Cory Doctorow's book, Radicalized, is up for a CBC award. To celebrate, here's an excerpt.
by Cory Doctorow - Jan 22, 2020 9:05am EST //

entropy_winsArs Scholae Palatinaeet Subscriptorreply3 years agoreportignore user
RickRoyLeonPrisZhoraRachael wrote:
I'm not Canadian and I knew what CBC was! :)

Somehow, the movie, Brazil, lends more hindsight in having a character that DeNiro played, showing up to perform an unauthorized repair on the furnace. Eluding the IoT Enforcement Squad...

+1 for the Gilliam movie reference.

We live in a world that has become the embodiment of the imagined absurdity of the past... //

MisterManoArs Praetorianreply3 years agoreportignore user
To think there are many, many powers pushing so we reach exactly that kind of dystopic IoT crapshow because biznizz and money. A great read that leaves me even more worried about the future. //

CuriouslySaneArs Praefectuset Subscriptorreply3 years agoReader Favreportignore user
AusPeter wrote:
I saw the headline and thought "Hmm .. yep jailbreaking IoT devices is a thing now". Then I realized that it was a fictional story.

Cory's writing has a distressing habit of not staying fictional. //

I can't think of anything else with the acronym "CBC".

complete blood count

(Does not apply to Canadians as their 'blood' is actually a mixture of maple syrup and double-double)