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     Happy Public Domain Day 2025 to all who celebrate: A new bumper crop, with many more to come!

     https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113668925948982204

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     • hackaday

     Hey look at this

     * Find out why your health insurer denied your claim https://projects.propublica.org/claimfile/ (h/t Gregory Charlin)

     * Woman blames Star Trek license plates for tens of thousands of dollars in accidental tickets https://www.ksl.com/article/51204984/woman-blames-star-trek-license-plates-for-tens-of-thousands-of-dollars-in-accidental-tickets (h/t @hackaday)

     * The £25,000 Pre-Amp Repair and the Copyright Strike https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPIrCaeVtvI (h/t Sal Fadhley)

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     #20yrsago US will shut down GPS to “fight terrorists” https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna6720387

     #20yrsago Firefox ad in today’s NYT https://web.archive.org/web/20050204043841/https://www.mozilla.org/images/nyt_ad_large_2004.png

     #20yrsago Barlow’s trial blogged https://web.archive.org/web/20041229065803/http://vitanuova.loyalty.org/weblog/nb.cgi/view/vitanuova/2004/12/16/1

     #20yrsago Donate to EFF, send a lump of coal to MPAA and RIAA https://web.archive.org/web/20041218015602/http://www.downhillbattle.org/coal/

     #20yrsago 65MB of vintage random numbers from 1965 https://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR1418.html

     #15yrsago Spite Houses, built to piss off the neighbors https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spite_house#

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     #15yrsago Bug powder causes male bedbugs to stab each other to death with their penises https://www.medindia.net/news/bedbugs-may-be-on-way-out-with-new-discovery-62273-1.htm

     #15yrsago Installing Windows considered as a literary genre https://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/012008.html#012008

     #15yrsago Montage of magic “photo enhancement” in cop shows and movies https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vxq9yj2pVWk

     #15yrsago Leaked secret EU-Canada copyright agreement – EU screws Canada https://web.archive.org/web/20091220121340/https://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/4627/125/

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     #15yrsago Rapist ex-lawmaker claims copyright on his name, threatens legal action against anyone who uses it without permission https://rapidcityjournal.com/news/rapist-former-lawmaker-ted-klaudt-claims-name-copyright/article_03881cae-e9a3-11de-848e-001cc4c002e0.html

     #15yrsago RIP, Roy E Disney https://web.archive.org/web/20091220040552/http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news&id=7174485

     #15yrsago Photos of rotting, abandoned water park at Walt Disney World https://web.archive.org/web/20091213143405/http://disboards.com/showthread.php?t=2344523

     #15yrsago Great Firewall of Australia will nationally block sites appearing on a secret, unaccountable list https://web.archive.org/web/20091220042804/http://www.efa.org.au/2009/12/17/filtering-coming-to-australian-in-2010/

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     #10yrsago Barbaric, backwards ancestor worship https://memex.craphound.com/2014/12/16/barbaric-backwards-ancestor-worship/

     #10yrsago UK cops demand list of attendees at university fracking debate https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/dec/15/police-university-list-fracking-debate

     #10yrsago Over 700 million people have taken steps to improve privacy since Snowden https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/12/over_700_millio.html

     #10yrsago Judge convicted of planting meth on woman who reported him for harassment https://web.archive.org/web/20141212022710/http://www.ajc.com/news/news/local/ex-judge-convicted-of-planting-drugs-on-woman/njQwd/

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     #10yrsago No charges for Japanese man who dumped a quarter-ton of porn in a park https://web.archive.org/web/20141225092617/https://www.afp.com/en/node/2965441/

     #10yrsago The strange history of Disney’s cyber-psychedelic “Computers Are People Too” https://www.vice.com/en/article/how-disney-was-hustled-into-making-the-trippiest-movie-about-computers-ever/

     #10yrsago HOWTO cut paper snowflakes in the likeness of Nobel physics prizewinners https://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/december-2014/deck-the-halls-with-nobel-physicists

     #5yrsago Insulin prices doubled between 2012 and 2016 https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2019/12/09/insulin-prices-double-ohio-lawmakers-looking-answers/2629115001/

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     #5yrsago Sloppy security mistakes in smart conferencing gear allows hackers to spy on board rooms, steal presentations https://www.wired.com/story/dten-video-conferencing-vulnerabilities/

     #5yrsago Bernie Sanders is the only leading Democrat who hasn’t taken money from billionaires https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bernie-sanders-knocks-rivals-for-taking-donations-from-billionaires/

     #5yrsago Privacy activists spent a day on Capitol Hill scanning faces to prove that scanning faces should be banned https://fightfortheftr.medium.com/we-scanned-thousands-of-faces-in-dc-today-to-show-why-facial-recognition-surveillance-should-be-3360958a76f1

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     #5yrsago Foxconn wants Wisconsin to keep paying it billions, but it won’t disclose what kind of factory it will build https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/13/21020885/foxconn-wisconsin-deal-renegotiate-tax-subsidy-lcd-factory-plant

     #5yrsago Citing the Panama Papers, Elizabeth Warren proposes sweeping anti-financial secrecy rules https://medium.com/@teamwarren/my-plan-to-fight-global-financial-corruption-b66492583129

     #5yrsago McKinsey is lying about its role in building ICE’s gulags, and paying to own the top search result for “McKinsey ICE” https://www.propublica.org/article/mckinsey-called-our-story-about-its-ice-contract-false-its-not

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     #5yrsago Boston city council election decided by a single vote https://www.wgbh.org/news/local/2019-12-13/five-takeaways-from-what-might-have-been-the-closest-election-in-boston-history

     #5yrsago Bunnie Huang’s classic “Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzhen” is now free online https://bunniefoo.com/bunnie/essential/essential-guide-shenzhen-web.pdf

     #5yrsago Private equity firms should be abolished https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/why-private-equity-should-not-exist

     #5yrsago ICANN hits pause on the sale of .ORG to Republican billionaires’ private equity fund https://www.icann.org/en/blogs/details/org-update-9-12-2019-en

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     #5yrsago San Diego’s Mysterious Galaxy bookstore is saved! https://www.mystgalaxy.com/new-location-mysterious-galaxy-2020

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     Saturday's threads: Social media needs (dumpster) fire exits; and more!

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

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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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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Dec-2024 01:19:08 JST Cory Doctorow

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     Upcoming appearances:

     * 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

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

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     Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

     * Picks and Shovels at Imagine! Belfast (Remote), Mar 24
     https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cory-doctorow-in-conversation-with-alan-meban-tickets-1106421399189

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

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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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