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Inside: Business school professors trained an AI to judge workers' personalities based on their faces; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2025/02/17/cal…
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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 TODAY (Feb 17) in MENLO PARK for an event with Charlie Jane Anders:
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and TOMORROW (Feb 18) in LA with Wil Wheaton:
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More tour dates here:
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Cory Doctorow with Charlie Jane Anders — Kepler's Literary Foundation
Kepler's Literary FoundationCory Doctorow
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Business school professors trained an AI to judge workers' personalities based on their faces: The Gilded Age has entered the chat.
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Cory Doctorow
2025-02-17 15:43:14
Cory Doctorow
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Hey look at this
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* Will Antitrust Survive DOGE? thebignewsletter.com/p/monopol…
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Monopoly Round-Up: Will Antitrust Survive DOGE?
Matt Stoller (BIG by Matt Stoller)Cory Doctorow
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Original Fawlty Towers goes for £1.5m
Guardian staff reporter (The Guardian)Cory Doctorow
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Where’s kids MMOs are at
Raph's WebsiteCory Doctorow
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Music Journalism is the New Piracy
Electronic Frontier FoundationCory Doctorow
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#15yrsago Ebook checklist from EFF eff.org/wp/digital-books-and-y…
#10yrsago Dreamland: Adventures in the Strange Science of Sleep memex.craphound.com/2015/02/16…
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Martin Luther Playmobil Toy is Fastest-Selling of All Time
Felicity Capon (Newsweek)Cory Doctorow
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Saturday's threads: Skinnamarinkstump Linkdump; and more!
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Cory Doctorow
2025-02-15 11:39:02
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:
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My latest nonfiction book is "The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation" from Verso Books:
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Signed copies available from Book Soup:
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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."
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Shop | Cory Doctorow's craphound.com
craphound.comCory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances:
* Menlo Park: Picks and Shovels with Charlie Jane Anders, Feb 17
keplers.org/upcoming-events-in…
* LA: Picks and Shovels with Wil Wheaton, Feb 18
dieselbookstore.com/event/Cory…
* Seattle: Picks and Shovels with Dan Savage, Feb 19
eventbrite.com/e/cory-doctorow…
* Toronto: Picks and Shovels at Another Story, Feb 23
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* Toronto: Ursula Franklin Lecture, Feb 24
eventbrite.co.uk/e/cory-doctor…
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Cory Doctorow with Charlie Jane Anders — Kepler's Literary Foundation
Kepler's Literary FoundationCory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* NYC: Picks and Shovels with John Hodgman, Feb 26
eventbrite.com/e/cory-doctorow…
* Penn State: Picks and Shovels, Feb 27
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* 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…
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Cory Doctorow + John Hodgman: Picks and Shovels
EventbriteCory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* 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: Picks and Shovels at First Light Books, Mar 10
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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):
* Europa Park: Cloudfest, Mar 17-20
cloudfest.link/
* Virtual: Picks and Shovels at Imagine! Belfast, Mar 24
eventbrite.co.uk/e/cory-doctor…
* Chicago: Picks and Shovels with Peter Sagal, Apr 2
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* 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…
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cloudfest_official
cloudfest_officialCory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* New Orleans: DeepSouthCon63, Oct 10-12, 2025
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CONtraflow XI
www.contraflowscifi.orgCory Doctorow
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Recent appearances:
* Picks and Shovels with Yanis Varoufakis and David Moscrop (Jacobin)
youtube.com/watch?v=xkIDep7Z4L…
* Forthright Radio
forthright.media/2025/02/14/co…
* The Writer's Voice
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Cory Doctorow: Picks and Shovels
Forthright RadioCory Doctorow
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Pluralistic: Business school professors trained an AI to judge workers’ personalities based on their faces (17 Feb 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.netCory Doctorow
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I'm on a 20+ city book tour for my new novel *Picks and Shovels*.
Catch me TODAY (Feb 17) in MENLO PARK for an event with Charlie Jane Anders:
keplers.org/upcoming-events-in…
and TOMORROW (Feb 18) in LA with Wil Wheaton:
dieselbookstore.com/event/Cory…
More tour dates here:
martinhench.com
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Cory Doctorow with Charlie Jane Anders — Kepler's Literary Foundation
Kepler's Literary FoundationDavid S. Reed
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Cory Doctorow
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"not real or what somebody claims it is"
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Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️
in reply to Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️ • • •Remember reading about how the Nazis used to advocate judging people based on measurements of their face and head, and everyone agreed that was batshit crazy and just plain wrong?
Ah, those were the good ol' days...
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Tony Wells
Unknown parent • • •They'll be matching PhrenologAI with a Myers -Briggs score based on your social media to discover that the best candidate is the nephew of the hiring manager, as the algo is weighted to having an uncle in the company.
Alain Dellepiane
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Brian Vastag
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in reply to Alain Dellepiane • • •Yeah, the astrologers were really upset when they discovered the precession of the equinoxes.