Notices by Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)

Saturday's threads: Blue Cross of Louisiana doesn't give a shit about breast cancer; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/114326393024965987

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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:

* #Auckland: Unity Books, May 2, 6PM
https://www.eventbrite.co.nz/e/an-evening-with-cory-doctorow-tickets-1320740102199

* #Wellington: Unity Books, May 3, 3PM
https://www.unitybooks.co.nz/news-and-events/author-talk-picks-and-shovels-by-cory-doctorow

* #Pittsburgh: Picks and Shovels at White Whale Books, May 15
https://whitewhalebookstore.com/events/20250515

* #Pittsburgh: PyCon, May 16
https://us.pycon.org/2025/schedule/

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

* #PDX: Picks and Shovels with BUNNIE HUANG at Barnes and Noble, Jun 20
https://stores.barnesandnoble.com/event/9780062183697-0

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#15yrsago This means war: Big Content’s war on democracy https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2010/apr/16/digital-economy-act-cory-doctorow

#15yrsago Apple blocks Pulitzer-winning political cartoonist from iStore for “ridiculing public figures” https://www.niemanlab.org/2010/04/mark-fiore-can-win-a-pulitzer-prize-but-he-cant-get-his-iphone-cartoon-app-past-apples-satire-police/

#15yrsago Big Content’s dystopian wish-list for the US gov’t: spyware, censorship, physical searches and SWAT teams https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/04/entertainment-industrys-dystopia-future

#15yrsago UK minority party supporters coordinate strategic votes through Facebook https://memex.craphound.com/2010/04/14/uk-minority-party-supporters-coordinate-strategic-votes-through-facebook/

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#10yrsago How to Teach Adults: Get a Job; Plan Your Class; Teach Your Students; Change the World https://memex.craphound.com/2015/04/14/how-to-teach-adults-get-a-job-plan-your-class-teach-your-students-change-the-world/

#10yrsago Blocked Italian toilet leads to thousands of years of buried history https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/15/world/europe/centuries-of-italian-history-are-unearthed-in-quest-to-fix-toilet.html?smid=pl-share</a.

#10yrsago Arkansas cops send malware to whistleblowers’ lawyers https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/04/lawyer-representing-whistle-blowers-finds-malware-on-drive-supplied-by-cops/

#5yrsago One person is in charge of oversight for $2.2T in stimulus https://pluralistic.net/2020/04/15/invigilation/#tumbleweeds

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#5yrsago Amazon fires tech workers for their warehouse worker solidarity https://pluralistic.net/2020/04/14/abolish-silicon-valley/#hang-together-hang-separately

#5yrsago Ticketmaster ends refunds for canceled events https://pluralistic.net/2020/04/14/abolish-silicon-valley/#ripoffs

#5yrsago Corona-denying pastor dies of coronavirus https://pluralistic.net/2020/04/14/abolish-silicon-valley/#washed-in-blood

#5yrsago Podcast swap with Wil Wheaton https://pluralistic.net/2020/04/14/abolish-silicon-valley/#golem-tempters

#1yrago How to screw up a whistleblower law https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/15/whistleblown/#lisa-monaco

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Recent appearances:

* Fightback Against Trump's Tariff Attack (Avi Lewis)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9sgIAc6z_o

* The Voice of Canadian Humanism
https://open.spotify.com/episode/7uuwdZTIbWzKhBQ3mmMiRv?context=spotify%3Ashow%3A6N5hl8on16CfaeYArrKyqZ

* Intelligent Machines (TWiT)
https://twit.tv/shows/intelligent-machines/episodes/814

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Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Machina economicus; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/14/timmy-share/

#Pluralistic

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I'm on a 20+ city book tour for my new novel *Picks and Shovels*.

Catch me in #NewZealand at UNITY BOOKS in #AUCKLAND (May 2, 6PM):

https://www.eventbrite.co.nz/e/an-evening-with-cory-doctorow-tickets-1320740102199

and #WELLINGTON (May 3, 3PM):

https://www.unitybooks.co.nz/news-and-events/author-talk-picks-and-shovels-by-cory-doctorow

More tour dates (#PDX, #Pittsburgh, #London, #Manchester) here:

http://martinhench.com

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Machina economicus: Enshittification is an alien invasion.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/114337976025476782

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Hey look at this

* Silicon Valley crosswalk buttons apparently hacked to imitate Musk, Zuckerberg voices https://www.paloaltoonline.com/technology/2025/04/12/silicon-valley-crosswalk-buttons-apparently-hacked-to-imitate-musk-zuckerberg-voices/ (h/t Paul Bigbee)

* 10 years of pomological watercolors https://parkerhiggins.net/2025/04/10-years-of-pomological-watercolors/

* Why Billionaires Are Secretly Reading Karl Marx https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrDqzURCH6M (h/t r/LateStageCapitalism)

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#20yrsago EFF and friends kick WIPO’s ass https://web.archive.org/web/20050525075913/https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/003512.php

#20yrsago Papal elections are more secure than US elections https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/04/hacking_the_pap_1.html

#20yrsago Why new US passports can be read without permission https://web.archive.org/web/20050415021937/http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/archives/000798.html

#20yrsago Turning WIPO into a real UN agency: blogging from the sausage factory https://web.archive.org/web/20050903073451/https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/003511.php

#20yrsago India’s amazing statement on IP and international development https://web.archive.org/web/20050417231302/http://lists.essential.org/pipermail/a2k/2005-April/000241.html

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#15yrsago Anti-piracy enforcers claiming to represent Microsoft used to shut down dissident media in former USSR https://cpj.org/2010/04/microsoft-piracy-and-independent-media-in-kyrgyzst/

#15yrsago Library of Congress to archive every public tweet ever sent https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2010/04/how-tweet-it-is-library-acquires-entire-twitter-archive/

#15yrsago Prime Baby: kids comic story about kid sister who’s more trouble than most https://memex.craphound.com/2010/04/14/prime-baby-kids-comic-story-about-kid-sister-whos-more-trouble-than-most/

#10yrsago On the Hugo Award hijacking https://grrm.livejournal.com/417125.html

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#5yrsago Universities want to infect students’ laptops with undetectable rootkits https://pluralistic.net/2020/04/15/invigilation/#invigilation

#5yrsago State treasurers demand ventilator manufacturers publish manuals https://pluralistic.net/2020/04/15/invigilation/#loz-im-gain

#5yrsago Jailbreak for CPAP machine reveals hidden ventilator functionality https://pluralistic.net/2020/04/15/invigilation/#breathless

#5yrsago Abolish Silicon Valley https://pluralistic.net/2020/04/14/abolish-silicon-valley/#seize-the-means-of-computation

#5yrsago Southern states in for worst of coronavirus impact https://pluralistic.net/2020/04/14/abolish-silicon-valley/#new-jim-crow

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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* #London: How To Academy with Riley Quinn, Jul 1
https://howtoacademy.com/events/cory-doctorow-the-fight-against-the-big-tech-oligarchy/

* #Manchester: Picks and Shovels at Blackwell's Bookshop, Jul 2
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/an-evening-with-cory-doctorow-tickets-1308451968059

Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* #Manchester: Co-operatives UK Co-op Congress keynote, Jul 3
https://www.uk.coop/events-and-training/events-calendar/co-op-congress-2025-book-your-place

* #NewOrleans: DeepSouthCon63, Oct 10-12, 2025
http://www.contraflowscifi.org/

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I'm on a 20+ city book tour for my new novel *Picks and Shovels*.

Catch me in #NewZealand at UNITY BOOKS in #AUCKLAND (May 2, 6PM):

https://www.eventbrite.co.nz/e/an-evening-with-cory-doctorow-tickets-1320740102199

and #WELLINGTON (May 3, 3PM):

https://www.unitybooks.co.nz/news-and-events/author-talk-picks-and-shovels-by-cory-doctorow

More tour dates (PDX, Pittsburgh, London, Manchester) here:

http://martinhench.com

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The hospital at the center of this controversy is the Center for Restorative Breast Surgery in New Orleans, founded by two surgeons, Frank DellaCroce and Scott Sullivan. DellaCroce and Sullivan are pioneers of an advanced form of breast reconstruction called "autologous tissue reconstruction," which eschews implants in favor of the patient's own fat to construct new breasts.

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While other surgeons perform this surgery, DellaCroce and Sullivan are acknowledged as national leaders, having invented many innovative techniques and trained many of the other surgeons who perform the procedure. As a result, patients travel from all over America to the Center for Restorative Breast Surgery.

DellaCroce and Sullivan's procedure is extremely precise and labor-intensive, and it comes at a high cost.

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