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   Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Sunday, 12-Jan-2025 04:43:57 JST Cory Doctorow

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   Inside: The cod-Marxism of personalized pricing; Picks and Shovels Chapter One (Part 3); and more!

   Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/11/socialism-for-the-wealthy/

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Sunday, 12-Jan-2025 04:44:35 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 Sunday, 12-Jan-2025 04:44:55 JST Cory Doctorow

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     The cod-Marxism of personalized pricing: From each to their ability, to each according to their need?

     https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113811268292299764

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Sunday, 12-Jan-2025 04:45:10 JST Cory Doctorow

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     Picks and Shovels Chapter One (Part 3): DEFINITELY not a pyramid scheme.

     https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113811374676811901

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Sunday, 12-Jan-2025 04:45:21 JST Cory Doctorow

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     Hey look at this

     * CES Worst In Show 2025 https://www.worstinshowces.com/

     * CES 2025 Worst in Show: Betas for a Dystopian Future https://thenewstack.io/ces-2025-worst-in-show-betas-for-a-dystopian-future/ (h/t Slashdot)

     * K-Ray Sign up is now live https://chrisbathgate.blogspot.com/2025/01/k-ray-sign-up-is-now-live.html

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Sunday, 12-Jan-2025 04:45:41 JST Cory Doctorow

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     #20yrsago Sheet-music for Super Mario https://web.archive.org/web/20050112012306/https://gprime.net/images/mariopiano/

     #20yrsago Jailed for a Song: Human-readable copyfight explanation https://web.archive.org/web/20050121142031/http://www.jailedforasong.com/

     #20yrsago Free beer that’s free as in speech https://web.archive.org/web/20050121093653/http://www.voresoel.dk/main.php?id=70

     #20yrsago IBM turning 500 patents over for free implementation https://web.archive.org/web/20100505080603/http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20050110235654673

     #20yrsago Fundie denounces sf for atheism, nudism https://web.archive.org/web/20100111034704/https://www.wayoflife.org/files/2fd19aa02a25c87c4946a653a20f1344-486.html

     #15yrsago Bruce Schneier’s TSA logo redesign contest https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/01/tsa_logo_contes.html

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Sunday, 12-Jan-2025 04:45:53 JST Cory Doctorow

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     #15yrsago Secret London: guide to the weird and wonderful secrets of London-town https://memex.craphound.com/2010/01/11/secret-london-guide-to-the-weird-and-wonderful-secrets-of-london-town/

     #5yrsago William Gibson talks about scrapping and rewriting a novel after the 2016 Trump election https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jan/11/william-gibson-i-was-losing-a-sense-of-how-weird-the-real-world-was

     #5yrsago Departing Kotaku writers post a farewell message to their private equity asshole boss: “Sup dude. Suck it.” https://kotaku.com/goodbye-from-josh-and-gita-1840936478

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Sunday, 12-Jan-2025 04:46:00 JST Cory Doctorow

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     #5yrsago America’s most popular governor: the lavishly corrupt Larry Hogan [R-MD] https://newrepublic.com/article/156183/popular-crook-america

     #1yrago The real AI automation threat to workers https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/11/robots-stole-my-jerb/#computer-says-no

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Sunday, 12-Jan-2025 04:46:15 JST Cory Doctorow

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     Yesterday's threads: Occupy the Democratic National Committee; Picks and Shovels Chapter One (Part 2); and more!

     https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113806513508833332

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Sunday, 12-Jan-2025 04:46:28 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 Sunday, 12-Jan-2025 04:46:44 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 Sunday, 12-Jan-2025 04:46:58 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 Sunday, 12-Jan-2025 04:47:13 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

     * Picks and Shovels at the Doylestown Bookshop (Doylestown, PA), Mar 1
     https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cory-doctorow-picks-and-shovels-a-martin-hench-novel-tickets-1146230880419

     * 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 Sunday, 12-Jan-2025 04:47:22 JST Cory Doctorow

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     Recent appearances:

     * Lost Dollar Business Club
     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuLGgMQfFCk

     * Fighting Billionaire Control with Yanis Varoufakis
     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

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Sunday, 12-Jan-2025 04:47:31 JST Cory Doctorow

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Sunday, 12-Jan-2025 04:47:48 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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     liaml (liaml@umbracocommunity.social)'s status on Monday, 13-Jan-2025 22:47:12 JST liaml

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     @pluralistic "Some customers will happily accept a lettuce that's a little gross and liztruss if it means a discount."

     Outstanding use of "liztruss" here. 👏