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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · 3 months ago

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Nalo Hopkinson's "Blackheart Man"; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/08/20/piche/

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The Simon and Schuster cover for Nalo Hopkinson's 'Blackheart Man.'

GLC @glc@mastodon.online · 3 months ago

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Reminding me of the little volume from PM Press (2012), from the Outspoken Authors series.
https://www.pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=425

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · 3 months ago

I'm offline until mid-September, but you can catch me in person at Burning Man! On Tuesday (Aug 27) at 1PM, I'm giving a talk called "Disenshittify or Die!" at Palenque Norte (7&E). On Wednesday (Aug 28) at noon, I'm doing a "Talking Caterpillar" Q&A at Liminal Labs (830&C).

On September 24th, I'll be speaking in person at the Boston Public Library!

https://bpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/events?startDate=2024-09-24&endDate=2024-09-24

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · 3 months ago

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Nalo Hopkinson's "Blackheart Man": Language and worldbuilding to drown in, and a cracking novel besides.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112994299819809179

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · 3 months ago

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Hey look at this

* Private equity: health care’s vampire https://www.statnews.com/2024/08/19/private-equity-health-cares-vampire/ (h/t Mike Rydzewski)

* @eff Benefit Poker Tournament at DEF CON 32 https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/08/eff-benefit-poker-tournament-def-con-32

* Death Is The Great Awakener (Bourbon Tabernacle Choir) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6RUb63Tx3w

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · 3 months ago

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#20yrsago @eff wins Grokster! Software doesn’t have to be easy for Hollywood to wiretap! https://web.archive.org/web/20041026154633/https://www.eff.org/IP/P2P/MGM_v_Grokster/20040819_mgm_v_grokster_decision.pdf

#15yrsago Poor design-choices in the Star Wars universe https://web.archive.org/web/20090821185001/http://blogs.amctv.com/scifi-scanner/2009/08/bad-designs-in-star-wars.php

#15yrsago Computers’ limitations, as seen in 1967 https://web.archive.org/web/20090823020726/http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2009/08/19/computers-their-built-in-limitations/

#15yrsago WMD swag from a chemistry conference https://web.archive.org/web/20090824144536/http://cenblog.org/2009/08/19/wmd-goodie-bag/

#15yrsago Entertainment Weekly ad with a video-screen glued to the pages https://web.archive.org/web/20090821204702/https://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/08/cbs-embeds-a-video-playing-ad-in-a-print-magazine/

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · 3 months ago

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#15yrsago Brutal military dictatorship that backs Fiji Water https://web.archive.org/web/20090816093201/http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2009/09/fiji-spin-bottle

#15yrsago Sipping Spiders Through a Straw: funny monster lyrics to traditional tunes https://memex.craphound.com/2009/08/19/sipping-spiders-through-a-straw-funny-monster-lyrics-to-traditional-tunes/

#10yrsago Copyright extortion startup wants to hijack your browser until you pay https://torrentfreak.com/anti-piracy-outfit-wants-to-hijack-browsers-until-fine-paid-140816/

#10yrsago Militarized cops: arms dealers bribed Congress to ramboize Barney Fife https://www.motherjones.com/criminal-justice/2014/08/how-defense-industry-made-room-militarized-police-today/

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · 3 months ago

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#10yrsago How the US government exerts control over ICANN https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2014/08/government-control-internet-governance-icann-proposes-giving-gac-increased-power-board-decisions/

#10yrsago WWII’s VD posters: exciting nexus of propaganda, Mad Men, gender and design https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2014/08/15/protect-yourself/

#10yrsago Great mistakes in English medieval architecture https://stainedglassattitudes.wordpress.com/2014/08/10/great-mistakes-in-english-medieval-architecture/

#10yrsago A prison visit with The Pirate Bay’s Peter "brokep" Sunde https://felixreda.eu/2014/08/prison-is-a-bit-like-copyright-peter-sunde/

#10yrsago Whatever Happened to the World of Tomorrow? https://memex.craphound.com/2014/08/18/whatever-happened-to-the-world-of-tomorrow/

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · 3 months ago

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#5yrsago A new biography reveals the Koch brothers’ very early role in creating organized climate denial https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/kochland-examines-how-the-koch-brothers-made-their-fortune-and-the-influence-it-bought

#5yrsago New Hampshire court to patent troll: it’s not libel when someone calls you a “patent troll” https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/08/patent-troll-sues-over-patent-troll-label-loses/

#5yrsago An appreciation for Samuel Delany https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/08/books/samuel-delany-jordy-rosenberg.html

#5yrsago More than 20 Texas cities and towns have been taken hostage by ransomware https://dir.texas.gov/news?id=210

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · 3 months ago

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#5yrsago Owner of Phoenix apartment building serves eviction notices to every tenant so he can turn their homes into unlicensed hotel rooms https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/phoenix-landlord-evicts-tenants-short-term-rental-wanderjaunt-11345084

#5yrsago Ecofascism isn’t new: white supremacy and exterminism have always lurked in the environmental movement https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/aug/15/anti

#5yrsago A cycle of renewal, broken: How Big Tech and Big Media abuse copyright law to slay competition https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/08/cycle-renewal-broken-how-big-tech-and-big-media-abuse-copyright-law-slay

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · 3 months ago

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#5yrsago The TSA strip searched a grandmother on Mother’s Day and now says that she’s overreacting because it’s no different from a locker room https://professional-troublemaker.com/2019/08/19/tsa-forced-strip-search-no-more-offensive-than-voluntarily-using-a-locker-room/

#1yrago SoCal Gas spent millions on astroturf ops to fight climate rules https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/19/cooking-the-books-with-gas/#reichman-jorgensen

#1yrago "Open" "AI" isn't https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/18/openwashing/#you-keep-using-that-word-i-do-not-think-it-means-what-you-think-it-means

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · 3 months ago

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Yesterday's threads: Corporate Bullshit; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112989386116672853

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · 3 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 · 3 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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