Showing posts with label Internet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Internet. Show all posts
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, 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, 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, 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, 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, November 03, 2022

Living in Alternate Realities?

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In Philip Wylie's 1951 novel THE DISAPPEARANCE, an unexplained phenomenon divides Earth into two separate, parallel versions. In one rea...
Thursday, February 10, 2022

Most Writers Are Writers

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This is the name of a page on the TV Tropes site, referring to the countless works of fiction with authors, playwrights, screenwriters, jour...
Thursday, January 27, 2022

Creative Fakelore for Fun and Enlightenment

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The January-February 2022 issue of SKEPTICAL INQUIRER includes an article by statistical ecologist Charles G. M. Paxton, narrating his exper...
Thursday, September 09, 2021

More Futuristic Forecasts

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"Prediction is hard, especially about the future." Over the past week, I've been rereading LIFE AND TIME, a 1978 collection of...
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Thursday, April 08, 2021

Starting Afresh

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Kameron Hurley's newest LOCUS column discusses making a fresh start with the turn from winter to spring: Plotting the Way Forward No...
Thursday, November 26, 2020

Thanksgiving

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Happy Thanksgiving to all who celebrate it today! We're preparing our usual turkey dinner—actually, my husband does all the hard parts...
Thursday, January 16, 2020

Freedom of Speech Online

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Cory Doctorow's latest LOCUS column explores the distinction between freedom of speech in the legal sense and the pragmatic limitations ...
Thursday, November 22, 2018

Is the Internet Revolutionary?

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Happy American Thanksgiving! Cory Doctorow's latest LOCUS column discusses whether the Internet qualifies as "revolutionary"...
Thursday, July 19, 2018

Monsters in the Modern World

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A recent question on Quora asked how well vampires would be able to survive in the modern world. My reaction was along the line of "bet...
Thursday, November 09, 2017

Spoilers

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Once upon a time, the only way to watch old movies was to wait for them to show up on late-night television or possibly on weekday afternoon...
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Thursday, July 20, 2017

The Metamorphosis of Journalism

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Earlier this year, the Toronto STAR ran an article by Catherine Wallace, winner of the 2016-2017 Atkinson Fellowship (a journalism award), a...
Thursday, September 15, 2016

Privacy Under Siege?

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Speaking of privacy, as Rowena's recent post does: Cory Doctorow's column in the latest LOCUS delivers warnings about privacy threat...
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Tuesday, August 23, 2016

Incorrect Information About You As a Writer May Turn Up In A Search Engine

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Incorrect Information About You As a Writer May Turn Up In A Search Engine  WRITERS BEWARE: Readers used to "vet" you by lo...