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   Inside: Boss politics antitrust; Hey look at this; Upcoming appearances; Recent appearances; Latest books; Upcoming books; and more!

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     Boss politics antitrust: Trump will use Xi Xinping's "anti-corruption" playbook.

     https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113470443364171423

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     Hey look at this

     * Sculpture BM 414162522242621331 https://chrisbathgate.blogspot.com/2024/11/sculpture-bm-414162522242621331.html

     * Walt Disney's Carousel of Progress [Full Show] 2023 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_p9gayNy5Rg (h/t Sal Fadhley)

     * A cat lady's survival guide for the second Trump administration https://www.salon.com/2024/11/07/a-womens-survival-guide-for-the-second-administration/ (h/t Dan Savage)

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Nov-2024 23:43:42 JST Cory Doctorow

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     #15yrsago Labels may be losing money, but artists are making more than ever https://web.archive.org/web/20091115091151/http://labs.timesonline.co.uk/blog/2009/11/12/do-music-artists-do-better-in-a-world-with-illegal-file-sharing/

     #15yrsago Internet ghost-towns: the blocked IPs where the bad guys used to live https://web.archive.org/web/20110810225715/http://voices.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2009/11/a_year_later_a_look_back_at_mc.html

     #10yrsago Stories are a fuggly hack https://locusmag.com/2014/11/cory-doctorow-stories-are-a-fuggly-hack/

     #10yrsago Ambulance takes comatose, insured woman to “wrong” hospital, drives her to bankruptcy, too https://web.archive.org/web/20141112070957/https://www.channel3000.com/news/woman-taken-to-wrong-hospital-faces-bankruptcy/29648000/

     #10yrsago ISPs caught sabotaging their customers’ email encryption https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/11/starttls-downgrade-attacks
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     #10yrsago Redskins owner sues Native Americans who testified on racism to Trademark Office https://www.techdirt.com/2014/11/11/redskins-decide-that-suing-offended-native-americans-should-really-help-their-case/

     #10yrsago Peak indifference-to-surveillance https://memex.craphound.com/2014/11/12/peak-indifference-to-surveillance-2/

     #5yrsago Twitter is awash in disinformation bots tweeting lies about the Kentucky gubernatorial election results https://web.archive.org/web/20191111073836/https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/newselection2020/close-election-in-kentucky-was-ripe-for-twitter-and-an-omen-for-2020/ar-BBWyujk

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     Yesterday's threads: General Strike 2028; and more!

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Nov-2024 23:44:18 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 Tuesday, 12-Nov-2024 23:44:28 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 Tuesday, 12-Nov-2024 23:44:42 JST Cory Doctorow

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     Upcoming appearances:

     * 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/

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

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Nov-2024 23:45:01 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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