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   Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Thursday, 19-Dec-2024 04:07:56 JST Cory Doctorow

   Today's threads (a thread)

   Inside: Nurses whose shitty boss is a shitty app; and more!

   Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/12/18/loose-flapping-ends/

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     Nurses whose shitty boss is a shitty app: "Uber for nurses" is even worse than it sounds.

     https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113675290215795013

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     Hey look at this

     * It’s time for the European Union to rethink personal social networking https://www.bruegel.org/policy-brief/its-time-european-union-rethink-personal-social-networking (h/t Svea)

     * Never Forgive Them https://www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgive-them/

     * Margot Susca on How Hedge Funds Helped Destroy American Newspapers https://www.corporatecrimereporter.com/news/200/margot-susca-on-how-hedge-funds-helped-destroy-american-newspapers/

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Thursday, 19-Dec-2024 04:08:59 JST Cory Doctorow

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     #10yrsago A modest proposal for Wall Street’s future https://web.archive.org/web/20141215195720/http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-12-15/michael-lewis-eight-things-i-wish-for-wall-street

     #5yrsago From Enron to Saudi Arabia, from Rikers Island to ICE’s gulag, how McKinsey serves as “Capitalism’s Consigliere” https://theintercept.com/2019/12/18/capitalisms-consigliere-mckinseys-work-for-insurance-companies-ice-drug-manufacturers-and-despots/

     #5yrsago A profile of Cliff “Cuckoo’s Egg” Stoll, a pioneering “hacker hunter” https://www.wired.com/story/meet-the-mad-scientist-who-wrote-the-book-on-how-to-hunt-hackers/

     #5yrsago With 5G, 2019 reached peak bullshit https://www.lightreading.com/5g/2019-the-year-telecom-went-doolally-about-5g

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Thursday, 19-Dec-2024 04:09:08 JST Cory Doctorow

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     #5yrsago Kentucky’s governor insisted that investment bankers could provide broadband. He was wrong https://www.propublica.org/article/there-are-kentuckians-who-still-dont-have-broadband-because-the-former-governor-chose-an-investment-bank-over-experts#173512

     #1yrago Debbie Urbanski's 'After World' https://pluralistic.net/2023/12/18/storyworker-ad39-393a-7fbc/#digital-human-archive-project

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Thursday, 19-Dec-2024 04:09:27 JST Cory Doctorow

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     Yesterday's threads: Happy Public Domain Day 2025 to all who celebrate; and more!

     https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113669043645993421

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Thursday, 19-Dec-2024 04:09:34 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 Thursday, 19-Dec-2024 04:09:49 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 Thursday, 19-Dec-2024 04:10:04 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 Ken Liu (Boston), Feb 14
     https://brooklinebooksmith.com/event/2025-02-14/cory-doctorow-ken-liu-picks-and-shovels

     * 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 Thursday, 19-Dec-2024 04:10:14 JST Cory Doctorow

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     Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

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

     * 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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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Thursday, 19-Dec-2024 04:10:31 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 Thursday, 19-Dec-2024 04:10:51 JST Cory Doctorow

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