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Inside: A business model for bankrupting the oil companies; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/06/06/tha…
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Inside: A business model for bankrupting the oil companies; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/06/06/tha…
#Pluralistic
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Today 6/6, I'm doing a remote panel on #interoperability for @rightscon:
eff.org/deeplinks/2023…
Wed 7/6, I'm keynoting @republica in #Berlin:
re-publica.com/de/news/rp23-k…
Thu 8/6, I'm at @otherlandberlin Books with my novel *Red Team Blues*:
otherland-berlin.de/de/event-detai…
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eff.org/deeplinks/2023…
Wed 7/6, I'm keynoting @republica in #Berlin:
re-publica.com/de/news/rp23-k…
Thu 8/6, I'm at @otherlandberlin Books with my novel *Red Team Blues*:
otherland-berlin.de/de/event-detai…
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A business model for bankrupting the oil companies: Incentives matter (and that matters).
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In theory, patents are for novel, nonobvious inventions. But as computers ate our society, grifters began to receive patents for "doing something we've done for centuries...with a computer." "With a computer": three words with the power to cloud patent examiners' minds.
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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:
pluralistic.net/2023/05/01/usu…
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pluralistic.net/2023/05/01/usu…
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#PatentTrolls - who secure "with a computer" patents and then extract ransoms from people doing normal things on threat of a lawsuit - are an underappreciated form of "#TechExceptionalism."
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