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Inside: Tech a la carte; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2022/11/08/divisibility/

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Pluralistic: 08 Nov 2022 Tech a la carte – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

Hey DC! There's gonna be a *very special* invite-only book party for "Chokepoint Capitalism" on Nov 17; it's going to be a gathering of a lot of DC trustbuster types and while it's not *technically* a public event, there are a limited number of free spaces that the organizers have asked me to distribute on a first come/first serve basis. If you'd like to come and you're free on the night of the 17th, please let me know (reply to this email) and I'll get you an invite!

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Lighthouse | Chokepoint Capitalism: Cory Doctorow & Rebecca Giblin

Tech a la carte: A new antitrinitarian technognosticism.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/109307401849816275

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Cory Doctorow's linkblog (@[email protected])

Likewise Facebook. A lot of us have forgotten this, but until 2008, Facebook billed itself as the privacy-friendly alternative to MySpace and promised it would never spy on its users, as is beautifully documented in Dina Srinivasan's must-read "The Antitrust Case Against Facebook": https://lawcat.berkeley.edu/record/1128876?ln=en Today, Facebook would like us to think that there is no way to talk to your friends without also letting Mark Zuckerberg peel you open from asshole to appetite. 21/

La Quadrature du Net - Mastodon - Media Fédéré

Hey look at this

* How America turned against the First Amendment https://www.theverge.com/23435358/first-amendment-free-speech-midterm-elections-courts-hypocrisy

* Hey Elon: Let Me Help You Speed Run The Content Moderation Learning Curve https://www.techdirt.com/2022/11/02/hey-elon-let-me-help-you-speed-run-the-content-moderation-learning-curve/

* The Trust Thermocline https://twitter.com/garius/status/1588115310124539904 (h/t Schneier)

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How America turned against the First Amendment

Free speech in America is endangered by bad-faith court cases, Section 230-based workarounds to the First Amendment, and a misguided backlash against Big Tech.

The Verge
Tim Wu, Freedom Fighter

His wireless-phone manifesto was the inspiration for Google's new mobile-software strategy, which includes the Open Handset Alliance.

Businessweek.com

#10yrsago Philip Pullman’s Grimm’s Fairytales https://memex.craphound.com/2012/11/08/philip-pullmans-grimms-fairytales/

#5yrsago Facebook’s “shadow profiles”: the involuntary dossiers of information you never provided, and can’t opt out of https://gizmodo.com/how-facebook-figures-out-everyone-youve-ever-met-1819822691

#5yrsago GOP tax plan punishes people who work, rewards passive income https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/who-wins-biggest-in-the-gop-tax-plan-the-lazy-rich/2017/11/06/0d010482-c337-11e7-84bc-5e285c7f4512_story.html

#5yrsago After a show of solidarity from America’s critics, Disney caves on blacklisting the LA Times from movie screenings https://www.techdirt.com/2017/11/07/disney-bans-la-times-writers-advance-screenings-response-to-negative-articles/

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Philip Pullman’s Grimm’s Fairytales – Cory Doctorow's MEMEX

#1yrago Right-Clicker-Mentality: Bezzlers coin a phrase to describe the anti-bezzle https://pluralistic.net/2021/11/08/tina-v-tapas/#spoilsports-r-us

#1yrago Charlie Jane Anders' Victories Greater Than Death: YA space opera that is thoroughly modern and crackling with adventure https://pluralistic.net/2021/11/08/tina-v-tapas/#the-chosen-ones

#1yrago Imagining the end of capitalism: TINA, TAPAS, and Ministry for the Future https://pluralistic.net/2021/11/08/tina-v-tapas/#its-pronounced-tape-ass

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Pluralistic: 08 Nov 2021 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

Yesterday's threads: The good news is that Penguin Random House can't buy all the other publishers; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/109302180419079409

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Cory Doctorow's linkblog (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image Today's threads (a thread) Inside: The good news is that Penguin Random House can't buy all the other publishers; and more! Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2022/11/07/random-penguins/ #Pluralistic 1/

La Quadrature du Net - Mastodon - Media Fédéré

My latest book is Chokepoint Capitalism (with Rebecca Giblin), nonfiction about monopoly and fairness in creative labor markets.

https://chokepointcapitalism.com

Signed copies available from Book Soup:

https://www.booksoup.com/book/9780807007068

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My latest novel is Attack Surface, a sequel to my bestselling Little Brother books, now in paperback, wherever books are sold.

Signed copies at Dark Delicacies:

https://www.darkdel.com/store/p1840/Cory_Doctorow_-__Attack_Surface_HB_%26_TPB.html#/

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Attack Surface HB & TPB

Signed by Cory Doctorow

Dark Delicacies

My ebooks and audiobooks (from Tor Books, Head of Zeus, McSweeneys, Beacon 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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Shop | Cory Doctorow's craphound.com

Lighthouse | Chokepoint Capitalism: Cory Doctorow & Rebecca Giblin

Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* Chokepoint Capitalism at the Peale Museum (Baltimore), Nov 18:
https://www.thepeale.org/event/book-talk-chokepoint-capitalism/

* Big Ideas Live (London), Nov 19
https://news.sky.com/bigideaslive

* Conversation with Tim Wu, Informed/Knight Foundation (Miami), Nov 30:
https://informed22.interkinnect.com/

* Australian Digital Alliance Copyright Forum (Canberra), Feb 17:
https://digital.org.au/2022/11/08/doctorow-giblin-first-speaker-announcement-ada-forum-2023/

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If you're a Medium subscriber, you can read these essays - as well as previews of upcoming magazine columns and early exclusives on doctorow.medium.com.

My latest Medium column is "The End of the Road to Serfdom"

https://doctorow.medium.com/the-end-of-the-road-to-serfdom-bfad6f3b35a9

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The End of the Road to Serfdom - Cory Doctorow - Medium

For most of the modern era, most people in the rich world have been poor, just like their parents and their children. Social mobility was more dream than reality. Most people were born to serve, as…

Medium

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Cory, doing 1/15 .. 15/15 here is not like twitter where it is easy to swallow, climb over, whatever. You just flooded the Home page of your followers, or at least this follower. The effect is a lot like being spammed. I don't think you wanted that.
@pluralistic Fantastic read. Sharing far and wide.