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Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Uplinkchump Linkdump; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/06/08/medley/

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Even among the massive amount of information here, Cory manages to slip bonus information, possibly without even realizing it, such as that one can use archive.org to look up classic Wired articles!

Such as this classic yet timely article on how the NotPetya worm nearly took out the entire Maersk Line network if it wasn't for one domain controller that was offline due to a power failure.

https://web.archive.org/web/20180823031544/https://www.wired.com/story/notpetya-cyberattack-ukraine-russia-code-crashed-the-world/

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On June 20th, I'll be in Oakland, CA to keynote the @Locusmag Awards:

https://locusmag.com/2024-locus-awards-weekend/

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Uplinkchump Linkdump: A bushel of links for the weekend.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112580754031246809

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Broadcast Treaty negotiations (day 2/3) https://web.archive.org/web/20040611121552/http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/001597.php

WIPO Broadcast Treaty: consolidated three-day notes https://web.archive.org/web/20040611123828/http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/001599.php#001599

Bush’s climate-change Lysenkoism https://web.archive.org/web/20040620082250/http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.06/view.html?pg=4?tw=wn_tophead_4

Chinese court hands down prison for extortion of virtual wealth https://memex.craphound.com/2009/06/09/chinese-court-hands-down-prison-for-extortion-of-virtual-wealth/

Repo man who specializes in recovering planes from deadbeat con-artists, gangsters and drug-lords https://www.salon.com/2009/06/06/lear_jet_repo_man/

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GE sucks up government money, invests in secret stuff that we’re not allowed to know about https://web.archive.org/web/20090614090948/http://wyomingreview.com/?p=400

Terrorism is auto-immune war; war-on-terror does the terrorists’ job https://yorksranter.wordpress.com/2009/06/07/accidential-guerrilla-part-2-strategy/

More hard data on the impact of free/pirated downloads on book-sales https://magellanmediapartners.com/publishing-innovation/the_impact_of_piracy/

London property bubble entombs a thousand digger-machines https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2014/06/bizarre-secret-london-s-buried-diggers

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Jay Lake, on blogging your own death https://www.dailydot.com/irl/jay-lake-speaker-for-dead/

A non-Aboriginal business has licensed the copyright on Australia’s Aboriginal flag, and are making copyright claims against Aboriginal businesses https://memex.craphound.com/2019/06/08/a-non-aboriginal-business-has-licensed-the-copyright-on-australias-aboriginal-flag-and-are-making-copyright-claims-against-aboriginal-businesses/

Payday lenders switched their trade show to a Trump hotel and sent Trump at least a million bucks, then he gave them carte blanche to make billions preying on poor people https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-inc-podcast-payday-lenders-spent-1-million-at-a-trump-resort-and-cashed-in

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Capitalists hate capitalism https://pluralistic.net/2023/06/09/commissar-merck/#price-giver

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Yesterday's threads: The airlines were patient zero in the junk-fee plague; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112575356760126698

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My latest nationally bestselling novel is "The Bezzle," an ice-cold revenge story of high-tech finance crime starring the forensic accountant Martin Hench:

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250865878/thebezzle

Signed copies from Chevalier's Books:

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Signed copies available from Book Soup:

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Both are national bestsellers!

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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."

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Today's top sources: Steven Clift.

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On June 20th, I'll be in Oakland, CA to keynote the @Locusmag Awards:

https://locusmag.com/2024-locus-awards-weekend/

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