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

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: When prophecy fails, election polling edition;; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/09/26/dewey-beats-truman/

#Pluralistic

Giovanni Stradano's 1587 illustration of Canto 20 of Dante's *Inferno*, depicting the fortunetellers in the 4th Bolgia (pit) their heads rotated 180' on their necks, forced ever to walk in circles, looking backwards.

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

Today, Tor Books publishes "Vigilant," a new, free "Little Brother" story about creepy surveillance in distance education:

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

It follows "Spill," another new, free "Little Brother" novella about oil pipelines and indigenous landback:

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

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

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When prophecy fails, election polling edition: Again? Bullwinkle, that trick NEVER works.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113204006437095488

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

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Hey look at this

* Firefox tracks you with “privacy preserving” feature https://noyb.eu/en/firefox-tracks-you-privacy-preserving-feature

* @eff to Federal Trial Court: Section 230’s Little-Known Third Immunity for User-Empowerment Tools Covers Unfollow Everything 2.0 https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/09/eff-federal-trial-court-section-230s-little-known-third-immunity-user-empowerment

* Calif. Governor vetoes bill requiring opt-out signals for sale of user data https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/09/calif-gov-vetoes-attempt-to-require-new-privacy-option-in-browsers-and-oses/

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

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#15yrsago D&D camp, circa 1982 https://web.archive.org/web/20091001142940/http://rpg.brouhaha.us/?p=925

#10yrsago Why #gamergate is bullshit https://www.cracked.com/blog/7-ways-gamergate-debate-has-made-world-worse

#10yrsago Eric Holder: creator of the “Too Big to Jail” bankster https://memex.craphound.com/2014/09/26/eric-holder-creator-of-the-too-big-to-jail-bankster/

#5yrsago The DoJ’s corporate “diversion” program is supposed to change bad corporate culture, but really, it enables repeat offenders https://www.citizen.org/article/soft-on-corporate-crime-deferred-and-non-prosecution-repeat-offender-report/

#5yrsago After the passage of the EU Copyright Directive, Google nukes Google News France https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-25/google-to-change-french-news-results-under-copyright-rules

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

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#5yrsago Sleuths discover the source of $28m in dark money lobbying in favor of emergency room “surprise bills”: private equity firms that own doctors’ practices https://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2019/09/who-advocates-for-surprise-medical.html

#5yrsago Wework, Uber, Lyft, Netflix, Bird, Amazon: late-stage capitalism is all about money-losing predatory pricing aimed at creating monopolies https://web.archive.org/web/20190927033958/https://www.businessinsider.com/wework-is-a-prime-example-of-counterfeit-capitalism-2019-9

#5yrsago @bruces on Boris Johnson’s bizarre, cyberpunk dystopia address to the UN https://www.wired.com/beyond-the-beyond/2019/09/visionary-high-points-recent-boris-johnson-speech-united-nations/

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

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#5yrsago Christopher Brown talking legal thrillers, dystopia, and science fiction https://narrativespecies.wordpress.com/2019/09/25/christopher-brown-rule-of-capture/

#1yrago @brianmerchant's "Blood In the Machine" https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/26/enochs-hammer/#thats-fronkonsteen

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

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Wednesday's threads: Academic economists get big payouts when they help monopolists beat antitrust; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113197883755276926

Image:
Ron Cogswell (modified)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:George.Mason.University.Arlington.Campus.jpg

CC BY 2.0
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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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