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Inside: Doublethink sump linkdump; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/10/05/farrago/
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@pluralistic Thanks for your thoughts, as always, and from your linkdump thanks for the pointer to Juan Santapau. Such a marvellous, poetic artist I got to discover this way, because (unlike Matt Bors) I hadn't discovered him in his LJ days, missing gems including but not limited to "The Duke in Shadows" https://thesecretknots.com/comic/the-duke-in-shadows/
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@projektmyra @pluralistic His "11 Habits of Highly Creative People" is the one that won my heart: https://thesecretknots.com/comic/11-habits-of-highly-creative-people/
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@SidFudd @projektmyra @pluralistic
I'm partial to the (sort of) sequel, "11 signs you are not getting enough sleep":
https://thesecretknots.com/comic/11-signs-you-are-not-getting-enough-sleep/
@nikunashi @SidFudd @projektmyra @pluralistic
Discovering The Secret Knots is like uncovering a missing piece of the world.
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On October 23 at 7PM, I'll be in Decatur, presenting my novel *The Bezzle* at Eagle Eye Books:
https://eagleeyebooks.com/event/2024-10-23/cory-doctorow
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@lemgandi Fantastic!
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Doublethink sump linkdump: Some short hits for an all-too-short weekend.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113256776965994910
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#20yrsago EFF suing the FCC over the Broadcast Flag! https://web.archive.org/web/20041009183059/https://www.eff.org/news/archives/2004_10.php#001968
#20yrsago Sun endorses software patents, then loses 50% of profits to one https://slashdot.org/~Sanity/journal/85891
#20yrsago Massive victory at WIPO! https://web.archive.org/web/20041011200804/http://lists.essential.org/pipermail/ip-health/2004-October/006997.html
#20yrsago Ballmer: iPod users are thieves https://web.archive.org/web/20050113051129/http://management.silicon.com/itpro/0,39024675,39124642,00.htm
#20yrsago Chinese Communist Youth host Disney promo tour http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/3683894.stm
#20yrsago Canada IP “protection” protects nothing https://web.archive.org/web/20041012032024/https://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_10/murray/index.html
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#20yrsago BBC News proxy makes the service more Web-like https://web.archive.org/web/20041009182027/http://www.whitelabel.org/archives/002248.html
#15yrsago US gov’t drops price of journals from $17k to $0, adds XML to Federal Register! https://public.resource.org/gpo.gov/
#15yrsago Royal Mail uses legal threats to shut down service that provided postcode lookups to charities and nonprofits https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/royal-mail-closing-job-search-over-data-dispute-while-sacking-workers/
#15yrsago Conservapedia proposes de-liberalized Bible https://newrepublic.com/article/70008/fixing-the-bible
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#15yrsago FBI file on Aaron Swartz, US court-record hacker http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/fbifile
#15yrsago Melvin Monster, Volume 1: classic monster comics from Little Lulu’s creator https://memex.craphound.com/2009/10/05/melvin-monster-volume-1-classic-monster-comics-from-little-lulus-creator/
#15yrsago Marseille Figs’ JUMBO: sinister circus music, drunken ballads, C&W apologies with accordion and sarcasm https://memex.craphound.com/2009/10/05/marseille-figs-jumbo-sinister-circus-music-drunken-ballads-cw-apologies-with-accordion-and-sarcasm/
#10yrsago Sourcecode for “unpatchable” USB exploit now on Github https://www.wired.com/2014/10/code-published-for-unfixable-usb-attack/
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#10yrsago Walmart heirs’ net worth exceeds that of population of a city the size of Phoenix https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/10/walmart-walton-heirs-net-worth-cities/
#10yrsago HK police arrest “triad gangsters” who attacked Umbrella Revolution camps https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-29488002
#10yrsago NSA conducts massive surveillance without ANY Congressional oversight https://www.aclu.org/news/national-security/new-documents-shed-light-one-nsas-most-powerful-tools
#5yrsago Brian K Vaughan and Cliff Chiang bring Paper Girls in for a perfect landing https://memex.craphound.com/2019/10/04/brian-k-vaughan-and-cliff-chiang-bring-paper-girls-in-for-a-perfect-landing/
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#5yrsago North Carolina’s new botanical “First in Fly-Eat” license plates https://ncbg.unc.edu/support/venus-flytrap-license-plate/
#5yrsago Even if you pay off your student loan, be prepared to spend decades trying to get bottom-feeding debt-buyers to acknowledge it https://www.mprnews.org/story/2019/10/01/a-minneapolis-womans-bizarre-and-surreal-decadeslong-loan-dispute
#5yrsago Google will now allow you to set your data history to self-destruct https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/02/technology/personaltech/google-data-self-destruct-privacy.html
#5yrsago Nobody knows how to quit vaping https://www.wired.com/story/so-you-want-to-quit-vaping-no-one-actually-knows-how/
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#5yrsago The Hippocratic License: A new software license that prohibits uses that contravene the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights https://memex.craphound.com/2019/10/04/the-hippocratic-license-a-new-software-license-that-prohibits-uses-that-contravene-the-un-universal-declaration-of-human-rights/
#5yrsago Next-level parenting: crocheting a freehand, glow-in-the-dark Alien Xenomorph kids’ costume https://twitter.com/crochetverse/status/1179852380243972096
#5yrsago Consumer Reports documents the deceptive cable industry practices used to hike real prices 24% over advertised ones https://advocacy.consumerreports.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/CR_WhatTheFeeReport_6F_sm-1.pdf
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#5yrsago “Martian Chronicles”: Escape Pod releases a reading of my YA story about rich sociopaths colonizing Mars https://escapepod.org/2019/10/03/escape-pod-700-martian-chronicles-part-1/
#5yrsago Europe’s highest court Facebook verdict hits a new low for technomagical thinking https://memex.craphound.com/2019/10/04/europes-highest-court-facebook-verdict-hits-a-new-low-for-technomagical-thinking/
#10yrsago Great ideas that changed the world, and the people they rode in on https://memex.craphound.com/2014/10/05/great-ideas-that-changed-the-world-and-the-people-they-rode-in-on/
#10yrsago Dutch IT contractor lays out the case for spying on everyone’s wearables, always https://draadbreuk.nl/wearables/bizarre-video-pinkrocade-big-brother/
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#10yrsago BC Pastafarian fights for right to wear colander in Driver’s License photo https://web.archive.org/web/20141007083120/http://www.vancouversun.com/touch/story.html?id=10260910
#5yrsago CBP officer refuses to allow American journalist into the country until he admits he writes “propaganda” https://www.defenseone.com/threats/2019/10/us-customs-officer-harasses-defense-one-journalist-dulles/160380/
#5yrsago US prosecutors say the “bankrupt” Sacklers still have billions hidden away https://www.reuters.com/article/us-purduepharma-bankruptcy/sacklers-reaped-up-to-13-billion-from-oxycontin-maker-u-s-states-say-idUSKBN1WJ19V/
#5yrsago Hong Kong bans makeup and masks so facial recognition cameras can identify protesters https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3031483/anti-mask-law-protesters-would-be-tough-enforce-streets-and
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#5yrsago Where would you put the word “fuck” in William Carlos Williams’s “This is Just to Say”? https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdJTO4Ult1ovJJUlXXq4iq3uyWeXOUc56YLvx6BMg3xMTxb_g/viewform?sfns=mo&fbzx=1286119606992296332
#1yrago Union pensions are funding private equity attacks on workers https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/05/mr-gotcha/#no-ethical-consumption-under-capitalism
#1yrago For 40 years, Big Meat has openly colluded to rig prices https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/04/dont-let-your-meat-loaf/#meaty-beaty-big-and-bouncy
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Thursday's threads: Prime's enshittified advertising; and more!
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113244658739439860
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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
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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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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."
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