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   Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Dec-2024 05:08:37 JST Cory Doctorow

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   Inside: Predicting the present; and more!

   Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/12/09/radicalized/

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     Predicting the present: Thinking about "Radicalized" after Brian Thompson's assassination.

     https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113624432776901737

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Dec-2024 05:10:42 JST Cory Doctorow

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     Hey look at this

     * Wil Wheaton audiobooks https://wilwheaton.bandcamp.com/

     * Why is printer ink so expensive? https://www.digitalrightsbytes.org/topics/why-is-printer-ink-so-expensive

     * Shipt’s Algorithm Squeezed Gig Workers. They Fought Back https://spectrum.ieee.org/shipt

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Dec-2024 05:11:02 JST Cory Doctorow

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     #15yrsago Google CEO says privacy doesn’t matter. Google blacklists CNet for violating CEO’s privacy. https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/12/my_reaction_to.html

     #15yrsago Spanish cops called in over allegation that band was playing “contemporary” music at jazz festival, medical necessity cited https://www.theguardian.com/music/2009/dec/09/jazz-festival-larry-ochs-saxophone

     #15yrsago US lobbyist: Canadians would get US government infrastructure contracts if it adopted US copyright laws https://web.archive.org/web/20091213133326/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/could-copyright-reform-win-buy-american-battle/article1392951/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheGlobeAndMail-Business+(The+Globe+and+Mail+-+Business+News)

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     #15yrsago Famous architecture photographer swarmed by multiple police vehicles in London for refusing to tell security guard why he was photographing famous church https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2009/dec/08/police-search-photographer-terrorism-powers

     #10yrsago Corporate sovereignty: already costing the EU billions https://www.techdirt.com/2014/12/09/true-cost-corporate-sovereignty-eu-35bn-already-paid-30bn-demanded-even-before-taftattip/

     #10yrsago Taxpayers pick up the tab for violent, abusive, murdering cops 99.8% of the time https://nyulawreview.org/issues/volume-89-number-3/police-indemnification/

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     #10yrsago Modern slavery: the Mexican megafarms that supply America’s top grocers https://graphics.latimes.com/product-of-mexico-camps/

     #15yrsago San Francisco’s Monkeybrains ISP offering gigabit home wireless connections https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/gigabit-wireless-to-the-home--2#/

     #5yrsago The New Yorker’s profile of William Gibson: “Droll, chilled out, and scarily articulate” https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/12/16/how-william-gibson-keeps-his-science-fiction-real

     #5yrsago Model stealing, rewarding hacking and poisoning attacks: a taxonomy of machine learning’s failure modes https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/security/engineering/failure-modes-in-machine-learning

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     #5yrsago The blood of poor Americans is now a leading export, bigger than corn or soy https://www.mintpressnews.com/harvesting-blood-americas-poor-late-stage-capitalism/263175/

     #5yrsago Popular Chinese video game invites players to “hunt down traitors” in Hong Kong https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1172323.shtml

     #5yrsago The student movements at the vanguard of Chile’s protests are allied with former student leaders now serving in Congress https://apnews.com/article/student-loans-santiago-chile-business-social-services-819108269b65dc2dd4dffcfd7712d53a

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Dec-2024 05:14:04 JST Cory Doctorow

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     #5yrsago In any other industry, emergency medical billing would be considered fraudulent https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/07/opinion/sunday/medical-billing-fraud.html

     #5yrsago US pharma and biotech lobbyists’ documents reveal their plan to gouge Britons in any post-Brexit trade-deal https://theintercept.com/2019/12/09/brexit-american-trade-deal-boris-johnson/

     #5yrsago As the end nears for Yahoo Groups, Verizon pulls out all the stops to keep archivists from preserving them https://modsandmembersblog.wordpress.com/2019/12/08/verizon-yahoo-bad-form/

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     #5yrsago Church nativity scene puts the holy family in cages, because that’s how America deals with asylum-seekers like Christ https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/church-nativity-depicts-jesus-mary-joseph-family-separated-border-n1097891

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Dec-2024 05:14:41 JST Cory Doctorow

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     Saturday's threads: A year in illustration (2024); and more!

     https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113614145717220426

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Dec-2024 05:14:56 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, 10-Dec-2024 05:15:20 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, 10-Dec-2024 05:16:19 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 Tuesday, 10-Dec-2024 05:16:33 JST Cory Doctorow

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     Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

     * Picks and Shovels with Charlie Jane Anders (Menlo Park), Feb 17
     https://www.keplers.org/upcoming-events-internal/cory-doctorow

     * 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 Tuesday, 10-Dec-2024 05:16:46 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 Tuesday, 10-Dec-2024 05:16:59 JST Cory Doctorow

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     Apartment Stir Crazy (bajabanjo@mamot.fr)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Dec-2024 12:14:05 JST Apartment Stir Crazy

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     @pluralistic Note for everyone that public libraries are still a thing. Mine has copies of both the ebook and audiobook (read by Wil Wheaton!). I listened to it on the Libby app the day the story came out.