Cory DoctorowToday's threads (a thread)
Inside: Apple fucked us on right to repair (again); and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/22/vin-locking/
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Today (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.
Apple fucked us on right to repair (again): "Parts-pairing" is a scam.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/111109750709398665
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Cory Doctorow (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image #RightToRepair has no cannier, more dedicated adversary than #apple whose most innovative work is dreaming up new ways to sneakily sabotage repair while claiming to be a caring environmental steward, a lie that covers up the mountains of #ewaste that Apple dooms our descendants to wade through. -- 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/2023/09/22/vin-locking/#thought-differently 1/
Hey look at this
* Book giveaway for The Bezzle (#MartinHench #2) https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/371380-the-bezzle-a-martin-hench-novel
* West of House https://brokenneedle.gumroad.com/l/westofhouse (h/t Wil Wheaton)
* T-Shirts Now Available! http://www.imagineeringdisney.com/blog/2023/9/19/t-shirts-now-available.html
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#20yrsago New #VotingMachines are criminally bad https://www.salon.com/2003/09/23/bev_harris/
#15yrsago Your chance to mark up the Wall Street #bailout bill https://web.archive.org/web/20080929041702/http://publicmarkup.org/
#15yrsago HankPaulson’s bailout 419 letter https://web.archive.org/web/20080923194140/https://www.thenation.com/blogs/jstreet/363133/bailout_satire
#15yrsago Stanford and Harvard b-school profs vs. #FreeOpenSourceSoftware https://news.slashdot.org/story/08/09/22/2254228/stanford-teaching-mbas-how-to-fight-open-source
#15yrsago Sexist pigs earn more than normal men https://www.science20.com/news_releases/old_fashioned_men_make_more_money_study
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#15yrsago Corrupted Science: the history, cause, effect and state of #BadScience https://memex.craphound.com/2008/09/22/corrupted-science-the-history-cause-effect-and-state-of-bad-science/
#10yrsago #ChaosComputerClub claims it can unlock #Iphones with fake fingers/cloned fingerprints https://www.ccc.de/en/updates/2013/ccc-breaks-apple-touchid
#5yrsago Anonymous stock-market manipulators behind $20B+ of “mispricing” can be tracked by their writing styles https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3198384
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#1yrago #Twitch does a #ChokepointCapitalism: "#Amazon is charging Amazon so much money to run the business via Amazon that it has no choice but to take more money from streamers." https://pluralistic.net/2022/09/22/amazon-vs-amazon/#pray-i-dont-alter-it-further
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Yesterday's threads: "Efficiency" left the Big Three vulnerable to smart UAW tactics; and more!
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/111103725263287723
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Cory Doctorow (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image Today'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/ #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:
* 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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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:
* Against #Enshittification | #MediumDay 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSeBelDVrgE
* 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/
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Inside: Apple fucked us on right to repair (again); and more!