Gandersauce: Disruption for thee, but not for me.

mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11412737…

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Cory Doctorow

2025-03-08 14:52:05

It's true that capitalists by and large hate capitalism - given their druthers, entrepreneurs would like to attain a perch from which they get to set prices and wages and need not fear competitors. A market where everything is up for grabs is great - if you're the one doing the grabbing. Less so if you're the one whose profits, customers and workers are being grabbed at.

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Hey look at this

* Two Americas, one bank branch, and $50,000 cash bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/two…

* Meet Rayhunter: A New Open Source Tool from EFF to Detect Cellular Spying eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/meet…

* As Bangladesh’s factories turn to surveillance and automation, garment workers feel the pressure restofworld.org/2025/banglades…

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#20yrsago User-created content in Second Life: Ondrejka’s GDC talk crystaltips.typepad.com/wonder…

#15yrsago iPhone developer EULA turns programmers into serfs eff.org/deeplinks/2010/03/ipho…

#15yrsago Stomach-churning details of CIA waterboarding crimes salon.com/2010/03/09/waterboar…

#10yrsago #15yrsago Stomach-churning details of CIA waterboarding crimes memex.craphound.com/2015/03/08…

#10yrsago Is a reputation economy really an economy? ribbonfarm.com/2013/05/01/the-…

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#10yrsago Imaginary ISIS attack on Louisiana and the twitterbots who loved it render.betaworks.com/media-hac…

#10yrsago McDonald’s sues to block Seattle’s minimum wage huffpost.com/entry/the-mcdonal…

#10yrsago Italy’s Hacking Team allegedly sold Ethiopia’s despots cyberweapons used to attack journalists citizenlab.ca/2015/03/hacking-…

#10yrsago SC Supreme Court: magistrates must be able to tell time and read loweringthebar.net/2015/03/jud…

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#5yrsago John Deere is Right to Repair's archnemesis pluralistic.net/2020/03/09/pig…

#5yrsago Yanis Varoufakis on how austerity leads to fascism pluralistic.net/2020/03/09/pig…

#5yrsago UCSC strike prompts systemwide student and faculty solidarity strikes pluralistic.net/2020/03/09/pig…

#5yrsago Shat-out pig pedometer sparks farm-fire pluralistic.net/2020/03/09/pig…

#5yrsago Jesse Jackson endorses Sanders pluralistic.net/2020/03/09/pig…

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#5yrsago European Right to Repair for phones is finally on the horizon pluralistic.net/2020/03/08/gho…

#5yrsago EU airspace is full of empty planes pluralistic.net/2020/03/08/gho…

#1yrago Palantir's NHS-stealing Big Lie pluralistic.net/2024/03/08/the…

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Thursday's threads: Two weak spots in Big Tech economics; and more!

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Cory Doctorow

2025-03-06 16:50:10

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Two weak spots in Big Tech economics; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2025/03/06/pri…

#Pluralistic

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Pluralistic: Two weak spots in Big Tech economics (06 Mar 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from 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

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...

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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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Upcoming appearances:

* #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
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* #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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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
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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
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Recent appearances:

* CBC Bookends
cbc.ca/books/bookends/cory-doc…

* The Futurists
youtube.com/watch?v=Ko0BdEm-Uw…

* Make It Make Sense
open.spotify.com/episode/6XccT…

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

Catch me in AUSTIN at FIRST LIGHT BOOKS on Mar 10:

thethirdplace.is/event/cory-do…

I'm in Austin for SXSW:

schedule.sxsw.com/2025/speaker…

With side-events Fediverse House:

about.flipboard.com/fediverse-…

and Creative Commons:

classy.org/event/creative-comm…

More tour dates here:

martinhench.com

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