby (and so bummed that Partner and I are still too wigged out to go to crowded, indoor events).

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@OhforFarkssake Sorry to miss you!

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The conservative movement is cracking up: It's not just Trumpism - antitrust is an emerging fracture line.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/111410553114872754

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geographile,
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@pluralistic elephants are awesome, I wish they weren't that party's symbol.

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@geographile Even better are unhinged medieval drawings of elephants based on third-hand descriptions!

geographile,
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@pluralistic there are a lot of good reasons to believe in monsters, and medieval Europe's illustrations of animals they haven't seen are definitely one of them.

18+ pluralistic,
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Hey look at this

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#15yrsago The Manuscript: a #technothriller written by someone who understands technology https://memex.craphound.com/2008/11/14/the-manuscript-a-technothriller-written-by-someone-who-understands-technology/

#10yrsago UK Conservative party tries to send all official speeches down the memory hole https://www.computerweekly.com/blog/Public-Sector-IT/Conservatives-erase-Internet-history

#10yrsago #TSA blows a billion bucks on unscientific “#BehavioralDetection” program, reinvents #phrenology https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/11/despite-lack-of-science-tsa-spent-millions-on-behavioral-detection-officers/

#10yrsago #Renault ships a brickable car with battery #DRM that you’re not allowed to own https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/11/drm-cars-will-drive-consumers-crazy

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#10yrsago Punk #FreedomOfInformationAccess ninja learns how to beat FBI obfuscation, so they shut him out https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/11/foia-ryan-shapiro-fbi-files-lawsuit/

#10yrsago Massive 1978 Las Vegas fallout shelter https://www.cultofweird.com/architecture/underground-home-las-vegas/

#10yrsago #TPP’s worst evil: making all future copyright reform impossible https://www.techdirt.com/2013/11/14/most-nefarious-part-tpp-proposal-making-copyright-reform-impossible/

#10yrsago #RobFord: $170K/year, 11-3 working day https://www.joeydevilla.com/2013/11/14/one-thing-to-remember-during-this-whole-toronto-mayoral-kerfuffle/

#10yrsago Rob Ford articulates official mayoral cunnilingus policy https://www.joeydevilla.com/2013/11/14/rob-ford-will-ahem-go-down-in-history-with-this-quote/

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#10yrsago Toronto council turns their back to Rob Ford every time he speaks https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/11/the-acting-attorney-general-helped-an-alleged-scam-company-hawk-bizarre-products/

#5yrsago Trump’s Acting Attorney General was an active participant in a scam company that marketed “#MasculineToilets” https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/11/the-acting-attorney-general-helped-an-alleged-scam-company-hawk-bizarre-products/

#5yrsago The Florida of ballot-design mistakes is… https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2018/11/14/florida-is-the-florida-of-ballot-design-mistakes/

#5yrsago “Privacy Not Included”: Mozilla’s guide to insecure, surveillant gadgets to avoid https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/

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#5yrsago #AlexJones blames “leftist stay-behind networks in US intelligence agencies” for malware on his site https://www.zdnet.com/article/card-skimming-malware-removed-from-infowars-online-store/

#5yrsago Coalition of small #CableOperators calls for #antitrust investigation into Comcast (Trump agrees) https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/12/18088846/comcast-nbcuniversal-american-cable-doj-antitrust-investigation-letter-trump-tweet

#5yrsago Nigerian telco says it accidentally routed Google traffic through China https://www.reuters.com/article/us-alphabet-disruption/nigerian-firm-takes-blame-for-routing-google-traffic-through-china-idUSKCN1NI2D9

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#5yrsago 70 of the world’s leading human rights groups ask Mark Zuckerberg to create due process for censored content https://santaclaraprinciples.org/open-letter/

#5yrsago Apple’s world-beating financial engineering is teaching the corporate world how to exploit Trump’s tax cuts https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/apples-capital-return-program-where-are-the-patient-capitalists

#5yrsago Researchers keep finding #https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/111410553114872754Spectre-style bugs in processors https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/11/spectre-meltdown-researchers-unveil-7-more-speculative-execution-attacks/

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18+ pluralistic,
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#1yrago Even if you're paying for the product, you're still the product https://pluralistic.net/2022/11/14/luxury-surveillance/#liar-liar

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Yesterday's threads: The (open) web is good, actually; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/111405359551446963

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My latest novel is "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

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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:

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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

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Recent appearances:

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