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   Inside: Kier Starmer appoints Jeff Bezos as his "first buddy"; and more!

   Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/22/autocrats-of-trade/

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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 have one more week to pre-order it on my latest Kickstarter, which features a brilliant audiobook read by Wil Wheaton:

     http://martinhench.com

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     Kier Starmer appoints Jeff Bezos as his "first buddy": Regulatory capture, right there out in the open.

     https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113873478957693420

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     Hey look at this

     * The PC is Dead: It’s Time to Make Computing Personal Again https://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/3292/the-pc-is-dead-its-time-to-make-computing-personal-again

     * No, Trump didn’t make $50 billion from his memecoin https://www.citationneeded.news/trump-memecoin-valuation/

     * STOP DOING DEVOPS ON PERSONAL SITES https://www.flickr.com/photos/philgyford/54275634645

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     #20yrsago Shirky: Net is a kayak, driven by its environment https://corante.com/many/folksonomies-are-a-forced-move-a-response-to-liz/

     #20yrsago Whistler’s Delight mashup mixes 22 whistling songs https://web.archive.org/web/20050909012025/https://www.djriko.com/music/DJ Riko - Whistler's Delight (Full version).mp3

     #15yrsago Londoners: Mass photography event in Trafalgar Square today! I’m a photographer, not a terrorist https://www.flickr.com/photos/doctorow/tags/phnat

     #15yrsago Activist ejected from “public” meeting on secret copyright treaty for tweeting https://pisanty.blogspot.com/2010/01/acta-consulta-del-impi-en-mexico.html

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     #15yrsago Remembering the golden age of pulps with Robert Silverberg https://francesca.net/silverberg.html

     #15yrsago O’Reilly drops ebook DRM, sees 104% increase in sales https://web.archive.org/web/20100406013442/http://toc.oreilly.com/2010/01/2009-oreilly-ebook-revenue-up-104-percent.html

     #15yrsago Defective by Design anti-DRM picket at Apple tablet launch https://www.defectivebydesign.org/apple-tablet-san-francisco-launch

     #15yrsago EFF won’t give up the fight over NSA warrantless wiretapping https://www.eff.org/press/archives/2010/01/21

     #15yrsago Canada’s National Film Board online archive: a success story https://blog.nfb.ca/blog/2010/01/21/online-video-stats/

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     #15yrsago Naked airport scanner catches cellphone, misses bomb components https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/01/german_tv_on_th.html

     #15yrsago Zoomable paper London streetmap https://www.thezoomablemap.com/video/

     #15yrsago 5 Jokes About The Apparent Eagerness Of Certain Democratic Members Of Congress To Abandon Health Care Reform In Light Of Scott Brown’s Electoral Victory https://www.mnftiu.cc/2010/01/21/5-jokes-about-the-apparent-eagerness-of-certain-democratic-members-of-congress-to-abandon-health-care-reform-in-light-of-scott-browns-electoral-victory/

     #10yrsago London cop who repeatedly kicked, beat woman who wouldn’t leave her child’s sickbed cleared https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jan/22/met-police-warren-luke-cleared-kicking-mother-child-hospital

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     #10yrsago Consumerist on Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free https://consumerist.com/2015/01/22/4-ways-copyright-law-actually-controls-your-whole-digital-life/

     #10yrsago Oakland cops’ license cams follow drivers everywhere https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/01/what-we-learned-oakland-raw-alpr-data

     #10yrsago Radical Brownies: girls of color push social justice, not cookies https://web.archive.org/web/20150122020603/https://fusion.net/story/39637/meet-the-radical-brownies-girl-scouts-for-the-modern-age/

     #10yrsago Potemkin rumble: your car’s muscular engine noise is an MP3 https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/americas-best-selling-cars-and-trucks-are-built-on-lies-the-rise-of-fake-engine-noise/2015/01/21/6db09a10-a0ba-11e4-b146-577832eafcb4_story.html

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     #10yrsago They put a Pirate Party MEP in charge of EU copyright reform: you won’t believe awesomesauce that followed https://www.discuto.io/en/consultation/6240

     #5yrsago The 1970s called and they want their proto-McMansions back! https://mcmansionhell.com/post/190405899096/the-mcmansion-hell-yearbook-1970

     #5yrsago Angelenos! Come to ICANN this Friday to Save Dot ORG! https://www.eff.org/event/savedotorg-protest-icann

     #5yrsago The sordid tale of Microsoft’s epic tax evasion and the war they waged against the IRS https://www.propublica.org/article/the-irs-decided-to-get-tough-against-microsoft-microsoft-got-tougher

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     #5yrsago Forensics team accuses Prince Bone Saw of hacking Jeff Bezos’s phone to obtain kompromat and force Washington Post silence on Khashoggi https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/01/report-bezos-phone-uploaded-gbs-of-personal-data-after-getting-saudi-princes-whatsapp-message/

     #5yrsago Boeing indefinitely halts 737 Max production https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/21/business/boeing-737-max-production-halt/index.html

     #5yrsago Sonos warns customers that their older speakers will shortly be e-waste https://www.theregister.com/2020/01/21/sonos_bricking_laudio_gear/

     #5yrsago Year of the Rabbit: a graphic novel memoir of one family’s life under the Khmer Rouge https://memex.craphound.com/2020/01/22/year-of-the-rabbit-a-graphic-novel-memoir-of-one-familys-life-under-the-khmer-rouge/

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     #5yrsago In serving big company interests, copyright is in crisis https://memex.craphound.com/2020/01/22/in-serving-big-company-interests-copyright-is-in-crisis/

     #5yrsago Unauthorized Charcoal: GE fridges won’t dispense ice or water unless your filter authenticates as an official ($55!) component https://memex.craphound.com/2020/01/23/unauthorized-charcoal-ge-fridges-wont-dispense-ice-or-water-unless-your-filter-authenticates-as-an-official-55-component/

     #5yrsago German proposal to control links to news stories: headlines, 3s of video, 128 pixel thumbnails https://www.techdirt.com/2020/01/23/germany-wants-to-limit-memes-mashups-derived-press-publishers-material-to-128-by-128-pixels-resolution-three-seconds-length/

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     #5yrsago A sober look at kratom, a psychoactive plant that has many claimed benefits, and has also inspired a moral panic https://www.wired.com/story/release-the-kratom-inside-drug-culture/

     #5yrsago You can read the forensics report that suggests Prince Mohammad Bin Salman Al Saud hacked Jeff Bezos’s phone https://www.vice.com/en/article/saudi-arabia-hacked-jeff-bezos-phone-technical-report/

     #5yrsago White nationalists planned to murder cops and pro-gun protesters in Virginia https://www.cbsnews.com/news/gun-rally-virginia-documents-allege-base-members-discussed-starting-civil-war-2020-01-21/

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     #1yrago Dave Maass and Patrick Lay's "Death Strikes: The Emperor of Atlantis" https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/23/peter-kien-viktor-ullmann/#terez

     #1yrago Boeing, Spirit and Jetblue, a monopoly horror-story https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/22/anything-that-cant-go-on-forever/#will-eventually-stop

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     Yesterday's threads: Enshittification isn't caused by venture capital; and more!

     https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113861208533472641

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Thursday, 23-Jan-2025 05:01:00 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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     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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     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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     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 (Penn State), Feb 27
     https://www.bellisario.psu.edu/assets/uploads/CoryDoctorow-Poster.pdf

     * 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 Red Emma's (Baltimore), Mar 2
     https://redemmas.org/events/cory-doctorow-presents-picks-and-shovels/

     * Picks and Shovels with Lee Vinsel (Richmond, VA), Mar 5
     https://fountainbookstore.com/events/1795820250305

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     Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

     * Picks and Shovels at First Light Books (Austin), Mar 10
     https://thethirdplace.is/event/cory-doctorow-picks-shovels-1

     * 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

     * 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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     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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