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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · last month

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Of course we can tax billionaires; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/10/15/piketty-pilled/

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Uncle Sam as an old-fashioned cop with a gleaming IRS badge on his chest. He stands in a circle of wildly gesticulating, furious, old-fashioned rich guys. The background is a dark green, extremely magnified portrait of Benjamin Franklin from the middle of a US $100 bill.

Anand R @anand@mastodon.sdf.org · last month

@pluralistic Reading this immediately after Cory's thread, my God, hits every note that Cory did: https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/monk-billionaire-5hourenergy-irs-573c764b?mod=rss_markets_main

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · last month

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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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · last month

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Of course we can tax billionaires: They disguise their demands ("don't tax billionaires") as observations ("it is technically impossible to tax billionaires").

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113313287710719459

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · last month

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Hey look at this

* What It Means to Be "A Tad Radical" https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/what-it-means-to-be-a-tad-radical

* Legal complaint filed against Fifa's 'abuse of dominance' https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/c981203e61qo

* Stop Project 2025 Comic https://stopproject2025comic.org (h/t @brainwane)

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · last month

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#15yrsago Why Your Idea to Save Journalism Won’t Work (a checklist) https://www.metafilter.com/85761/How-To-Save-Media#2776753

#15yrsago Brit copyright group says, “No laptops allowed in cinemas” https://memex.craphound.com/2009/10/15/brit-copyright-group-says-no-laptops-allowed-in-cinemas/

#15yrsago Complex derivatives are “intractable” — you can’t tell if they’re being tampered with https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2009/10/15/intractability-financial-derivatives/

#10yrsago Jean Baudrillard predicted the Pumpkin Spice Latte http://www.critical-theory.com/understanding-jean-baudrillard-with-pumpkin-spice-lattes/

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · last month

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#10yrsago Obama administration has secured 526 months of jail time for leakers https://www.aclu.org/news/free-speech/leak-prosecutions-obama-takes-it-11-or-should-we

#5yrsago Samuel Delany’s 1977 Star Wars review: why is the future so damned white and male? https://memex.craphound.com/2019/10/15/samuel-delanys-1977-star-wars-review-why-is-the-future-so-damned-white-and-male/

#5yrsago The rich poop different: measuring inequality with sewage https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1910242116

#5yrsago 1 in 14 Trump appointees is a former lobbyist, four times the rate under Obama https://www.propublica.org/article/we-found-a-staggering-281-lobbyists-whove-worked-in-the-trump-administration#169046

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · last month

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#5yrsago The first-ever mandatory California drug price report reveals Big Pharma’s farcical price-gouging https://californiahealthline.org/news/californias-new-transparency-law-reveals-staggering-rise-in-wholesale-drug-prices/

#5yrsago The far right is dominating the information wars through “keyword signaling” https://www.wired.com/story/devin-nunes-and-the-dark-power-of-keyword-signaling/

#5yrsago Medallion Status: comparison is the thief of joy, and John Hodgman is the thief-taker https://memex.craphound.com/2019/10/15/medallion-status-comparison-is-the-thief-of-joy-and-john-hodgman-is-the-thief-taker/

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · last month

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Yesterday's threads: Dirty words are politically potent; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113306819579580199

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · last month

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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 · last month

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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 · last month

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Upcoming appearances:

* @okfn Tech We Want Online Summit (Remote), Oct 18
https://okfn.org/en/events/the-tech-we-want-online-summit/

* SOSS Fusion (Atlanta), Oct 22
https://sossfusion2024.sched.com/speaker/cory_doctorow.1qm5qfgn

* Eagle Eye Books (Decatur), Oct 23
https://eagleeyebooks.com/event/2024-10-23/cory-doctorow

* TusCon (Tucson), Nov 8-10
https://tusconscificon.com/

* International Cooperative Alliance (New Delhi), Nov 24
https://icanewdelhi2024.coop/welcome/pages/Programme

* ISSA-LA Holiday Celebration keynote (Los Angeles), Dec 18
https://issala.org/event/issa-la-december-18-dinner-meeting/

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · last month

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Recent appearances:

* Speciale intervista a Cory Doctorow ( @digitaliafm)
https://digitalia.fm/744/

* Was There Ever An Old, Good Internet? (David Graeber Institute)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6Jlxx5TboE

* Go Fact Yourself
https://maximumfun.org/episodes/go-fact-yourself/ep-158-aida-rodriguez-cory-doctorow/

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · last month

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