Cory DoctorowToday's threads (a thread).
Inside: American corporate criminals in the crosshairs (finally); and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2021/11/12/with-a-fountain-pen/
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American corporate criminals in the crosshairs (finally): Lisa Monaco says she's gonna enforce those bullshit deferred prosecution agreements.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/107265404832012359
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Cory Doctorow's linkblog (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image Though corporations in America routinely break the law, often with fatal consequences, it's fair to say America has no corporate criminals, because to have criminals, you need a criminal *system* that identifies criminal conduct and holds it to account. America does *not* have that. https://pluralistic.net/2021/10/12/no-criminals-no-crimes/#get-out-of-jail-free-card 1/
#20yrsago Hilary Rosen's Speech At The O'Reilly P2P Conference https://web.archive.org/web/20020208015307/http://www.finetuning.com/rosenp2p10-06-2001.html
#20yrsago Al Gore actually won the election https://web.archive.org/web/20011112155418/https://www.salon.com/politics/wire/2001/11/12/recount/index.html
#10yrsago Minimum wage hike coming to Guangdong, the world’s factory https://theworld.org/dispatch/news/regions/asia-pacific/china/111109/china-economy-manufacturing-guangdong
#10yrsago Trial of Byron Sonne, security researcher jailed for publicizing flaws in Toronto G20 security https://web.archive.org/web/20111113040125/http://toronto.openfile.ca/toronto/text/ruse-violated-byron-sonnes-rights
#10yrsago Scotland Yard arrest EDL members over alleged plot to attack Occupy London https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2011/nov/11/edl-arrests-london-occupy-armistice-day
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#10yrsago How SOPA will attack the Internet’s infrastructure and security https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/11/hollywood-new-war-on-software-freedom-and-internet-innovation
#10yrsago Silicon Valley job fair for people who want jobs in India https://www.computerworld.com/article/2498773/looking-for-work--here-s-a-job-fair-touting-tech-openings-in-india.html
#10yrsago US college grads’ salaries in steep decline https://innovationandgrowth.wordpress.com/2011/10/01/the-state-of-young-college-grads-2011/
#5yrsago The internet’s core infrastructure is dangerously unsupported and could crumble (but we can save it!) https://fordfoundcontent.blob.core.windows.net/media/2976/roads-and-bridges-the-unseen-labor-behind-our-digital-infrastructure.pdf
#5yrsago America’s had worse presidential races than this https://loweringthebar.net/2016/11/worst-presidential-race.html
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Hollywood's New War on Software Freedom and Internet Innovation
This is the third in our series (Part 1, Part 2) breaking down the potential effects of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), an outrageous and grievously misguided bill now working its way through the House of Representatives. This post discusses dangerous software censorship provisions that are new...
#5yrsago A Spotify bug thrashed subscribers’ drives for the past five months https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/11/for-five-months-spotify-has-badly-abused-users-storage-drives/
#5yrsago Dennis the Dentist: on the unkillable wrongness of nominative determinism https://timharford.com/2016/11/rich-the-banker-whats-not-in-a-name/
#1yrago Xi on interop and lock-in https://pluralistic.net/2020/11/12/thats-what-xi-said/#with-chinese-characteristics
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Wednesday's threads: Risk compensation considered harmful; and more!
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/107253390195870116
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Cory Doctorow's linkblog (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image Today's threads (a thread). Inside: Risk compensation considered harmful; and more! Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2021/11/10/elfin-safety/ #Pluralistic 1/
My latest book is Attack Surface, a sequel to my bestselling Little Brother books, now in paperback, wherever books are sold.
Signed copies at @darkdel:
https://www.darkdel.com/store/p1840/Cory_Doctorow_-__Attack_Surface_HB_%26_TPB.html#/
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My book "How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism" is a critique of Big Tech connecting conspiratorial thinking to the rise of tech monopolies (proposing a way to deal with both) is now out in paperback:
https://onezero.medium.com/how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism-8135e6744d59
Signed copies here:
https://www.darkdel.com/store/p2024/Available_Now%3A__How_to_Destroy_Surveillance_Capitalism.html
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My ebooks and audiobooks (from @torbooks, @HoZ_Books, @mcsweeneys, 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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Upcoming appearances:
* Move Fast and Fix Things (Aaron Swartz Day), Nov 13
https://twitter.com/AaronSwartzDay/status/1459149072778948609https://www.aaronswartzday.org/
* Policy, Profit, Privacy, and Privilege: The Post-Pandemic Future of Remote Testing Technology (ACM-USTPC), Nov 15
https://www.acm.org/public-policy/ustpc/hottopics/remote-testing
* Alternative recommender systems in the DSA: How to protect free expression, create competition and empower users all at once (Article 19)
https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_FrUPBi7oT-2YT-BtoJQTAg
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Recent appearances:
* Tales From the Bridge:
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1795352/9527530
* Seize the Means of Computation (Internet Archive):
https://youtu.be/pzMlOtrhEwc?t=2241
* Making Money (Desert Island Discworld)
https://www.desertislanddiscworld.com/episodes/6-1-cory-doctorow-and-making-money/
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TFTB Ep.19: A Conversation with Cory Doctorow - Tales From The Bridge: All Things Sci-Fi
On this episode of TFTB, we sit down with journalist, activist, and science fiction author Cory Doctorow. In this sprawling conversation, we cover techno-politics, good exposition, and the absurdity of watching Justin Trudeau marching with Gret...
My first picture book is out! It's called Poesy the Monster Slayer and it's an epic tale of bedtime-refusal, toy-hacking and monster-hunting, illustrated by Matt Rockefeller. It's the monster book I dreamt of reading to my own daughter.
https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/14/poesy-the-monster-slayer/#poesy
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My latest Medium column is "Bait and Switch: Capitalism’s Shell Game: From Robert Bork to John Deere"
https://medium.com/@doctorow/bait-and-switch-7f61cff85aa3
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