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Electric Dreams (1984) premiered in the US on this date (07-20-1984). It starred Lenny von Dohlen, Virginia Madsen, Maxwell Caulfield, and Bud Cort. Great music. Fun story. #Comedy #Classic #Music #PopcornTime
UN OHCA: Gaza is now at IPC Phase 5 of famine, final stage In a matter of days, not weeks, roughly 470,000 people will begin suffering organ failure, brain injury, and sudden cardiac death. Another 1 million are at phase 4. For children, this damage is already permanent. Even if they survive this, they will be permanently damaged for the rest of their lives.
I am only tagging this under #Gaza because it is not a political issue.
I love how one of the best reviewed air purifiers on this site is basically just a box with PC fans that pulls air through an off the shelf 3M Filtrete and draws just over 10 watts of power housefresh.com/cleanairkits-lu…
@Kylieeee @starlily The fans are at least easy to replace if they ever go bad or if you want to upgrade them. I'm wondering how much the performance would be boosted by adding stators.
I've been using them on 120mm fans for busting hot spots in an equipment room at work and they're just glorious.
@anielsen001 @Kylieeee @starlily computer fans are much quieter for CRBox builds. A bit more involved (and more expensive - about $130) but filters can get replaced easily. Kid1 made one for dorm room last year and putting together another one now mastodon.online/@SRDas/1120325…
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Kid1 put together this computer fan based #CRBox
Works great - fairly quiet.
Parts cost about USD$130 (with an extra set of filters for later) with as much as possible from local hardware store
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New at The Watch: An audit found 36 deaths in police custody that should have been classified as homicides, but that Maryland medical examiners classified as something else. Their failure to call the deaths homicides precluded any further investigation of the officers involved.
Κλιματική αλλαγή, αυτή κατά τον συστημικό τύπο, αντιπολίτευσης και συμπολιτευσης , ευθύνεται για όλα τα δεινά που περνούν οι άνθρωποι από τα καιρικά φαινόμενα (καύσωνες, πλημμύρες κλπ) Κανένας όμως δεν μιλάει για την παράλογη εκμετάλλευση της γης , τις πυρκαγιές, τα μπαζώματα των ποταμών και γενικά ότι άλλο μπορεί να εκμεταλλευτεί το κεφάλαιο για να αυξήσει τον πλούτο του (Μια χαρά βολεύονται όλοι τους)
Σύμφωνα με πληροφορίες που έχω ο Τσίπρας ζητούσε επίμονα τα πρακτικά του 15 γιατί θέλει να ξαναξεκινήσει την πολιτική του καριέρα από το 0 ως ΠΡΑΚΤΙΚΑριος Θέλει να πάρει τα πρακτικά να τα διαβάσει για να θυμηθεί τη δουλειά,να κάνει μια επανάληψη τα sos κ είναι έτοιμος #Τσιπρας #Πρακτικα
Support me this summer in the Clarion Write-A-Thon and help raise money for the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers' Workshop! This summer, I'm writing "The Reverse-Centaur's Guide to AI," a short book for Farrar, Straus and Giroux that explains how to be an effective AI critic:
Cory Doctorow (craphound.com) is a science fiction author, activist and journalist. He is the author of many books, most recently RADICALIZED and WALKAWAY, science fiction for adults; HOW TO DESTROY SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM, nonfiction about monopoly …
Long story short: thanks to a series of misunderstandings, I had to shell out more than ten thousand euros to prevent a German audiobook of my work from being released with DRM and now I need your help (assuming you speak German) to get the book into readers' ears!
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
Wall Street is ignoring Trump antitrust enforcers. Plus, the rare earth crisis abated, the superrich really hate Zohran Mamdani, Trump caves on China, and the NFL players union is in crisis.
My latest novel is "Picks and Shovels," a historical technothriller set in the Weird Era of the PC, about Ponzi schemes, techbros, and the dawn of enshittification:
My next nonfiction book is "Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It," out from MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux on October 7:
My ebooks and audiobooks (from Tor Books, Head of Zeus, McSweeneys, Beacon, Verso and others) are for sale all over the net, but I sell 'em too, and when you buy 'em from me, I earn twice as much and you get books with no DRM and no license "agreements."
The Booksmith is so excited to be welcoming Cory Doctorow back to San Francisco for the release of Enshittification at Public Works. More to come, but grab a ticket and join us!About the bookEnshittification: its not just youthe internet sucks now.
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Support me this summer in the Clarion Write-A-Thon and help raise money for the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers' Workshop! This summer, I'm writing "The Reverse-Centaur's Guide to AI," a short book for Farrar, Straus and Giroux that explains how to be an effective AI critic:
Cory Doctorow (craphound.com) is a science fiction author, activist and journalist. He is the author of many books, most recently RADICALIZED and WALKAWAY, science fiction for adults; HOW TO DESTROY SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM, nonfiction about monopoly …
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for DRM free audiobooks in German(y) I really like the seller "Thalia", they already have some of your English audiobooks in their "audiobook download subscription", this subscription is similar to audible (1 audiobook per month), except that you get them DRM free as downloadable MP3 files.
BREAKTHROUGH: Belgian Authorities Arrest and Interrogate Israeli War Crimes Suspects Following Complaint by Hind Rajab Foundation and GLAN - THE HIND RAJAB FOUNDATION
The suspects were identified and arrested with a clear show of force at the Tomorrowland festival in Boom. After being taken into custody, they were formally interrogated and released. The Belgian Federal Prosecutor’s Office has confirmed that a criminal investigation is now underway.
Boom, Belgium — In what may become a turning point in the global pursuit of accountability, Belgian federal police have arrested and interrogated two Israeli soldiers credibly accused of war...
Entbehrt jeglicher rational nachvollziehbarer Grundlage, dass frühere Geschlechtseinträge und Vornamen dauerhaft gespeichert und an andere Behörden übermittelt werden sollen.
Es ist völlig ausreichend, wie bisher, die aktuellen Daten zugänglich zu machen. Innerhalb der Verwaltung gibt es Schnittstellen, mit denen die Daten bei Bedarf beim Melderegister abgefragt werden können und das sogar digital, sie müssen also nicht an jede Wald- und Wiesen-Behörde weitergegeben werden. Jede Übertragung birgt ein Sicherheitsrisiko und auch die Abfrage muss transparent und nachvollziehbar gehalten werden. Je mehr Menschen darauf Zugriff haben, desto weniger kann Missbrauch verhindert und geahndet werden.
Entweder wurde die Verordnung von Menschen entworfen, die fachlich keine Ahnung haben, oder es ist beabsichtigt, vulnerable Menschen angreifbarer zu machen.
Mit dieser Verordnung wird Diskriminierung Vorschub geleistet.
Mit einer neuen Verordnung zur Umsetzung des Selbstbestimmungsgesetzes will das Bundesinnenministerium frühere Geschlechtseinträge und Vornamen dauerhaft speichern und an andere Behörden übermitteln. Die Begründung bleibt vage – die Kritik von Verbänden ist dafür umso deutlicher.netzpolitik.org/2025/selbstbes…
Αύριο Τρίτη 22/7 καταπλέει στη Σύρο το ισραηλινό κρουαζιερόπλοιο CROWN IRIS, με ισραηλινούς τουρίστες, που έρχονται να κάνουν τις διακοπές τους αμέριμνοι στην Ελλάδα, την ώρα που το κράτος τους διαπράττει γενοκτονία, λιμοκτονία και εθνοκάθαρση στη Γάζα, με τουλάχιστον 58.000 νεκρούς (18.000 παιδιά) τον τελευταίο 1,5 χρονο. Καλούμε τη συριανή κοινωνία σε συγκέντρωση αλληλεγγύης στον μαχόμενο παλαιστινιακό λαό, την Τρίτη 22 Ιούλη στις 11:00 στην πλατεία Μιαούλη. #FreePalestine 🇵🇸 ✊🏼
It’s interesting to me that Netscaler has this vast footprint (>50k devices) and the exploitation activity has allowed entry into orgs including the UN and the US government, bypassing MFA, straight into remote access to internal networks - and it’s had zero mainstream coverage.
SharePoint vuln, a product most orgs stopped running themselves a decade ago - all over media.
I'm going to blame the PMs. They are the sharepoint descendents. They also are the communicators. Netscaler isn't as ubiquitous and they don't know what that is. But man do they know SharePoint.
I suspect that it's mostly public familiarity; not sure if there's anyone from the tech-business-but-not-really-technical side who is interested because it's another case where o365 sharepoint and exchange are unaffected(or at least were mitigated a lot more quickly and quietly); but on-prem gets to live dangerously.
The child Hamza Fayadh, son of Hussein Fayadh, commander of the Beit Hanoun Battalion in Al-Qassam Brigades, was killed today along with his mother and sister Bayan in an Israeli airstrike on the Gaza Strip, according to Palestinian media.
“Malnutrition-related deaths in Gaza are beginning to climb [..]. Doctors report that people are ‘collapsing’ in the street, and Gaza journalist Nahed Hajjaj is warning the world not to be surprised if the remaining reporters in the enclave are soon silenced by starvation”
Long story short: thanks to a series of misunderstandings, I had to shell out more than ten thousand euros to prevent a German audiobook of my work from being released with DRM and now I need your help (assuming you speak German) to get the book into readers' ears!
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
For more than a quarter-century, I've had an iron-clad policy of not releasing my work with "digital rights management," this being a kind of encryption that keeps my readers from reading the books they've bought in the apps of their choice.
There's two reasons for this: the first is, it's just grossly unfair. If you buy one of my print books, you can shelve it on any bookcase and read it sitting in any chair, under any company's lightbulb.
It's stupid and offensive for a company like Amazon/Audible to declare that you can only read the ebooks and audiobooks you buy using the apps they approve.
But the second reason is more insidious and subtle. By retaining control over the apps that you *must* use to read or listen to your books, companies like Amazon are able to lock you into their platform.
That means they can change the deal even after you've made your purchase (for example, Amazon has been caught deleting ebooks from people's Kindle apps and readers and Audible has experimented with inserting ads into your audiobooks after you buy them).
This lock-in isn't limited to readers, either. Once Amazon has all my readers locked in, the company acquires control over *me*, the writer.
After all, if my readers can't switch from Amazon to another bookseller, then *I* can't switch from Amazon to another bookseller, because that would mean asking my readers to start over buying *all* their books again.
Amazon has a long history of squeezing its sellers - including writers and publishers - once it has them locked in. Today, 45-51% of every Amazon Marketplace purchase from an independent seller is skimmed off by Amazon in junk fees.
The company makes $58 billion/year charging vendors for search placement (rather than putting the best match for shoppers' searches at the top of the result). And they stole at least $100m from Audible audiobook authors:
In 1998, the US passed a law (Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act) that makes tampering with DRM a felony with a 5-year prison sentence and a $500k fine (for a first offense).
In the years since, the US Trade Representative bullied every US trading partner into adopting this law. The EU did so in 2001, with Article 6 of the Copyright Directive.
This means that it's literally a *crime* for me, the author of a book, who holds the copyright to the work, to authorize you, a reader who bought the ebook or audiobook on Amazon, to convert the digital file so that it works with apps that compete with Amazon's.
So *that's* why I don't allow my work to be sold with DRM.
Everyone I do business with knows this - my publishers, my agents, etc - and over the past quarter century and more than 30 books, all of these people have bent over backwards to accommodate this policy of mine, even when it meant changing the workflow they used for *thousands* of books just to make an exception for me. I'm incredibly grateful for this.
But eventually, someone was bound to slip up, and *that's* how I ended up owning the German audiobook for my novel *Red Team Blues*.
After *Red Team Blues* was published in English in 2022 and became a national bestseller, many foreign publishers snapped up the translation rights. Among them was Heyne, my German publisher, who commissioned a fantastic translation by Jürgen Langowski that has sold briskly in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
Heyne also commissioned an audiobook, beautifully read by a beloved German audiobook narrator, Uve Teschner.
But somewhere in there, everyone forgot that this audiobook could only be sold without DRM. And since Audible, Apple Books and Audiobooks.com *refuse to carry DRM-free books*, that meant that they would not be able to sell the books in the places where 90+% of readers look for them.
No one is to blame here. It's just an oversight. But it left us all in the awkward position of my publisher having spent more than EUR10,000 on an audiobook that they would never be able to recoup on. Both my publisher and my agent offered to eat these costs, but I felt bad about this, given the great lengths both had gone to over the years to help me live my principles through my books.
Besides: I have this platform of mine, the newsletters and lists of people who've bought audiobooks from me before and the people who've backed the Kickstarters for my previous English works, and I decided I would buy the audiobook rights from my German publisher and try to make the money back by selling directly to my German fans.
Today, I've launched a Kickstarter campaign to sell the DRM-free German audiobook. I'm also selling the DRM-free ebook, and the German paperback, which will be fulfilled by my pals at Berlin's excellent sf/f bookstore Otherland (due to the Trump tariff nonsense, these can only be shipped in the EU, UK, and Switzerland):
There's something for English-speaking readers, too: discounted editions of the English-language ebook and audiobook (read by Wil Wheaton), available in bundles with the German titles, or on their own. Europeans can also order the print edition of the book (again, fulfilled by Otherland in Berlin).
Now, I don't speak German. I grew up speaking Yiddish, much of which I've forgotten, which means I can kind of grunt out ungrammatical German-adjacent phrases (the Otherland folks generously translated my Kickstarter page into German). That means that I have *extremely* limited ability to promote this Kickstarter to German-speaking audiences. I'm really relying on my readers here: if you are a German-speaker and/or have German-speaking friends, please let them know about this!
When you do, your pals are going to ask you what the book is about. *Red Team Blues* tells the story of the last case of Martin Hench, a 67 year old high-tech forensic accountant who's spent 40 years in Silicon Valley, busting the weirdest financial scams that three generations of tech bros cooked up. For this final job, Marty's been called out of retirement to resolve that scammiest of all tech-bro schemes, a cryptocurrency heist.
Marty's dear old pal Danny Lazer has built a new - and wildly successful - kind of blockchain, built on the security chips in mobile devices, called Trustlesscoin. Lazer is a cypherpunk legend, but that's not why Trustlesscoin went from zero to more than a billion in capitalization in a few short months: all that money poured in because some of the world's most ruthless criminals came to appreciate how Danny's cryptocurrency could facilitate money-laundering.
That would be bad enough, but Danny is exactly the kind of very smart guy who is more than capable of outsmarting *himself*. That's how he came to build a cryptographic back-door into Trustlesscoin, a secret key that allows the bearer to rewrite the supposedly immutable transactions in the network, which is to say, to steal *all the money*.
That's where Marty Hench comes in: Danny summons Marty to his home in Palo Alto because someone has stolen the physical token that this billion-dollar key lives on, and if someone doesn't get it back *soon*, it's only a matter of time until a billion dollars goes missing, and then the kind of people who resolve their monetary disputes with bone-saws and red-hot pokers will come looking for Danny.
That's where the story starts - but recovering Danny's missing keys are the *easy* part. The hard part comes next, when Marty finds himself in the crosshairs of the violent international crime syndicates that boosted the keys in the first place.
People *really* like this book. It's the kind of book you stay up all night reading (or, as @molly0xfff from Web3 is Going Just Great put it, "don't start reading it at bedtime if you have to be awake for something the next morning").
If you find yourself craving morning Marty Hench in the morning, I've published two more bestsellers recounting his earlier adventures: *The Bezzle* and *Picks and Shovels*.
Check it out for yourself. Here's the first chapter of the German audiobook, read by Uve Teschner:
The campaign only runs for a brisk three weeks (I've got to get it all put away before I head out on tour with *Enshittification* in October), so act fast:
Support me this summer in the Clarion Write-A-Thon and help raise money for the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers' Workshop! This summer, I'm writing "The Reverse-Centaur's Guide to AI," a short book for Farrar, Straus and Giroux that explains how to be an effective AI critic:
Cory Doctorow (craphound.com) is a science fiction author, activist and journalist. He is the author of many books, most recently RADICALIZED and WALKAWAY, science fiction for adults; HOW TO DESTROY SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM, nonfiction about monopoly …
"C'est historique : la Cour d'appel de Paris a annoncé ce jeudi 17 juillet la libération de Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, militant communiste libanais de la cause palestinienne, après 41 ans derrière les barreaux.
C’est historique : la Cour d’appel de Paris a annoncé ce jeudi 17 juillet la libération de Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, militant communiste libanais de la cause palestinienne, après 41 ans derrière les barreaux.
Die sogenannten "Mütter und Väter" des Grundgesetzes hatten ein sehr klares Verständnis von deutscher #Staatsräson. Die meisten Deutschen, die ich kenne, können sie auswendig aufsagen:
Margot #Friedländer sagte es so: »Es gibt kein christliches Blut, es gibt kein jüdisches Blut, es gibt kein arabisches Blut – es gibt nur menschliches Blut. Seid Menschen.«
Es ist deprimierend, dass deutsche "Staatsräson" heute definiert wird als Solidarität mit mutmaßlichen Kriegsverbrechern und Völkermördern. Mit Staaten, nicht mehr mit Menschen.
Und dass die moralisch verkommene Politik-"Elite", einschließlich der @Bundesregierung dem Wahn verfallen ist, man könne sich das getrocknete Blut eines historischen Genozids mit dem frischen eines neuen von den Händen waschen.
Billiges verbales "Bedauern" und "Mahnen" und "Fordern" dieser scheinheiligen Verantwortungsträger geht einher mit weiteren Lieferungen von Material und Waffen. Mit dem Verzicht auf Sanktionen. Mit dem Denunzieren aller, die Konsequenzen für die Kriegsverbrechen fordern. Mit dem ausdrücklichen Wunsch, den mutmaßlichen Kriegsverbrecher #Netanjahu nach #Deutschland einzuladen.
Unser Land hat nicht den leisesten Begriff davon, wie es dafür außerhalb der eigenen Blase von der Welt beurteilt wird.
The ideology behind the ‘New America’ is more dangerous than it looks rt.com/news/621702-ideology-be… The superhumans are coming – and so is the danger Read Full Article at RT.com #news #press
They never learn, I swear to Christ. The agreement is between several parties, Suella. It was negotiated by individuals whose moral & intellectual stature is beyond your fucking comprehension. You don't get to unilaterally rewrite it so it satisfies your pathological simple-mindedness. RE: bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ndqnc…
Dr. Nick #Maynard, britischer #Chirurg im freiwilligen Einsatz in #Gaza, über das Schießen und Töten an den "Hilfs"-Verteilungsstandorten des "Humanitären" Gaza-Fonds (#GHF) – und darüber, was das medizinische Personal in der Notaufnahme in der Folge davon sieht:
"ein sehr klares Muster, bei dem an bestimmten Tagen verschiedene Körperteile ins Visier genommen werden. An einem Tag sind es also alles Schusswunden im Bauch, an einem anderen Tag sind am Kopf oder Hals. An einem weiteren Tag sind es Schusswunden an Armen oder Beinen.
Und letzten Samstag wurden vier Teenager mit Schusswunden in den Hoden eingeliefert, und zwar sehr, sehr schnell nacheinander. [...] es ist fast so, als ob ein Spiel gespielt wird.«
Nick Maynard, a British surgeon in Gaza, says he has witnessed a pattern of gunshot injuries among Palestinian teen boys in Gaza who visit US and Israeli-bac...
The establishment footsoldiers are at it again, just as we warned they would be when Zarah Sultana announced that she was to set up a much more radical party to represent the many, not the few.
The hope we offered voters at the last general election is rapidly slipping away and it's time to change course, argues Labour councillor James Barber-Chadwick
The UN humanitarian agency (OCHA) has described Israel’s latest forced displacement threat as “yet another devastating blow” to Palestinians in Gaza.Accordin...
> Εκατομμύρια θεατές σε όλο τον κόσμο πιστεύουν ότι η νέα ταινία του Σούπερμαν δημιουργήθηκε σαν μια αλληγορία για τη γενοκτονία του παλαιστινιακού λαού - του Άρη Χατζηστεφάνου | Εφημερίδα των Συντακτών
Israeli shelling pummelled the central Gaza city of Deir el-Balah on Monday as the army warned it was launching an operation "in an area where it has not operated before".
@shortstories woman's name is Sevarra. idk the etymology of the name. If from Ohio she is probably lower quintile/income. She works at a hotel reception after all.
Urdu is a cross between Arabic and Hindi commonly spoken by Muslims
Arabic vocabulary is very similar to Hebrew except it has a different alphabet which has some different letters with different phonetics and when the letters used to spell a word are not shared in both languages the word might be pronounced a little different. Also each dialect of both pronounce letters different
Those that are incapable of accepting generalized statements of truth regarding any topic will often proclaim that they are doing so due to their superior intellect:
"It's more complicated/It's more nuanced than that."
The purpose of a generalized statement is that it is true for most cases, not for every single case. Exceptions exist, but focusing on the exceptions too much shows that you are actually not intelligent and/or you are pushing an agenda.
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