There's no such thing as "shareholder supremacy": When "fiduciary duty" means "whatever I wanted to do."

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113158608613801651

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Cory Doctorow

2024-09-18 12:42:19

Here's a cheap trick: claim that your opponents' goals are so squishy and qualitative that no one will ever be able to say whether they've been succeeded or failed, and then declare that *your* goals can be evaluated using crisp, objective criteria.

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Hey look at this

* Academic Journal Publishers Antitrust Litigation https://www.lieffcabraser.com/antitrust/academic-journals/

* DEF CON 32 - Disenshittify or die! How hackers can seize the means of computation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EmstuO0Em8

* Is Telegram really an encrypted messaging app? https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2024/08/25/telegram-is-not-really-an-encrypted-messaging-app/ (h/t Bruce Schneier)

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#20yrsago Wikipedia breaks 10^6 articles https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_press_releases/One_million_Wikipedia_articles_(US)/Print

#10yrsago The filthiest camp at Burning Man https://journal.burningman.org/2014/09/black-rock-city/leaving-no-trace/moop-map-2014-the-map-youve-never-seen/

#10yrsago Drone flythrough of Toronto’s magnificently renovated reference library https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/renovations/toronto-reference-library-revitalization.jsp

#1yrago Justin C Key's "The World Wasn't Ready For You" https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/19/justin-c-key/#clarion-west-2015

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Yesterday's threads: Christopher Brown's 'A Natural History of Empty Lots'; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113153459297641949

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Cory Doctorow

2024-09-17 14:52:47

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Christopher Brown's 'A Natural History of Empty Lots'; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/09/17/cyberpunk-pastoralism/

#Pluralistic

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Recent appearances:

* @defcon 32 - Disenshittify or die! How hackers can seize the means of computation
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