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   Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Friday, 13-Dec-2024 00:44:59 JST Cory Doctorow

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   Inside: A Democratic media strategy to save journalism and the nation; and more!

   Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/12/12/the-view-from-somewhere/

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     A Democratic media strategy to save journalism and the nation: Hire journalists, publish the news, win the country.

     https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113640577684901683

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Friday, 13-Dec-2024 00:46:09 JST Cory Doctorow

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     Hey look at this

     * DJ Riko Merry Mixmas 2024 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyZ7-s05r7k&t=480s

     * The Lost Chronicles of Oz https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/freeforall/the-lost-chronicles-of-oz/

     * “The Ancient Engineer” by Bruce Sterling https://bruces.medium.com/the-ancient-engineer-by-bruce-sterling-2016-167351c82385

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Friday, 13-Dec-2024 00:47:19 JST Cory Doctorow

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     #20yrsago Forever War with better sex, Starship Troopers without the lectures: Old Man’s War https://memex.craphound.com/2004/12/12/forever-war-with-better-sex-starship-troopers-without-the-lectures-old-mans-war/

     #20yrsago Cable companies will expire your Six Feet Under recordings after 2-4 weeks https://memex.craphound.com/2004/12/12/cable-companies-will-expire-your-six-feet-under-recordings-after-2-4-weeks/

     #15yrsago FDIC sends a big F-U: completely blacked out documents in response to WaMu takeover freedom of information requests https://web.archive.org/web/20100114010713if_/https://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/blog/2009/12/the_fight_for_wamu_documents.html

     #10yrsago IBM’s banking security software demands the right to spy on you https://yro.slashdot.org/story/14/12/11/2233234/bank-security-software-eula-allows-spying-on-users

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Friday, 13-Dec-2024 00:47:37 JST Cory Doctorow

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     #10yrsago US Christian terrorism: the other white meat https://web.archive.org/web/20141205144046/https://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/12/04/3599271/austin-shooter-christian-extremism/

     #10yrsago Senate IP address vandalizes Wikipedia to scrub “torture” from CIA torture report https://mashable.com/archive/senate-wikipedia-torture-report

     #5yrsago Teespring removes Techdirt’s “Copying is Not Theft” tees for copyright infringement, and won’t discuss the matter any further https://www.techdirt.com/2019/12/12/teespring-takes-down-our-copying-is-not-theft-gear-refuses-to-say-why/

     #5yrsago The three biggest Chinese business scams that target foreign firms https://web.archive.org/web/20200107202820/https://www.chinalawblog.com/2019/12/china-scams-our-annual-holiday-edition.html">https://web.archive.org/web/20200107202820/https://www.chinalawblog.com/2019/12/china-scams-our-annual-holiday-edition.html

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Friday, 13-Dec-2024 00:48:09 JST Cory Doctorow

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     #5yrsago A Wechat-based “mobile court” presided over by a chatbot has handled 3m legal procedures since March https://web.archive.org/web/20191207192051/https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/07/asia-pacific/crime-legal-asia-pacific/ai-judges-verdicts-via-chat-app-brave-new-world-chinas-digital-courts/#.Xev7n2bP1qY

     #5yrsago Facebook promised to provide academics data to study disinformation, but their foot-dragging has endangered the whole project https://socialscience.one/blog/public-statement-european-advisory-committee-social-science-one

     #5yrsago DJ Riko is back with the 18th annual Merry Mixmas mashup album! http://djriko.com/mixmases.htm

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     #5yrsago Family puts Ring camera in children’s room, discovers that hacker is watching their kids 24/7, taunting them through the speaker https://www.vice.com/en/article/how-hackers-are-breaking-into-ring-cameras/

     #5yrsago 2019 was the year of voice assistant privacy dumpster fires https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-12-11/silicon-valley-got-millions-to-let-siri-and-alexa-listen-in

     #1yrago An Epic antitrust loss for Google https://pluralistic.net/2023/12/12/im-feeling-lucky/#hugger-mugger

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Friday, 13-Dec-2024 00:48:37 JST Cory Doctorow

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     Yesterday's threads: The housing emergency and the second Trump term; and more!

     https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113637467160077208

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Friday, 13-Dec-2024 00:48:46 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, 13-Dec-2024 00:48:56 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, 13-Dec-2024 00:49:09 JST Cory Doctorow

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     Upcoming appearances:

     * 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/

     * 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

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Friday, 13-Dec-2024 00:49:21 JST Cory Doctorow

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     Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

     * 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, 13-Dec-2024 00:49:36 JST Cory Doctorow

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     Recent appearances:

     * Can we avoid the enshittification of clean-energy tech? (Volts.wtf)
     https://www.volts.wtf/p/can-we-avoid-the-enshittification

     * 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

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Friday, 13-Dec-2024 00:49:47 JST Cory Doctorow

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     Evan Engel Is Everywhere (evanengel@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 13-Dec-2024 03:07:07 JST Evan Engel Is Everywhere

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     @pluralistic This is a great idea, but I'm curious to hear your take on Courier Newsroom, which attempted something similar and funded left-leaning local news in swing states.

     In 2020, Facebook removed those sites from its News tab because of their funding source.

     https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/pro-trump-voices-have-zuckerbergs-ear-is-that-why-facebook-undermines-liberal-news-sites/

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     • Evan Engel Is Everywhere

     @evanengel I do not advocate for anyone publishing anything on Facebook, ever.

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Saturday, 14-Dec-2024 03:09:02 JST Cory Doctorow

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     @grimfuture Thank you!

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     @pluralistic I wanted you to know that I have always loved your fiction and these days your non fiction and speaking events are required reading/viewing. You are focused on the things that matter and it is so refreshing to know that there are people out there thinking of ways to solve our issues with reason, hope and equality.