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

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Private equity rips off its investors, too; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/08/08/sucker-at-the-table/

#Pluralistic

A vintage photo of the Empire State Building seen from below. It has been altered: a crowd of silhouetted onlookers in Victorian hats has been added to the bottom of the image; a comic book drawing of a bound and gagged figure plummets towards them.

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

I'm coming to @defcon!

TOMORROW (8/9):

12h: Emceeing @eff Poker Tournament (Horseshoe Poker Room)

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/06/betting-your-digital-rights-eff-benefit-poker-tournament-def-con-32

17h: Bricked and Abandoned panel (track 1).

https://info.defcon.org/event/?id=54844

SATURDAY (8/10):

12h: Disenshittify or die! How hackers can seize the means of computation and build a new, good internet, hardened against our bosses' horniness for enshittification (track 1).

https://info.defcon.org/event/?id=54861

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

Community voting for SXSW is live! If you wanna hear Rida Qadri and me talk about how gig workers can disenshittify their jobs with interoperability, vote for this one!

https://panelpicker.sxsw.com/vote/150498

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

Long thread/4

Private equity rips off its investors, too: Remorseless, greedy scumbags are - unsurprisingly - also disloyal.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112926929473373275

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

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Hey look at this

* Crow Jim: Project 2025’s Obsession With Reverse Racism https://prospect.org/politics/2024-08-07-crow-jim-project-2025-reverse-racism/

* Why are so many car YouTubers quitting? https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/7/24214600/car-youtube-quit-donut-car-throttle-hoonigan

* Will Kamala Harris fire Lina Khan? https://twitter.com/matthewstoller/status/1821186767447278038

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

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#15yrsago Exhaustive index of fearmongering Daily Mail stories about cancer and its causes https://web.archive.org/web/20090815070522/http://kill-or-cure.heroku.com/

#5yrsago Hospital checklists work really well — except when they’re not used https://www.nature.com/articles/523516a

#5yrsago Science fiction and the law: beyond mere courtroom drama https://reactormag.com/will-there-be-justice-science-fiction-and-the-law/

#5yrsago Grifty “Students For Trump” founder pleads guilty to wire fraud for pretending to be a lawyer https://www.nydailynews.com/2019/08/06/students-for-trump-founder-pleads-guilty-to-posing-as-lawyer-in-46k-scam/

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

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#5yrsago Security researcher cracks high-security lock used for ATMs, Air Force One, military bases https://www.reuters.com/article/us-locks-cyber-exclusive/exclusive-high-security-locks-for-government-and-banks-hacked-by-researcher-idUSKCN1UW26Z/

#5yrsago Taiwanese sympathizers are shipping helmets and gas-masks to Hong Kong https://asiatimes.com/2019/08/helmets-goggles-sent-from-taiwan-to-hk-protesters/

#5yrsago Tiktok is valued at $75b, is spending $3m/day on US advertising, and in China, it has been turned into a state propaganda vehicle https://www.theverge.com/interface/2019/8/7/20757855/tiktok-growth-monetization-influencers-regulation

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

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#5yrsago Medical examiner quits after declaring that bloody, stabbed corpse had died of “natural causes” https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/gwinnett-county-me-investigator-resigns-after-misinterpreted-autopsy

#5yrsago CHESSES: chess variants for nonexperts, nonplayers, and the very playful https://pippinbarr.com/chesses/

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

Long thread/9

Yesterday's threads: The Google antitrust remedy should extinguish surveillance, not democratize it

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112921082219076432

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

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Upcoming appearances:

* @eff Charity Poker Tournament ( @defcon, Las Vegas, Horseshoe Poker Room), Aug 9 12h
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/06/betting-your-digital-rights-eff-benefit-poker-tournament-def-con-32

* Bricked & Abandoned: How To Keep The IoT From Becoming An Internet of Trash ( @defcon, Las Vegas, Track 1), Aug 9 17h
https://info.defcon.org/event/?id=54844

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

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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* Disenshittify or die! How hackers can seize the means of computation and build a new, good internet that is hardened against our asshole bosses' insatiable horniness for enshittification ( @defcon, Las Vegas, Track 1), Aug 10 12h
https://info.defcon.org/event/?id=54861

* Launch for Madeline Ashby's *Glass Houses* at Chevalier's Books (LA), Aug 16
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/book-talk-madeline-ashbys-glass-houses-tickets-965286486867

* Disenshittify or die! (Burning Man, Palenque Norte, 7&E), Aug 27, 13h

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