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Showing posts with label facebook. Show all posts
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...
Thursday, July 15, 2021

Monopolies and Interoperabilty

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Another LOCUS article by Cory Doctorow on monopolies and trust-busting: Tech Monopolies He begins this essay by stating that he doesn...
Tuesday, June 22, 2021

When Should You Give Up On A Manuscript Part 7 -- How To Climb Over The Wall That Hit You

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When Should You Give Up On A Manuscript Part 7 How To Climb Over The Wall That Hit You   Index to  "When Should You Give Up On A Manusc...
Tuesday, June 15, 2021

Afterthoughts Part 3 - Grimdark in Genre Fiction

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Afterthoughts Part 3 Grimdark in Genre Fiction   Part 1  https://aliendjinnromances.blogspot.com/2021/04/afterthoughts-part-1.html Part 2 ht...
Thursday, September 17, 2020

On Intellectual Property

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Cory Doctorow has an unusually long, information-dense post this bimonth, about the background of the concept of intellectual property: IP...
Tuesday, September 01, 2020

Worldbuilding From Reality Part 14 - Ripping A Headline For Theme

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Worldbuilding From Reality Part 14 Ripping A Headline For Theme Previous entries in Worldbuilding From Reality are indexed here: h...
Tuesday, August 18, 2020

Theme-worldbuilding Integration Part 22 - Furnishing Your First Home

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Theme-worldbuilding Integration Part 22 Furnishing Your First Home  Theme-Worldbuilding Integration Posts are indexed at: https://...
Sunday, June 14, 2020

"The Width Of The Buttocks" (NOT!)

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It all comes down to profitable voyeurism, or spying, and it is all rooted in the many possible meanings of "beaming" . If you h...
Sunday, May 03, 2020

What You Don't See (May Bind You)

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First there was the "fine print"; then there was the probably intentionally mind-numbing scroll of all caps print, page after page...
Saturday, March 07, 2020

Willy Nilly and the Erosion of Privacy

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Does personal privacy matter? Less so, it seems, in the age where a priority is put on the convenience of others and the profitability of ...
Thursday, February 20, 2020

Social Media in the Raging 20s

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In her latest LOCUS post, Kameron Hurley writes about tension and anxiety in the era of instantaneous communication and miscommunication: ...
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 ...
Sunday, November 24, 2019

What's In A ... Face?

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Much ado about...  faces is my takeaway from this week's legal (and copyleft activist) blogs. Not that "faces" equate to nothi...
Thursday, May 23, 2019

Monopolies, Publishing, and Online Media

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Cory Doctorow's latest column briefly surveys the history of antitrust enforcement, considers the effect on creative artists of the conc...
Sunday, September 09, 2018

Is The DOJ Watching Facebook Advertisements?

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"Targeted" advertising is probably efficient and convenient.  If you don't think that it is worth paying for puce eyeballs to ...