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   Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Sunday, 26-Jan-2025 02:40:30 JST Cory Doctorow

   Today's threads (a thread)

   Inside: It's not a crime if we do it with an app; and more!

   Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/25/potatotrac/

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Sunday, 26-Jan-2025 02:41:16 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 JUST TWO 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 Sunday, 26-Jan-2025 02:41:34 JST Cory Doctorow

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     It's not a crime if we do it with an app: How Big Potato and the other food cartels did greedflation and got away with it.

     https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113890173307091764

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Sunday, 26-Jan-2025 02:41:47 JST Cory Doctorow

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     Hey look at this

     * TikTok’s “cute winter boots” meaning explained https://www.usermag.co/p/tiktok-cute-winter-boots-meaning-explained-algospeak

     * Book Review: 'Picks and Shovels' with a Bonus 'Bezzle' https://geekdad.com/2025/01/book-review-picks-and-shovels-with-a-bonus-bezzle/

     * Series of the Month: Martin Hench Novels by Cory Doctorow https://www.lovereading.co.uk/blog/series-of-the-month-martin-hench-novels-by-cory-doctorow-9225

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Sunday, 26-Jan-2025 02:42:04 JST Cory Doctorow

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     #20yrsago What if Bill Gates hired Linus Torvalds? https://web.archive.org/web/20050207155531/https://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.02/microsoft_pr.html

     #15yrsago Rogers Canada forces Android update that takes away root access https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/10/01/26/2358237/Canadian-Android-Carrier-Forcing-Firmware-Update

     #15yrsago Sane copyright doesn’t treat all copying as the same https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2010/jan/26/copyright-cory-doctorow

     #15yrsago ACTA: the leaked secret memos https://web.archive.org/web/20100130005036/https://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/4730/125/

     #10yrsago Plan C: The top secret Cold War plan for martial law in the USA https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2015/jan/26/plan-c-top-secret-cold-war-battle-plan-bring-unite/

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Sunday, 26-Jan-2025 02:42:17 JST Cory Doctorow

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     #10yrsago Google strong-arms indie musicians into accepting brutal, crowdfunding-killing deal for streaming service https://zoekeating.tumblr.com/post/108898194009/what-should-i-do-about-youtube

     #10yrsago Great Firewall of Cameron blocks sex-abuse charities https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jan/24/internet-filters-block-sex-abuse-charities

     #10yrsago The Haunted Mansion was almost the Tiki Room https://longforgottenhauntedmansion.blogspot.com/2015/01/walt-disneys-enchanted-creepy-room.html

     #5yrsago Two years after a federal law banning shackling women during childbirth was passed, prisoners in America are still giving birth in chains https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jan/24/shackled-pregnant-women-prisoners-birth

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Sunday, 26-Jan-2025 02:42:39 JST Cory Doctorow

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     #5yrsago Andrew Cuomo’s naked hostility drives out MTA president Andy Byford, the “Train Daddy” who has transformed the world’s rail systems https://www.railwayage.com/passenger/you-blew-it-andrew-cuomo/

     #5yrsago Fatal car wrecks are correlated with stock-market fluctuations https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0167629619301237

     #5yrsago Banks have returned to the pre-2008 world of automatic credit-limit increases for credit cards used by already indebted people https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-23/banks-are-raising-credit-card-limits-without-asking-customers

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Sunday, 26-Jan-2025 02:42:47 JST Cory Doctorow

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     #1yrago The long sleep of capitalism's watchdogs https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/26/noclar-war/#millionaire-on-billionaire-violence

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Sunday, 26-Jan-2025 02:43:03 JST Cory Doctorow

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     Yesterday's threads: The first days of Boss Politics Antitrust; and more!

     https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113884896027559905

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Sunday, 26-Jan-2025 02:43:20 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 Sunday, 26-Jan-2025 02:43:34 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 Sunday, 26-Jan-2025 02:43:41 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 Sunday, 26-Jan-2025 02:43:51 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 Sunday, 26-Jan-2025 02:44:02 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 Sunday, 26-Jan-2025 02:44:12 JST Cory Doctorow

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     Upcoming appearances (cont'd)

     * ABA Techshow (Chicago), Apr 3
     https://www.techshow.com/

     * 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 Sunday, 26-Jan-2025 02:44:25 JST Cory Doctorow

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     Recent appearances:

     * A radical plan to fight U.S. tariffs and build an export industry jailbreaking consumer products from iPhones to tractors
     https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-14-day-6/clip/16123612-a-radical-plan-fight-u.s.-tariffs-build-export

     * 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

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Sunday, 26-Jan-2025 02:44:35 JST Cory Doctorow

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Sunday, 26-Jan-2025 02:44:57 JST Cory Doctorow

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     Today's top sources: Bruce Schneier (https://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram/)

     https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113890218967430211

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Sunday, 26-Jan-2025 02:45:11 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 JUST TWO 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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