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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · 2 months ago

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Return to office and dying on the job; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/09/27/sharpen-your-blades-boys/

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A medieval drawing of a horrible torture chamber in which men are being tormented by various diabolical machines. On the wall hangs a poster reading 'LATE AGAIN! Dependable workers are on the job.' Through the window peers an impatient man in a sixties vintage executive suit, clutching a sheaf of papers and scowling at his watch. Behind him is the nighttime Manhattan skyline.

Andii אַנדִֽי @Andii@mas.to · 2 months ago

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What a dramatic start to an article: "Denise Prudhomme's bosses at Wells Fargo insisted that the in-person camaraderie of their offices warranted a mandatory return-to-office policy, but when she died at her desk in her Tempe, AZ office, no one noticed for four days."

KanaMauna @KanaMauna@sauropods.win · 2 months ago

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Bookmarking this today's office reading.

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Melissa Techman @mtechman@mastodon.ie · 2 months ago

@pluralistic part of me likes this image for #Fensterfreitag

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · 2 months ago

@mtechman Cutting out all those windowpanes in The Gimp was surprisingly fiddly work, but it was worth it. The background is a public domain NYC nighttime skyline photo from the Library of Congress's' digital collection.

Melissa Techman @mtechman@mastodon.ie · 2 months ago

@pluralistic Thank you!! I have Gimp, just assumed you have wonderful graphic design helper - but it's you! Totally inspiring.

On my list (just got back from China and S. Korea, but am still jet hag) - I want to learn how to use Gimp etc to make digital art that looks like paper and collage...

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · 2 months ago

Tor Books has just published two new, free "Little Brother" stories: "Vigilant," about creepy surveillance in distance education:

https://reactormag.com/spill-cory-doctorow/

And "Spill," about oil pipelines and indigenous landback:

https://reactormag.com/vigilant-cory-doctorow/

lemgandi @lemgandi@mastodon.social · 2 months ago

spoiler alert

@pluralistic Vigilant was highly entertaining. The tech solution could prove useful for other students.

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · 2 months ago

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Return to office and dying on the job: Denise Prudhomme was dead at her Wells Fargo desk, unnoticed for four days.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113209717731666333

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · 2 months ago

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Hey look at this

* Fight Health Insurance https://www.fighthealthinsurance.com/

* A Deutsche Telekom Shakedown: Will Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp slow to a crawl in Germany as DT tries to get paid twice, and will German regulators have the courage to stop DT’s bullying? https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2024/09/a-deutsche-telekom-shakedown-will-instagram-facebook-whatsapp-slow-to-a-crawl/

* Comrades! Verso Needs Your Support for Radical Publishing https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/versobooks/comrades-verso-needs-your-support-for-radical-publishing

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · 2 months ago

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#20yrsago HOWTO make a legal P2P system https://web.archive.org/web/20041009210429/https://www.eff.org/IP/P2P/p2p_copyright_wp.php

#15yrsago Google Book Search and privacy for students https://web.archive.org/web/20091002014504/http://freeculture.org/blog/2009/09/24/gbs-and-students-eff-privacy/

#10yrsago Fed whistleblower secretly recorded 46 hours of regulatory capture inside Goldman Sachs https://www.thisamericanlife.org/536/the-secret-recordings-of-carmen-segarra

#5yrsago @annaleen's `“Future of Another Timeline”: like Handmaid’s Tale meets Hitchhiker’s Guide https://memex.craphound.com/2019/09/27/annalee-newitzs-future-of-another-timeline-like-handmaids-tale-meets-hitchhikers-guide/

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · 2 months ago

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#5yrsago Do Not Erase: Jessica Wynne’s beautiful photos of mathematicians’ chalkboards https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/23/science/mathematicians-blackboard-photographs-jessica-wynne.html

#5yrsago Across America, the average worker can’t afford the median home https://www.marketwatch.com/story/there-are-precious-few-places-in-america-where-the-average-worker-can-afford-a-median-priced-home-2019-09-26

#5yrsago Amazon wants to draft model facial recognition legislation https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/9/25/20884427/jeff-bezos-amazon-facial-recognition-draft-legislation-regulation-rekognition

#5yrsago Doordash’s breach is different https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/26/doordash-data-breach/

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · 2 months ago

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#5yrsago Report from Defcon’s Voting Village reveals ongoing dismal state of US electronic voting machines https://media.defcon.org/DEF CON 27/voting-village-report-defcon27.pdf

#1yrago Intuit: "Our fraud fights racism" https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/27/predatory-inclusion/#equal-opportunity-scammers

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · 2 months ago

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Yesterday's threads: When prophecy fails, election polling edition; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113204030765075655

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · 2 months ago

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My latest nationally bestselling novel is "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

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 · 2 months ago

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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 · 2 months ago

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Upcoming appearances:

* Was There Ever an Old, Good Internet? David Graeber Institute (Remote), Oct 3
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUsduuprjgpG9C4SAenCK4jOsawnkxDrY_-#/registration

* “Come distruggere il capitalismo della sorveglianza” (Pisa/Remote), Oct 12
https://www.internetfestival.it/programma/come-distruggere-il-capitalismo-della-sorveglianza/

* SOSS Fusion (Atlanta), Oct 22
https://sossfusion2024.sched.com/speaker/cory_doctorow.1qm5qfgn

* TusCon (Tucson), Nov 8-10
https://tusconscificon.com/

* International Cooperative Alliance (New Delhi), Nov 24
https://icanewdelhi2024.coop/welcome/pages/Programme

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · 2 months ago

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Recent appearances:

* Rethink: Is the internet getting worse?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0022z9r

* Annie's Book Stop Of Worcester
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYM3WOPOMC0

* @defcon 32 - Disenshittify or die! How hackers can seize the means of computation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EmstuO0Em8

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · 2 months ago

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