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It's been 21 years since #BillWillingham launched #Fables, his 110-issue, wide-ranging, delightful and brilliantly crafted author-owned comic series that imagines that the folkloric figures of the world's fairytales are real people, who live in a secret society whose internal struggles and intersections with the mundane world are the source of endless drama.

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#10yrsago #IETF proposal to #Prism-proof the Internet https://web.archive.org/web/20130914180118/https://www.paritynews.com/2013/09/12/2776/ietf-floats-draft-prism-proof-security-considerations/

#5yrsago Google’s censored Chinese search engine links every search to the user’s phone number https://theintercept.com/2018/09/14/google-china-prototype-links-searches-to-phone-numbers/

#5yrsago Trump threatens to permanently bar Canadian #LegalWeed investors from entering the USA https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-45478939

#5yrsago Chicago is facing its first citywide #HotelStrike since 1903 https://portside.org/2018-09-13/thousands-chicago-workers-are-out-first-citywide-hotel-strike-over-century

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Hey look at this

* Cory Doctorow pens a manual for destroying Big Tech https://apnews.com/article/internet-con-doctorow-book-review-9a5645c075fa495f701481d50f3917c8

* The Machinist Sculptor https://chrisbathgate.blogspot.com/2023/09/book-announcement.html

* California Lawmakers Unanimously Pass #RightToRepair Legislation https://www.404media.co/california-assembly-unanimously-passes-right-to-repair-legislation/

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The passage of this law triggered howls of outrage from the state's fast-food industry, who pledged to spend $200m to put forward a ballot initiative to permanently kill the labor-business board.

This is a familiar story. In 2019, California's state legislature passed #AB5, a bill designed to end the gig-work fiction that people whose boss is an algorithm are actually "independent businesses," rather than employees.

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nostr:npub1kdqfqks3gpuq54hn7dssay0rmf7aqk5yvrr4wrnvecumc7pfd9eq64u76s I don't! I've asked and haven't heard anything except "soon"

We are a long way away from making a new, good internet that's a worthy successor to the old, good internet, and at least as far from a new, good Toronto that the people of the old, good Toronto would have built but for Tory wreckers and the Christmas-voting turkeys who elevated them to office. But both are possible - and both demand that we fight for them.

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Overcoming the gerrymander required a massive turnout - not merely a supermajority, but an *ultramajority* of politically motivated, organized, committed, *pissed off* Torontonians; Chow's election is a minor miracle that part of the wave of other historic reversals, like the DoJ awakening from its coma to drag Google into court on #antitrust charges.

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In 1998, the dead-eyed Romneyoid Premier of Ontario #MikeHarris "amalgamated" Toronto with its suburbs, putting it at the mercy of car-addled out-of-towners in an act of gerrymandering that all-but-guaranteed that city residents' political choices would be swamped by suburbanites who could be convinced to vote for laughable Tory bumblefucks like #RobFord.

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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* 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

* 26th #ACM Conference On Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing keynote (#Minneapolis), Oct 16

https://cscw.acm.org/2023/index.php/keynotes/

* Seizing the Means of Computation (Edinburgh Futures Institute), Oct 25

https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/seizing-the-means-of-computation-with-cory-doctorow/

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Upcoming appearances:

* "The Internet Con" launch, Another Story Bookshop (#Toronto), Sept 12

https://anotherstory.ca/events/29283

* nostr:npub1sqfnxau480pnvm0t258kdrj5u2u72zwm2kh7tk3qf6lxtqkwvlmqgn5skr Awards (#SanFrancisco), Sept 14

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* DIG Festival (#Modena, Italy), Sept 22

https://dig-awards.org/en/dig-festival-2023-first-speakers-announced/

* Launch for "#TheInternetCon" and nostr:npub143cwgn48edmnfa4z54meaylss4s8glen4kfvwxdfmx3xwv9n3dysde59ma's "#BloodInTheMachine," Chevalier's Books (#LA), Sept 27

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Saturday's threads: Saturday linkdump, part the sixth; and more!

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#5yrsago Woman World: the hilarious man-free apocalypse we’ve all been waiting for https://memex.craphound.com/2018/09/11/woman-world-the-hilarious-man-free-apocalypse-weve-all-been-waiting-for/

#5yrsago What developers need to do to save the internet from the EU’s looming copyright disaster https://github.blog/2018-09-10-how-developers-can-defend-open-source-from-the-eu-copyright-proposal/

#1yrago American #healthcare did a fuckery: A trillion prices can't be wrong https://pluralistic.net/2022/09/10/big-data/#malicious-compliance

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#5yrsago Not in our name: Why European creators must oppose the EU’s proposal to limit linking and #censor the net https://memex.craphound.com/2018/09/10/not-in-our-name-why-european-creators-must-oppose-the-eus-proposal-to-limit-linking-and-censor-the-internet/

#5yrsago 12 year olds write a book on making afterschool mischief https://drive.google.com/file/d/16Fd0VmGBT_D34WEorIsopcqbFPVWe845/view

#1yrago The White House has a plan for Big Tech: Donald Trump, Mark Zuckerberg and Joe Biden all agree https://pluralistic.net/2022/09/10/big-data/#230-quagmire

#5yrsago #CaliforniaFarmBureau sells out farmers, hands #JohnDeere a monopoly over tractor #repair https://www.vice.com/en/article/kz5qgw/california-farm-bureau-john-deere-tractor-hacking-right-to-repair

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#5yrsago nostr:npub1l4052f5la6267hqsxx3jnk7sm2q6ptufuhx7e2k3vw3lccyv7upqujnm43’s VR, Objective Reality, live life as an inert, resentful appliance https://www.wired.com/beyond-the-beyond/2018/08/automata-farm-objective-reality/

#5yrsago Trump wants to kill the #InternationalCriminalCourt to protect US #WarCriminals from prosecution for #Afghan crimes https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/10/trump-administration-to-take-tough-stance-against-the-hagues-icc.html

#5yrsago #BigTech is losing the public’s trust in just the same way that Big #Finance has https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/09/technology/internet-industry-hearings.html

#5yrsago Court nukes #Ontario’s Trumpian government bid to gut #TorontoCityCCuncil https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/judge-ruling-city-council-bill-election-1.4816664

#5yrsago Thanks to a Chinese and Korean fad, California’s wild #succulents are being poached and smuggled to Asia https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/2163157/californias-succulent-smugglers-plant-poachers

#5yrsago The sheriffs who cheered #Trump’s attack on the press have long histories of shady dealings, revealed by the press https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/08/sheriffs-donald-trump-media-scrutiny

#5yrsago Good news: California ends #CashBail! Bad news: It’s been replaced with a black-box #algorithm https://qz.com/1375820/california-just-replaced-cash-bail-with-algorithms

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#10yrsago This is the #crypto standard that the NSA sabotaged https://archive.nytimes.com/bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/10/government-announces-steps-to-restore-confidence-on-encryption-standards/

#10yrsago How the feds asked Microsoft to backdoor #BitLocker, their full-disk #encryption tool https://mashable.com/archive/fbi-microsoft-bitlocker-backdoor

#10yrsago US #border #LaptopSearches: the other #WarrantlessSurveillance https://www.aclu.org/news/national-security/documents-shed-light-border-laptop-searches

#10yrsago Knife use workshops for kids https://web.archive.org/web/20130913132151/http://www.nepafamily.com/events/sharp-kids/

#10yrsago Scholar shows ‘three strikes’ programs don’t reduce #piracy https://www.itnews.com.au/news/three-strikes-laws-do-not-reduce-online-piracy-study-356360

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