Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: We bullied HP into a minor act of disenshittification; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2025/02/22/ink…
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Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: We bullied HP into a minor act of disenshittification; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2025/02/22/ink…
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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 TORONTO TOMORROW (Feb 23) at Another Story Books:
eventbrite.ca/e/picks-shovels-…
And in NYC on WEDNESDAY (Feb 26) with JOHN HODGMAN:
eventbrite.com/e/cory-doctorow…
More tour dates here:
martinhench.com
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PICKS & SHOVELS - Cory Doctorow
EventbriteCory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •We bullied HP into a minor act of disenshittification: Score one for the ink-stained wretches.
mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11404898…
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Cory Doctorow
2025-02-22 18:37:58
Cory Doctorow
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Hey look at this
* Locus Magazine 2024 Recommended Reading List locusmag.com/2025/02/2024-reco…
* Your Kink Is Health Care? Good Luck, Babe. prospect.org/culture/2025-02-2…
* The New Antitrust Consensus prospect.org/economy/2025-02-2…
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The New Antitrust Consensus
David Dayen (The American Prospect)Cory Doctorow
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#20yrsago Woz speaks out against Apple’s lawsuit web.archive.org/web/2005022313…
#20yrsago HP BIOS locks out all cards save those on a whitelist web.archive.org/web/2005022305…
#20yrsago Kottke blog goes full-time web.archive.org/web/2005022302…
#15yrsago FBI investigating Lower Merion School District over laptop spying (plus a commemorative tee) abcnews.go.com/GMA/Parenting/p…
#15yrsago School spying: infected laptops mandatory, jailbreaking grounds for expulsion web.archive.org/web/2010022518…
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Pa. School Faces FBI Probe, Lawsuit, for Using Webcams on Laptops to Watch Students at Home
ABC NewsCory Doctorow
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#15yrsago Laptop surveillance kid was disciplined when spying authorities mistook candies for pills reason.com/2010/02/20/lower-pe…
#15yrsago Video: English cops terrorism-harassing photographer for taking photos of town Christmas decorations theguardian.com/uk/2010/feb/21…
#15yrsago Objective reporting and American politics web.archive.org/web/2010022423…
#15yrsago London councils issue themselves parking tickets, fight them in court thetimes.com/article/london-co…
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Photographer films his own 'anti-terror' arrest
Paul Lewis (The Guardian)Cory Doctorow
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#15yrsago ACTA leak shows US Trade Rep lied about “3-strikes” web.archive.org/web/2010022318…
#15yrsago ACTA “internet enforcement” chapter leaks memex.craphound.com/2010/02/21…
#5yrsago Gopher shows us how adversarial interoperability was there from the start pluralistic.net/2020/02/21/plu…
#5yrsago Private Equity has sabotaged every attempt to end emergency room "surprise billing" pluralistic.net/2020/02/21/plu…
#5yrsago Tumblr's ad policy pluralistic.net/2020/02/21/plu…
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Michael Geist - ACTA Internet Chapter Leaks: Renegotiates WIPO, Sets 3 Strikes as Model
web.archive.orgCory Doctorow
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#5yrsago Bloomberg's campaign NDA is a gag order that covers sexual abuse and other crimes pluralistic.net/2020/02/21/plu…
#5yrsago Wells Fargo will pay $3b for 2 million acts of fraud pluralistic.net/2020/02/22/plu…
#5yrsago ICANN should demand to see the secret financial docs in the .ORG selloff pluralistic.net/2020/02/22/plu…
#5yrsago What Marc Davis lifted from the Addams Family while designing the Haunted Mansion pluralistic.net/2020/02/22/plu…
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Pluralist, a daily link-dose: 21 Feb 2020 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.netCory Doctorow
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#5yrsago Tax Justice Network publishes a new global Financial Secrecy Index pluralistic.net/2020/02/22/plu…
#1yrago The majority of censorship is self-censorship pluralistic.net/2024/02/22/sel…
#1yrago Google reneged on the monopolistic bargain pluralistic.net/2024/02/21/im-…
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Pluralist, your daily link-dose: 22 Feb 2020 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.netCory Doctorow
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Thursday's threads: Ad-tech targeting is an existential threat; and more!
mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11403818…
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Cory Doctorow
2025-02-20 20:50:06
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:
* #Toronto: Picks and Shovels at Another Story, Feb 23
eventbrite.ca/e/picks-shovels-…
* #Toronto: Ursula Franklin Lecture, Feb 24
eventbrite.ca/e/2025-ursula-fr…
* #NYC: Picks and Shovels with John Hodgman, Feb 26
eventbrite.com/e/cory-doctorow…
* #PennState: Picks and Shovels, Feb 27
bellisario.psu.edu/assets/uplo…
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PICKS & SHOVELS - Cory Doctorow
EventbriteCory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* #Doylestown, PA: Picks and Shovels at the Doylestown Bookshop, Mar 1
eventbrite.com/e/cory-doctorow…
* #Baltimore: Picks and Shovels with Maximillian Alvarez, Mar 2
redemmas.org/events/cory-docto…
* #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…
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Cory Doctorow // PICKS AND SHOVELS: A MARTIN HENCH NOVEL
EventbriteCory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* 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/…
* #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…
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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: 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/
* Virtual: Picks and Shovels at Imagine! Belfast, Mar 24
eventbrite.co.uk/e/cory-doctor…
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SXSW '25 - About Flipboard
About FlipboardCory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* #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…
* #PDX: Teardown 2025, Jun 20-22
crowdsupply.com/teardown/portl…
* #NewOrleans: DeepSouthCon63, Oct 10-12, 2025
contraflowscifi.org/
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Authors on Tap: Cory Doctorow and Peter Sagal
exileinbookville.comCory Doctorow
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Recent appearances:
* The Culture Show
wgbh.org/podcasts/the-culture-…
* Picks and Shovels with Yanis Varoufakis and David Moscrop (Jacobin)
youtube.com/watch?v=xkIDep7Z4L…
* Forthright Radio
forthright.media/2025/02/14/co…
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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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Today's top sources: Peter Sayer.
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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 TORONTO TOMORROW (Feb 23) at Another Story Books:
eventbrite.ca/e/picks-shovels-…
And in NYC on WEDNESDAY (Feb 26) with JOHN HODGMAN:
eventbrite.com/e/cory-doctorow…
More tour dates here:
martinhench.com
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PICKS & SHOVELS - Cory Doctorow
EventbriteChris M
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Stefanie Janine Stölting
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Remember that they did fundamental research?
The only reason they have been enabled to build ink printers at all?
Because someone researched drops?
All that is gone. No invention since about 25 years.
Cory Doctorow reshared this.
calvin 🛋️
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •@pluralistic, you mean the horse, right?
But seriously, I find that comparison both amusing and extremely illustrative; even though I don't really know much about horse racing.
northcape
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Korma Chameleon
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