Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: No such thing as selective censorship resistance; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/16/too-many-throats-to-choke/
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Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: No such thing as selective censorship resistance; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/16/too-many-throats-to-choke/
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#Ithaca and #NYC! I'm heading your way for a zillion events from Sept 11-17. Here's a list of open-to-all #Cornell activities including two major keynotes and a public event at Cornell Tech in NYC:
https://adwhiteprofessors.cornell.edu/visits/cory-doctorow/
I'll also be at the #Brooklyn Book Festival on Sept 21:
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No such thing as selective censorship resistance: Age verification, or getting rid of Big Tech (pick one).
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115214741810451619
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Hey look at this
* Hosting a WebSite on a Disposable Vape https://bogdanthegeek.github.io/blog/projects/vapeserver/ (h/t Nelson Minar)
* A Tale of Two Countries https://billmckibben.substack.com/p/a-tale-of-two-countries
* Apple's Assault on Standards https://infrequently.org/2025/09/apples-crimes-against-the-internet-community/ (h/t Dan Gillmor)
* Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant - Lamp and air humidifier with up to 4 light modes https://www.squattingslavs.org/products/chernobyl-nuclear-power-plant (h/t Bruce Sterling)
* Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité https://www.instagram.com/reel/DOoIzjokRpx/ (h/t Alice)
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d to more programming https://memex.craphound.com/2005/09/16/tivos-accidental-no-save-locks-applied-to-more-programming/
#20yrsago Finnish Culture Minister: citizens concerned about copyright are “terrorists” https://hietanen.typepad.com/copyfraud/2005/09/the_story_of_fi.html
#20yrsago Kim Stanley Robinson on eco-disasters on Earth and Mars https://www.theguardian.com/books/2005/sep/14/sciencefictionfantasyandhorror.sarahcrown
#20yrsago WIPO wants to give webcasters the right to steal from public domain, Creative Commons and GPL http://www.cptech.org/wipo/15sep05letter2usptoloc.html
#15yrsago Astronauts’ fingernails fall off https://web.archive.org/web/20100916000752/http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/09/100913-science-space-astronauts-gloves-fingernails-injury/
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