Notices by doctorow (doctorow@mamot.fr)

RT @SwiftOnSecurity@twitter.com

The last real cyberpunk thing ever made

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/SwiftOnSecurity/status/1154056503327961088

World's First Gyroscopic Car https://thevaultoftheatomicspaceage.tumblr.com/post/187090852500

#1yrago Antivirus maker Sentinelone uses copyright claims to censor video of security research that revealed defects in its products https://boingboing.net/2018/08/18/sentinelone-v-streisand.html

It's one thing to make up allegories about the future, another altogether to maintain the pretense of clairvoyance.

Not every time, but often, having 'futurists' present at SF events is like having TV psychics present at stage magicians' events.

RT @Veronica@twitter.com

@doctorow@twitter.com @catvalente@twitter.com He claims to be a “futurist,” but it sounds like his ass is livin’ in the past.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Veronica/status/1162741531540893696

Defaced banknotes depict the four horsemen of the British political apocalypse https://boingboing.net/2019/08/15/defaced-banknotes-depict-the-f.html

Amazon pays happy warehouse workers to tweet about how happy they are whenever someone complains about warehouse conditions
https://boingboing.net/2019/08/15/resistance-is-futile-2.html

Union Under-Flannels. 1879. https://advertisingpics.tumblr.com/post/186998667998/union-under-flannels-1879

series of photos of trees, moss, and other plant life growing over a sign, a ship, a Ferris wheel, a tank, a train, a car, a building, a fence, another ship, and a metal slide https://quinnception.tumblr.com/post/186856596374/id-series-of-photos-of-trees-moss-and-other /2

Microsoft contractors are listening to your Skype conversations https://boingboing.net/2019/08/08/microsoft-contractors-are-list.html

SimpliSafe bypassed with $2 gadget https://boingboing.net/2019/08/07/simplisafe-bypassed-with-2-ga.html

#1yrago On the cruelty of ankle-monitors https://boingboing.net/2018/08/06/open-prisons.html

This is the NRA and Republicans in a nutshell https://seananmcguire.tumblr.com/post/186785544650/odinsblog-odinsblog-trishmishtree /2

Health Warning https://rollership.tumblr.com/post/186743670487

Oscar Mayer holiday hostess tree, 1970s https://advertisingpics.tumblr.com/post/186667517633/oscar-mayer-holiday-hostess-tree-1970s

Back cover of Science-Fiction Plus, October 1953
Illustration by Frank R Paul.
https://gameraboy1.tumblr.com/post/186652070670/back-cover-of-science-fiction-plus-october-1953

Cop says Amazon told him they had "partnered" with 200 US police forces to sell and tap into Ring surveillance doorbells
https://boingboing.net/2019/07/30/law-enforcement-portal.html

The darkest SEO: forging judges' signatures on fake court orders to scrub negative Google results
https://boingboing.net/2019/07/30/terrible-ideas-r-us.html

Teardown of Apple's lightning-to-HDMI adapter, which turns out to be a tiny computer with 256MB of RAM https://boingboing.net/2019/07/29/teardown-of-apples-lightning.html

Kamala Harris policy generator https://boingboing.net/2019/07/29/kamala-harris-policy-generator.html