Today's threads (a thread).

Inside: Mexican indigenous telco wins spectrum fight; How apps steal your location; Understanding /r/wallstreetbets; Knowledge is why you build your own apps; and more!

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Join me this afternoon for the launch of the print edition of my 2020 book HOW TO DESTROY SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM!

https://medium.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_GfnYHzZCSY-cCMVL5ZCDBw

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Mexican indigenous telco wins spectrum fight: First Nations treaties do not sign away electromagnetic franchises.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/105629758738575552

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How apps steal your location: A deep dive into the murky depths of surveillance markets.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/105634185958666713

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Understanding /r/wallstreetbets: More than a bull run, a symbiosis of a market maker and market destroyers.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/105634568929106449

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Knowledge is why you build your own apps: Outsourcing software development squanders vital understanding.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/105634729101037263

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#15yrsago Photographer’s bust-card silkscreened on white-balance cards https://web.archive.org/web/20110124150125/http://store.petapixel.com/products/Photographers-Rights-Gray-Card-Set.html

#15yrsago What the LibreOffice fork means for Oracle’s shabby treatment of Sun’s free software projects https://web.archive.org/web/20110131052702/http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/open-enterprise/2011/01/the-deeper-significance-of-libreoffice-33/index.htm

#15yrsago Danny O’Brien’s Open Source con presentation on Evil https://web.archive.org/web/20130729205907id_/http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail665.html

#10yrsago William Gibson on Stuxnet https://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/27/opinion/27Gibson.html

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#10yrsago Fair use for poets, demystified https://cmsimpact.org/code/code-best-practices-fair-use-poetry/

#5yrsago Bill Gates sold rights to the Tiananmen 1989 pictures to Chinese company https://qz.com/601830/bill-gates-has-sold-a-set-of-iconic-images-to-a-beijing-firm-including-of-tiananmen-in-1989/

#5yrsago Guess who donated all the money to Black Americans for a Better Future Super PAC? Rich white men. https://theintercept.com/2016/01/28/black-americans-for-a-better-future-super-pac-100-funded-by-rich-white-guys/

#5yrsago Anaheim: the happiest surveillance state on earth https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/01/city-cops-in-disneylands-backyard-have-had-stingray-on-steriods-for-years/

#5yrsago Microsoft billionaire Paul Allen wipes out coral reef with his superyacht https://caymannewsservice.com/2016/01/billionaire-boater-destroys-wb-reef/

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#5yrsago Florida mayors write to GOP presidential hopefuls demanding action on climate change https://arstechnica.com/science/2016/01/florida-mayors-to-rubio-were-going-under-take-climate-change-seriously/

#1yrago “A piece of shit”: Government report on Wells Fargo corruption shows top executives’ direct complicity in millions of acts of fraud https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2020-01-27/wells-fargo-scandal

#1yrago A vase ringed with razor-sharp knives https://chrisbathgate.blogspot.com/2020/01/sculptural-knife-vase.html

#1yrago “The Art of Computer Designing”: stark, beautiful black-and-white images from 1993 https://archive.org/details/satoArtOfComputerDesigning/page/119/mode/2up

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#1yrago RIP, Jason Polan, who tried to draw every single person in New York City https://kottke.org/20/01/remembering-jason-polan

#1yrago What happens when you steadily ramp up the speed at which you listen to podcasts https://onezero.medium.com/i-tried-listening-to-podcasts-at-3x-and-broke-my-brain-d8823edecb7c

#1yrago After ransomware took Baltimore hostage, Maryland introduces legislation that bans disclosing the bugs ransomware exploits https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/01/good-news-maryland-bill-would-make-ransomware-a-crime/

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#1yrago The “ops lessons we all learn the hard way” https://www.netmeister.org/blog/ops-lessons.html

#1yrago Ajit Pai promised that killing net neutrality would spur network investment, but instead Comcast cut spending by 10.5% https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/01/ajit-pai-promised-faster-broadband-expansion-comcast-cut-spending-instead/

#1yrago The Catholic Church broke its promise to publish a list of “credibly accused” abuser priests, so Propublica did it for them https://www.propublica.org/article/catholic-leaders-promised-transparency-about-child-abuse-they-havent-delivered

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#1yrago The “ops lessons we all learn the hard way” https://www.netmeister.org/blog/ops-lessons.html

#1yrago Ajit Pai promised that killing net neutrality would spur network investment, but instead Comcast cut spending by 10.5% https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/01/ajit-pai-promised-faster-broadband-expansion-comcast-cut-spending-instead/

#1yrago The Catholic Church broke its promise to publish a list of “credibly accused” abuser priests, so Propublica did it for them https://www.propublica.org/article/catholic-leaders-promised-transparency-about-child-abuse-they-havent-delivered

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Yesterday's threads: Casino mogul steals First Nation's vaccine; Facebook champions (its own) privacy; Goldman CEO gets $17.5m reward for $4.5b fraud; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/105628581065305428

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