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   Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 03:27:39 JST Cory Doctorow

   Today's threads (a thread)

   Inside: Canada shouldn't retaliate with US tariffs; Picks and Shovels Chapter One (Part 6 - CONCLUSION); and more!

   Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/15/beauty-eh/

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 03:28:19 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, 16-Jan-2025 03:28:34 JST Cory Doctorow

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     Canada shouldn't retaliate with US tariffs: It should hit the USA where it hurts, instead.

     https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113833658953276794

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 03:28:47 JST Cory Doctorow

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     Picks and Shovels Chapter One (Part 6 - CONCLUSION): It's a deal.

     https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113833743286390654

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 03:28:59 JST Cory Doctorow

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     Hey look at this

     * Platforms Systematically Removed a User Because He Made "Most Wanted CEO" Playing Cards https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/01/platforms-systematically-removed-user-because-he-made-most-wanted-ceo-playing

     * PLURALITY: The future of collaborative technology and democracy https://www.plurality.net/

     * The Visible Zorker https://blog.zarfhome.com/2025/01/the-visible-zorker (h/t Waxy)

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 03:29:20 JST Cory Doctorow

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     #15yrsago ATM skimmer — could you spot it in the wild? https://krebsonsecurity.com/2010/01/would-you-have-spotted-the-fraud/

     #15yrsago Italy proposes mandatory licenses for people who upload video https://web.archive.org/web/20100119020907/http://www.thestandard.com/news/2010/01/15/proposed-web-video-restrictions-cause-outrage-italy

     #10yrsago Leaked US cybersecurity report singles out crypto as essential for security of private data https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jan/15/-sp-secret-us-cybersecurity-report-encryption-protect-data-cameron-paris-attacks

     #10yrsago New editor at the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction https://locusmag.com/2015/01/finlay-named-editor-of-fsf/

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 03:29:36 JST Cory Doctorow

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     #5yrsago Five steps for thinking about climate change without being overwhelmed by hopelessness https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/10/opinion/sunday/how-to-help-climate-change.html

     #5yrsago The ten types of movie: orange and blue, sexy legs, blurry cop… https://twitter.com/leesteffen/status/1217167850009440257

     #5yrsago American conspiracy theorists keep insisting on their right to trial by combat https://www.loweringthebar.net/2020/01/kansas-man-seeks-trial-by-combat.html

     #5yrsago Major brands’ ads are showing up on climate deniers’ Youtube videos https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/16/21066906/youtube-climate-change-denial-avaaz-samsung-uber-nintendo

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 03:29:49 JST Cory Doctorow

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     #5yrsago Hong Kong shoppers patronize “yellow” stores that support the uprising; while “blue” businesses that support the mainland are vandalized https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/hong-kong-protest-shoppers-build-yellow-economy-reward-businesses-that-support-their

     #5yrsago Carriers ignore studies that show they suck at preventing SIM-swap attacks https://www.issms2fasecure.com/assets/sim_swaps-01-10-2020.pdf

     #5yrsago Bill from Missouri’s Rep Ben Baker threatens librarians with prison sentences for allowing minors to read books banned by town committees https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jan/16/missouri-could-jail-librarians-for-lending-age-inappropriate-books-parental-oversight-of-public-libraries-bill

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 03:29:58 JST Cory Doctorow

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     #5yrsago Court case lays bare KPMG’s crimes: poaching employees from its own regulators and making them steal government secrets https://www.pogo.org/investigations/how-accountants-took-washingtons-revolving-door-to-a-criminal-extreme

     #1yrago American education has all the downsides of standardization, none of the upsides https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/16/flexibility-in-the-margins/#a-commons</a.

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 03:30:14 JST Cory Doctorow

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     Yesterday's threads: Billionaire-proofing the internet; Picks and Shovels Chapter One (Part 4); and more!

     https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113828556255868901

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 03:30:25 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, 16-Jan-2025 03:30:40 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, 16-Jan-2025 03:32:03 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, 16-Jan-2025 03:32:20 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 Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 03:32:43 JST Cory Doctorow

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     Recent appearances:

     * Right to Repair with Karen Sandler (Software Freedom Conservancy):
     https://videos.trom.tf/w/q1AAL629GYMFtN6nCy15WE

     * 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

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 03:33:06 JST Cory Doctorow

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     Today's top sources: Naked Capitalism (https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/).

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 03:34:02 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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     sleepy62 (sleepy62@social.vivaldi.net)'s status on Friday, 17-Jan-2025 02:48:34 JST sleepy62

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     @pluralistic

     Yes, attacking the ludicrous IP rules we were goaded into agreeing to is a great approach. Even the threat of it should be enough to get them flapping. Love the idea, also love this line:

     "Countries that are organized around resource extraction don't need fancy social safety nets or an educational system capable of producing a high-tech workforce. All you need to extract resources is a hole in the ground surrounded by guns, which explains a lot about shifts to the Canadian political climate since the Mulroney years."

     #cdnpoli #USPol

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     ludo (ludosansfin@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 17-Jan-2025 03:27:49 JST ludo

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     @sleepy62 @pluralistic

     Why do you have call out #Texas, #UAE, #saudiarabia, and #russia like that?

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Friday, 17-Jan-2025 03:27:59 JST Cory Doctorow

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     @ludosansfin @sleepy62 You forgot Alberta and Queensland.

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Friday, 17-Jan-2025 03:46:22 JST Cory Doctorow

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     @ludosansfin @sleepy62 And Azerbaijan!

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     ludo (ludosansfin@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 17-Jan-2025 03:46:23 JST ludo

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     @pluralistic @sleepy62 True! Tales of their fuckery haven't seeped into my silo as often as the others' have

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     @ludosansfin @sleepy62 Brunei!