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   Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 04:06:48 JST Cory Doctorow

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   Inside: The first days of Boss Politics Antitrust; and more!

   Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/24/enforcement-priorities/

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 04:07:29 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 have THREE MORE DAYS to 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, 25-Jan-2025 04:07:46 JST Cory Doctorow

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     The first days of Boss Politics Antitrust: Selective enforcement in a target-rich environment.

     https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113884799390661266

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 04:08:07 JST Cory Doctorow

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     Hey look at this

     * A novelist's guide to poisoning, part 1 https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2025/01/a-novelists-guide-to-poisoning.html

     * Welcome to the era of gangster tech regulation https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/20/24346317/trump-gangster-tech-regulation-corruption-grift (h/t The Essentials)

     * It's 2026 and you wonder what your friends are up to https://retro.social/@ifixcoinops/113838462085835742 (h/t Metafilter)

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 04:08:30 JST Cory Doctorow

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     #20yrsago 1970s Homebrew Computer Club newsletter scans https://www.digibarn.com/collections/newsletters/homebrew/

     #15yrsago Corporate developers abandon “underwater” property — why not individuals? https://memex.craphound.com/2010/01/25/corporate-developers-abandon-underwater-property-why-not-individuals/

     #10yrsago San Francisco ponders letting luxury property developers take away symbolic “public spaces” https://socketsite.com/archives/2015/01/little-known-public-open-spaces-soon-history.html

     #5yrsago Cheating term-paper-for-pay businesses recruited customers through subsidized on-campus parties https://www.edsurge.com/news/2020-01-23-how-the-contract-cheating-industry-has-gotten-more-aggressive-in-recruiting-students

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     #5yrsago The cum-ex scam stole $60b from European tax authorities: it’s monumentally boring, complicated, and very, very important https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/23/business/cum-ex.html

     #5yrsago Chicago PD’s predictive policing tool has been shut down after 8 years of catastrophically bad results https://twitter.com/sh4keer/status/1220470166355468288

     #5yrsago The answer to the Clearview AI scandal is better privacy laws, not anti-scraping laws https://memex.craphound.com/2020/01/25/the-answer-to-the-clearview-ai-scandal-is-better-privacy-laws-not-anti-scraping-laws/

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 04:08:58 JST Cory Doctorow

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     #5yrsago I reviewed William Gibson’s novel “Agency” for today’s LA Times https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2020-01-24/agency-william-gibson

     #5yrsago Warner claims ownership over the numbers 36 and 50, and demonetizes Youtube videos that incorporate them https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/annemunition-bizarre-copyright-strike-youtube-random-numbers-1317750/

     #1yrago Tabs give me superpowers https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/25/today-in-tabs/#unfucked-rota

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 04:09:24 JST Cory Doctorow

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     Yesterday's threads: Defense (of the internet) (from billionaires) in depth; and more!

     https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113879892397209567

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 04:09:36 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, 25-Jan-2025 04:09:49 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, 25-Jan-2025 04:10:02 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 Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 04:10:17 JST Cory Doctorow

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     Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

     * Picks and Shovels at Another Story (Toronto), Feb 23
     https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/picks-shovels-cory-doctorow-tickets-1219803217259

     * 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/

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 04:10:31 JST Cory Doctorow

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     Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

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

     * 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

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 04:10:43 JST Cory Doctorow

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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, 25-Jan-2025 04:10:58 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, 25-Jan-2025 04:11:09 JST Cory Doctorow

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 04:11:23 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 have THREE MORE DAYS to pre-order it on my latest Kickstarter, which features a brilliant audiobook read by Wil Wheaton:

     http://martinhench.com

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