Cory DoctorowToday's threads (a thread)
Inside: "Efficiency" left the Big Three vulnerable to smart UAW tactics; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/21/eight-and-skate/
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Tomorrow (September 22), I'm (virtually) presenting at the #DIGFestival in #Modena, Italy
https://dig-awards.org/en/dig-festival-2023-first-speakers-announced/
Tomorrow night, I'll be in person at #LA's #BookSoup for the launch of #JustinCKey's "The World Wasn’t Ready for You"
https://www.booksoup.com/event/justin-c-key
On 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*:
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DIG Festival 2023, first speakers and title announced
From September 21 to 24 2023 Modena will once again become the international centre of investigative journalism, hosting talks, meetings, exhibitions, concerts, theatre performances and workshops. During the 4-days conference, DIG will bring nearly 100 events and speakers to the Italian city: among them Florence Aubenas, Cory Doctorow, Nicola Gratteri, Erik Gandini, Ana Juan, Daniela Pes and many more. The full speakers’ list will be revealed at the beginning of September.
"Efficiency" left the Big Three vulnerable to smart UAW tactics: A system without slack is easily disrupted.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/111103654198591060
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Cory Doctorow (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image It's been 143 days since the #WGA went on strike against the #Hollywood studios. While early tactical leaks from the studios had studio execs chortling and twirling their mustaches about writers caving once they started losing their homes, the strikers aren't wavering - they're still out there, pounding the picket lines, every weekday: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/09/how-hollywood-writers-make-ends-meet-100-days-into-the-writers-guild-strike.html 1/
Hey look at this
* How One #RobberBaron's Gamble on Railroads Brought Down His Bank and Plunged the U.S. Into the First Great Depression https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/robber-baron-gamble-railroads-brought-down-bank-plunged-us-into-first-great-depression-panic-1873-180982877/ (h/t @nancyproctor)
* #Crypto scam social science thoughts: The role of the elite news media and academia https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2023/09/13/crypto-scam-social-science-thoughts-the-role-of-the-elite-news-media-and-academia/
* Turning Pages: The Adventures and Misadventures of a #Publisher https://www.skyhorsepublishing.com/9781956763850/turning-pages/
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#20yrsago #DeweyDecimal bullies go after theme hotel https://web.archive.org/web/20030901000000*/http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/ny-bc-ny--deweydecimaldefen0920sep20,0,3455241.story?coll=ny-ap-regional-wire</a.
#15yrsago #Publishing’s crises (incompletely) explained https://nymag.com/news/media/50279/
#10yrsago #DragonCon cosplayers who dressed up as Marriott carpet get a cease-and-desist for their fabric offering https://www.dailydot.com/parsec/fandom/marriott-hotel-carpet-cosplay-legal-action/
#5yrsago Search the databases of Trump political appointees’ resumes and discover their undisclosed #ConflictsOfInterest https://projects.propublica.org/trump-town/staffers/category/resumes
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#5yrsago Research shows that #PatentExaminers are more likely to grant patents to companies they later work for https://www.nber.org/papers/w24638
#5yrsago Backyard Blockbusters: a documentary about the amazing genre of #fanfilms https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JRxw-Ww4rA
#5yrsago #PuertoRico didn’t suffer a “natural disaster”: it was looted and starved long before the hurricanes https://theintercept.com/2018/09/21/puerto-rico-hurricane-maria-disaster-capitalism/
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From Revolving Doors to Regulatory Capture? Evidence from Patent Examiners
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.
#5yrsago Apple’s fine-print reveals a secret program to spy on #Iphone users and generate “#TrustScores” https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/apple-trust-score-iphone-data-black-mirror-email-phone-fraud-a8546051.html
#5yrsago #Ticketmaster stung by undercover journalists, who reveal that the company deliberately enables ticket touts and rips off artists https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/ticketmaster-resellers-las-vegas-1.4828535
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Yesterday's threads: Kashmir Hill's "Your Face Belongs to Us"; and more!
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/111097805342134801
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Cory Doctorow (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image Today's threads (a thread) Inside: Kashmir Hill's "Your Face Belongs to Us"; and more! Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/20/steal-your-face/ #Pluralistic 1/
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):
and Forbidden Planet (UK):
https://forbiddenplanet.com/385004-red-team-blues-signed-edition-hardcover/
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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."
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Upcoming appearances:
* DIG Festival (#Modena, Italy), Sept 22
https://dig-awards.org/en/dig-festival-2023-first-speakers-announced/
* Launch for #JustinCKey's "The World Wasn’t Ready for You," #BookSoup (#LA), Sept 22
https://www.booksoup.com/event/justin-c-key
* 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
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DIG Festival 2023, first speakers and title announced
From September 21 to 24 2023 Modena will once again become the international centre of investigative journalism, hosting talks, meetings, exhibitions, concerts, theatre performances and workshops. During the 4-days conference, DIG will bring nearly 100 events and speakers to the Italian city: among them Florence Aubenas, Cory Doctorow, Nicola Gratteri, Erik Gandini, Ana Juan, Daniela Pes and many more. The full speakers’ list will be revealed at the beginning of September.
Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* #TheInternetCon at #MoonPalaceBooks (#Minneapolis), Oct 15
https://moonpalacebooks.com/events/30127
* 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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Recent appearances:
* The #JimRutt Show
https://www.jimruttshow.com/cory-doctorow-2/
* How to Take Back the Internet (Wired Have a Nice Future)
https://www.wired.com/story/have-a-nice-future-podcast-21/
* Sci-fi and Amazon's empire (The Workers' Speculative Society)
https://soundcloud.com/reimaginevalue/doctorow
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AtomicBioPunk (He/Him)@pluralistic fun history of that Marriot Carpet pattern and the events that led to the cease and desist. https://youtu.be/D7cez0nl4TY?si=_CuhCC772DaxLq_C
