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

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Everyday homeowners are human shields for Wall Street's Internet of Shit slumlords; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/10/01/housing-is-a-human-right/

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A rotting apartment living room; the Wall Street 'Charging Bull' statue is in one corner; from one of its horns dangles a sign reading 'FOR RENT WALL ST.' Through a crumbling doorway, we see an aristocrat laid out on a guillotine, about to be beheaded.

Image:
Sam Valadi (modified)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/132084522@N05/17086570218/

Carlos Delgado (modified)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wall_Street_-_New_York_Stock_Exchange.jpg — A rotting apartment living room; the Wall Street 'Charging Bull' statue is in one corner; from one of its horns dangles a sign reading 'FOR RENT WALL ST.' Through a crumbling doorway, we see an aristocrat laid out on a guillotine, about to be beheaded. Image: Sam Valadi (modified) https://www.flickr.com/photos/132084522@N05/17086570218/ Carlos Delgado (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wall_Street_-_New_York_Stock_Exchange.jpg

GhostOnTheHalfShell @GhostOnTheHalfShell@masto.ai · 2 months ago

@pluralistic

“ The New Deal wasn't perfect, which is why whatever we do next has to be bigger, further reaching, and more inclusive than what FDR did almost a century ago”

It was basic problem with the American dream of a home, and that is that homeownership was used to finance the transition of the US economy from war footing to peace time footing. That process of inflating housing prices is naturally grows into a bubble.

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christina bowen @christina@social.coop · 2 months ago

@pluralistic cc @Eurotrashpanda

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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/

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Winter Trabex @trabex@newsie.social · 2 months ago

@pluralistic

Spill sounds super interesting. Will there later be a collection of novellas or something?

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

@trabex Yes, there's a Little Brother short story collection on the planning slate

Winter Trabex @trabex@newsie.social · 2 months ago

@pluralistic

Yay! thank you :)

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

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Everyday homeowners are human shields for Wall Street's Internet of Shit slumlords: Put Wall Street landlords up against a wall.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113232569002239185

Image:
Sam Valadi (modified)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/132084522@N05/17086570218/

Carlos Delgado (modified)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wall_Street_-_New_York_Stock_Exchange.jpg

CC BY 2.0:
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ — Image: Sam Valadi (modified) https://www.flickr.com/photos/132084522@N05/17086570218/ Carlos Delgado (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wall_Street_-_New_York_Stock_Exchange.jpg CC BY 2.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/

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

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Hey look at this

* Georgia Voter Registration Check https://georgia.keepthevote.org

* If you have ever used Uber Eats, you can't sue Uber when they crash one of their cars into you https://www.jwz.org/blog/2024/09/if-you-have-ever-used-uber-eats-you-cant-sue-uber-when-they-crash-one-of-their-cars-into-you/

* The Past, Present, and Future of Software Evolution https://moscow.sci-hub.st/3119/c99d2042ae9743e7326ed57ba9c5ef75/godfrey2008.pdf#navpanes=0&view=FitH (h/t Gus Thomas)

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

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#20yrsago India: Your IP is NG for us https://web.archive.org/web/20041011200232/http://lists.essential.org/pipermail/ip-health/2004-October/006992.html

#20yrsago @bruces Marry the UN and the Net https://web.archive.org/web/20041012070928/http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/001314.html

#15yrsago HOWTO make scary guts out of expanding foam insulation https://web.archive.org/web/20091211220737/http://www.halloween-haunted-house.com/how.html#guts

#15yrsago Liar: YA suspense novel that elevates the unreliable narrator to a new level https://memex.craphound.com/2009/10/01/liar-ya-suspense-novel-that-elevates-the-unreliable-narrator-to-a-new-level/

#10yrsago Finance industry profiteers exploit prisoners’ families https://time.com/3446372/criminal-justice-prisoners-profit/

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

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#10yrsago No Such Thing: spooky (not scary!) picture book https://memex.craphound.com/2014/10/01/no-such-thing-spooky-not-scary-picture-book/

#10yrsago Hundreds of US police forces have distributed malware as “Internet safety software” https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/09/computercop-dangerous-internet-safety-software-hundreds-police-agencies

#10yrsago Chinese security forces administer rectal probes to 10,000 pigeons https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2014/10/1/chinese-security-body-searches-10000-pigeons

#5yrsago Europe’s Right to Repair rules have passed, and will take effect in 2021 https://www.bbc.com/news/business-49884827

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

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#5yrsago Make: a Halloween “Useless Machine” with a skeleton inside it https://www.instructables.com/RIP-Skeleton/

#5yrsago Zuckerberg: President Warren would “suck” for Facebook https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/1/20892354/mark-zuckerberg-full-transcript-leaked-facebook-meetings

#5yrsago Consent in Gaming: a guide for GMs and players to difficult subjects for amazing games https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/288535/Consent-in-Gaming

#5yrsago “The Tragedy of the Commons”: how ecofascism was smuggled into mainstream thought https://thebaffler.com/latest/first-as-tragedy-then-as-fascism-amend

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

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#5yrsago Surveillance camera hallucinates face in the snow, won’t shut up about it https://twitter.com/kcimc/status/1099934485301276673</a

#5yrsago Global shipping companies comply with anti-air-pollution rules by dumping pollution into the sea, instead https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/shipping-pollution-sea-open-loop-scrubber-carbon-dioxide-environment-a9123181.html

#5yrsago Stock buybacks: how Wall Street has created “profits without prosperity” https://worth.com/stock-buybacks-threaten-economic-growth/

#1yrago How the Writers Guild sunk AI’s ship https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/01/how-the-writers-guild-sunk-ais-ship/

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

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Yesterday's threads: A sexy, skinny defeat device for your HP ink cartridge; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113227912178242892

Image:
Jay Summet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0ya184uaTE — Image: Jay Summet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0ya184uaTE

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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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