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   Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Friday, 06-Dec-2024 22:44:54 JST Cory Doctorow

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   Inside: Battery rationality; and more!

   Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/12/06/shoenabombers/

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Friday, 06-Dec-2024 22:45:36 JST Cory Doctorow

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     Battery rationality: Ringing down the curtain on 9/11's security theater.

     https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113606079118238485

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Friday, 06-Dec-2024 22:45:50 JST Cory Doctorow

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     Hey look at this

     * How Can U.S. and Mexican Workers Build Cross-Border Solidarity? https://www.labornotes.org/blogs/2024/12/how-can-us-and-mexican-workers-build-cross-border-solidarity

     * Why did Silicon Valley turn right? https://www.programmablemutter.com/p/why-did-silicon-valley-turn-right

     * Six hours under martial law in Seoul https://www.theverge.com/24312920/martial-law-south-korea-yoon-suk-yeol-protest-dispatch

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Friday, 06-Dec-2024 22:46:12 JST Cory Doctorow

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     #15yrsago TSA can’t redact documents properly, releases s00per s33kr1t operations manual http://cryptome.org/tsa-screening.zip

     #15yrsago Photographers win British war on photography? https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/police-uturn-on-photographers-and-antiterror-laws-1834626.html

     #15yrsago What do ISPs charge the law to spy on you? https://cryptome.org/isp-spy/yahoo-spy.pdf

     #10yrsago Museums and the future history of the information age https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqPZ7blfVFo

     #10yrsago Irish government retroactively legalizes GCHQ surveillance revealed in Snowden docs https://www.irishtimes.com/business/technology/state-sanctions-phone-and-email-tapping-1.2027844

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Friday, 06-Dec-2024 22:46:23 JST Cory Doctorow

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     #10yrsago Buy your own TSA-surplus pornoscanner for $8K https://web.archive.org/web/20141202204614/https://www.ebay.com/itm/111519265986

     #10yrsago Senator Jay Rockefeller singlehandedly kills Freedom of Information Act reform https://web.archive.org/web/20141227173812/https://e-pluribusunum.com/2014/12/05/threatening-legacy-senator-jay-rockefeller-stands-alone-holding-back-historic-foia-reform-in-the-usa/

     #10yrsago National Response Center: now THAT’s a logo https://memex.craphound.com/2014/12/06/national-response-center-now-thats-a-logo/

     #5yrsago Prasad’s Law: there’s always enough health spending to concentrate wealth, never enough to diffuse it https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2019/12/why-hospitals-never-have-enough-nurses-the-explanatory-power-of-prasads-law-of-wealth-concentration.html

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Friday, 06-Dec-2024 22:46:43 JST Cory Doctorow

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     #5yrsago The retreat of “scientific selfishness,” a literature review https://www.the-tls.co.uk/politics-society/economics/greed-is-dead

     #5yrsago 95% of America’s largest voting districts’ mailservers lack basic anti-phishing protection https://techcrunch.com/2019/12/05/major-voting-districts-vulnerable-email-security/

     #5yrsago Radicalized is one of the CBC’s best books of 2019! https://www.cbc.ca/books/the-best-canadian-fiction-of-2019-1.5382741

     #1yrago Privacy first https://pluralistic.net/2023/12/06/privacy-first/#but-not-just-privacy

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Friday, 06-Dec-2024 22:46:51 JST Cory Doctorow

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     Yesterday's threads: Denise Hearn and Vass Bednar's "The Big Fix"; and more!

     https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113600154156925269

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Friday, 06-Dec-2024 22:47:06 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, 06-Dec-2024 22:47:40 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, 06-Dec-2024 22:47:51 JST Cory Doctorow

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     Upcoming appearances:

     * 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/

     * Should a Public Telecom Be An Election Issue/Davenport NDP (Remote), Dec 15
     https://www.davenportndp.ca/public_telecom_town_hall

     * 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, 06-Dec-2024 22:48:03 JST Cory Doctorow

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     Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

     * Picks and Shovels with Dan Savage (Seattle), Feb 19
     https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cory-doctorow-with-dan-savage-picks-and-shovels-a-martin-hench-novel-tickets-1106741957989

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

     * DeepSouthCon63 (New Orleans), Oct 10-12, 2025
     http://www.contraflowscifi.org/

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Friday, 06-Dec-2024 22:48:19 JST Cory Doctorow

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     • The Real News Network

     Recent appearances:

     * Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It (HOPE XV)
     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrciT_dc2sc&list=PLcajvRZA8E0_tLLEh1COeAv-TcaDna2k1&index=32

     * How To Keep IoT From Becoming An IoTrash (@defcon)
     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tA7bpp8qXxI

     * How Big Tech made Trump 2.0 (@therealnews)
     https://therealnews.com/how-big-tech-made-trump-2-0

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Friday, 06-Dec-2024 22:48:32 JST Cory Doctorow

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     Javier Fernández Panadero (javierfpanadero@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 06-Dec-2024 23:51:15 JST Javier Fernández Panadero

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     @pluralistic Just to tell you I mentioned you, for good, in my last book, and to thank you for your thoughts.
     https://lacienciaparatodos.wordpress.com/2024/11/27/nuevo-libro-todo-se-entiende-mejor-con-caca/
     Here, info and first pages.
     Contact me if you want a e-copy.

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     • Javier Fernández Panadero

     @javierfpanadero Thank you!

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     Fitz Bushnell (fitzscott@tty0.social)'s status on Saturday, 07-Dec-2024 02:43:14 JST Fitz Bushnell

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     @pluralistic "boxcutter rebellion" - nice

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     Jef Poskanzer (jef@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 07-Dec-2024 05:49:56 JST Jef Poskanzer

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     @pluralistic Unless it's another pun like boxcutter rebellion, s/dousing/dowsing

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     • Jef Poskanzer

     @jef Thanks!

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     Fitz Bushnell (fitzscott@tty0.social)'s status on Saturday, 07-Dec-2024 05:50:24 JST Fitz Bushnell

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     @pluralistic Boy, the bunnie post was fascinating & terrifying. The production process seems so pedestrian, and the dissemination process not much more so.

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     Jef Poskanzer (jef@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 07-Dec-2024 11:53:01 JST Jef Poskanzer

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     @pluralistic Also, I had a moment with the battery bomb details where I suddenly realized I was reading it on a phone held a foot from my face. It reminded me of seeing my first post-9/11 jet and thinking "Oh, that's a potential bomb flying over me."