[Plura-list] Share Festival 2020; Well-Armed Peasants

[Cory Doctorow]

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Tomorrow morning, I'm giving a talk for Royal Holloway's Colloquium on
Information Security:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-31st-hphpe-virtual-colloquium-on-information-security-tickets-128859336745

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Today's links

* Share Festival 2020: All online, all month.

* Well-Armed Peasants: "Bring a pitchfork and a torch, with some
well-armed peasants."

* This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2019

* Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current
writing projects, current reading

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🌮 Share Festival 2020

The Share Festival is an annual highlight of the electronic arts and
tech policy scene that flits between Turiin and Belgrade, full of
awesome, weird and startling art and theory.

https://www.toshareproject.it/

This year's festival is (of course) all online, and it kicked off
yesterday with a streamed concert from experimental music acts Pietra
Tonale, Comet, Audiohacklab and Noise Delivery. It will end with
Artmaker V, the latest iteration of a longrunning generative art project.

On the side-stages there's stuff like Fablabkids, a partnership with
Maker Faire Torino for kids 5-14. More English-language info on Bruce
Sterling's Tumblr:

https://brucesterling.tumblr.com/post/637382854375096320/share-festival-in-torino

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🌮 Well-Armed Peasants

Bardcore is medievalist hiphop music, scored with traditional(ish)
instruments. The delightfully named Beedle the Bardcore (AKA Elise Roth)
has Youtube channel that's a treasure-trove of medieval hip-hop covers.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCynijyjqY-u6z8_sGKgCErg

Roth's just released the video for WELL-ARMED PEASANTS, a tribute to
Megan Thee Stallion and Cardi B's WAP, and it's just fantastic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhCYn9aOxL4

Well-Armed Peasants is music to sharpen your pichfork by, and features
historically accurate disses of the Magna Carta as a vastly overrated
historical irrelevance:

https://going-medieval.com/2020/11/26/magna-carta-will-not-save-us/

> Art thou overtaxing well-armed peasants?
> Bring a pitchforik and a torch cause we're well-armed peasants

> Enough's enough we've captured thy bride,
> Time to abide as we plot thy regicide

> We'll tie you up, and I advise,
> Shut thy mouth thou art despised,
> We're gonna hang, draw and quarter you,
> From thy codpiece up to thine eyes

> Hide thy crown and thy coat,
> For we're well-armed peasants,
> Dare thy knights for half a groat,
> Because we're well-armed peasants.

This pairs *very* well with Penelope Scott's Silicon Valley
disillusionment song RÄT:

https://pluralistic.net/2020/11/30/selmers-train/#honey-morello

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🌮 This day in history

#15yrsago Michigan HS students will need to take online course to
graduate
https://web.archive.org/web/20051215052603/https://www.chronicle.com/free/2005/12/2005121301t.htm

#15yrsago Diane Duane wonders if she should self-publish trilogy
conclusion
https://web.archive.org/web/20051215151654/https://outofambit.blogspot.com/archives/2005_12_01_outofambit_archive.html

#10yrsago Dan Gillmor’s Mediactive: masterclass in 21st century
journalism demands a net-native news-media
https://memex.craphound.com/2010/12/13/dan-gillmors-mediactive-masterclass-in-21st-century-journalism-demands-a-net-native-news-media/

#10yrsago Hiaasen’s STAR ISLAND: blisteringly funny tale of sleazy
popstars and paparazzi
https://memex.craphound.com/2010/12/13/hiaasens-star-island-blisteringly-funny-tale-of-sleazy-popstars-and-paparazzi/

#5yrsago North Carolina town rejects solar because it’ll suck up
sunlight and kill the plants
https://www.roanoke-chowannewsherald.com/2015/12/08/woodland-rejects-solar-farm/

#5yrsago MRA Dilbert: pictures and words by Scott Adams, together at
last https://mradilbert.tumblr.com

#5yrsago American rents reach record levels of unaffordability
https://web.archive.org/web/20120505135633/https://www.jchs.harvard.edu/americas-rental-housing

#1yrago Nulledcast: a podcast where hackers play live audio of
themselves breaking into Ring cameras and tormenting their owners
https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3bbq4/podcast-livestreams-hacked-ring-cameras-nulledcast

#1yrago Abbott Labs kills free tool that lets you own the blood-sugar
data from your glucose monitor, saying it violates copyright law
https://memex.craphound.com/2019/12/13/abbott-labs-kills-free-tool-that-lets-you-own-the-blood-sugar-data-from-your-glucose-monitor-saying-it-violates-copyright-law/

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🌮 Colophon

Today's top sources: Late-Stage Capitalism
(https://www.reddit.com/r/LateStageCapitalism/).

Currently writing: My next novel, "The Lost Cause," a post-GND novel
about truth and reconciliation. Yesterday's progress: 536 words (93097
total).

Currently reading: The City We Became, NK Jemisin

Latest podcast: Daddy-Daughter Podcast, 2020 Edition
https://craphound.com/news/2020/12/11/daddy-daughter-podcast-2020-edition/

Upcoming appearances:

* Colloquium on Information Security, Dec 14
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-31st-hphpe-virtual-colloquium-on-information-security-tickets-128859336745

* Keynote, NISO Plus, Feb 22-25,
https://niso.plus/cory-doctorow-to-keynote-at-niso-plus-2021/

Recent appearances:

* Worldshapers
https://theworldshapers.com/2020/12/06/episode-72-cory-doctorow/

* A More Competitive Web (Techdirt Podcast):
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20201201/10183045801/techdirt-podcast-episode-264-more-competitive-web-with-cory-doctorow-daphne-keller.shtml

* Big Tech Podcast:
https://www.cigionline.org/big-tech/cory-doctorow-true-dangers-surveillance-capitalism

Latest book:

* "Attack Surface": The third Little Brother novel, a standalone
technothriller for adults. The *Washington Post* called it "a political
cyberthriller, vigorous, bold and savvy about the limits of revolution
and resistance." Order signed, personalized copies from Dark Delicacies
https://www.darkdel.com/store/p1840/Available_Now%3A_Attack_Surface.html

* "How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism": an anti-monopoly pamphlet
analyzing the true harms of surveillance capitalism and proposing a
solution.
https://onezero.medium.com/how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism-8135e6744d59

* "Little Brother/Homeland": A reissue omnibus edition with a new
introduction by Edward Snowden:
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250774583; personalized/signed copies
here:
https://www.darkdel.com/store/p1750/July%3A__Little_Brother_%26_Homeland.html

* "Poesy the Monster Slayer" a picture book about monsters, bedtime,
gender, and kicking ass. Order here:
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781626723627. Get a personalized, signed
copy here:
https://www.darkdel.com/store/p1562/_Poesy_the_Monster_Slayer.html.

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