This Saturday (May 20), I'll be at the #Gaithersburg Book Festival with my novel *Red Team Blues*:

gaithersburgbookfestival.org/f…

On May 22, I'm keynoting #PublicKnowledge's Emerging Tech conference in #DC:

eventbrite.com/e/emerging-tech…

On May 23, I'll be in #Toronto for a book launch that's part of #WEPFest, a benefit for the *#WestEndPhoenix*, onstage with #DaveBidini (The #Rheostatics), Ron Diebert (#CitizenLab) and the #whistleblower Dr #NancyOlivieri:

westendphoenix.com/shop/wepfes…

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Ireland's privacy regulator is a gamekeeper-turned-poacher: Dublin is a made town.

mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11037370…

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Cory Doctorow

2023-05-15 16:44:47

When the #EU passed its landmark #GeneralDataProtectionRegulation (#GDPR), it seemed like a #privacy miracle. Despite the most aggressive lobbying Europe had ever seen, 500 million Europeans were now guaranteed a digital private life. Could this really be?

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Pluralistic: Ireland’s privacy regulator is a gamekeeper-turned-poacher (15 May 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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Hey look at this

* Behold! The cover of my next novel, "The Lost Cause," (Tor, Nov 2023) by Will Staehle twitter.com/torbooks/status/16…

* #HP disables customers’ printers if they use ink cartridges from cheaper rivals telegraph.co.uk/money/consumer… (h/t @slashdot)

* Can a #WritersStrike Save Hollywood from #Monopoly? mattstoller.substack.com/p/can…

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#20yrsago Five perspectives on #SpectrumAllocation memex.craphound.com/2003/05/14…

#20yrsago #Vonnegut on “#ShockAndAwe” web.archive.org/web/2003051206…

#20yrsago Does #MediaConcentration matter if we have the Internet? web.archive.org/web/2003050306…

#15yrsago Canada’s #DMCA Minister weasels and fumbles when asked about his copyright plans youtube.com/watch?v=W5-wvCSy_y…

#15yrsago HOWTO keep your laptop’s data out of customs’ hands theguardian.com/technology/200…

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#15yrsago #UniversalMusic: when we get hit with copyright damages, that’s “unconstitutionally excessive” arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…

#10yrsago Inside the world’s largest #GhostMall, America finds schadenfreude and comfort for its fears of a Chinese century edition.cnn.com/videos/world/2…

#10yrsago #Osaka’s fascist mayor defends WWII policy of sexual enslavement: “a #ComfortWomen system is necessary. Anyone can understand that.” bbc.com/news/world-asia-225193…

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#10yrsago Highest-paid state employees: usually a school sports coach, sometimes a med school dean deadspin.com/infographic-is-yo…

#10yrsago Canadian govt turns the national science agenda over to incumbent big businesses theglobeandmail.com/news/polit…

#10yrsago Abusive restaurateurs stage spectacular social media meltdown buzzfeed.com/ryanhatesthis/thi…

#10yrsago #PirateBay co-founder #PeterSunde is a candidate for #PirateParty MEP in Finland torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-co…

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#10yrsago Canadian anti-piracy bounty hunters ripped off photos for their website vice.com/en/article/ppqn38/can…

#10yrsago #PrinceCharles’s housing charity gets into bed with torturing Bahraini dictatorship theguardian.com/uk/2013/may/14…

#10yrsago Rich New Yorkers hire disabled “guides” to #DisneyWorld in order to skip lines nypost.com/2013/05/14/rich-man…

#10yrsago Odd Duck: great picture book about eccentricity and ducks memex.craphound.com/2013/05/15…

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#5yrsago #JohnScalzi wrote a science fiction story about the #DMCA to help @eff's #RightToRepair campaign eff.org/deeplinks/2018/05/eff-…

#5yrsago A dozen googlers quit over Google’s military #drone contract arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/0…

#5yrsago Kansas finally bans cops from having sex with detainees, people undergoing questioning, witnesses, and people they pull over during traffic stops kansas.com/news/politics-gover…

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#5yrsago EFF has comprehensively killed the bullshit #PodcastingPatent eff.org/deeplinks/2018/05/eff-…

#5yrsago Judge to Facebook: stop deliberately misinterpreting my privacy rulings bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…

#5yrsago How the “global super-rich” have honeycombed London’s posh neighbourhoods with sub-basements, sub-sub-basements, and sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-basements theguardian.com/money/2018/may…

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#5yrsago Efail: researchers reveal worrying, unpatched vulnerabilities in encrypted email efail.de/#faq

#5yrsago UK government will deputise newsagents to collect and retain identity documents from the nation’s pornography viewers independent.co.uk/news/uk/home…

#5yrsago London cops are using an unregulated, 98% inaccurate #FacialRecognition tech independent.co.uk/news/uk/home…

#5yrsago A vital guide to the Canadian encryption debate citizenlab.ca/wp-content/uploa…

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#5yrsago Realtor claims #Uber and #Lyft erode the premium homebuyers pay for good public transit links businessinsider.com/uber-and-l…

#5yrsago The CIA is psyopsing America to help torturer #GinaHaspel get the job of #CIA boss nytimes.com/2018/04/20/us/poli…

#5yrsago To understand the future sainthood of Donald J Trump, just look at George W Bush washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/s…

#5yrsago Profiles of #FlatEarthers: report from the front lines of weaponized media literacy vice.com/en/article/zm8b74/i-w…

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#5yrsago Exit West: beautifully wrought novel about refugees, mobility and borders memex.craphound.com/2018/05/14…

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Saturday's threads: 'Revenge of the Linkdumps; and more!

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Cory Doctorow

2023-05-13 21:51:57

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Revenge of the Linkdumps; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/05/13/fou…

#Pluralistic

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Pluralistic: Revenge of the Linkdumps (13 May 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:

darkdel.com/store/p2873/Wed%2C…

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

chokepointcapitalism.com

Signed copies available from Book Soup:

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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:

* #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…

* #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…

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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* 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…

* 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…

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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

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

* Otherland event for Red Team Blues, Jun 8 (#Berlin)
otherland-berlin.de/de/event-d…

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Recent appearances:

* Chokepoint Capitalism's Stranglehold on the Arts (News Beat)
radiopublic.com/news-beat-GKkd…

* Enshittification Part 2: The Mechanisms That Helped Big Digital Go Bad (@onthemedia)
wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/s…

* Slurry With The Turd On Top (Jordan, Jesse, Go!)
maximumfun.org/episodes/jordan…

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If you're a @medium subscriber, you can read these essays - as well as previews of upcoming magazine columns and early exclusives on doctorow.medium.com.

My latest Medium column is "Google's AI Hype Circle: We have to do Bard because everyone else is doing AI; everyone else is doing AI because we're doing Bard"

doctorow.medium.com/googles-ai…

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Google’s AI Hype Circle - Cory Doctorow - Medium

Next Saturday (May 20), I’ll be at the GAITHERSBURG Book Festival with my novel Red Team Blues; then on May 22, I’m keynoting Public Knowledge’s Emerging Tech conference in DC.

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