pluralistic, 8 months ago

Tonight (September 25), I'm livestreaming at 17hPT/20hET with #BenBurgis on Give 'Em An Argument:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhTphllBUEM

This Wednesday (September 27), I'll be at Chevalier's Books in #LosAngeles with #BrianMerchant for a joint launch for my new book The Internet Con and his new book, Blood in the Machine:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-internet-con-by-cory-doctorow-blood-in-the-machine-by-brian-merchant-tickets-696349940417

On October 2, I'll be in #Boise to host an event with #VESchwab:

https://www.thecabinidaho.org/all-events/ve-schwab

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pluralistic, 8 months ago

Podcasting "How To Think About Scraping": How to preserve the benefits of web-scraping while targeting the real harms.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/111127179172161718

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pluralistic, 8 months ago

Hey look at this

• Dumping 2 Million Tires In The Ocean To "Help" Fish https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boB2AVbUwkQ (h/t Salim Fadhley)

• #WritersStrike Ends: #WGA, AMPTP Agree to Deal After 146-Day Strike https://variety.com/2023/biz/news/writers-strike-ends-wga-amptp-deal-2-1235733452/

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pluralistic, 8 months ago

#20yrsago Epic #micropayments rant https://web.archive.org/web/20031002104152/http://slumbering.lungfish.com/index.php?p=chargingpeople.1064271013

#20yrsago #MichaelMoore’s comprehensive response to criticisms of #BowlingForColumbine https://web.archive.org/web/20050205011453/http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/wackoattacko/

#20yrsago #WKRPInCincinnati redacted to save on license fees https://web.archive.org/web/20031001172254/http://members.allstream.net/~jacjud/wkrpmusic.html

#15yrsago #Rockbox 3.0: revive old #iPod with free/open software https://ostatic.com/blog/rockbox-3-0-released-quietly

#15yrsago Judge says that “attempted #CopyrightInfringement” is bogus https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/09/capitol-v-thomas-judge-orders-new-trial-implores-c

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pluralistic, 8 months ago

#15yrsago HOWTO Make a giant spherical metalamp out of dozens of cheap #Ikea lamps https://www.instructables.com/Big-lamps-from-Ikea-lampan-lamps./

#15yrsago China’s #IPAddress shortage, two perspectives https://www.chinatechnews.com/2008/09/23/7595-cnnic-chinas-internet-will-be-short-of-ip-addresses-soon

#15yrsago World’s largest #wargaming table art installation https://web.archive.org/web/20080927032126/http://www.ethanham.com/blog/2008/09/worlds-largest-wargaming-table.html

#10yrsago More details, new video showing Iphone #fingerprint reader pwned by Chaos Computer Club https://www.heise.de/ratgeber/Der-iPhone-Fingerabdruck-Hack-1965783.html

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pluralistic, 8 months ago

#10yrsago Not Your Ordinary Wolf Girl: fast #YANovel with wonderful characters https://memex.craphound.com/2013/09/24/not-your-ordinary-wolf-girl-fast-ya-novel-with-wonderful-characters/

#10yrsago #GodspeedYouBlackEmperor condemns music contest they won, vows to use money to buy instruments for prisoners https://web.archive.org/web/20130925144621/http://cstrecords.com/statement-from-godspeed-you-black-emperor-on-polaris/

#10yrsago Love Song for Internet #Trolls https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjmBQZNG8L0

#10yrsago Adding some evidence to copyright’s “evidence-free zone” https://archives.cjr.org/cloud_control/empirical_ip.php?page=all

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pluralistic, 8 months ago

#10yrsago Beijing’s “mystery rooms”: single-room funhouses https://kotaku.com/escape-from-chinas-mystery-rooms-1369688560

#10yrsago #Easyjet tells law professor he can’t fly because he tweeted critical remarks about airline https://www.thedrum.com/news/2013/09/25/easyjet-under-fire-after-claims-it-refused-let-drum-columnist-mark-leiser-board

#10yrsago The Coldest Girl in Coldtown: dangerous, bloody #vampire YA novel https://memex.craphound.com/2013/09/25/the-coldest-girl-in-coldtown-dangerous-bloody-vampire-ya-novel/

#5yrsago #BigTech is building a $80B capex wall around its empire https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-24/tech-companies-spend-80-billion-building-a-competitive-edge

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pluralistic, 8 months ago

#5yrsago A #CRISPR-based hack could eradicate #malaria-carrying #mosquitoes https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2018/09/24/650501045/mosquitoes-genetically-modified-to-crash-species-that-spreads-malaria

#5yrsago There’s a literal elephant in #MachineLearning’s room https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.03305

#5yrsago To fix Canadian copyright, let creators claim their rights back after 25 years https://theconversation.com/everything-he-does-he-does-it-for-us-why-bryan-adams-is-on-to-something-important-about-copyright-103674

#5yrsago The world’s richest families got MUCH richer, thanks to the stock market https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-24/ultra-rich-families-ride-surging-stocks-to-double-annual-returns

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pluralistic, 8 months ago

#5yrsago DNA #AncestryTests are bullshit https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/9912822/DNA-ancestry-tests-branded-meaningless.html

#5yrsago Incredibly sensible notes on software engineering, applicable to the wider world https://medium.com/s/story/notes-to-myself-on-software-engineering-c890f16f4e4d

#5yrsago #HankGreen’s “An Absolutely Remarkable Thing”: aliens vs social media fame vs #polarization https://memex.craphound.com/2018/09/25/hank-greens-an-absolutely-remarkable-thing-aliens-vs-social-media-fame-vs-polarization/

#5yrsago Jewelry in the shape of #gerrymandered US congressional districts https://web.archive.org/web/20191005193414/https://gerrymanderjewelry.com/

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pluralistic, 8 months ago

#5yrsago Facebook reminds America’s cops that they’re not allowed to use fake accounts https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/09/facebook-warns-memphis-police-no-more-fake-bob-smith-accounts

#5yrsago Record numbers of people have downloaded and used the Democrats’ mobile app for doorknocking canvassers https://www.wired.com/story/2018-midterms-democrats-mobile-canvassing-records/

#5yrsago Canada’s #LegalWeed stock-bubble is a re-run of the dotcom bubble https://www.wsj.com/articles/wall-streets-marijuana-madness-its-like-the-internet-in-1997-1537718400

#1yrago Billionaire grifters hate her: Cometh the Hour, Cometh the Ida M Tarbell https://pluralistic.net/2022/09/24/shithole-billionaires/#tarbells-everywhere

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pluralistic, 8 months ago

#1yrago #McKinsey and #Providence colluded to force poor patients into destitution https://pluralistic.net/2022/09/25/criminal-conspiracy/#payment-is-expected

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pluralistic, 8 months ago

Saturday's threads: Down in the (link)dumps; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/111115529686088169

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pluralistic, 8 months ago

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

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My latest novel is Red Team Blues, available wherever books are sold!

Signed copies at Dark Delicacies (US):

https://www.darkdel.com/store/p2873/Wed%2C_Apr_26th_6pm%3A_Red_Team_Blues%3A_A_Martin_Hench_Novel_HB.html#/

and Forbidden Planet (UK):

https://forbiddenplanet.com/385004-red-team-blues-signed-edition-hardcover/

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pluralistic, 8 months 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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pluralistic, 8 months ago

Upcoming appearances:

• Launch for "#TheInternetCon" and @brianmerchant's "#BloodInTheMachine," Chevalier's Books (#LA), Sept 27
  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-internet-con-by-cory-doctorow-blood-in-the-machine-by-brian-merchant-tickets-696349940417

• An Evening with #VESchwab (#Boise), Oct 2
  https://www.thecabinidaho.org/all-events/ve-schwab

• Wired Nextfest/#WNF23 (#Milano), Oct 7-8
  https://eventi.wired.it/nextfest23-milano

• #TheInternetCon at #MoonPalaceBooks (#Minneapolis), Oct 15
  https://moonpalacebooks.com/events/30127

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pluralistic, 8 months ago

Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

• 26th #ACM Conference On Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing keynote (#Minneapolis), Oct 16
  https://cscw.acm.org/2023/index.php/keynotes/

• 41st annual McCreight Lecture in the Humanities (#Charleston, WV), Oct 19
  https://festivallcharleston.com/venue/university-of-charleston/

• Seizing the Means of Computation (Edinburgh Futures Institute), Oct 25
  https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/seizing-the-means-of-computation-with-cory-doctorow/

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pluralistic, 8 months ago

Recent appearances:

• Words, Images, & Worlds
  https://spotify.link/RECCqzeHkDb

• Against #Enshittification | #MediumDay 2023
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSeBelDVrgE

• The #JimRutt Show
  https://www.jimruttshow.com/cory-doctorow-2/

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pluralistic, 8 months ago

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My latest Medium column is "How To Think About Scraping: In privacy and labor fights, copyright is a clumsy tool at best"

https://doctorow.medium.com/how-to-think-about-scraping-2db6f69a7e3d

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pluralistic, 8 months ago

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