Cory DoctorowToday's threads (a thread)
Inside: Alissa Quart's 'Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream'; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/10/declaration-of-interdependence/
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There's only one week left in the #Kickstarter campaign for for the #audiobook of my next novel, a post-#cyberpunk anti-finance finance thriller about #SiliconValley scams called *Red Team Blues*. #Amazon's #Audible refuses to carry my audiobooks because they're #DRM free, but crowdfunding makes them possible:
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Alissa Quart's 'Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream' - Divided we fall.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/110176297497625857
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Cory Doctorow's linkblog (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image #Steinbeck never said that Americans see themselves as #TemporarilyEmbarrassedMillionaires, but that misquotation is so pervasive because it captures something vital about one version of the #AmericanDream, the idea that anyone can make it in America by pulling themselves up by their bootstraps, which means that if you *haven't* made it, it's because of some defect within you, and not because of a rigged system: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Steinbeck#Disputed /1
Hey look at this
* Tribute to Mark Dimunation, Chief of Rare Books, Library of Congress https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/celebratedimunation/tribute-to-mark-dimunation-chief-of-rare-books-lc
* A Raw Deal for US Consumers https://advocacy.consumerreports.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/A-Raw-Deal-for-US-Consumers_March-2023.pdf
* Want to be able to fix your own smart devices? Guelph group says now's the time to speak up https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/right-to-repair-bill-canada-guelph-tool-library-bryan-may-1.6109922 (h/t Craig Beattie)
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#20yrsago WiFUD: “security experts” report on the dangers of WiFi https://memex.craphound.com/2003/04/10/wifud-security-experts-report-on-the-dangers-of-wifi/
#20yrsago 100,000 downloads of Down and Out in the first 91 days https://memex.craphound.com/2003/04/10/100000-downloads-of-down-and-out-in-the-first-91-days/
#20yrsago Matzoh granola: supposedly pretty good https://web.archive.org/web/20030409222751/http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/099/food/In_granola_Matzo_rises_to_the_occasion+.shtml
#20yrsago President of MTU’s open letter to #RIAA <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20030421142309/http://www.admin.mtu.edu/urel/news/media_relations/95/
#15yrsago @eff fights for the rights of #3DModellers against bogus trademark claims https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/04/liberate-b-24-liberator
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#15yrsago Florida sells unlimited water-pumping rights in drought-stricken State Park to #Nestle for $230 https://web.archive.org/web/20080411055347/https://www.tampabay.com/news/environment/water/article418793.ece
#15yrsago #Walmart corporate archivist selling access to recordings of exec meetings to plaintiff-side lawyers https://web.archive.org/web/20080410155138/http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24033191/
#15yrsago Satellite to be junked because lunar flyby is patented https://www.space-travel.com/reports/Boeing_Patent_Shuts_Down_AMC_14_Lunar_Flyby_Salvage_Attempt_999.html
#15yrsago French Parliament Say Non to Sarkozy-style “#ThreeStrikes” Internet rule https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/04/european-parliament-sarkozy-no-three-strikes-here
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#5yrsago FTC orders manufacturers to cut it out with the unenforceable “#WarrantyVoidIfRemoved” stickers https://www.vice.com/en/article/ne9qdq/warranty-void-if-removed-stickers-illegal-ftc
#5yrsago #Facebook quietly admits they let #CambridgeAnalytica read your private messages https://www.wired.com/story/cambridge-analytica-private-facebook-messages/
#5yrsago The other class war: technocrats vs plutocrats https://theintercept.com/2018/04/10/kevin-williamson-atlantic-ideological-diversity/
#5yrsago Public goods are REALLY good: thousands of years later, the #RomanRoads are still paying dividends https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/roman-roads-and-sources-persistence-and-non-persistence-development
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#5yrsago NY judge admits to repeatedly breaking into young woman’s home to steal her dirty underwear https://abc7.com/judge-arrested-suffolk-county-burglary-east-islip/3284062/
#5yrsago Cambridge Analytica campaigned for Republicans across America in '14 https://www.governing.com/archive/gov-colorado-cambridge-analytica-states.html
#5yrsago Modern #NDAs are unbelievably dirty and the same handful of sleazy lawyers is behind most of them https://www.governing.com/archive/gov-nda-states-trump-confidential-settlement-employee-cities.html
#5yrsago Reverse-engineering #Whatsapp, to let us talk to our friends without Facebook’s oversight https://memex.craphound.com/2018/04/10/reverse-engineering-whatsapp-to-let-us-talk-to-our-friends-without-facebooks-oversight/
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#5yrsago Peter & Ernesto: A Tale of Two Sloths https://memex.craphound.com/2018/04/10/peter-ernesto-a-tale-of-two-sloths/
#5yrsago You can unscramble the hashes of humanity’s 5 billion email addresses in ten milliseconds for $0.0069 https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2018/04/09/four-cents-to-deanonymize-companies-reverse-hashed-email-addresses/
#5yrsago #TrumpHotel employee guide: no swearing, no sexually suggestive gestures, and DO NOT hire your family! https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-hotel-to-employees-dont-hire-relatives
#5yrsago The Congressjerks who will grill Zuckerberg this week are a rogue’s gallery of FB donation recipients https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/04/04/facebook-gave-most-contributions-house-committee-question-zuckerberg-also-got-most-contributions-fac/486313002/
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#5yrsago #DHS dismisses critics of its plan to assemble a hostility-sorted list of journalists and commentators as “conspiracy theorists” https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/04/dhs-defends-media-monitoring-database-calls-critics-conspiracy-theorists/
#5yrsago Credit bubble a-burstin’: wave of bankruptcies sweeps #SubprimeCarLenders https://wolfstreet.com/2018/04/08/subprime-carmageddon-specialized-lenders-begin-to-collapse/
#1yrago #JohnMFord’s “Aspects”: An unfinished masterpiece by a legend of science fiction and fantasy https://pluralistic.net/2022/04/09/john-m-ford/#aspects
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Saturday's threads: Everything advertised on social media is overpriced junk; and more!
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/110164087681034845
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Cory Doctorow's linkblog (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image Today's threads (a Twitter thread). Inside: Everything advertised on social media is overpriced junk; and more! Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/08/late-stage-sea-monkeys/ #Pluralistic 1/
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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a book about why creative labor markets are rigged - and how to unrig them Competition is supposed to be fundamental to capitalism. Over the last four decades though, greedy robber barons have worked out how to lock in customers and suppliers, eliminate competitors, and shake down everyone for more than their fair share. This…
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."
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Upcoming appearances:
* Antitrust and Competition Conference - Beyond the Consumer Welfare Standard (#Chicago), Apr 20-21
https://www.chicagobooth.edu/research/stigler/events/2023-antitrust
* Red Team Blues at Mysterious Galaxy (#SanDiego), Apr 25
https://www.mystgalaxy.com/event/42523Doctorow
* Red Team Blues at Dark Delicacies (#Burbank), Apr 26
https://www.darkdel.com/store/p2873/Wed%2C_Apr_26th_6pm%3A_Red_Team_Blues%3A_A_Martin_Hench_Novel_HB.html#
* Red Team Blues at SFPL with @annaleen (#SanFrancisco), Apr 30
https://sfpl.org/events/2023/04/30/author-cory-doctorow-red-team-blues
* Bay Area Bookfest (#Berkeley), May 6/7
https://www.baybookfest.org/session/cory-doctorow/
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* #OSSummit (#Vancouver), May 10
https://events.linuxfoundation.org/open-source-summit-north-america/
* Massy Books Red Team Blues event with Sean Cranbury (#Vancouver), May 10
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/red-team-blues-cory-doctorow-in-conversation-with-sean-cranbury-tickets-608877016547
* Wordfest (#Calgary), May 11
https://wordfest.com/2023/event/wordfest-presents-cory-doctorow/
* Red Team Blues event with @TimHarford (#Oxford), May 29
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cory-doctorow-red-team-blues-with-tim-harford-tickets-574673793787
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* #Gaithersburg Book Festival, May 20
https://www.gaithersburgbookfestival.org/featured_author/cory-doctorow/
* Red Team Blues event with @cubicgarden (#Manchester), May 31
https://www.waterstones.com/events/in-conversation-with-cory-doctorow/manchester-deansgate
* UCL Peter Kirstein Lecture, Jun 1 (#London):
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/peter-kirstein-lecture-2023-featuring-cory-doctorow-registration-539205788027
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Recent appearances:
* The "Enshittification" of Online Life
https://shows.acast.com/6204030b1850700013ff991b/episodes/the-enshittification-of-online-life-aryeh-cohen-wade-cory-do
* Mindplex Podcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_eBS8Nqts4
* @HackerRadioShow (@2600)
https://2600.com/offthehook/2023/0423.html
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The "Enshittification" of Online Life (Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Cory Doctorow) | Culturally Determined
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Coeur66 
@pluralistic 33 secs after i post a screenshot of me reading it. quite the artisté cory.