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   Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Friday, 01-Nov-2024 23:02:39 JST Cory Doctorow

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   Inside: Shifting $677m from the banks to the people, every year, forever; and more!

   Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/01/bankshot/

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     I'll be in Tucson, AZ from November 8-10: I'm the Guest of Honor at the TusCon science fiction convention:

     https://tusconscificon.com/

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     Shifting $677m from the banks to the people, every year, forever: The Consumer Finance Protection Bureau is going to let you change banks with a click.

     https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113407988753227338

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Friday, 01-Nov-2024 23:03:59 JST Cory Doctorow

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     Hey look at this

     * Uncovered: Big Tech’s network sabotaging the DMA https://corporateeurope.org/en/2024/10/uncovered-big-techs-network-sabotaging-dma

     * Court Orders Google (a Monopolist) To Knock It Off With the Monopoly Stuff https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/10/court-orders-google-monopolist-knock-it-monopoly-stuff

     * A complete guide to luddite horror films https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/a-complete-guide-to-luddite-horror

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Friday, 01-Nov-2024 23:05:13 JST Cory Doctorow

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     #20yrsago Bhutan: World’s biggest book https://kottke.org/04/10/bhutan-book

     #20yrsago Audio/transcript from BBC Creative Archive talk https://web.archive.org/web/20060306155902/http://digital-lifestyles.info/media/audio/2004.10.28-BBC-Creative-Archive-Q&A.mp3

     #15yrsago Heavy illegal downloaders buy more music https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/illegal-downloaders-spend-the-most-on-music-says-poll-1812776.html

     #15yrsago Scenting the Dark: outstanding debut short story collection from Mary Robinette Kowal, exploring our relationship to technology and each other https://memex.craphound.com/2009/11/01/scenting-the-dark-outstanding-debut-short-story-collection-from-mary-robinette-kowal-exploring-our-relationship-to-technology-and-each-other/

     #15yrsago Anti-vaccine fear versus science https://web.archive.org/web/20091022235649/https://www.wired.com/magazine/2009/10/ff_waronscience/all/1

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     #10yrsago Sen Lindsay Graham promises a fine future for “white men in male-only clubs” https://www.politico.com/story/2014/10/sen-lindsey-graham-white-men-joke-112338

     #10yrsago Hungary cancels proposed Internet tax in the face of mass opposition https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-29846285

     #10yrsago David Graeber and Thomas Piketty on whether capitalism will destroy itself https://thebaffler.com/odds-and-ends/soak-the-rich

     #10yrsago USPS usage declines, but sloppy postal surveillance is way, way up https://www.politico.com/story/2014/06/snail-mail-snooping-safeguards-not-followed-108056

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     #10yrsago Surveillance and stalkers: how the Internet supercharges gendered violence https://www.forbes.com/sites/sarahjeong/2014/10/28/surveillance-begins-at-home/

     #10yrsago Secret recording of corporate lobbyist is a dirty-tricks playbook https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/31/us/politics/pr-executives-western-energy-alliance-speech-taped.html

     #10yrsago NZ Trade Minister: we keep TPP a secret to prevent “public debate” https://www.techdirt.com/2014/10/31/new-zealands-trade-minister-admits-they-keep-tpp-documents-secret-to-avoid-public-debate/

     #5yrsago Blizzard’s corporate president publicly apologizes for bungling players’ Hong Kong protests, never mentions Hong Kong https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/1/20944022/blizzard-blizzcon-hearthstone-china-hong-kong-response-j-allen-brack

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     #5yrsago My review of Sandworm: an essential guide to the new, reckless world of “cyberwarfare” https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2019-11-01/sandworm-andy-greenberg-cybersecurity

     #5yrsago Report from a massive Chinese surveillance tech expo, where junk-science “emotion recognition” rules https://twitter.com/suelinwong/status/1190194625572569093

     #5yrsago Toronto approves Google’s surveillance city, despite leaks revealing Orwellian plans https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/sidewalk-labs-waterfront-toronto-quayside-vote-1.5342294

     #5yrsago Chicago teachers declare victory after 11-day strike https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/10/31/chicago-teachers-strike-union-tentative-agreement-makeup-days/4106271002/

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     #5yrsago Airbnb’s easily gamed reputation system and poor customer service allow scammers to thrive https://www.vice.com/en/article/nationwide-fake-host-scam-on-airbnb/

     #5yrsago Suppressed internal emails reveal that the IRS actively helped tax-prep giants suppress Free File https://www.propublica.org/article/the-irs-tried-to-hide-emails-that-show-tax-industry-influence-over-free-file-program

     #5yrsago Massive spike in young people registering to vote in the UK https://memex.craphound.com/2019/11/01/massive-spike-in-young-people-registering-to-vote-in-the-uk/

     #5yrsago How the British left should seize this moment to strip finance of its political clout https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/oureconomy/thatcher-had-a-battle-plan-for-her-economic-revolution-now-the-left-needs-one-too/

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Friday, 01-Nov-2024 23:07:08 JST Cory Doctorow

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     #5yrsago After suing NSO Group for hacking Whatsapp, Facebook kicks NSO employees off its services https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/10/facebook-permanently-deletes-the-accounts-of-nso-workers/

     #5yrsago The right is bankrolled by self-interested one-percenters making long-term investments; the left, by one-percenters with “moral whims” https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/10/how-did-democrats-lose-the-states-money-money-money.html

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     #5yrsago Leaked document reveals that Sidewalk Labs’ Toronto plans for private taxation, private roads, charter schools, corporate cops and judges, and punishment for people who choose privacy https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-sidewalk-labs-document-reveals-companys-early-plans-for-data/

     #1yrago The impoverished imagination of neoliberal climate "solutions" https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/31/carbon-upsets/#big-tradeoff

     #1yrsago Social Security is class war, not intergenerational conflict https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/01/intergenerational-warfare/#five-pound-blocks-of-cheese

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Friday, 01-Nov-2024 23:07:41 JST Cory Doctorow

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     Wednesday's threads: AI's "human in the loop" isn't; and more!

     https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113396497993443852

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Friday, 01-Nov-2024 23:07:51 JST Cory Doctorow

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     My latest nationally bestselling novel is "The Bezzle," an ice-cold revenge story of high-tech finance crime starring the forensic accountant Martin Hench:

     https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250865878/thebezzle

     Signed copies from Chevalier's Books:

     https://www.chevaliersbooks.com/product-page/the-bezzle

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     My latest nonfiction book is "The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation" from Verso Books:

     http://seizethemeansofcomputation.org

     Signed copies available from Book Soup:

     https://www.booksoup.com/book/9781804291245

     Both are national bestsellers!

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Friday, 01-Nov-2024 23:08:12 JST Cory Doctorow

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     My ebooks and audiobooks (from Tor Books, Head of Zeus, McSweeneys, Beacon, Verso and others) are for sale all over the net, but I sell 'em too, and when you buy 'em from me, I earn twice as much and you get books with no DRM and no license "agreements."

     https://craphound.com/shop/

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Friday, 01-Nov-2024 23:08:20 JST Cory Doctorow

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     Upcoming appearances:

     * TusCon (Tucson), Nov 8-10
     https://tusconscificon.com/

     * International Cooperative Alliance (New Delhi), Nov 24
     https://icanewdelhi2024.coop/welcome/pages/Programme

     * ACM Conext-2024 Workshop on the Decentralization of the Internet (Los Angeles), Dec 9
     https://conferences.sigcomm.org/co-next/2024/#!/din

     * IA et “merdification“ d’internet: peut-on envisager un nouveau web? (Remote), Dec 12
     https://www.unige.ch/comprendre-le-numerique/conferences-publiques1/cycle-5-2024-2025/ia-et-merdification-dinternet-peut-envisager-un-nouveau-web/

     * ISSA-LA Holiday Celebration keynote (Los Angeles), Dec 18
     https://issala.org/event/issa-la-december-18-dinner-meeting/

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Friday, 01-Nov-2024 23:08:34 JST Cory Doctorow

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     Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

     * Cloudfest (Europa Park), Mar 17-20
     https://cloudfest.link/

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Friday, 01-Nov-2024 23:08:53 JST Cory Doctorow

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     • TWiT Podcasts
     • Digitalia Podcast

     Recent appearances:

     * Enshittification Was a Choice (SOSS Fusion)
     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCSelmMUO0c

     * Maximum Iceland Scenario (@TWiT)
     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5MkCwktKz0

     * Speciale intervista a Cory Doctorow (@digitaliafm)
     https://digitalia.fm/744/

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     I'll be in Tucson, AZ from November 8-10: I'm the Guest of Honor at the @sf_tus science fiction convention:

     https://tusconscificon.com/

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