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   Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 17:51:02 JST Cory Doctorow

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   Inside: Canada's ground-breaking, hamstrung repair and interop laws; and more!

   Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/15/radical-extremists/

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     Canada's ground-breaking, hamstrung repair and interop laws: It's time for the "radical extremists" to have their day.

     https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113486041523986429

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     • Electronic Frontier Foundation

     Hey look at this

     * Inflation Didn’t Have to Doom Biden https://jacobin.com/2024/11/inflation-biden-economy-price-controls/

     * @eff Is Ready for What's Next https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/11/eff-ready-whats-next-effector-3614

     * How to Hear a Fascist https://prospect.org/politics/2024-11-13-trump-how-to-hear-a-fascist/

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     #10yrsago University of Michigan makes up a bunch of non-reasons why it doesn’t have to do record retention https://www.techdirt.com/2014/11/13/michigan-university-claims-its-public-records-retention-period-is-whatever-each-employee-wants-it-to-be/

     #10yrsago Amazon and Hachette kiss and make up https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/14/technology/amazon-hachette-ebook-dispute.html

     #5yrsago Tpmfail: a timing attack that can extract keys from secure computing chips in 4-20 minutes https://www.zdnet.com/article/tpm-fail-vulnerabilities-impact-tpm-chips-in-desktops-laptops-servers/

     #5yrsago Banned from Youtube, Chinese propagandists are using Pornhub to publish anti-Hong Kong videos https://qz.com/1747617/chinese-users-go-to-pornhub-to-spread-hong-kong-propaganda

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     #5yrsago Hong Kong protests: “Might as well go down fighting” https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2019/11/escalating-violence-hong-kong-protests/601804/

     #5yrsago Activists target Facebookers over “Gold Tier” sponsorship of Kavanaugh event https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/14/20963865/facebook-ads-brett-kavanaugh-federalist-society-employees

     #5yrsago Trump’s signature tax break for poor people went to subsidize a superyacht marina in Florida https://www.propublica.org/article/superyacht-marina-west-palm-beach-opportunity-zone-trump-tax-break-to-help-the-poor-went-to-a-rich-gop-donor

     #5yrsago Big Tech’s CEOs can’t possibly fix Big Tech https://medium.com/bloomberg-opinion/mark-zuckerberg-is-totally-out-of-his-depth-887682ba70b9

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 17:53:25 JST Cory Doctorow

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     #5yrsago American health care’s life-destroying “surprise bills” are the fault of local, private-equity monopolies https://www.theamericanconservative.com/gougers-r-us-how-private-equity-is-gobbling-up-medical-care/

     #5yrsago The poorest half of Americans have nothing left, so now the 1%’s growth comes from the upper middle class https://wolfstreet.com/2019/11/13/how-the-fed-boosts-the-1-even-the-upper-middle-class-loses-share-of-household-wealth-to-the-1-the-bottom-half-gets-screwed/

     #1yrago The conservative movement is cracking up https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/14/when-youve-lost-the-fedsoc/#anti-buster-buster

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     Wednesday's threads: America's richest Medicare fraudsters are untouchable; and more!

     https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113477322411753289

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 17:54:12 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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     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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     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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     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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