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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · 4 months ago

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Unpersoned; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/07/22/degoogled/

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An editorial cartoon depicting the Standard Oil company as a word-girdling kraken, choking the statehouse, legislature and White House in its tentacles. It has been modified. The kraken's head is now surmounted by the hostile red eye of HAL 9000 from Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' The sky behind the world has been replaced with a 'code waterfall' effect as seen in the credit sequences of the Wachowskis' 'Matrix' movies.

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · 4 months ago

Support me this summer on the Clarion Write-A-Thon and help raise money for the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers' Workshop!

https://clarionwriteathon.com/members/profile.php?writerid=293388

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · 4 months ago

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Unpersoned: My latest Locus Magazine column.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112830813712646630

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · 4 months ago

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Hey look at this

* CrowdStruck https://www.wheresyoured.at/crowdstruck-2/

* Airlines Are Shrinking Carry-On Sizes, Forcing Travelers to Pay Checked Bag Fees https://www.frommers.com/blogs/arthur-frommer-online/blog_posts/airlines-are-shrinking-carry-on-sizes-forcing-travelers-to-pay-checked-bag-fees (h/t @boingbot)

* IRS reports collecting $1 billion from rich households’ back taxes https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/07/11/millionaires-unpaid-taxes-irs/ (h/t @jwz)

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · 4 months ago

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#20yrsago Doonesbury to be dropped for being “too controversial” https://web.archive.org/web/20040723071326/https://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000581723

#20yrsago Secret Swing visit report https://web.archive.org/web/20040725050428/http://candycritic.bravejournal.com/entry/4178

#20yrsago Game developer: the real pirates are my publishers http://draginol.joeuser.com/article/21895

#20yrsago Imagineering head on Tiki Room rehab https://web.archive.org/web/20040806155355/http://www.laughingplace.com/default.asp?WCI=MsgBoard&WCE=T-51032-P-1&Refresh=0721171722

#20yrsago In-game product placement’s dystopian future https://terranova.blogs.com/terra_nova/2004/07/oh_great.html

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · 4 months ago

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#20yrsago Downloading isn’t killing music https://web.archive.org/web/20040724060140/http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,1265840,00.html

#15yrsago Last Galapagos Pinta turtle finally knocks up a mate’s eggs https://web.archive.org/web/20090725192130/http://scienceray.com/earth-sciences/paleontology/lonesome-george-to-finally-be-a-father/

#15yrsago Photographer who shot demolition of flyover arrested for terrorism https://web.archive.org/web/20090713000304/http://monaxle.com/2009/07/08/section-44-in-chatham-high-street/

#15yrsago New ebook publisher from publishing veterans with novel ideas https://web.archive.org/web/20090715095849/http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20090712/SMALLBIZ/307129981

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · 4 months ago

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#15yrsago Sussex cops try to suppress publication of damning traffic-cam photos by claiming copyright http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/28/2845.asp

#15yrsago Giant database of English medieval soldiers online https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8160081.stm

#15yrsago Why we should(n’t) go to space — Kim Stanley Robinson https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/17/AR2009071702018.html

#15yrsago PowerPoint considered militarily harmful https://web.archive.org/web/20090715072249/http://www.afji.com/2009/07/4061641

#15yrsago Secrets of the injection moulder https://web.archive.org/web/20090724143647/https://idsamp.wordpress.com/2009/07/20/ejection-mark-on-angled-surface/

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · 4 months ago

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#10yrsago Snowden will develop pro-privacy crypto tools https://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/19/us-usa-snowden-hackers-idUSKBN0FO0ZB20140719/

#10yrsago Ocala, FL criminalizes sagging pants https://web.archive.org/web/20140723182151/https://www.wftv.com/news/news/local/ocala-bans-sagging-pants-city-owned-property/nghFj/

#10yrsago Infamous SF “eviction” lawfirm abuses DMCA to censor video of protest https://web.archive.org/web/20140723193431/http://sfappeal.com/2014/07/infamous-sf-eviction-lawyers-use-dmca-claim-to-silence-protest-video/

#10yrsago UOregon police kept a “Eat a Bowl of Dicks List” for their enemies https://www.techdirt.com/2014/07/21/cops-wrong-firing-lawsuit-leads-to-public-release-vulgarly-titled-enemies-list/

#10yrsago California Highway Patrol seize medical records of woman beaten by cop https://www.techdirt.com/2014/07/21/california-highway-patrol-seizes-medical-records-woman-officer-was-caught-tape-beating/

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · 4 months ago

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#10yrsago Florida principal broke rules by cancelling summer read of Little Brother https://www.pnj.com/story/news/education/2014/07/21/thomas-policy-followed-little-brother-dispute/12957445/

#5yrsago Podcast: Adversarial Interoperability is Judo for Network Effects https://ia903006.us.archive.org/6/items/Cory_Doctorow_Podcast_304/Cory_Doctorow_Podcast_304_-_Adversarial_Interoperability_is_Judo_for_Network_Effects.mp3

#5yrsago Violent mobs of alleged Triad gangsters dole out savage beatings to Hong Kong democracy protesters, cops nowhere to be found https://globalvoices.org/2019/07/22/armed-mobs-attack-anti-extradition-protesters-in-a-suburban-hong-kong-subway-station/

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · 4 months ago

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#5yrsago FBI agent describes finding “Frankensteins” and a “cooler full of penises” at an unregulated Arizona body-donation center https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-health/2019/07/19/cooler-penises-frankenstein-head-found-phoenix-body-donation-company/1720254001/

#5yrsago Nebraska Weather Service commemorates climate emergency by baking biscuits inside a hot car https://twitter.com/NWSOmaha/status/1151879325257535488

#5yrsago Louvre purges every mention of the Sackler opioid family after artist’s protest https://www.france24.com/en/20190721-sackler-name-removed-louvre-opioid-crisis-france?ref=tw_i

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · 4 months ago

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#5yrsago Elizabeth Warren’s banking proposals are designed to demolish the private equity sector and force finance to serve the people https://thereformedbroker.com/2019/07/21/elizabeth-warrens-banking-sector-napalm/

#5yrsago A 3D papercraft Haunted Mansion board game to print and assemble https://www.disneyexperience.com/activities/crafts/hm_game.php

#5yrsago Massive trove of Russian spy-agency docs hacked from private sector contractor and passed onto media https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/russian-fsb-intel-agency-contractor-hacked-secret-projects-exposed/

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · 4 months ago

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Saturday's threads: AI art has no anti-cooption immune system; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112818927208022425

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · 4 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 · 4 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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