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Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: How an obscure advisory board lets utilities steal $50b/year from ratepayers; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2025/02/24/sur…
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Cory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •I'm on a 20+ city book tour for my new novel *Picks and Shovels*.
Catch me in NYC on WEDNESDAY (Feb 26) with JOHN HODGMAN:
eventbrite.com/e/cory-doctorow…
And at PENN STATE on THURSDAY (Feb 27):
bellisario.psu.edu/assets/uplo…
More tour dates here:
martinhench.com
Mail-order signed copies from LA's Diesel Books:
dieselbookstore.com/picks-and-…
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Cory Doctorow + John Hodgman: Picks and Shovels
EventbriteCory Doctorow
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How an obscure advisory board lets utilities steal $50b/year from ratepayers: The Society of Utility and Regulatory Financial Analysts is a hell of a henhouse fox.
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Cory Doctorow
2025-02-24 10:49:08
Cory Doctorow
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Hey look at this
* Anat Shenker-Osorio's *actual* plan to beat fascism the.ink/p/anat-shenker-osorios…
* A librarian's summary of, and response to, the Clarivate announcement uksg.org/newsletter/uksg-enews… (h/t Jonathan Jiras)
* on neuschwanstein castle (part 1) mcmansionhell.com/post/7710736…
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on neuschwanstein castle (part 1)
mcmansionhell (Tumblr)Cory Doctorow
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#20yrsago Italy runs out of wiretaps edri.org/our-work/wiretapping-…
#20yrsago Online anonymity web.archive.org/web/2005022017…
#20yrsago WIPO pulls out dirty tricks to kill participation from consumer groups web.archive.org/web/2006090923…
#20yrsago UK Labour MP flays govt over terror laws – incredible speech! theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id… Finnish blogger faces disgraceful, bogus libel charge mummila.net/marginaali/2005/02…
#20yrsago Multimedia’s early history documented web.archive.org/web/2005022502…
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As this will almost certainly be my...
TheyWorkForYouCory Doctorow
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#20yrsago Novelist’s bitter, abusive father posting neg reviews on Amazon web.archive.org/web/2005022405…
#15yrsago Mall security guard accuses shopper of being a paedophile for photographing his own son memex.craphound.com/2010/02/23…
#15yrsago Twitter phishing scam memex.craphound.com/2010/02/23…
#15yrsago Stephen Levy on Google’s algorithm wired.com/2010/02/ff-google-al…
#15yrsago Cleantext: turn your ASCII pastebombs into formatted text cleantext.org
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Official Site of Author Stephen Elliott
web.archive.orgCory Doctorow
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#15yrsago How a duck, a Nazi and a themepark saved American color TV theguardian.com/technology/201…
#15yrsago HOWTO unlock your Nexus One and turn it into a 3G modem memex.craphound.com/2010/02/23…
#15yrsago ACLU and EFF on school where spy-laptops were mandatory web.archive.org/web/2010022505…
#15yrsago Vice-principal denies using laptop to spy on student nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local…
#15yrsago IP Alliance says that encouraging free/open source makes you an enemy of the USA theguardian.com/technology/blo…
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When using open source makes you an enemy of the state
Bobbie Johnson (The Guardian)Cory Doctorow
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#10yrsago Chicago Police Department maintains “black site” for illegal detention and torture theguardian.com/us-news/2015/f…
#10yrsago HSBC boss used tax havens to keep underlings from discovering his outrageous pay nakedcapitalism.com/2015/02/bi…
#10yrsago Huge trove of surveillance leaks coming aljazeera.com/news/2015/2/23/t…
#10yrsago Big Content publishes a love-letter to TPP eff.org/deeplinks/2015/02/holl…
#10yrsago Laura Poitras’s Citizenfour OPSEC wired.com/2014/10/laura-poitra…
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Laura Poitras on the Crypto Tools That Made Her Snowden Film Possible
Andy Greenberg (WIRED)Cory Doctorow
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#10yrsago The Tory war on science in Canada: a chronology scienceblogs.com/confessions/2…
#10yrsago EFF: Here’s how to fix patents in America eff.org/press/releases/eff-out…
#10yrsago Philip K Dick on Disneyland, reality and science fiction (1978) web.archive.org/web/2015022418…
#10yrsago Citizenfour takes Oscar for Best Documentary aclu.org/press-releases/edward…
#5yrsago A flat earther commits suicide by conspiracy theory pluralistic.net/2020/02/24/plu…
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EFF Outlines Plan to Fix the Broken Patent System
Electronic Frontier FoundationCory Doctorow
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#5yrsago 81 Fortune 100 companies demand binding arbitration pluralistic.net/2020/02/24/plu…
#5yrsago My interview on adversarial interoperability pluralistic.net/2020/02/24/plu…
#5yrsago Key computer vision researcher quits pluralistic.net/2020/02/24/plu…
#5yrsago How "Authoritarian Blindness" kept Xi from dealing with coronavirus pluralistic.net/2020/02/24/plu…
#1yrago Vice surrenders pluralistic.net/2024/02/24/ant…
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Pluralistic, your daily link-dose: 24 Feb 2020 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.netCory Doctorow
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Saturday's threads: We bullied HP into a minor act of disenshittification; and more!
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Cory Doctorow
2025-02-22 18:57:15
Cory Doctorow
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My last nationally bestselling novel was "The Bezzle," an ice-cold revenge story of high-tech finance crime starring the forensic accountant Martin Hench.
us.macmillan.com/books/9781250…
Signed copies from Chevalier's Books:
chevaliersbooks.com/product-pa…
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My latest nonfiction book is "The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation" from Verso Books:
seizethemeansofcomputation.org
Signed copies available from Book Soup:
booksoup.com/book/978180429124…
Both are national bestsellers!
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The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation (Hardcover) | Book Soup
www.booksoup.comCory Doctorow
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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."
craphound.com/shop/
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Shop | Cory Doctorow's craphound.com
craphound.comCory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances:
* #Toronto: Ursula Franklin Lecture, Feb 24
eventbrite.ca/e/2025-ursula-fr…
* #NYC: Picks and Shovels with John Hodgman, Feb 26
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* #PennState: Picks and Shovels, Feb 27
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* #Doylestown, PA: Picks and Shovels at the Doylestown Bookshop, Mar 1
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2025 Ursula Franklin Lecture: Cory Doctorow
EventbriteCory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* #Baltimore: Picks and Shovels with Maximillian Alvarez, Mar 2
redemmas.org/events/cory-docto…
* #DC: Picks and Shovels with Matt Stoller, Mar 4
loyaltybookstores.com/picksnsh…
* #Richmond, VA: Picks and Shovels with Lee Vinsel, Mar 5
fountainbookstore.com/events/1…
* Virtual: With Great Power Came No Responsibility: How Enshittification Conquered the 21st Century and How We Can Overthrow It (Indiana University), Mar 7
events.iu.edu/mediaiub/event/1…
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Cory Doctorow presents "Picks and Shovels"
redemmas.orgCory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* #Austin: Reclaim, Reframe, Reimagine, Mar 7
schedule.sxsw.com/2025/events/…
* #Austin: Tensions in Creative Labor & Generative AI, Mar 8
schedule.sxsw.com/2025/events/…
* #Austin: The Next 25: A Conversation About the Future of Open, Mar 8
classy.org/event/creative-comm…
* #Austin: Fediverse House, Mar 10
about.flipboard.com/fediverse-…
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Reclaim, Reframe, Reimagine: AI Design for Human Agency
SXSW 2025 ScheduleCory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* #Austin: Picks and Shovels at First Light Books, Mar 10
thethirdplace.is/event/cory-do…
* Europa Park: Cloudfest, Mar 17-20
cloudfest.link/
* Virtual: Picks and Shovels at Imagine! Belfast, Mar 24
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* #Chicago: Picks and Shovels with Peter Sagal, Apr 2
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cloudfest_official
cloudfest_officialCory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* #Chicago: ABA Techshow, Apr 3
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* #Bloomington: Picks and Shovels at Morgenstern, Apr 4
morgensternbooks.com/event/202…
* #PDX: Teardown 2025, Jun 20-22
crowdsupply.com/teardown/portl…
* #NewOrleans: DeepSouthCon63, Oct 10-12, 2025
contraflowscifi.org/
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ABA TECHSHOW
www.techshow.comCory Doctorow
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Recent appearances:
* The Culture Show
wgbh.org/podcasts/the-culture-…
* Picks and Shovels with Yanis Varoufakis and David Moscrop (Jacobin)
youtube.com/watch?v=xkIDep7Z4L…
* Forthright Radio
forthright.media/2025/02/14/co…
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February 20, 2025 - Chelsea Handler, Cory Doctorow, and the Red Bull Heavy Metal contest at Boston City Hall
GBHCory Doctorow
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Pluralistic: How an obscure advisory board lets utilities steal $50b/year from ratepayers (24 Feb 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.netCory Doctorow
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I'm on a 20+ city book tour for my new novel *Picks and Shovels*.
Catch me in NYC on WEDNESDAY (Feb 26) with JOHN HODGMAN:
eventbrite.com/e/cory-doctorow…
And at PENN STATE on THURSDAY (Feb 27):
bellisario.psu.edu/assets/uplo…
More tour dates here:
martinhench.com
Mail-order signed copies from LA's Diesel Books:
dieselbookstore.com/picks-and-…
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Cory Doctorow + John Hodgman: Picks and Shovels
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