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   Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Thursday, 09-Jan-2025 00:05:35 JST Cory Doctorow

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   Inside: The Brave Little Toaster; and more!

   Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/08/sirius-cybernetics-corporation/

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Thursday, 09-Jan-2025 00:06:39 JST Cory Doctorow

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     The Brave Little Toaster: Gen AI in your appliances was a warning, not a pitch deck.

     https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113793304094705170

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Thursday, 09-Jan-2025 00:07:02 JST Cory Doctorow

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     *Picks and Shovels* is a new, standalone technothriller starring Marty Hench, my two-fisted, hard-fighting, tech-scam-busting forensic accountant. You can pre-order it on my latest Kickstarter, which features a brilliant audiobook read by Wil Wheaton:

     http://martinhench.com

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Thursday, 09-Jan-2025 00:07:26 JST Cory Doctorow

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     Hey look at this

     * Clip https://clip.bike/ (h/t Kottke)

     * BRING BACK RSS READER'S AND BLOG'S https://dashare.zone/listing/bring-back-rss-reader-s-and-bl?product=2

     * Todd Alcott's Sci-Fi Tarot https://www.etsy.com/listing/1799455324/todd-alcotts-sci-fi-tarot-science

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Thursday, 09-Jan-2025 00:07:56 JST Cory Doctorow

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     #20yrsago Low-tech “Hipster PDA” (cards and a paperclip) hacks https://web.archive.org/web/20050111035632/http://www.43folders.com/2005/01/organizing_your.html

     #10yrsago Sharpening the contradictions: why jihadis attack cartoonists https://www.juancole.com/2015/01/sharpening-contradictions-satirists.html

     #10yrsago Porn companies carpetbomb Google with sloppy takedowns, remove tons of Github projects https://torrentfreak.com/google-porn-takedowns-carpet-bomb-github-150107/

     #10yrsago DHS’s weird, creepy social media search-terms https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2015/jan/07/homeland-security-search-logs-include/

     #10yrsago Batmanga: Japan’s 1960s parallel universe “New Look” Batman https://memex.craphound.com/2015/01/08/batmanga-japans-1960s-parallel-universe-new-look-batman/

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Thursday, 09-Jan-2025 00:08:18 JST Cory Doctorow

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     #5yrsago A Public Service: a comprehensive, comprehensible guide to leaking documents to journalists and public service groups without getting caught https://memex.craphound.com/2020/01/08/a-public-service-a-comprehensive-comprehensible-guide-to-leaking-documents-to-journalists-and-public-service-groups-without-getting-caught/

     #5yrsago Three years after the W3C approved a DRM standard, it’s no longer possible to make a functional indie browser https://blog.samuelmaddock.com/posts/the-end-of-indie-web-browsers/

     #5yrsago Trying to land on some runways causes the Boeing 737’s control screens to go black https://www.theregister.com/2020/01/08/boeing_737_ng_cockpit_screen_blank_bug/

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Thursday, 09-Jan-2025 00:08:26 JST Cory Doctorow

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     #5yrsago Something Awful’s “Fuck You and Die” forum went from freewheeling jokesters to Nazi shitposters, so it’s dead https://www.vice.com/en/article/something-awfuls-notorious-fuck-you-and-die-forum-shuts-down-because-of-nazis/

     #5yrsago Internal docs reveal that Canada’s Exxon subsidiary knew about climate change risks and lied about it for decades https://theintercept.com/2020/01/08/imperial-oil-climate-change-exxon/

     #1yrago Molly McGhee's "Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind" https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/08/capitalist-surrealism/#productivity-hacks

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Thursday, 09-Jan-2025 00:08:49 JST Cory Doctorow

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     Yesterday's threads: Kickstarting a new Martin Hench novel about the dawn of enshittification; and more!

     https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113787611943970960

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Thursday, 09-Jan-2025 00:09:11 JST Cory Doctorow

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     My last nationally bestselling novel was "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, 09-Jan-2025 00:09:43 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, 09-Jan-2025 00:09:56 JST Cory Doctorow

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     Upcoming appearances:

     * 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, 09-Jan-2025 00:10:08 JST Cory Doctorow

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     Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

     * Picks and Shovels with John Hodgman (NYC), Feb 26
     https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cory-doctorow-john-hodgman-picks-and-shovels-tickets-1131132841779

     * 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, 09-Jan-2025 00:10:22 JST Cory Doctorow

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     Recent appearances:

     * Elon Musk’s Move Into Politics: Yanis Varoufakis and Cory Doctorow on Fighting Billionaire Control
     https://www.youtube.com/live/I0kvjNh7czM

     * 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

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Thursday, 09-Jan-2025 00:10:35 JST Cory Doctorow

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     You can follow these posts as a daily blog at pluralistic.net: no ads, trackers, or data-collection!

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Thursday, 09-Jan-2025 00:10:51 JST Cory Doctorow

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     *Picks and Shovels* is a new, standalone technothriller starring Marty Hench, my two-fisted, hard-fighting, tech-scam-busting forensic accountant. You can pre-order it on my latest Kickstarter, which features a brilliant audiobook read by Wil Wheaton:

     http://martinhench.com

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