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Inside: The Sacklers woulda gotten away with it if it wasn't for those darned meddling feds; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/11/justice-delayed/
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Going to #Defcon this weekend? I'm giving a keynote, "An Audacious Plan to Halt the Internet's Enshittification and Throw it Into Reverse," tomorrow (Aug 12) at 12:30pm, followed by a book signing at the No Starch Press booth at 2:30pm!
https://info.defcon.org/event/?id=50826
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The Sacklers woulda gotten away with it if it wasn't for those darned meddling feds: A Supreme Court surprise might spell the end of one of the worst forms of elite impunity.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/110871809620506093
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Attached: 1 image The saga of the #Sacklers, a multigenerational billionaire crime family of mass-murdering dope-peddlers, is an enraging parable about how the wealthy, the courts, and sadistic high-powered lawyers collude to destroy the lives of millions, profit handsomely, and evade justice. -- If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog: https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/11/justice-delayed/#justice-redeemed 1/
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* MiB: @GretchenMorgenson on @PrivateEquity https://ritholtz.com/2023/06/mib-gretchen-morgenson/
* Hackers Rig Casino Card-Shuffling Machines for ‘Full Control’ Cheating https://www.wired.com/story/card-shuffler-hack/
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#15yrsago Y: The Last Man, the triumphal last volume of a fantastic graphic novel https://memex.craphound.com/2008/08/11/y-the-last-man-the-triumphal-last-volume-of-a-fantastic-graphic-novel/
#10yrsago How the #DailyMail invented Britain’s bungling-est spy-agency https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/entries/3662a707-0af9-3149-963f-47bea720b460
#1yrago A dark money group is lying about #Medicare cut https://pluralistic.net/2022/08/11/rope-a-dope/#cowards-and-lies
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Cory Doctorow's linkblog (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image Today's threads (a thread) Inside: The long bezzle; and more! Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/10/smartest-guys-in-the-room/ #Pluralistic 1/
My latest book is Red Team Blues, available wherever books are sold!
Signed copies at Dark Delicacies (US):
and Forbidden Planet (UK):
https://forbiddenplanet.com/385004-red-team-blues-signed-edition-hardcover/
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My latest nonfiction 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 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:
* #MediumDay (online), Aug 12
https://medium.com/tag/medium-day
* @defcon (#LasVegas), Aug 12
https://defcon.org/
* #BurningMan Center Camp, 1430h, Aug 29
https://playaevents.burningman.org/2023/playa_events/03/
* @eff Awards (#SanFrancisco), Sept 14
https://www.eff.org/awards/effawards/2023
* An Evening with #VESchwab (#DesMoines), Oct 2
https://www.thecabinidaho.org/all-events/ve-schwab
* 26th #ACM Conference On Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing keynote (#Minneapolis), Oct 16
https://cscw.acm.org/2023/index.php/keynotes/
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Recent appearances:
* New Books Network
https://newbooksnetwork.com/the-internet-con
* #HauntedMansion #GhostPost Panel Live From #MidsummerScream
https://dizneycoasttocoast.libsyn.com/haunted-mansion-ghost-post-panel-live-from-midsummer-scream-disney-podcast-episode-1027
* how big tech makes the internet worse (What's Gonna Happen)
https://www.stitcher.com/show/what-s-gonna-happen/episode/how-big-tech-makes-the-internet-worse-with-cory-doctorow-305645071
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My latest Medium column is "Fool Me Twice We Don't Get Fooled Again: There's a crucial difference between federatable and federated"
https://doctorow.medium.com/fool-me-twice-we-dont-get-fooled-again-20074e311f1f
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