pluralistic, 17 days ago

I'm in Tartu, Estonia!

May 8, 6PM: Prima Vista Literary Festival keynote, "Overcoming the Enshittocene,"
University of Tartu Library (Struwe 1)

May 10, 8AM: Science Fiction Research Association talk, "AI, copyright and creative workers’ labor rights"
Institute of Foreign Languages and Cultures building (Lossi 3, lobby)

May 10, 3PM: A talk for hackers on seizing the means of computation
(University of Tartu Delta Centre, Narva 18, room 1037)

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18+ pluralistic, 17 days ago

Amazon illegally interferes with an historic UK warehouse election: "One click to quit" for unions, but not for Prime.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112393624367060723

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18+ pluralistic, 17 days ago

Hey look at this

• Firefox Power User Keeps 7,400+ Browser Tabs Open for 2 Years https://www.pcmag.com/news/firefox-power-user-keeps-7400-plus-browser-tabs-open-for-2-years (h/t @slashdot)

• An Oil Price-Fixing Conspiracy Caused 27% of All Inflation Increases in 2021 https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/an-oil-price-fixing-conspiracy-caused

• After private equity firms gobbled up wheelchair makers, users pay the price in long repair times https://www.statnews.com/2024/05/01/wheelchair-repair-delay-numotion-national-seating-mobility/

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18+ pluralistic, 17 days ago

#20yrsago @eff's cognitive radio comments to the FCC https://web.archive.org/web/20040707154407/https://www.eff.org/IP/Video/HDTV/EFF-ET03-108.pdf

#20yrsago RIAA: Control your P2P kids! https://craphound.com/areyourkids.txt

#20yrsago Command-line pizza-orderator https://web.archive.org/web/20040508090713/http://www.beigerecords.com/cory/pizza_party/

#15yrsago London cops catch and search a potential terrorist every three minutes https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/8034315.stm

#15yrsago EU kills “3-strikes” Internet rule, affirms Internet is a fundamental right https://www.laquadrature.net/en/2009/05/06/amendment-138-46-adopted-again/

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18+ pluralistic, 17 days ago

#15yrsago EFF sues Obama administration for promised access to secret copyright treaty documents https://www.eff.org/press/archives/2009/05/06

#15yrsago Homemade Hollywood: book about fan-films and the obsessives who make them https://memex.craphound.com/2009/05/06/homemade-hollywood-book-about-fan-films-and-the-obsessives-who-make-them/

#10yrsago Comic strip etched into a human hair https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urxflpkY8n8

#10yrsago Review: This One Summer https://memex.craphound.com/2014/05/06/review-this-one-summer/

#5yrsago Evil Clippy: a tool for making undetectable malicious Microsoft Office docs https://www.outflank.nl/blog/2019/05/05/evil-clippy-ms-office-maldoc-assistant/

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18+ pluralistic, 17 days ago

#5yrsago Big Tech lobbyists and “open for business” Tories killed Ontario’s Right-to-Repair legislation https://www.vice.com/en/article/9kxayy/right-to-repair-bill-killed-after-big-tech-lobbying-in-ontario

#5yrsago Twitter users answer the question: “When did you become radicalized by the U.S. health care non-system?” https://memex.craphound.com/2019/05/05/twitter-users-answer-the-question-when-did-you-become-radicalized-by-the-u-s-health-care-non-system/

#1yrago Look at all the great stuff we lost because of inflation scare-talk https://pluralistic.net/2023/05/05/wmds-two-point-oh/#or-your-lying-ears

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18+ pluralistic, 17 days ago

#1yrago @onthemedia on the enshittification (pt 1) https://pluralistic.net/2023/05/06/people-are-not-disposable/#otm

#1yrago Hollywood is the single best example of mature labor power in America https://pluralistic.net/2023/05/06/people-are-not-disposable/#union-strong

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18+ pluralistic, 17 days ago

Saturday's threads: Rosemary Kirstein's "The Steerswoman"; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112382788748630546

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18+ pluralistic, 17 days ago

My latest nationally bestselling novel is "The Bezzle," an ice-cold revenge story of high-tech finance crime starring the forensic accountant Martin Hench:

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250865878/thebezzle

Signed copies from Chevalier's Books:

https://www.chevaliersbooks.com/product-page/the-bezzle

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My latest nonfiction book is "The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation" from Verso Books:

http://seizethemeansofcomputation.org

Signed copies available from Book Soup:

https://www.booksoup.com/book/9781804291245

Both are national bestsellers!

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18+ pluralistic, 17 days ago

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."

https://craphound.com/shop/

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18+ pluralistic, 17 days ago

Upcoming appearances:

• Tartu Prima Vista Literary Fest, May 8-10
  https://tartu2024.ee/en/kirjandusfestival/

• “Enshittification” and AI, with @timoreilly (virtual), May 14
  https://www.oreilly.com/live-events/tim-oreilly-and-cory-doctorow-on-enshittification-and-the

• "Finding the Money" screening (LA), May 15
  https://www.laemmle.com/film/finding-money?date=2024-05-15

• Authorship in an Age of Monopoly and Moral Panics (SF), May 17
  https://www.authorsalliance.org/2024/03/15/authors-alliance-10th-anniversary-event-authorship-in-an-age-of-monopoly-and-moral-panics/

• Media Ecology Association keynote (Amherst, NY), Jun 6-9
  https://media-ecology.org/convention

• HOPE XV, Jul 14 (Queens, NY)
  https://www.hope.net/talks.html

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18+ pluralistic, 17 days ago

Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

• American Association of Law Libraries keynote (Chicago), Jul 21
  https://www.aallnet.org/conference/agenda/keynote-speaker/

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18+ pluralistic, 17 days ago

Recent appearances:

• Come sfuggire al “Merdocene” e costruire un Internet migliore (Torino Biennale Tecnologia)
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5NC2EZCYBg

• Show Me The Money Club (The Rideshare Guy)
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCETi3XqSds

• NUOVO BARETTO UTOPIA
  https://videoteca.kenobit.it/w/azRmQBCenVwjSRz9WCp8JS

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18+ pluralistic, 17 days ago

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18+ pluralistic, 17 days ago

I'm in Tartu, Estonia!

May 8, 6PM: Prima Vista Literary Festival keynote, "Overcoming the Enshittocene,"
University of Tartu Library (Struwe 1)

May 10, 8AM: Science Fiction Research Association talk, "AI, copyright and creative workers’ labor rights"
Institute of Foreign Languages and Cultures building (Lossi 3, lobby)

May 10, 3PM: A talk for hackers on seizing the means of computation
(University of Tartu Delta Centre, Narva 18, room 1037)

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