EFF's lawsuit against DOGE will go forward: "Sweeping and uncontrolled access by DOGE agents who were not properly vetted or trained."

mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11430901…

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Cory Doctorow

2025-04-09 16:45:47

In my 23 years at EFF, I've been privileged to get a front-row seat for some of the most important legal battles over tech and human rights in history. There've been tremendous victories and heartbreaking losses, but win or lose, I am forever reminded that I'm privileged to work with some of the smartest, most committed, savviest cyberlawyers in the world.

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Hey look at this

* I’m a Free-Thinking Centrist with Only Right-Wing Ideas mcsweeneys.net/articles/im-a-f… (h/t Kottke)

* Here Are the Finalists for the 2025 Hugo Awards reactormag.com/2025-hugo-final…

* The Good Society Department noemamag.com/the-good-society-…

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#20yrsago Canadian music industry’s fake stats shredded web.archive.org/web/2005041014…

#20yrsago American Airlines’ dossier on Cory’s friends: the latest installment memex.craphound.com/2005/04/09…

#20yrsago Bill Gates 0wns Einstein, Groucho , Freud, Asimov, Fuller, et al theguardian.com/world/2005/apr…

#20yrsago WIPO Development Agenda proposal scorecard: USA, Mexico, UK all blow it web.archive.org/web/2005041023…

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#15yrsago Canadian copyright consultation: 54 in favor of US/UK-style copyright expansion, 6138 against web.archive.org/web/2010041216…

#15yrsago NYT ethicist: OK to pirate ebooks once you’ve bought the hardcover nytimes.com/2010/04/04/magazin…

#15yrsago Minister for Digital Britain thinks an IP address is an “Intellectual Property address” imgur.com/i-wrote-to-mp-2-week…

#15yrsago UK ISP TalkTalk will not obey Digital Economy Bill disconnection orders web.archive.org/web/2010041012…

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#5yrsago Cleveland Plain Dealer executed by union-busting owners pluralistic.net/2020/04/08/non…

#5yrsago Nurse suspended for distributing crowdfunded PPE pluralistic.net/2020/04/08/non…

#5yrsago Solnit on the revelations of crisis pluralistic.net/2020/04/08/non…

#5yrsago Tails adds Secureboot support pluralistic.net/2020/04/09/all…

#5yrsago Kansas GOP nukes ban on large Easter gatherings pluralistic.net/2020/04/09/all…

#5yrsago Philips quadruples ventilator costs pluralistic.net/2020/04/09/all…

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#1yrago Steven Brust's "Lyorn" pluralistic.net/2024/04/09/so-…

#1yrago How to shatter the class solidarity of the ruling class pluralistic.net/2024/04/08/mon…

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Monday's threads: Tariffs and monopolies; and more!

mamot.fr/@pluralistic/114
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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

New York Times bestseller Cory Doctorow's The Bezzle is a high stakes thriller where the lives of the hundreds of thousands of inmates in California’s pris...

^Macmillan

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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Upcoming appearances:

* #Pittsburgh: Picks and Shovels at White Whale Books, May 15
whitewhalebookstore.com/events…

* #Pittsburgh: PyCon, May 16
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* #PDX: Teardown 2025, Jun 20-22
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* #PDX: Picks and Shovels at Barnes and Noble, Jun 20
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* #London: How To Academy, Jul 1
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* #Manchester: Picks and Shovels at Blackwell, Jul 2
eventbrite.co.uk/e/an-evening-…

* #Manchester: Co-operatives UK Co-op Congress keynote, Jul 3
uk.coop/events-and-training/ev…

* #NewOrleans: DeepSouthCon63, Oct 10-12, 2025
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Recent appearances:

* The Political Orphanage
player.fm/series/the-political…

* Fire the unelected social media dictators (Al Jazeera Upfront)
youtube.com/watch?v=KXa4DzhkUZ…

* Capitalists Hate Capitalism (MMT Podcast)
pileusmmt.libsyn.com/195-capit…

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I'm on a 20+ city book tour for my new novel *Picks and Shovels*.

Catch me in #PITTSBURGH on May 15 at WHITE WHALE BOOKS:

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And in #PDX on Jun 20 at Barnes and Noble:

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More tour dates here:

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