Cory DoctorowToday's threads (a thread)
Inside: For 40 years, Big Meat has openly colluded to rig prices; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/04/dont-let-your-meat-loaf/
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My next novel is #TheLostCause, a hopeful tale of the climate emergency. As with all my audiobooks, Amazon refuses to sell this one, so I made my own indie audiobook and I'm pre-selling it right now through #Kickstarter:
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On October 7-8, I'm in #Milan to keynote Wired Nextfest/#WNF23:
https://eventi.wired.it/nextfest23-milano
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For 40 years, Big Meat has openly colluded to rig prices: A long-overdue antitrust beatdown for Agri Stats.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/111177437601115344
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Cory Doctorow (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image Noted #socialist agitator #AdamSmith once wrote, "People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the publick, or in some contrivance to raise prices." -- 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/2023/10/04/dont-let-your-meat-loaf/#meaty-beaty-big-and-bouncy 1/
Hey look at this
* Thank You, A24, for Remastering This Timeless Concert Movie https://www.themarysue.com/stop-making-sense-review-a24-concert-film-talking-heads/
* Review: #Framework Laptop finally gets an #AMD #Ryzen config—and it’s pretty good https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/10/review-framework-laptop-finally-gets-an-amd-ryzen-config-and-its-pretty-good/
* The Great #Zelle Pool Scam https://www.businessinsider.com/zelle-fraud-scam-swimming-pool-online-payment-apps-mobile-banking-2023-10 (h/t #TodayInTabs)
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#10yrsago #DRM standards, the harmonica version https://fleasnobbery.blogspot.com/2013/10/harmonica.html
#10yrsago #Firefox bug: “Pledge never to implement HTML5 DRM” https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=923590
#10yrsago London School of Economics: #piracy isn’t killing big content; government needs to be skeptical of entertainment industry claims https://torrentfreak.com/piracy-isnt-hurting-the-entertainment-industry-121003/
#5yrsago New Macbooks and Imacs will brick themselves if they think they’re being repaired by an independent technician https://www.vice.com/en/article/yw9qk7/macbook-pro-software-locks-prevent-independent-repair
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#5yrsago Advisor quits Google Toronto’s “#SmartCity” project over privacy concerns https://www.vice.com/en/article/3km74w/google-smart-city-in-toronto-advisor-resigns-data-privacy
#5yrsago Tomorrow: come to our University of Chicago seminar on #Renaissance #censorship and #InternetCensorship https://voices.uchicago.edu/censorship/dialogueseries/
#5yrsago America’s cities sue #FCC for handing billions in municipal subsidy to wireless carriers https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/10/cities-will-sue-fcc-to-stop-2-billion-giveaway-to-wireless-carriers/
#5yrsago The first #ScienceFiction con was held in 1891 at the Royal Albert Hall https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAMAqa4bojM
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#5yrsago America’s super-concentrated telcoms industry unites to sue California over #NetNeutrality https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/10/entire-broadband-industry-sues-california-to-stop-net-neutrality-law/
#5yrsago Iowa gun distributor sends free AR-15s to North Dakota schools https://web.archive.org/web/20180929070419/https://www.myndnow.com/news/bismarck-news/iowa-company-donates-ar-15s-to-be-placed-in-bismarck-schools/1483510406
#5yrsago #Ikea locked workers in a room and forced them to watch “scaremongering” #AntiUnion powerpoints https://www.businessinsider.com/ikea-accused-of-anti-union-tactics-2018-10
#5yrsago Report: Chinese spies snuck tiny backdoor chips onto US corporate, gov and military servers https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-10-04/the-big-hack-how-china-used-a-tiny-chip-to-infiltrate-america-s-top-companies?srnd=businessweek-v2#xj4y7vzkg
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Yesterday's threads: Google's enshittification memos; and more!
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/111171702580250128
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Cory Doctorow (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image Today's threads (a thread). Inside: Google's enshittification memos; and more! Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/03/not-feeling-lucky/ #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:
* Wired Nextfest/#WNF23 (#Milano), Oct 7-8
https://eventi.wired.it/nextfest23-milano
* #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/
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Wired Next Fest Milano - 7 e 8 ottobre, Castello Sforzesco
Se l’Italia è un luogo dell’innovazione, Milano ne è la capitale. L’edizione 2023 del Wired Next Fest vuole celebrare il rapporto tra i territori e l’innovazione, raccontare cioè la capacità del nostro paese di coniugare creatività e cultura, cambiamento e tradizione. Una dialettica che Milano sa incarnare come poche altre realtà nel nostro paese. Dibattiti e interviste ai protagonisti del mondo scientifico, culturale, politico, economico italiano, laboratori e momenti musicali: il 7 e 8 ottobre il Wired Next Fest arriva, per la prima volta, al Castello Sforzesco di Milano. Ti aspettiamo per costruire insieme il futuro.
Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* Seizing the Means of Computation (Edinburgh Futures Institute), Oct 25
https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/seizing-the-means-of-computation-with-cory-doctorow/
* The Internet Con at the @internetarchive (virtual), Oct 31
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/book-talk-the-internet-con-tickets-730939137637
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Recent appearances:
* DIY isn't enough: systematic change (#FarmToTaber)
https://shows.acast.com/farm-to-taber/episodes/diy-isnt-enough-systematic-change-with-cory-doctorow
* Seize the Means of Computation (#MovementMemos)
https://open.spotify.com/episode/3OXPCnbiZHdIxUf8UTFnnu
* How to Seize the Means of Computation (#rHatchery)
https://www.podpage.com/rhatcherylive/how-to-seize-the-means-of-computation/
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Lilian Edwards@pluralistic @internetarchive Edinburgh in person??
@lilianedwards @internetarchive nope, remote