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   Inside: A year in illustration (2024); and more!

   Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/12/07/great-kepplers-ghost/

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     A year in illustration (2024): Call me immodest, but I really think I've upped my game.

     https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113613768803806153

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     Hey look at this

     * Culex pipiens in London Underground tunnels: differentiation between surface and subterranean populations https://www.nature.com/articles/6884120 (h/t Tom Whitwell)

     * The Japanese Luggage Forwarding Edition https://whyisthisinteresting.substack.com/p/the-japanese-luggage-forwarding-edition-20b (h/t Tom Whitwell)

     * He Got Banned From X. Now He Wants to Help You Escape, Too https://www.wired.com/story/x-delete-posts-cyd-micah-lee/ https://www.wired.com/story/x-delete-posts-cyd-micah-lee/

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     #15yrsago Major record labels rip off 300,000 songs for compilation CDs, may owe $60 billion in damages https://thetyee.ca/Mediacheck/2009/12/09/ChetBakerSuit/

     #15yrsago Woman has fingerprints swapped to fool immigration http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/8400222.stm

     #15yrsago Airmile hackers use mileage credit-cards to buy $1 coins that they use to pay the CC bills https://web.archive.org/web/20150125163822/https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB126014168569179245

     #15yrsago Streaming doesn’t exist https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2009/dec/08/music-streaming-cory-doctorow

     #15yrsago The dumbest thing I heard anyone say in 2009 https://memex.craphound.com/2009/12/08/the-dumbest-thing-i-heard-anyone-say-in-2009/

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     #10yrsago Parable of the Polygons: segregation and “slight” racism https://ncase.me/polygons/

     #10yrsago Republicans in Michigan House pass religious bigotry bill https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2014/12/breaking_michigan_house_passes_religious_license_to_discriminate_bill/

     #10yrsago Judge Posner: it should be illegal to make phones the government can’t search https://www.pcworld.com/article/436729/judge-give-nsa-unlimited-access-to-digital-data.html

     #10yrsago Spies can’t make cyberspace secure AND vulnerable to their own attacks https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/dec/07/north-korea-sony-pictures-regin-gchq-nsa-snowden-belgacom

     #10yrsago Chinese government wants to ban puns https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/28/china-media-watchdog-bans-wordplay-puns

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     #10yrsago Dumping a huge bag of plastic balls onto an escalator https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5P-c7rc4bA

     #10yrsago Stats-based response to UK Tories’ call for social media terrorism policing https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/dec/02/youre-the-bomb-are-you-at-risk-from-anti-terrorism-algorithms-automated-tracking-innocent-people

     #10yrsago Detoxing is bullshit https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/dec/05/detox-myth-health-diet-science-ignorance

     #5yrsago The lawyer who caught UNC giving $2.5m to white nationalists orders the white nationalists to create a $2.5m fund for Black students or face a lawsuit https://indyweek.com/news/orange/t-greg-doucette-threatens-to-sue-sons-of-confederate-veterans/

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     #5yrsago A teenager describes his hilarious adventures installing a surplus, 1,500lb mainframe in his parents’ basement https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45X4VP8CGtk

     #5yrsago Cops and spooks all over the world rely on a junk-science “walking polygraph” method to steer their investigation https://www.propublica.org/article/why-are-cops-around-the-world-using-this-outlandish-mindreading-tool

     #5yrsago Antipolygraph.org publishes secret guidelines for the federal “Test for Espionage and Sabotage,” a psuedoscientific feature of government life https://antipolygraph.org/blog/2019/12/08/ncca-test-for-espionage-and-sabotage-administration-guide/

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     #5yrsago After sweeping election victories, Hong Kong protesters stage massive demonstrations marking their 6-month anniversary https://web.archive.org/web/20191207235555/https://news.yahoo.com/hong-kong-democracy-protesters-aim-massive-turnout-rare-210115805.html

     #5yrsago One of the poorest, most desperate regions in Appalachia is experiencing an economic miracle thanks to fiber run by a New Deal-era co-op https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/the-one-traffic-light-town-with-some-of-the-fastest-internet-in-the-us

     #1yrago "If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing" https://pluralistic.net/2023/12/08/playstationed/#tyler-james-hill

     #1yrago An adversarial iMessage client for Android https://pluralistic.net/2023/12/07/blue-bubbles-for-all/#never-underestimate-the-determination-of-a-kid-who-is-time-rich-and-cash-poor

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     Yesterday's threads: Battery rationality; and more!

     https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113606177074403415

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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:

     * 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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     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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     • 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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