Showing posts with label Cory Doctorow. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cory Doctorow. Show all posts
Thursday, January 23, 2025

The Predatory Side of Amazon?

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Cory Doctorow analyzes in detail how, in his view, Amazon has developed bait-and-switch strategies to take advantage of both vendors and cus...
Thursday, November 21, 2024

National Sovereignty and Free Expression

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Cory Doctorow's latest LOCUS column explores the tension between the rights of nations to "establish the rule of law" and indi...
Thursday, October 31, 2024

Publishing Contract Horrors

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Happy Halloween! Cory Doctorow on the worsening and non-negotiable clauses in typical publishers' contracts: Reasonable Agreement ...
Thursday, October 10, 2024

An Authorized Fanfic Re-Visioning of NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR

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Last week Cory Doctorow posted a review of JULIA, by Sandra Newman, which coincidentally I've just finished reading. Novel-Writing Mac...
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Thursday, October 03, 2024

When the Proper Amount of Something Is Zero

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Cory Doctorow on DRM, conflicts of interest, "bricking," the undermining of consumer privacy, collection of surveillance data, ide...
Thursday, September 19, 2024

Delayed Gratification

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Cory Doctorow's latest LOCUS column deconstructs the "science fictional" idea of "the right’s confidence in the role of i...
Thursday, August 01, 2024

At the Mercy of Internet Services

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Here's a very scary LOCUS column by Cory Doctorow about Google users arbitrarily losing their e-mail accounts and access to all their fi...
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Thursday, July 04, 2024

Copyright and Fair Use

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Here's a new article by Cory Doctorow about copyright takedowns and the intricacies of the "fair use" doctrine: Copyright Ta...
Thursday, June 06, 2024

Leave Them Wanting More?

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Here's an essay by Cory Doctorow about fiction, movies, and games giving audiences what they need instead of what they want, or think th...
Thursday, May 16, 2024

Why Is the Internet Getting Worse?

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In Cory Doctorow's latest LOCUS column, he analyzes why everything on the internet is in his view "(suddenly, simultaneously) getti...
Thursday, April 04, 2024

Technofeudalism

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Cory Doctorow advances the position that capitalism isn't evolving into socialism (as classical Marxism predicted) but into a new form o...
Thursday, February 29, 2024

Intermediaries on the Internet

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Another post by Cory Doctorow about how good platforms go bad and, by extension, how the internet goes bad: Intermediation Why didn'...
Thursday, January 04, 2024

AI as a Bubble

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Cory Doctorow's latest LOCUS column analyzes AI as a "tech bubble." What Kind of Bubble Is AI? Although I had a vague idea...
Thursday, December 28, 2023

Celebrating Public Domain Day

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January 1 is Public Domain Day for works still under copyright that were first released in 2028: Public Domain Day 2024 The article incl...
Thursday, November 16, 2023

Bad People Versus Bad Institutions

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In his latest LOCUS essay, Cory Doctorow discusses whether "all the internet services we enjoyed and came to rely upon became suddenly ...
Thursday, September 14, 2023

AI Compositions and Their Influence on Letters as Signals

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In Cory Doctorow's latest column, he brings up a potential unintended byproduct of overusing "large language models," aka chat...
Thursday, July 13, 2023

Predicting versus Contesting

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Few, if any, readers and writers of science fiction believe it exists to predict the future. Strikingly on-target foretellings of future eve...
Thursday, May 18, 2023

When Do Conspiracy Theorists Make Sense?

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Cory Doctorow's column in the May issue of LOCUS discusses what we'd probably think of as paranoid conspiracy theorists, vehemently ...
Thursday, March 30, 2023

One Bite at a Time

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Cory Doctorow's column for the March 2023 issue of LOCUS, for once, asserts a position I can support without reservation: End-to-End ...
Thursday, January 19, 2023

The Fates of Social Networks

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Cory Doctorow's latest LOCUS column explores the breakdown of social networking sites, which he seems to believe is the inevitable culmi...