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   Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Sunday, 15-Dec-2024 01:50:39 JST Cory Doctorow

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   Inside: Social media needs (dumpster) fire exits; and more!

   Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/12/14/fire-exits/

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Sunday, 15-Dec-2024 01:51:33 JST Cory Doctorow

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     Social media needs (dumpster) fire exits: No one wants to have a fire, but you need to plan for one anyway.

     https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113652081110649960

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Sunday, 15-Dec-2024 01:51:49 JST Cory Doctorow

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     Hey look at this

     * It's Time to Break Up Big Medicine https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/its-time-to-break-up-big-medicine

     * 'Kids for Cash' Judge has sentence commuted by President Biden https://www.wnep.com/article/news/investigations/action-16/kids-for-cash-the-new-crisis/kids-for-cash-judge-has-sentence-commuted-by-president-biden-pennsylvania/523-1be56573-6940-4e45-8daa-5a03abd67464

     * I have a cunning plan ... https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2024/12/i-have-a-cunning-plan.html

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Sunday, 15-Dec-2024 01:52:19 JST Cory Doctorow

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     #20yrsago Advertising techniques that Web-users hate https://www.nngroup.com/articles/most-hated-advertising-techniques/

     #20yrsago Haunted Mansion’s cobwebbing-and-griming regimen https://web.archive.org/web/20041216114700/http://disney.go.com/inside/issues/stories/v041214.html

     #15yrsago Danish police abuse climate-change demonstrators https://web.archive.org/web/20091215061955/https://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2009/12/13/crackdown-in-copenhagen/

     #15yrsago Three strikes law reintroduced in New Zealand https://memex.craphound.com/2009/12/15/three-strikes-law-reintroduced-in-new-zealand/

     #15yrsago SFPD won’t investigate hit-and-run car-v-bike accident https://web.archive.org/web/20091220112602/https://jwz.livejournal.com/1139721.html

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     #15yrsago Comical legal case names https://kevinunderhill.typepad.com/lowering_the_bar/comical_case_names.html

     #10yrsago Photographer beaten, detained in London for being “cocky” to policeman who implies she is a terrorist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAs4gZY1bro

     #10yrsago HOWTO: Make glue-gun sticks out of sugar for building gingerbread houses https://memex.craphound.com/2014/12/15/howto-make-glue-gun-sticks-out-of-sugar-for-building-gingerbread-houses/

     #10yrsago New York City’s worst landlords https://web.archive.org/web/20141216015548/https://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2014/12/the_ten_worst_new_york_city_landlords_of_2014.php

     #10yrsago Macedonia helped CIA kidnap and torture a German they mistook for a terrorist https://www.thelocal.de/20141210/cia-tortured-german-mistaken-for-terrorist

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Sunday, 15-Dec-2024 01:52:46 JST Cory Doctorow

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     #10yrsago Why it matters whether or not torture works https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/12/the-humane-interrogation-technique-that-works-much-better-than-torture/383698/

     #5yrsago Spain’s Xnet: leak-publishing corruption-fighters https://www.smh.com.au/world/spains-wikileaksinspired-xnet-peaceful-guerrilla-movement-fights-graft-using-technology-courts-20141213-126e1d.html

     #5yrsago DRM screws blind people https://www.wired.com/2014/12/e-books-for-the-blind-should-be-legal/

     #1yrago It all started with a mouse https://pluralistic.net/2023/12/15/mouse-liberation-front/#free-mickey

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Sunday, 15-Dec-2024 01:53:03 JST Cory Doctorow

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     Yesterday's threads: The GOP is not the party of workers; and more!

     https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113647218206846753

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Sunday, 15-Dec-2024 01:53:21 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 Sunday, 15-Dec-2024 01:53:40 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 @ChevaliersBooks:

     https://www.chevaliersbooks.com/product-page/the-bezzle

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Sunday, 15-Dec-2024 01:54:10 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 Wil Wheaton (Los Angeles), Feb 18
     https://www.dieselbookstore.com/event/Cory-Doctorow-Wil-Wheaton-Author-signing

     * 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 Sunday, 15-Dec-2024 01:54:23 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 Wil Wheaton (Los Angeles), Feb 18
     https://www.dieselbookstore.com/event/Cory-Doctorow-Wil-Wheaton-Author-signing

     * 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 Sunday, 15-Dec-2024 01:54:36 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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     ploum (ploum@mamot.fr)'s status on Sunday, 15-Dec-2024 18:24:38 JST ploum

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     @pluralistic : but you already are on BS, right ?

     https://bsky.app/profile/pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy

     Or do you miss actively following people there ?