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   Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 07:53:06 JST Cory Doctorow

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   Inside: Occupy the Democratic National Committee; Picks and Shovels Chapter One (Part 2); and more!

   Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/10/smoke-filled-room-where-it-happens/

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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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     Occupy the Democratic National Committee: A deliberately weak institution that has failed us again and again.

     https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113806370879797989

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 07:54:34 JST Cory Doctorow

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     Picks and Shovels Chapter One (Part 2): Meet the women of Computing Freedom.

     https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113806410698847699

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 07:54:42 JST Cory Doctorow

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     Hey look at this

     * Inventing the Renaissance https://www.exurbe.com/5966-2/

     * DEF CON's hacker-in-chief faces fortune in medical bills after paralyzing neck injury https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/07/def_con_security_chief_injured/

     * Freewrite’s latest keyboard has a mechanical word-counter to track your writing https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/9/24339811/astrohaus-freewrite-wordrunner-mechanical-keyboard

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 07:55:15 JST Cory Doctorow

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     #1yrago Kickstarting "The Bezzle" audiobook, sequel to Red Team Blues https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/10/the-bezzle/#marty-hench

     #5yrsago The Monsters Know What They’re Doing: an RPG sourcebook for DMs who want to imbue monsters with deep, smart tactics https://memex.craphound.com/2020/01/10/the-monsters-know-what-theyre-doing-an-rpg-sourcebook-for-dms-who-want-to-imbue-monsters-with-deep-smart-tactics/

     #5yrsago For the first time, you can search the database of money that publicly funded researchers in Illinois received from pharma companies https://www.propublica.org/article/dollars-for-profs-illinois-professors-conflicts-of-interest

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 07:55:29 JST Cory Doctorow

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     #5yrsago A company that makes spy-tech for cops threatened to sue Vice for publishing its sales literature (because Iran!) https://www.vice.com/en/article/this-secretive-surveillance-company-is-selling-cops-cameras-hidden-in-gravestones/

     #5yrsago Virgin’s subsidized smartphones come with unremovable Chinese malware https://www.zdnet.com/article/unremovable-malware-found-preinstalled-on-low-end-smartphone-sold-in-the-us/

     #5yrsago Pranksters produce enlistment ads featuring Trump Jr: “I’m not enlisting but YOU should” https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-jr-army-enlisting-sign-pranksters_n_5e1874f1c5b650c621dd0041

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 07:55:53 JST Cory Doctorow

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     #5yrsago Howto: file your taxes for free without getting defrauded into paying a big tax-prep firm https://www.propublica.org/article/how-to-file-state-federal-taxes-free-2020#175169

     #5yrsago Boris the Babybot: a picture book about resisting surveillance https://memex.craphound.com/2020/01/10/boris-the-babybot-a-picture-book-about-resisting-surveillance/

     #5yrsago NYPD ordered to disclose records of secret X-ray vans https://www.propublica.org/article/judge-orders-nypd-to-release-records-on-x-ray-vans

     #15yrsago If HP Lovecraft wrote C manuals http://www.bobhobbs.com/files/kr_lovecraft.html

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 07:56:05 JST Cory Doctorow

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     #15yrsago Britain’s Digital Economy Bill will cost ISPs £500M, knock 40K poor households offline https://torrentfreak.com/piracy-surcharge-set-to-force-40000-households-offline-091228/

     #15yrsago Bugs in the Arroyo: sf podcast about metal-eating bug apocalypse https://reactormag.com/bugs-in-the-arroyo/

     #15yrsago Slovak aviation cops sneak explosives into travellers’ luggage, jailarity ensues http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8441891.stm

     #15yrsago Orson Welles on privacy, prescient remarks from 1955 https://web.archive.org/web/20100114060742/http://www.thejanuarist.com/orson-welles-on-privacy-the-passport-and-personal-rights/

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 07:56:15 JST Cory Doctorow

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     #20yrsago Desperate Ken Lay paying search-engines to return links to his “version” of Enron https://web.archive.org/web/20050108125640/https://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/business/2982765/

     #20yrsago EFF defends bloggers’ rights to keep informants’ identities secret https://web.archive.org/web/20050105112953/http://www.eff.org/news/archives/2005_01.php#002190

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 07:56:53 JST Cory Doctorow

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     Yesterday's threads: Chapter One of "Picks and Shovels" (Part 1); and more!

     https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113800090324694612

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 07:57:03 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 Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 07:57:15 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 Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 07:57:27 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 Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 07:57:52 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 Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 07:58:18 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 Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 07:58:24 JST Cory Doctorow

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 07:58:34 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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