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As always – despite the laws, despite the theories – women seized opportunities.
"Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History" - Philippa Gregory
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I went to this place but it's worse than closed.
(Love that font though.)
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Today Nel, my love and I, went for a really short walk.
Yesterday was exhausting and today I wanted to really relax and do very little throughout the day.
While on this walk, literally 2 blocks.. a car starts up and REEVVVES it’s engine SO LOUD and it continues to be incredibly loud as it drives past us, it was so triggering and I couldn’t help but have invasive thoughts about these kinds of people and why do they need to use their cars to fill some kind of gap they are feeling, is it an ego boost?? Is it satisfying in some way!? Does it make them feel powerful!? Wtf.
My body started to feel weak, the sensation of anger and confusion and weakness covered my body in a way I can’t fully explain.. do I sit down? Can I make it home before the seizing of muscles begins?
Every step forward is scary and every step forward I feel more and more vulnerable to sounds and anything that requires decision making seems impossible.
I made it in the front door of our home, managed to slip my jacket off on to the floor and the seizure hit.
This is why I can’t yet even go for a walk around the block yet by myself. I’m so exhausted and frustrated and grieving my old self and life.
My plans for the rest of the night are now questionable, idk what will be possible for me or what might make me have another seizure or a spike of emotions that I know aren’t needed.
Living with Non Epileptic Seizures is SO MUCH WORK.
#honeycombhank#mental heath support#many thoughts head full#so many feelings#original content#healing#my pets#dog walking#my love#non epileptic seizures#seized#life with seizures#mental wellbeing#i’m trying#choices#fitness#walking#greyhound#loud trucks#cars
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distract me
if you dare
I'll grab your wrists
I'll seize your hair
#original poem#original poetry#poems and poetry#love poem#couple#sexy poem#sexy#tease#sexy tease#mine#dare#truth or dare#wrists#hair#pull my hair#on your knees#excuse me sir#distract me#seized#sexy prose#spilled prose#spilled#romantic#promise#cute#dominance#naughty
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They keep saying that we “can’t change the definition of words” but then they try changing the definition of “seized.”
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Police Seize Uninsured Vehicle on Watford Road, Croxley Green
Passersby witnessed two police cars outside the shopping parade on Watford Road, next to Frankland Road in Croxley Green, at around 10am today (March 8).
The Watford Observer say Police have confirmed that it had stopped a Peugeot 407 outside a shopping parade. A vehicle was seized because it was not insured, and had no MOT.
Jacqueline shared a photo in a local community group on facebook,…
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Kickstarting a book to end enshittification, because Amazon will not carry it
My next book is The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation: it’s a Big Tech disassembly manual that explains how to disenshittify the web and bring back the old good internet. The hardcover comes from Verso on Sept 5, but the audiobook comes from me — because Amazon refuses to sell my audio:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/doctorow/the-internet-con-how-to-seize-the-means-of-computation
Amazon owns Audible, the monopoly audiobook platform that controls >90% of the audio market. They require mandatory DRM for every book sold, locking those books forever to Amazon’s monopoly platform. If you break up with Amazon, you have to throw away your entire audiobook library.
That’s a hell of a lot of leverage to hand to any company, let alone a rapacious monopoly that ran a program targeting small publishers called “Project Gazelle,” where execs were ordered to attack indie publishers “the way a cheetah would pursue a sickly gazelle”:
https://www.businessinsider.com/sadistic-amazon-treated-book-sellers-the-way-a-cheetah-would-pursue-a-sickly-gazelle-2013-10
[Image ID: Journalist and novelist Doctorow (Red Team Blues) details a plan for how to break up Big Tech in this impassioned and perceptive manifesto….Doctorow’s sense of urgency is contagious -Publishers Weekly]
I won’t sell my work with DRM, because DRM is key to the enshittification of the internet. Enshittification is why the old, good internet died and became “five giant websites filled with screenshots of the other four” (h/t Tom Eastman). When a tech company can lock in its users and suppliers, it can drain value from both sides, using DRM and other lock-in gimmicks to keep their business even as they grow ever more miserable on the platform.
Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys
[Image ID: A brilliant barn burner of a book. Cory is one of the sharpest tech critics, and he shows with fierce clarity how our computational future could be otherwise -Kate Crawford, author of The Atlas of AI”]
The Internet Con isn’t just an analysis of where enshittification comes from: it’s a detailed, shovel-ready policy prescription for halting enshittification, throwing it into reverse and bringing back the old, good internet.
How do we do that? With interoperability: the ability to plug new technology into those crapulent, decaying platform. Interop lets you choose which parts of the service you want and block the parts you don’t (think of how an adblocker lets you take the take-it-or-leave “offer” from a website and reply with “How about nah?”):
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/07/adblocking-how-about-nah
But interop isn’t just about making platforms less terrible — it’s an explosive charge that demolishes walled gardens. With interop, you can leave a social media service, but keep talking to the people who stay. With interop, you can leave your mobile platform, but bring your apps and media with you to a rival’s service. With interop, you can break up with Amazon, and still keep your audiobooks.
So, if interop is so great, why isn’t it everywhere?
Well, it used to be. Interop is how Microsoft became the dominant operating system:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/06/adversarial-interoperability-reviving-elegant-weapon-more-civilized-age-slay
[Image ID: Nobody gets the internet-both the nuts and bolts that make it hum and the laws that shaped it into the mess it is-quite like Cory, and no one’s better qualified to deliver us a user manual for fixing it. That’s The Internet Con: a rousing, imaginative, and accessible treatise for correcting our curdled online world. If you care about the internet, get ready to dedicate yourself to making interoperability a reality. -Brian Merchant, author of Blood in the Machine]
It’s how Apple saved itself from Microsoft’s vicious campaign to destroy it:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/06/adversarial-interoperability-reviving-elegant-weapon-more-civilized-age-slay
Every tech giant used interop to grow, and then every tech giant promptly turned around and attacked interoperators. Every pirate wants to be an admiral. When Big Tech did it, that was progress; when you do it back to Big Tech, that’s piracy. The tech giants used their monopoly power to make interop without permission illegal, creating a kind of “felony contempt of business model” (h/t Jay Freeman).
The Internet Con describes how this came to pass, but, more importantly, it tells us how to fix it. It lays out how we can combine different kinds of interop requirements (like the EU’s Digital Markets Act and Massachusetts’s Right to Repair law) with protections for reverse-engineering and other guerrilla tactics to create a system that is strong without being brittle, hard to cheat on and easy to enforce.
What’s more, this book explains how to get these policies: what existing legislative, regulatory and judicial powers can be invoked to make them a reality. Because we are living through the Great Enshittification, and crises erupt every ten seconds, and when those crises occur, the “good ideas lying around” can move from the fringes to the center in an eyeblink:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/06/12/only-a-crisis/#lets-gooooo
[Image ID: Thoughtfully written and patiently presented, The Internet Con explains how the promise of a free and open internet was lost to predatory business practices and the rush to commodify every aspect of our lives. An essential read for anyone that wants to understand how we lost control of our digital spaces and infrastructure to Silicon Valley’s tech giants, and how we can start fighting to get it back. -Tim Maughan, author of INFINITE DETAIL]
After all, we’ve known Big Tech was rotten for years, but we had no idea what to do about it. Every time a Big Tech colossus did something ghastly to millions or billions of people, we tried to fix the tech company. There’s no fixing the tech companies. They need to burn. The way to make users safe from Big Tech predators isn’t to make those predators behave better — it’s to evacuate those users:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/18/urban-wildlife-interface/#combustible-walled-gardens
I’ve been campaigning for human rights in the digital world for more than 20 years; I’ve been EFF’s European Director, representing the public interest at the EU, the UN, Westminster, Ottawa and DC. This is the subject I’ve devoted my life to, and I live my principles. I won’t let my books be sold with DRM, which means that Audible won’t carry my audiobooks. My agent tells me that this decision has cost me enough money to pay off my mortgage and put my kid through college. That’s a price I’m willing to pay if it means that my books aren’t enshittification bait.
But not selling on Audible has another cost, one that’s more important to me: a lot of readers prefer audiobooks and 9 out of 10 of those readers start and end their searches on Audible. When they don’t find an author there, they assume no audiobook exists, period. It got so bad I put up an audiobook on Amazon — me, reading an essay, explaining how Audible rips off writers and readers. It’s called “Why None of My Audiobooks Are For Sale on Audible”:
https://pluralistic.net/2022/07/25/can-you-hear-me-now/#acx-ripoff
[Image ID: Doctorow has been thinking longer and smarter than anyone else I know about how we create and exchange value in a digital age. -Douglas Rushkoff, author of Present Shock]
To get my audiobooks into readers’ ears, I pre-sell them on Kickstarter. This has been wildly successful, both financially and as a means of getting other prominent authors to break up with Amazon and use crowdfunding to fill the gap. Writers like Brandon Sanderson are doing heroic work, smashing Amazon’s monopoly:
https://www.brandonsanderson.com/guest-editorial-cory-doctorow-is-a-bestselling-author-but-audible-wont-carry-his-audiobooks/
And to be frank, I love audiobooks, too. I swim every day as physio for a chronic pain condition, and I listen to 2–3 books/month on my underwater MP3 player, disappearing into an imaginary world as I scull back and forth in my public pool. I’m able to get those audiobooks on my MP3 player thanks to Libro.fm, a DRM-free store that supports indie booksellers all over the world:
https://blog.libro.fm/a-qa-with-mark-pearson-libro-fm-ceo-and-co-founder/
Producing my own audiobooks has been a dream. Working with Skyboat Media, I’ve gotten narrators like @wilwheaton, Amber Benson, @neil-gaiman and Stefan Rudnicki for my work:
https://craphound.com/shop/
[Image ID: “This book is the instruction manual Big Tech doesn’t want you to read. It deconstructs their crummy products, undemocratic business models, rigged legal regimes, and lies. Crack this book and help build something better. -Astra Taylor, author of Democracy May Not Exist, but We’ll Miss It When Its Gone”]
But for this title, I decided that I would read it myself. After all, I’ve been podcasting since 2006, reading my own work aloud every week or so, even as I traveled the world and gave thousands of speeches about the subject of this book. I was excited (and a little trepedatious) at the prospect, but how could I pass up a chance to work with director Gabrielle de Cuir, who has directed everyone from Anne Hathaway to LeVar Burton to Eric Idle?
Reader, I fucking nailed it. I went back to those daily recordings fully prepared to hate them, but they were good — even great (especially after my engineer John Taylor Williams mastered them). Listen for yourself!
https://archive.org/details/cory_doctorow_internet_con_chapter_01
I hope you’ll consider backing this Kickstarter. If you’ve ever read my free, open access, CC-licensed blog posts and novels, or listened to my podcasts, or come to one of my talks and wished there was a way to say thank you, this is it. These crowdfunders make my DRM-free publishing program viable, even as audiobooks grow more central to a writer’s income and even as a single company takes over nearly the entire audiobook market.
Backers can choose from the DRM-free audiobook, DRM-free ebook (EPUB and MOBI) and a hardcover — including a signed, personalized option, fulfilled through the great LA indie bookstore Book Soup:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/doctorow/the-internet-con-how-to-seize-the-means-of-computation
What’s more, these ebooks and audiobooks are unlike any you’ll get anywhere else because they are sold without any terms of service or license agreements. As has been the case since time immemorial, when you buy these books, they’re yours, and you are allowed to do anything with them that copyright law permits — give them away, lend them to friends, or simply read them with any technology you choose.
As with my previous Kickstarters, backers can get their audiobooks delivered with an app (from libro.fm) or as a folder of MP3s. That helps people who struggle with “sideloading,” a process that Apple and Google have made progressively harder, even as they force audiobook and ebook sellers to hand over a 30% app tax on every dollar they make:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/doctorow/red-team-blues-another-audiobook-that-amazon-wont-sell/posts/3788112
Enshittification is rotting every layer of the tech stack: mobile, payments, hosting, social, delivery, playback. Every tech company is pulling the rug out from under us, using the chokepoints they built between audiences and speakers, artists and fans, to pick all of our pockets.
The Internet Con isn’t just a lament for the internet we lost — it’s a plan to get it back. I hope you’ll get a copy and share it with the people you love, even as the tech platforms choke off your communities to pad their quarterly numbers.
Next weekend (Aug 4-6), I'll be in Austin for Armadillocon, a science fiction convention, where I'm the Guest of Honor:
https://armadillocon.org/d45/
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:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/31/seize-the-means-of-computation/#the-internet-con
[Image ID: My forthcoming book 'The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation' in various editions: Verso hardcover, audiobook displayed on a phone, and ebook displayed on an e-ink reader.]
#pluralistic#trustbusting#big tech#gift guide#kickstarter#the internet con#books#audiobooks#enshitiffication#disenshittification#crowdfunders#seize the means of computation#audible#amazon#verso
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How eloquently the committee sided with the dispossessed native peoples of half the world.
Too often, their territory has been usurped; their property seized; their numbers diminished; their character debased; the spread of civilization impeded. European vices and diseases have been introduced amongst them, and they have been familiarized with the use of our most potent instruments for the subtle or the violent destruction of human life, viz. brandy and gunpowder . . .
It might be presumed that the native inhabitants of any land have an incontrovertible right to their own soil; a plain and sacred right, however, which seems not to have been understood. Europeans have entered their borders uninvited, and, when there, have not only acted as if they were undoubted lords of the soil, but have punished the natives as aggressors if they have evinced a disposition to live in their own country.
"Killing for Country: A Family History" - David Marr
#book quotes#killing for country#david marr#nonfiction#eloquent#committee#report from the select committee on aborigines (british settlements)#indigenous peoples#usurped#seized#diminished#colonization#brandy#gunpowder#punishment
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Bronze Bust of Ancient Roman Emperor's Daughter Seized in New York: Latest News
Discover the latest news about the seizure of a valuable bronze bust believed to depict an ancient Roman emperor's daughter from a Massachusetts art museum by New York authorities investigating antiquities stolen from Turkey. Explore the complexities surrounding looted antiquities, their provenance, and the ethical responsibilities of museums.
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Bihar News: Dhanbad से Samastipur जा रहा शराब लदा पिकअप बेगूसराय में पकड़ाया
Begusarai: बिहार में पूर्ण शराबबंदी लागू रहने के बाद भी शराब कारोबारी का मनोबल चरम पर है। पुलिस के द्वारा लगातार छापेमारी कर प्रत्येक दिन शराब की खेप पकड़ी भी जा रही है।
शनिवार को भी उत्पाद विभाग एवं बलिया पुलिस द्वारा शराब की बड़ी खेप बरामद किया गया है।एनएच-31 स्थित डंडारी ढ़ाला के समीप से एक पिकअप वाहन से यह शराब बरामद किया गया है।
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Shadwell seized hold of his arm.
"Weaveworld" - Clive Barker
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How To Defeat Seized Construct In Zelda TOTK (Boss Fight)
Seized Construct is one of the easiest bosses you will have to fight in Zelda Tears of the Kingdom if you know what to do. If you are on a quest to get the Vow of Mineru: Sage of Spirit, the Seized Construct will come in your way. For this TotK boss fight, we recommend players carry Zonai Charges as they will come in handy. While completing the Guidance of Ages Past quest, players will encounter…
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Iranian ship “illegally hunted” seized in Yemen territorial waters It was announced that an Iranian fishing vessel was seized on the grounds of "illegal fishing" off the coast of Socotra in southeast Yemen. According to Yemen's official news agency SABA, a security committee meeting was held under the chairmanship of Socotra Governor Rafet al-Sukli. At the meeting, it was announced that military and security units seized an Iranian fishing vessel that was illegally caught off the coast of Abd al-Kuri, the second largest island of Socotra. Socotra Governor Sukli decided to establish a joint committee of the relevant security units to inspect the ship, investigate the crew and present a comprehensive report on this matter. Iran has not yet made a statement regarding the incident. The opinions expressed herein are the author’s and not necessarily those of News2Sea. #Iranian #ship #illegally #hunted https://www.news2sea.com/iranian-ship-illegally-hunted-seized-in-yemen-territorial-waters/?utm_source=tumblr&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=News2sea
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