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   Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Monday, 04-Nov-2024 23:36:52 JST Cory Doctorow

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   Inside: Neal Stephenson's "Polostan"; and more!

   Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/04/bomb-light/

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     This weekend (November 8-10), I'll be in Tucson, AZ: I'm the Guest of Honor at the Tuscon science fiction convention:

     https://tusconscificon.com/

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Monday, 04-Nov-2024 23:37:30 JST Cory Doctorow

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     Neal Stephenson's "Polostan": Raising the curtain on a post-cyberpunk sf series about the dawn on the nuclear age.

     https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113425115755198312

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Monday, 04-Nov-2024 23:37:46 JST Cory Doctorow

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     Hey look at this

     * Why So Few Matt Levines? https://gwern.net/matt-levine (h/t User Mag)

     * L.A. County sues Pepsi and Coca-Cola over their role in ongoing plastic pollution crisis https://www.yahoo.com/news/l-county-sues-pepsi-coca-202106790.html (h/t Slashdot)

     * New York Times Tech Workers Go on Strike https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/04/business/media/new-york-times-strike.html

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Monday, 04-Nov-2024 23:38:20 JST Cory Doctorow

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     #20yrsago UK Public Service Publisher: a BBC for everything else? https://web.archive.org/web/20050309032840/https://www.ofcom.org.uk/media_office/latest_news/nr_20041103?a=87101

     #20yrsago Pope endorses wanking, screwing https://web.archive.org/web/20060209083158/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/10/31/wvat31.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/10/31/ixnewstop.html

     #15yrsago Gopher protocol reborn https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2009/11/the-web-may-have-won-but-gopher-tunnels-on/

     #15yrsago Tell the FCC to say no to Hollywood’s terrible “Selectable Output Control” kill-switch https://web.archive.org/web/20091108001731/https://publicknowledge.org/action/say-no-to-soc

     #15yrsago More on secret copyright treaty: your kids could go to jail for noncommercial music sharing https://web.archive.org/web/20091105223851/https://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/4511/125/

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Monday, 04-Nov-2024 23:38:36 JST Cory Doctorow

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     #15yrsago Love of Shopping is Not a Gene: exposing junk science and ideology in Darwinian Psychology https://memex.craphound.com/2009/11/04/love-of-shopping-is-not-a-gene-exposing-junk-science-and-ideology-in-darwinian-psychology/

     #15yrsago Science fiction as a predictor of the present https://web.archive.org/web/20091107095510/http://tinhousebooks.com/blog/?p=410

     #15yrsago Secret copyright treaty leaks. It’s bad. Very bad. https://web.archive.org/web/20091103214101/https://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/4510/125/

     #10yrsago Cybercrooks sell stolen rewards points at 99.9% discount https://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/11/thieves-cash-out-rewards-points-accounts/

     #10yrsago Ferguson’s no-fly zone created to ground news-choppers https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/11/02/360991500/ap-no-fly-zone-in-ferguson-meant-to-keep-media-out

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Monday, 04-Nov-2024 23:39:38 JST Cory Doctorow

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     #10yrsago 21K Kansans’ votes will be suppressed this election https://www.kansas.com/news/politics-government/article3504228.html

     #10yrsago Pianist wants bad review taking down under EU “right to be forgotten” rules https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2014/10/31/pianist-asks-the-washington-post-to-remove-a-concert-review-under-the-e-u-s-right-to-be-forgotten-ruling/

     #10yrsago My grandmother, the poisoner https://web.archive.org/web/20141105041851/https://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/my-gandma-the-poisoner-0000474-v21n10

     #5yrsago White supremacists record video at the new, bulletproof Emmett Till memorial sign https://edition.cnn.com/2019/11/03/us/emmett-till-memorial-white-supremacist-group-video/index.html

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Monday, 04-Nov-2024 23:40:13 JST Cory Doctorow

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     #5yrsago Teen uses external cameras and projection-mapping onto the a-pillar to “solve” blind-spots https://gizmodo.com/14-year-old-genius-solves-blind-spots-1839540078

     #5yrsago The public spent $10b for Trump’s wall (so far); smugglers are cutting it with $100 saws and $10 blades https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/smugglers-are-sawing-through-new-sections-of-trumps-border-wall/2019/11/01/25bf8ce0-fa72-11e9-ac8c-8eced29ca6ef_story.html

     #1yrago Big Tech's "attention rents" https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/03/subprime-attention-rent-crisis/#euthanize-rentiers

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Monday, 04-Nov-2024 23:40:36 JST Cory Doctorow

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     Saturday's threads: Bluesky and enshittification; and more!

     https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113413507213509943

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Monday, 04-Nov-2024 23:40:50 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 Monday, 04-Nov-2024 23:41:13 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 Monday, 04-Nov-2024 23:41:24 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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     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 Monday, 04-Nov-2024 23:41:51 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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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Monday, 04-Nov-2024 23:42:02 JST Cory Doctorow

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     This weekend (November 8-10), I'll be in Tucson, AZ: I'm the Guest of Honor at the Tuscon science fiction convention:

     https://tusconscificon.com/

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     @pluralistic Finance may have Matt Levine, but FOSS has Liam Proven https://www.theregister.com/Author/Liam-Proven