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Favoriting September 7, 2020: Cory Doctorow, author, "How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism"

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Diagram showing drone surveillance of your house, from an Amazon patent (via <a href="https://www.protocol.com/amazon-surveillance-delivery-drones-patent" target="_blank">Protocol</a>)
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Diagram showing drone surveillance of your house, from an Amazon patent (via Protocol)

Tonight: Cory Doctorow, author, "How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism"

Pointers:

• How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism, full text of the book by Cory Doctorow

• @doctorow (Twitter)

• Pluralistic (Cory's "old-fashioned link-blog")

• Craphound.com (Cory's homepage)

• Techtonic interview with Shoshana Zuboff, author of "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism" (May 13, 2020 show)

• Amazon wants to use delivery drones to surveil your house (Protocol, Aug 30): "In Amazon's vision of the future, drones are going to be blanketing the sky, delivering packages to us, day in, day out... Amazon envisions using the drones' cameras for home surveillance, scanning for things like broken windows and people on a property. Because who wouldn't want the company behind Ring and Rekognition to be scanning for whether you're home all the time?"

• Outtro by Matt Robertson, who explains: ""I liken the surveillance phenomenon to a huge slow moving airship that everyone can see, but because it just hovers around really slowly, after a while people become used to it and eventually ignore it or get used to its presence." Thanks to DJ Scott Williams for the pointer!

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  Cory Doctorow discusses his new book, "How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism"
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Listener comments!

  6:00pm
David in London:

Evening Technoids. Hello Mark.
  6:00pm
P-90:

Greetings.
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ultradamno:

Hello Mark! Techtolsheviks!
  6:01pm
Roland from Australia:

Hello All, and Web Hamster Henry I just wanted to say I really enjoyed your interview with Mark Hurst a while back. Thank you for all your contribution to WFMU. Now here I am in Australia benefiting from the work you did all those years ago
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Phillippe Bastille:

Howdy
  6:02pm
David in London:

Ultradamno. Hail to thee.
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ultradamno:

American Voices piece in The Onion on Wal Mart + “Until Walmart starts treating its workers fairly, I’ll be sticking with Amazon Prime.”

www.theonion.com...
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ultradamno:

Hiya DiL!
  6:03pm
P-90:

Hola Olivia at the board!
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Webhamster Henry:

Hi Mark & Boing-Boing readers!
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:04pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

Hey, Mark and techtoscriveners. Would a business venture installing tinfoil shingles be a good opportunity?
  6:04pm
P-90:

Boing? BOING!
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TDK60:

Hello.
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brainiac:

So looking forward to hearing Cory Doctorow today.
Hi everyone.
  6:05pm
David in London:

Yo Phillippe.
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Bas NL:

Hi Mark! Happy 150est!
  6:05pm
P-90:

Well, Happy Third Anniversary!
  6:05pm
Claire from Montclair:

Congratulations!
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PaulRobeson1920:

Warm greetings everyone! Beautiful summer night, if only for awhile
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Baja Joe:

Congrats on CL episode
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brainiac:

RIP David Graeber
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:06pm
Webhamster Henry:

@Roland in AU Thanks! Most of my stuff is gone now; the interface you are using was mad by Kenzo, who you can hear on Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza, Mondays at 3 on the Drummer Stream!
  6:07pm
David in London:

TDK, brainiac. All the classic groovers are here. Except Handy, who is probably trashed in the park by now.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:10pm
PaulRobeson1920:

We’re doin it LIVE!
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Mark Hurst:

Hi all, thanks for joining! @Baja, thx for the CL congrats.
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ultradamno:

And congrats to making the fall sched.
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brainiac:

Hi Divid in London!
I'm saying hi to Handy in the future listening on the archives.
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holland oats:

long time listener (via podcast), first time live show commenter - go mark!
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Mark Hurst:

@ultra thanks. It continues to be a privilege to be part of the WFMU lineup.
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PaulRobeson1920:

Goodness Gracious! Bananas!? A storied history...
  6:12pm
P-90:

Has anyone yet gotten Doctorow and Zuboff together to discuss all this?
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Mark Hurst:

@holland - appreciate it! And welcome to the comment board!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:14pm
Mark Hurst:

@Ken from HP good idea, tinfoil shingles. Then we can finally take these hats off
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PaulRobeson1920:

Interesting... Modes of domination & Max Weber, comes to mind!
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:15pm
PaulRobeson1920:

How do we come to know what we know? Good question haha
  6:15pm
Dean:

Right: reduce corporate power, and not just *big tech* corporate power.
  6:15pm
Dave Miss:

Happy Labor Day techies
  6:16pm
P-90:

Hm, I didn’t think Fidget Spinners would come up this soon in the interview...
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Webhamster Henry:

Glad there's a new Little Brother book.
  6:16pm
Dean:

If only big tech could learn not to lie, much like, say, those insurance companies and banks never lie.
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ultradamno:

Or a foil house cozy
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:19pm
Mark Hurst:

@P-90 Fidget Spinners and Scientology, just a normal day here on Techtonic
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Webhamster Henry:

It starts with the cat videos.
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brainiac:

Hail Xemu
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PaulRobeson1920:

Oppenheimer... He felt and wrote every human being should read this next book! (seriously)
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:21pm
PaulRobeson1920:

“Hiroshima Diary -The Journal of a Japanese Physician, August 6-September 30, 1945” by Dr. Michihiko Hachiya. director of the Hiroshima Communications Hospital when the world's first atomic bomb was dropped on the city.
Avatar 6:21pm
brainiac:

@Dave Miss: Can't wait to get my new WFMU Skeleton shirt!
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Mark Hurst:

@PaulRobeson thanks for the pointer
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PaulRobeson1920:

Thanks for this interview! Interesting stuff
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a5vzener:

None of my friends will admit to believing in science. I need new friends.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:24pm
Mark Hurst:

Flat Earther documentary covered on Techtonic - coincidentally - May 20, 2019 (a week after the Zuboff interview). www.wfmu.org...
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:25pm
Mark Hurst:

@a5vzener well you're welcome here
  6:25pm
Dean:

That's a bit extreme: none of us is qualified to use our judgment without an advanced degree? STEM is not *that* hard. We are perfectly capable of assessing plausibility, authority, legitimacy, and the contours of our own capacities to understand.
  6:25pm
listener pi:

What about surveillance nonprofit?
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ultradamno:

Last Week Tonight did an excellent show on conspiracy thinking a few weeks ago.
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a5vzener:

This is bang-on. My flat-earther friend finds all his community from Australians who stay up late like him, drinking and doing their own "research". Doctorow is so right about this phenomenon.
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Webhamster Henry:

" The dismaying thing about classic totalitarian mind is that any given gear, thought mutilated, will have at its circumference unbroken sequences of teeth that are immaculately maintained, that are exquisitely machined. " -- Vonnegut, Mother Night
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ultradamno:

Probably doesn't help that Herman Cain is tweeting that Covid isn't as deadly as the media makes it out to be after having died of Covid www.huffpost.com...
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PaulRobeson1920:

“The Paranoid Style” by Richard Hofstadter 1964 Published in Harpers
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PaulRobeson1920:

Makes sense of a conspiratorial world view. In that essay
  6:29pm
Dean:

For the point about monopolist machinations to maintain monopoly, see Robert Horwitz, The Irony of Regulatory Reform.
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PaulRobeson1920:

This is a very interesting interview
  6:29pm
castor:

The USA is such a beautiful self-combusting tragedy, so happy I get to live to through the madness.
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Baja Joe:

The First Edition Of Monopoly, 1906
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Rory:

Joe Biden will fix it :D
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Rory:

Or not
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PaulRobeson1920:

With a pat on the back and a good Job Johnny... Our humanity is capable of anything...
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:32pm
Webhamster Henry:

The consolidation of Media, Banking, Telephony, Airlines, automobiles, ... there's just so much monopoly and collusion.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:32pm
Mark Hurst:

@Webham I'd like to get Matt Stoller on the show at some point - he's written a lot about all those consolidating industries
  6:32pm
mayor delay:

in monopoly you r supposed to pronounce the s at the end of arkansas ave
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PaulRobeson1920:

Mhmm
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:36pm
Webhamster Henry:

@Mark you'd need a longer show!
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ultradamno:

Except I doubt surveillance, foreign or not, is really Trump's TikTok issue.
  6:41pm
P-90:

Cory’s one of those guys that expresses himself extemporaneously in nice well-formed complete paragraphs.
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ultradamno:

He would love to move on Twitter and Facebook for political speech and has declared as much, the foreign angle is just his hook with them.
  6:42pm
Dean:

Some time ago in response to an acquaintance who argued that he has "nothing to hide" I gave the Glenn Greenwald response: "Okay, then, tell me your SSN and your birthdate." And he did.
  6:43pm
anon:

i'm surveilling my hummingbird feeders, the love bugs are feeding off the nectar and the anoles are taking care of the love bugs and the fighter pilot hummingbirds get their fill of nectar to fuel their flight to Central America and beyond to Tierra del Fuego and back.
  6:45pm
P-90:

@ultra: security IS the TIkTok issue, but Trump’s motivation for jumping on board is that it gave him another thing to beat up on China for, after he finally figured out that Xi had suckered him...
  6:46pm
northguineahills:

Here, been listening, but working..
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Mark Hurst:

@ngh hi!
  6:47pm
northguineahills:

I’m in central FL, and I rarely see lovebugs anymore.
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ultradamno:

I don't believe he cares that much about that. He like bringing up China mostly because it lets him inject a racist angle.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:49pm
Webhamster Henry:

I've wanted to make a new Facebook client for some time. There's no official way to get the stuff you want to get though.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:51pm
Webhamster Henry:

alt.barney.kill.kill.kill
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Lisboner Pasc:

Marvellous show tonight! Thanks Mark and greetings from Lisbon :-)
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Mark Hurst:

@Webham I remember that one!
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ultradamno:

Usenet and My Deja...
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Webhamster Henry:

alt.sex.hello.kitty
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Mark Hurst:

@Pasc thanks! Glad you're listening from Lisbon! Hi from NYC.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:53pm
Webhamster Henry:

Binaries were broken up into numbered pieces encoded in base64 encoding.
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Lisboner Pasc:

Thanks Mark, what an interview! -- got so much I want to dig into + research after this, Doctorow is superb
  6:55pm
David in London:

Damn, that hour flew past. Thanks Mark, great interview.
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TDK60:

Thanks Mark.
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Rory:

Thanks Mark, it will only get worse and the masses accept or blame other countries.
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chresti:

Thanks Mark!
  6:56pm
P-90:

@ultra: Trump is FURIOUS at Xi. Check how his rhetoric towards China has changed since the first few months of 2020. Trump was happy to completely trust them on the COVID outbreak, and spent many weeks in the key early stages of its spread praising Xi’s “containment” and parroting China’s statements and reassurances. Because Trump thought he was getting a big trade deal that would help him get re-elected.
  6:56pm
northguineahills:

This interview made me remember my youthier days....(some nostalgia references)
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Bas NL:

Thanks Mark!
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PaulRobeson1920:

That was a very interesting interview
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ultradamno:

Huffpost piece on Last Week Tonight www.huffpost.com...
  6:57pm
Claire from Montclair:

Great show!
  6:57pm
P-90:

Thanks Mark! Also Ruth, Olivia, and Cory Doctorow.
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ultradamno:

That is the business of government, he doesn't care about that AT ALL.
  6:58pm
Rory:

Drones are normal
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:58pm
Webhamster Henry:

Thanks Mark & Cory! A show on Boing Boing and the transition from zines to ezines would be fun!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:58pm
Mark Hurst:

Thanks, everyone! Great chat tonight.
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Mark Hurst:

@Claire thanks for joining in!
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:59pm
Webhamster Henry:

Little brother books are fun! the tech is a little outdated now though.
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