Notices by doctorow (doctorow@mamot.fr)

RT @mpetricone@twitter.com

"We are living through an all-out, global blitz on online free speech, privacy, competition and self-determination, a realtime Chinafication of the western internet" - @doctorow@twitter.com https://twitter.com/mekki/status/1118945188439842816

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/mpetricone/status/1118962798258683906

RT @joshmclark16@twitter.com

Fun surprise to find in my inbox this morning. @torbooks@twitter.com eBook of the month is ‘Walkaway’ by @doctorow@twitter.com. Tor sends a great, FREE eBook to your inbox every month. Don’t miss out!!

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/joshmclark16/status/1118165372929105920

Text-mining journalists find that lawmakers introduced 10,000 bills that were copypasted from lobbyists' "model legislation"
https://boingboing.net/2019/04/11/asbestos-transparency-act.html

Victory! House of Reps passes legislation to restore Net Neutrality
https://boingboing.net/2019/04/10/which-side-are-you-on-5.html

EFF is hiring an international policy director!
https://boingboing.net/2019/04/09/europeans-sought.html

Americans, this is your Canadian friend who lives among you, with your periodic reminder that the socialized medicine systems you fear so much involve 1/10 of the rationing and high-handed bureaucracy of your "free market" system.

Signed,
Booking a specialist for my kid

Betty Crocker’s answer to Kellogg’s snack pack cereals (1957) https://advertisingpics.tumblr.com/post/184045675173/betty-crockers-answer-to-kelloggs-snack-pack

Most browsers -- except Firefox and Brave -- are eliminating the option to turn of surveilling "hyperlink auditing"
https://boingboing.net/2019/04/08/no-opt-out.html

RT @openculture@twitter.com

Home Taping Is Killing Music: When the Music Industry Waged War on the Cassette Tape in the 1980s, and Punk Bands Fought Back http://www.openculture.com/?p=1063050

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/openculture/status/1114598829393764358

Great Ghost https://wilwheaton.tumblr.com/post/183988298655

Philco-Ford automated system for education, 1968 http://danismm.tumblr.com/post/183976436694/philco-ford-automated-system-for-education-1968

Redbook, August 1956
Cover by Lucia Larner
https://gameraboy1.tumblr.com/post/183966184956/redbook-august-1956-cover-by-lucia-larner

Nausea (1973 ed.) http://jellobiafrasays.tumblr.com/post/183964018072/nausea-1973-ed

Bus Stop no.121,
Network of bus stations, Kyrgyzstan,
Built in the late 70s’
http://socialistmodernism.tumblr.com/post/183918270907/bus-stop-no121-network-of-bus-stations

Wearable Raspberry Pi by Jason Benson on flickr, who is clearly living in 3018 https://wilwheaton.tumblr.com/post/183903656730/yournewkeyboard-wearable-raspberry-pi-by-jason

RT @JoshuaSFouts@twitter.com

"Microsoft has a DRM-locked ebook store that isn't making enough money, so they're shutting it down and taking away every book that every one of its customers acquired effective July 1. Customers will receive refunds." via @doctorow@twitter.com https://boingboing.net/2019/04/02/burning-libraries.html

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/JoshuaSFouts/status/1113126016166244352

Researchers find mountains of sensitive data on totalled Teslas in junkyards
https://boingboing.net/2019/03/30/greentheonly.html

Facebook owns Netscape
https://boingboing.net/2019/03/30/facebook-navigator.html

Wide sci-fi landscapes by Moebius, via Concept Ships http://70sscifiart.tumblr.com/post/183743036846/70sscifiart-wide-sci-fi-landscapes-by-moebius

This is actually real, AFAICT. It is a comedy of errors whose tragedy can't be overstated. MEPs fatingered the wrong buttons, casting votes that resulted in the worst internet regulation in western history becoming law. Seriously.

RT @doctorow@twitter.com

Article 13 will wreck the internet because Swedish MEPs accidentally pushed the wrong voting button
https://boingboing.net/2019/03/26/jfc-fml-jfc.html

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1110628195882033152