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   Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Friday, 10-Jan-2025 04:40:22 JST Cory Doctorow

   Chapter One of "Picks and Shovels" (Part 1): My next novel is the origin story of Martin Hench, Silicon Valley's greatest forensic accountant.

   https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113799932460857204

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Friday, 10-Jan-2025 04:40:34 JST Cory Doctorow

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     Hey look at this

     * Cassette Tape Plays MP3s https://hackaday.com/2025/01/06/cassette-tape-plays-mp3s/

     * K Ray https://chrisbathgate.blogspot.com/2025/01/k-ray.html

     * Used Meta AI to edit a selfie, now instagram is using my face on ads targeted at me https://old.reddit.com/r/ABoringDystopia/comments/1ht7fft/used_meta_ai_to_edit_a_selfie_now_instagram_is/

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Friday, 10-Jan-2025 04:41:00 JST Cory Doctorow

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     #20yrsago New US Attorney General versus a baked potato https://fafblog.blogspot.com/2005_01_09_fafblog_archive.html#110532348636328727

     #20yrsago Companies that have fired people for blogging https://web.archive.org/web/20060427154821/http://rights.journalspace.com/?b=1104566400&e=1105171200

     #10yrsago MP wants to ban email disclaimers https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-30710481

     #10yrsago Apple won’t let EFF release a DRM-free app https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/12/download-eff-mobile-app

     #10yrsago Universal wants to take away prisoners’ mixtapes https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-30724173

     #10yrsago Russia bans trans people from driving https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-30735673

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Friday, 10-Jan-2025 04:41:21 JST Cory Doctorow

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     #5yrsago More than 800 Russian academic articles retracted after “bombshell” report reveals plagiarism and other misconduct https://www.science.org/content/article/russian-journals-retract-more-800-papers-after-bombshell-investigation

     #5yrsago The Communications Workers of America is seeking to unionize tech and video game workers https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2020-01-07/major-union-launches-campaign-to-organize-video-game-and-tech-workers

     #5yrsago Multiple Amazon employees have been fired for spying on Ring owners’ cameras https://www.vice.com/en/article/ring-fired-employees-abusing-video-data/

     #5yrsago How to read long, difficult books https://www.bradford-delong.com/2019/12/a-note-on-reading-big-difficult-books.html

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Friday, 10-Jan-2025 04:41:28 JST Cory Doctorow

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     #5yrsago A beautiful timeline of a future in which the climate crisis is met and overcome https://thecorrespondent.com/214/in-2030-we-ended-the-climate-emergency-heres-how/28330740746-6b15af77

     #5yrsago RIP, Mike Resnick https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-mike-resnick-pay-off-a-neardeath-experience

     #1yrago Kelly and Zach Weinersmith's "A City On Mars" https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/09/astrobezzle/#send-robots-instead

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Friday, 10-Jan-2025 04:41:56 JST Cory Doctorow

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     Yesterday's threads: The Brave Little Toaster; and more!

     https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113793350492260154

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Friday, 10-Jan-2025 04:42:08 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 Friday, 10-Jan-2025 04:42:20 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, 10-Jan-2025 04:42:31 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 Friday, 10-Jan-2025 04:42:44 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 Friday, 10-Jan-2025 04:42:57 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 Friday, 10-Jan-2025 04:43:06 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!

     Here's today's edition: https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/09/the-reverend-sirs/

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Friday, 10-Jan-2025 04:43:23 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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     Robert (rsf92@fosstodon.org)'s status on Friday, 10-Jan-2025 23:31:55 JST Robert

     @pluralistic good birthday present for me to have this! Already a backer and eagerly awaiting this one. I enjoyed the other two MH books but this one seems specially interesting!!