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   Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jan-2025 03:12:36 JST Cory Doctorow

   Today's threads (a thread)

   Inside: They were warned; Picks and Shovels Chapter One (Part 4); and more!

   Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/13/wanting-it-badly/

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jan-2025 03:13:07 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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     They were warned: "We've had enough of experts."

     https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113822137240095820

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jan-2025 03:13:35 JST Cory Doctorow

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     Picks and Shovels Chapter One (Part 4): Electronic needles, digital haystacks.

     https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113822348720338513

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jan-2025 03:13:51 JST Cory Doctorow

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     Hey look at this

     * Inside the Black Box of Predictive Travel Surveillance https://www.wired.com/story/inside-the-black-box-of-predictive-travel-surveillance/

     * I Was Wrong about the Ethics Crisis https://cacm.acm.org/opinion/i-was-wrong-about-the-ethics-crisis/

     * The Mechanic and the Luddite https://www.ucpress.edu/books/the-mechanic-and-the-luddite/paper

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jan-2025 03:14:08 JST Cory Doctorow

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     #20yrsago Handbag embossed with handgun https://web.archive.org/web/20050114061719/http://www.popgadget.net/2005/01/guardian-angel-bags.html

     #15yrsago Stripped of opportunites for wonder, gratitude and guilt https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/2010/the-enlightening-bridge-between-art-and-work/

     #15yrsago France’s anti-piracy goon squad pirates the font in its logo https://torrentfreak.com/french-3-strikes-group-unveils-copyright-infringing-logo-100112/

     #15yrsago Steven Brust’s IORICH: sword and sorcery and law and order https://memex.craphound.com/2010/01/12/steven-brusts-iorich-sword-and-sorcery-and-law-and-order/

     #15yrsago Bruce Sterling’s wonderful novella Kiosk in podcast form http://www.starshipsofa.com/blog/2010/01/13/aural-delights-no-116-bruce-sterling/

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jan-2025 03:14:29 JST Cory Doctorow

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     #15yrsago Bob Basset’s latest steampunk mask https://web.archive.org/web/20100118104624/http://bobbasset.com/?p=300

     #15yrsago EFF’s trends for 2010 https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/01/trends-2010

     #15yrsago Hiaasen’s BASKET CASE: hilarious mystery novel about the *last* newspaperpocalypse https://memex.craphound.com/2010/01/13/hiaasens-basket-case-hilarious-mystery-novel-about-the-last-newspaperpocalypse/

     #10yrsago Teens’ use of social media is significantly shaped by race, class, geography, cultural background https://medium.com/message/an-old-fogeys-analysis-of-a-teenagers-view-on-social-media-5be16981034d

     #10yrsago Freedom of speech is now compulsory https://scarfolk.blogspot.com/2015/01/freedom-of-speech-public-information.html

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jan-2025 03:14:47 JST Cory Doctorow

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     #10yrsago What David Cameron just proposed would endanger every Briton and destroy the IT industry https://memex.craphound.com/2015/01/13/what-david-cameron-just-proposed-would-endanger-every-briton-and-destroy-the-it-industry/

     #10yrsago Jo Walton’s “The Just City” https://memex.craphound.com/2015/01/13/jo-waltons-the-just-city/

     #10yrsago Recipe: picture book that introduces sloppy cooking and social engineering https://memex.craphound.com/2015/01/12/recipe-picture-book-that-introduces-sloppy-cooking-and-social-engineering/

     #5yrsago Glossary: Chinese futurist military jargon https://memex.craphound.com/2020/01/12/glossary-chinese-futurist-military-jargon/

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jan-2025 03:15:02 JST Cory Doctorow

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     #5yrsago The DHS classes nonviolent environmental activists in the same “domestic terrorist” category as Dylan Roof and James Fields https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jan/13/us-listed-climate-activist-group-extremists

     #5yrsago Charter/Spectrum sold customers expensive home security systems, then killed the program and left them high and dry https://gizmodo.com/spectrum-kills-home-security-business-refuses-refunds-1840931761

     #5yrsago Olympics warns athletes that kneeling, fist-raising and other political actions will be banned at the Tokyo 2020 games https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2020/01/cowardice-olympics-committee-slammed-for-new-guidelines-barring-athletes-from-kneeling-raising-fists.html

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jan-2025 03:15:08 JST Cory Doctorow

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     #5yrsago Top tech grads are increasingly unwilling to work for Big Tech, viewing it as a new, unethical Wall Street https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/11/style/college-tech-recruiting.html

     #5yrsago The bubbles in VR, cryptocurrency and machine learning are all part of the parallel computing bubble https://memex.craphound.com/2020/01/13/the-bubbles-in-vr-cryptocurrency-and-machine-learning-are-all-part-of-the-parallel-computing-bubble/

     #1yrago Tech workers and gig workers need each other https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/13/solidarity-forever/#tech-unions

     #1yrago The Cult of Mac https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/12/youre-holding-it-wrong/#if-dishwashers-were-iphones

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jan-2025 03:15:28 JST Cory Doctorow

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

     https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113811432047617725

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jan-2025 03:15:38 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 Tuesday, 14-Jan-2025 03:15:56 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 Tuesday, 14-Jan-2025 03:16:02 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 Tuesday, 14-Jan-2025 03:16:14 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 Tuesday, 14-Jan-2025 03:16:33 JST Cory Doctorow

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     Recent appearances:

     * Just Say It's Capitalism (This Week in Tech)
     https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech/episodes/1014?autostart=false

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

     * Fighting Billionaire Control with Yanis Varoufakis
     https://www.youtube.com/live/I0kvjNh7czM

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jan-2025 03:16:38 JST Cory Doctorow

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jan-2025 03:16:51 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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