Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: Ideas Lying Around; and more!
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Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: Ideas Lying Around; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2025/03/03/fri…
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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 DC TOMORROW (Mar 3):
loyaltybookstores.com/picksnsh…
and in RICHMOND on WEDNESDAY (Mar 4):
fountainbookstore.com/events/1…
More tour dates here:
martinhench.com
Mail-order signed copies from LA's Diesel Books:
dieselbookstore.com/picks-and-…
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Picks and Shovels with Cory Doctorow
fountainbookstore.comCory Doctorow
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Ideas Lying Around: Trumpism is our oil crisis.
mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11409846…
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Cory Doctorow
2025-03-03 12:19:40
Cory Doctorow
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Hey look at this:
* Norman Jewison’s ‘Rollerball’ depicted a world in which corporations controlled all information – is this dystopian vision becoming reality? theconversation.com/norman-jew…
* PrivacySafe Bot – Secure Password Generator privacysafe.bot
* Review: Rewind Cassette Player wired.com/review/review-rewind…
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Norman Jewison’s ‘Rollerball’ depicted a world in which corporations controlled all information – is this dystopian vision becoming reality?
The ConversationCory Doctorow
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#20yrsago Free Software Foundation tears MPAA a new one in Grokster brief moglen.law.columbia.edu/public…
#20yrsago Best-selling musicians’ ask SCOTUS to keep P2P legal nbcnews.com/id/wbna7052758
#20yrsago Canadian defense minister on US no-fly list? web.archive.org/web/2005030401…
#15yrsago LibDem Lords seek to ban web-lockers (YouSendIt, etc) in the UK memex.craphound.com/2010/03/03…
#15yrsago Building high-speed wireless in Afghanistan out of garbage freerangeinternational.com/201…
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The Jalalabad Fab Fi Network Continues to Grow With a Little Help from Their Friends - Free Range International
babatim (Free Range International)Cory Doctorow
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#15yrsago HOWTO make smarter dumb mistakes about the future web.archive.org/web/2010030512…
#15yrsago EFF’s annual DMCA whitepaper gets a refresh eff.org/wp/unintended-conseque…
#15yrsago Audiobook DRM versus the patrons of the Cleveland Library web.archive.org/web/2010030407…
#15yrsago Danish activists demand to know why their governments block ACTA transparency www-computerworld-dk.translate…
#10yrsago America’s growing gangs of armed, arrest-making, untrained rent-a-cops washingtonpost.com/local/crime…
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Unintended Consequences: Twelve Years under the DMCA
Electronic Frontier FoundationCory Doctorow
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#10yrsago Bruce Schneier’s Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World memex.craphound.com/2015/03/02…
#10yrsago Ed Snowden says he’ll face trial in the US web.archive.org/web/2015030316…
#10yrsago First-ever photo of light behaving as a wave and particle phys.org/news/2015-03-particle…
#10yrsago Three steps to save ourselves from firmware attacks eff.org/deeplinks/2015/03/hard…
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The first ever photograph of light as both a particle and wave
Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (Phys.org)Cory Doctorow
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#10yrsago Razorhurst: blood-drenched gang warfare and ghosts in Gilded Age Sydney memex.craphound.com/2015/03/03…
#5yrsago Japanese condiment company releases "sliced mayo" pluralistic.net/2020/03/03/jus…
#5yrsago Recycling spy agencies' malware for fun and profit pluralistic.net/2020/03/03/jus…
#5yrsago Facebook neutered "Download Your Data" pluralistic.net/2020/03/03/jus…
#5yrsago A Lever Without a Fulcrum Is Just a Stick pluralistic.net/2020/03/03/jus…
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Razorhurst: blood-drenched gang warfare and ghosts in Gilded Age Sydney – Cory Doctorow's MEMEX
memex.craphound.comCory Doctorow
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#5yrsago EFF's Surveillance Self-Defense guide for students pluralistic.net/2020/03/03/jus…
#5yrsago The next frontier for school censorware is spying on kids all the time pluralistic.net/2020/03/02/be-…
#5yrsago My new podcast, "Disasters Don’t Have to End in Dystopia" pluralistic.net/2020/03/02/be-…
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Pluralistic: 03 Mar 2020 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.netCory Doctorow
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Saturday's threads: Zincchump Linkdump; and more!
mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11408674…
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Cory Doctorow
2025-03-01 10:39:35
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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Book details - Macmillan Publishers
MacmillanCory 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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Cory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances:
* #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…
* #Austin: Reclaim, Reframe, Reimagine, Mar 7
schedule.sxsw.com/2025/events/…
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With Great Power Came No Responsibility: How Enshittification Conquered the 21st Century and How We Can Overthrow It
Indiana University CalendarCory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* #Austin: EFF-Austin Salon, Mar 7
grotto101.com/effaustinsxsalon…
* #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-…
* #Austin: Picks and Shovels at First Light Books, Mar 10
thethirdplace.is/event/cory-do…
* Europa Park: Cloudfest, Mar 17-20
cloudfest.link/
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Tensions in Creative Labor & Generative AI
SXSW 2025 ScheduleCory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* Virtual: Picks and Shovels at Imagine! Belfast, Mar 24
eventbrite.co.uk/e/cory-doctor…
* #Chicago: Picks and Shovels with Peter Sagal, Apr 2
exileinbookville.com/events/44…
* #Chicago: ABA Techshow, Apr 3
techshow.com/
* #Bloomington: Picks and Shovels at Morgenstern, Apr 4
morgensternbooks.com/event/202…
* #Pittsburgh: PyCon, May 16
us.pycon.org/2025/schedule/
* #PDX: Teardown 2025, Jun 20-22
crowdsupply.com/teardown/portl…
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Cory Doctorow in conversation with Alan Meban
EventbriteCory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* #PDX: Picks and Shovels at Barnes and Noble, Jun 20
stores.barnesandnoble.com/even…
* #NewOrleans: DeepSouthCon63, Oct 10-12, 2025
contraflowscifi.org/
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Author Signing with Cory Doctorow
stores.barnesandnoble.comCory Doctorow
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Recent appearances:
* Democracy Now
youtube.com/watch?v=tKV5GB6dN3…
* The Culture Show
wgbh.org/podcasts/the-culture-…
* Picks and Shovels with Yanis Varoufakis and David Moscrop (Jacobin)
youtube.com/watch?v=xkIDep7Z4L…
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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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Cory Doctorow
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I'm on a 20+ city book tour for my new novel *Picks and Shovels*.
Catch me in DC TOMORROW (Mar 3):
loyaltybookstores.com/picksnsh…
and in RICHMOND on WEDNESDAY (Mar 4):
fountainbookstore.com/events/1…
More tour dates here:
martinhench.com
Mail-order signed copies from LA's Diesel Books:
dieselbookstore.com/picks-and-…
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Picks and Shovels with Cory Doctorow
fountainbookstore.comChristian Tietze
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dandels
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •I'm so happy to see someone able to articulate my private thoughts.
I have a less capitalistic take on this though - I'd like to see the EU or even individual member states invest in a Digital Sovereignty programme where they have their own developers working to improve OSS software in order to transition away from things like Windows/O365 (almost) entirely. You could do both a lot of software dev and a lot of meaningul IRL things with money that is not spent on software licensing.
This probably sounds a lot like cliché FOSS advocacy,
Besides, the Real(tm)capitalists out there could rejoice if most of the software they use is free - that would bring the cost of doing business down, making it easier to "innovate" or something.
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Cavyherd
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •It's really disturbing that that particular comb-over is so recognizable....
(& seems to be becoming less convincing by the day....)
GhostOnTheHalfShell
Unknown parent • • •Fitz Bushnell
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •"Truly, it would be a rising tide that lifted all boats (except for oligarchs' superyachts – those, it will swamp and sink)."
Boy, that sounds great!
(in a Stephen Furst / Flounder voice)
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kryptec
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •going after IP rights like this seems like it should be a no brainer, especially consdering much of it should never have become law in the first place.
I have noticed almost all politicians have pretty much refused to engage with it so far though. With the right push I bet we can have at least one Canadian party put it in their platform for this election.
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sleepy62🍁🛠️ 🖥️ 🔬 🌞
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •"In times of crisis, ideas can move from the periphery to the center in an eyeblink."
I hope the Canadian government is considering some of these ideas.Tit for tat tariffs make no sense. Hit them where it hurts.
#cdnpoli
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Jerome
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