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   Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jan-2025 00:42:09 JST Cory Doctorow

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   Inside: Fu-Schnickens; and more!

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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 Saturday, 18-Jan-2025 00:43:08 JST Cory Doctorow

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     Fu-Schnickens: Some upbeat earworms for a not-so-great week.

     https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113844392830335435

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jan-2025 00:43:23 JST Cory Doctorow

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     Hey look at this

     * Zuckerberg Proves Meta Is Too Big https://prospect.org/power/2025-01-15-zuckerberg-proves-meta-is-too-big/

     * FTC Report Shows Big Pharma Middlemen Jack Up Prices by Up to 7,736% https://www.commondreams.org/news/pharmacy-benefit-managers-profiteering (h/t /r/LateStageCapitalism)

     * Taking Leave https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/01/15/taking-leave/

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jan-2025 00:43:44 JST Cory Doctorow

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     #20yrsago Why is American Airlines gathering written dossiers on fliers’ friends? https://craphound.com/aadossierletter.txt

     #15yrsago Mass “overdose” planned in protest of Boots pharmacy sale of “homeopathic remedies” https://web.archive.org/web/20100120080932/http://www.1023.org.uk/the-1023-overdose-event.php

     #15yrsago HOWTO Read science-fiction https://reactormag.com/sf-reading-protocols/

     #15yrsago Leaked document: How the EU planned to force changes in Canada’s copyright https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2010/01/eu-ceta-leak/

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     #15yrsago CBS uncovers rare Jack Benny treasures, puts them back and tosses out the key https://themoderatevoice.com/killing-comedic-heritage-cbs-reportedly-seals-some-classic-jack-benny-show-comedy-masters/

     #15yrsago Disney’s Looking at Paintings: An Introduction to Fine Art for Young People https://memex.craphound.com/2010/01/18/disneys-looking-at-paintings-an-introduction-to-fine-art-for-young-people/

     #15yrsago Cracking ice-sheets sound like Star Wars blasters https://silentlistening.wordpress.com/2008/05/09/dispersion-of-sound-waves-in-ice-sheets/

     #15yrsago When getting the bombsquad called to school was a badge of honor https://jalopnik.com/how-my-youthful-junkyard-scrounging-habit-got-my-high-s-5450096

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jan-2025 00:44:11 JST Cory Doctorow

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     #15yrsago Britain’s Business Secretary wants to turn the nation’s back on basic science https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2010/jan/17/lasers-government-funding-peter-mandelson

     #10yrsago Eric Holder: no more civil forfeiture without warrant/charges https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/holder-ends-seized-asset-sharing-process-that-split-billions-with-local-state-police/2015/01/16/0e7ca058-99d4-11e4-bcfb-059ec7a93ddc_story.html

     #10yrsago Ecstatic NSA spooks delight in spying on spies who are spying on spies https://web.archive.org/web/20150117184537/https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/new-snowden-docs-indicate-scope-of-nsa-preparations-for-cyber-battle-a-1013409.html

     #5yrsago Brazilian authoritarian Bolsonaro fires his culture minister for giving a speech plagiarized from Joseph Goebbels https://theintercept.com/2020/01/18/bolsonaro-under-fire-dismisses-his-culture-minister-for-giving-a-nazi-speech-but-it-is-still-representative-of-brazils-governing-ethos/

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jan-2025 00:44:31 JST Cory Doctorow

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     #5yrsago Manhattan: a city of empty luxury condos and overflowing homeless shelters https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/01/american-housing-has-gone-insane/605005/

     #5yrsago Imagining a “smart city” that treats you as a sensor, not a thing to be sensed https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2020/jan/17/the-case-for-cities-where-youre-the-sensor-not-the-thing-being-sensed

     #5yrsago Ars Technica’s dunk on Gwyneth Paltrow’s Netflix series is the best dunk of all https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/01/goops-netflix-series-its-so-much-worse-than-i-expected-and-i-cant-unsee-it/

     #5yrsago Fast-tracked South Dakota bill will felonize doctors who offer gender-confirmation therapy to trans kids https://web.archive.org/web/20200501000000*/https://thegailygrind.com/2020/01/16/republicans-introduce-bill-to-make-it-illegal-for-doctors-to-treat-transgender-children-in-north-dakota/

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     #5yrsago Inventive students detach IoT car-immobilizers, use their SIMs to power free wifi hotspots https://www.reddit.com/r/specializedtools/comments/e541r4/new_type_of_parking_enforcement_on_my_campus/

     #1yrago The super-rich got that way through monopolies https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/17/monopolies-produce-billionaires/#inequality-corruption-climate-poverty-sweatshops

     #1yrago Demon-haunted computers are back, baby https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/18/descartes-delenda-est/#self-destruct-sequence-initiated

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jan-2025 00:45:12 JST Cory Doctorow

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

     https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113833781291041081

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jan-2025 00:45:21 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, 18-Jan-2025 00:45:32 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, 18-Jan-2025 00:45:49 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, 18-Jan-2025 00:46:10 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

     * Picks and Shovels at Dark Delicacies (Burbank), Mar 13
     https://www.darkdel.com/store/p3257/Thu%2C_Mar_13th_6_pm%3A_Pick_%26_Shovel%3A_A_Martin_Hench_Novel_HB.html#/

     * 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

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     Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

     * Teardown 2025 (PDX), Jun 20-22
     https://www.crowdsupply.com/teardown/portland-2025

     * DeepSouthCon63 (New Orleans), Oct 10-12, 2025
     http://www.contraflowscifi.org/

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jan-2025 00:46:38 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 Saturday, 18-Jan-2025 00:46:46 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!

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jan-2025 00:47:12 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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     Dorothy (echoedthoughts@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jan-2025 10:41:40 JST Dorothy

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     @pluralistic Wow, you’ve written so many books! I can’t wait to dive into them. I first came across your work through a post on Substack, and someone mentioned your Pluralistic website, which led me to your blogs. They are fantastic. Then I saw a Twitter post about Aaron Swartz and someone mentioned Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free. I borrowed the book from a library, looked you up, and boom! I made the connection. It’s incredible how much you write! Keep it up!

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     @echoedthoughts THank you!