Tomorrow (May 2) at 7PM, I'll be at the Cedar Hills Crossing (#PDX) #Powells with @waxy:

powells.com/book/red-team-blue…

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When you hear "fintech," think "unlicensed bank": "...with a computer."

mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11029544…

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Cory Doctorow

2023-05-01 21:02:29

In theory, patents are for novel, useful inventions that aren't obvious "to a skilled practitioner of the art." But as computers ate our society, grifters began to receive patents for "doing something we've done for centuries...with a computer." "With a computer": those three words had the power to cloud patent examiners' minds.

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Hey look at this

* Fuck the Monarchy antipope.org/charlie/blog-stat…

* Punctuation Personified (1824) publicdomainreview.org/collect…

* Cory Doctorow's Red Team Blues: a refreshingly hopeful finance thriller about cryptocurrency boingboing.net/2023/04/27/cory…

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#20yrsago Corporate lobbyists get US into treaties that ban #DMCA reform web.archive.org/web/2003123103…

#15yrsago Musicians tricked into appearing in anti-piracy propaganda movie theage.com.au/technology/music…

#15yrsago HOWTO keep your laptop from being searched at the border (it’s hard) eff.org/deeplinks/2008/05/prot…

#15yrsago @eff and security experts to Congress: We need hearings on Customs #LaptopSeizures and snooping eff.org/press/archives/2008/05…

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#10yrsago #Mozilla to #FinSpy: stop disguising your “lawful interception” spyware as Firefox wired.com/2013/04/finfisher-fi…

#10yrsago EFF challenges bogus #3DPrinting patents eff.org/deeplinks/2013/04/eff-…

#10yrsago How Congress flies bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…

#10yrsago Necessary Evil – a triumphant end to the Milkweed Triptych where Nazi X-Men fight English warlocks memex.craphound.com/2013/04/30…

#10yrsago What’s big, corrupt, terrifying and worse than #ACTA? #TPP. memex.craphound.com/2013/04/30…

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#10yrsago Teaching TCP/IP headers with #legos righteousit.wordpress.com/2010…

#10yrsago Future Tense: #NealStephenson and #TimWu talk future, sf and tech slate.com/articles/podcasts/fu…

#10yrsago #SOPA’s daddy is now in charge of government science funding, and he hates peer-review science.org/content/article/us…

#5yrsago Hope Larson’s “All Summer Long,” lively YA graphic novel about tween friendships, rock and roll, and being yourself memex.craphound.com/2018/05/01…

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#5yrsago Speaking in my professional capacity as a dystopian science fiction writer… memex.craphound.com/2018/05/01…

#5yrsago It’s back! British Conservative politicians’ habitual “go ahead, kick me in the balls, I can take it” pose theguardian.com/politics/2018/…

#5yrsago McDonald’s workers across the UK are striking theguardian.com/business/2018/…

#5yrsago #GeorgeMason economics department admits it sold hiring control to anonymous, super-rich donors crookedtimber.org/2018/05/01/t…

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#5yrsago Thousands of prominent AI researchers tell Nature they won’t have anything to do with its new paywalled journal openaccess.engineering.oregons…

#5yrsago Parliament to Zuck: show up or else theverge.com/2018/5/1/17306684…

#5yrsago Right wing snowflakes moaning about #MichelleWolf’s hilarious White House Press Corps monologue show us real “PC” https://www.currentaffairs.org/2018/04/what-being-politically-incorrect-actually-looks-like/`

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#5yrsago The UK is finally cracking down on its Russian money-laundry, but hasn’t hired people to do the job heraldscotland.com/news/161927…

#5yrsago The UK’s surveillance regulator changed names and dropped its domain, which is now squatted by a premature ejaculation scammer vice.com/en/article/ywx8gj/uk-…

#5yrsago In just 7 months, the US #PublicDomain will get its first infusion since 1998 theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

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#5yrsago Debullshitifying Microsoft’s smear campaign against the recycler it helped send to prison techcrunch.com/2018/04/27/micr…

#5yrsago A #LaTeX mod to draw coffee cup rings on your technical papers legacy.hanno-rein.de/hanno-rei…

#5yrsago For $4k/year, Moscow cyber-arms-dealer Gleg will sell you 25 0-day bugs for attacking hospitals vice.com/en/article/j5a7p3/rus…

#1yrago Disney's writer #WageTheft, a year on pluralistic.net/2022/04/30/dis…

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Saturday's threads: The seductive, science fictional power of spreadsheets; and more!

mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11028331…

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Cory Doctorow

2023-04-29 17:36:30

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: The seductive, science fictional power of spreadsheets; Hey look at this; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/04/29/ged…

#Pluralistic

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Pluralistic: The seductive, science fictional power of spreadsheets (29 Apr 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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My latest book is Red Team Blues, available wherever books are sold!

Signed copies at Dark Delicacies:

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My latest nonfiction book is Chokepoint Capitalism (with Rebecca Giblin), nonfiction about monopoly and fairness in creative labor markets.

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Wed, Apr 26th 6pm: Red Team Blues: A Martin Hench Novel HB

Signing with Cory Doctorow

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My ebooks and audiobooks (from Tor Books, Head of Zeus, McSweeneys, Beacon 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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Upcoming appearances:

* Red Team Blues at Powell's with @waxy (#PDX/Cedar Hills Crossing), May 2
powells.com/book/red-team-blue…

* Red Team Blues at Books, Inc with @mkapor (#MountainView), May 5
booksinc.net/event/cory-doctor…

* Bay Area Bookfest (#Berkeley), May 6/7
baybookfest.org/session/cory-d…

* #OSSummit (#Vancouver), May 10
events.linuxfoundation.org/ope…

* Massy Books Red Team Blues event with Sean Cranbury (#Vancouver), May 10
eventbrite.ca/e/red-team-blues…

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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* Wordfest (#Calgary), May 11
wordfest.com/2023/event/wordfe…

* #Gaithersburg Book Festival, May 20
gaithersburgbookfestival.org/f…

* Wordfest (#Calgary), May 11
wordfest.com/2023/event/wordfe…

* #Gaithersburg Book Festival, May 20
gaithersburgbookfestival.org/f…

* Public Knowledge Emerging Tech keynote (#DC), May 22
eventbrite.com/e/emerging-tech…

* WEPFest with Ron Diebert, Dave Bidini and Nancy Olivieri (#Toronto), May 23
westendphoenix.com/shop/wepfes…

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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* #HowTheLightGetsIn (Hay), May 28
howthelightgetsin.org/events/t…

* #HowTheLightGetsIn (Hay), May 29
howthelightgetsin.org/events/t…

* Red Team Blues event with @TimHarford (#Oxford), May 29
eventbrite.co.uk/e/cory-doctor…

* Red Team Blues event with Christian Riley (#Nottingham), May 30
waterstones.com/events/an-even…

* Red Team Blues event with @cubicgarden (#Manchester), May 31
waterstones.com/events/in-conv…

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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* UCL Peter Kirstein Lecture, Jun 1 (#London):
eventbrite.co.uk/e/peter-kirst…

* #Cymera23 Festival, Jun 3 (#Edinburgh)
cymerafestival.co.uk/cymera23-…

* Red Team Blues with #MarthaLaneFox at the #BritishLibrary, Jun 5 (#London):
bl.uk/events/an-evening-with-c…

* Re:publica keynote, Jun 7 (#Berlin)
re-publica.com/de/news/rp23-ke…

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Recent appearances:

* The Next Chapter/CBC
cbc.ca/player/play/21993943720…

* Media Death Cult
youtube.com/watch?v=24k8r-p6ib…

* Slingshot
thesling.org/video/slingshot-e…

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