Cory DoctorowToday's threads (a thread)
Inside: One of America's most corporate-crime-friendly bankruptcy judges forced to recuse himself; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/16/texas-two-step/
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My next novel is *The Lost Cause*, a hopeful tale of climate emergency. As with all my audiobooks, Amazon refuses to sell it, so I made my own indie audiobook and I'm pre-selling it right now through Kickstarter:
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Today (Oct 16), I'm in #Minneapolis, keynoting the #ACM Conference On Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing:
https://cscw.acm.org/2023/index.php/keynotes/
Thur (Oct 19), I'm in #Charleston, WV for the McCreight Humanities Lecture:
https://festivallcharleston.com/venue/university-of-charleston/
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One of America's most corporate-crime-friendly bankruptcy judges forced to recuse himself: Judge David Jones rigged the 'Texas Two-Step' cases his secret girlfriend argued in his court.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/111244395397096733
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Cory Doctorow (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image "I’ll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one." The now-famous quip from @[email protected] cuts to the bone of corporate personhood. Corporations are people with speech rights. They are heat-shields that absorb liability on behalf of their owners and managers. -- 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/2023/10/16/texas-two-step/#david-jones 1/
Hey look at this
* Shitposting, Shit-mining and Shit-farming https://programmablemutter.substack.com/p/shitposting-shit-mining-and-shit (h/t John Naughton)
* Quest at the Museum http://questatthemuseum.com
* Marked by Stars Agrippa’s Occult Philosophy https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/agrippa-occult-philosophy/
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#20yrsago #Enron’s email laid bare https://www.salon.com/2001/11/09/enron/
#20yrsago #IdentityThief steals sex-offender’s name https://web.archive.org/web/20031002192428/http://www.sexcriminals.com/news/15382/
#15yrsago #Librivox free audiobook library now has 365 days’ worth of continuous listening material https://librivox.org/2008/10/15/365-days-of-librivox-audio/
#15yrsago Canada elects 34 #copyfighters to Parliament https://web.archive.org/web/20081018165923/https://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/3450/125/
#15yrsago #BART directors to management: stop using terrorism “fearmongering” https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/bart-debates-allowing-drinks-on-trains-3266010.php
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#15yrsago Wedding Ring Cipher contest winners https://memex.craphound.com/2008/10/15/wedding-ring-cipher-contest-winners/
#15yrsago McCain-Palin campaign calls for respect for #FairUse https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/10/mccain-campaign-feels-dmca-sting
#15yrsago Fafblog brings us the real Obama facts https://fafblog.blogspot.com/2008/10/barack-obama-black.html
#15yrsago Scientist who did groundwork for Chemistry Nobel now works for $10/h at a Toyota dealership https://web.archive.org/web/20081014042957/http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081011/NEWS/810110328
#15yrsago #USConstitution in graphic novel form https://memex.craphound.com/2008/10/14/us-constitution-in-graphic-novel-form/
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#10yrsago #Snowden: US lets GNSA liars go; stops at nothing to bust those who tell the truth https://www.techdirt.com/2013/10/14/what-does-it-say-when-us-wont-prosecute-official-lying-to-congress-will-stop-nothing-to-persecute-someone-telling-truth/
#10yrsago South London school bans “slang” https://memex.craphound.com/2013/10/15/south-london-school-bans-slang/
#10yrsago Why email services should be court-order resistant https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2013/10/15/a-court-order-is-an-insider-attack/
#10yrsago #EFF to #ComicCon: protect our secret identities! https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/10/open-letter-comic-con-organizers-protect-our-secret-identities
#10yrsago #Homlessness and technological literacy: the #TenderloinTechnologyLab https://www.wired.com/2013/10/homeless-but-wired/
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Snowden: DOJ Won't Prosecute Official For Lying, But Will Stop At Nothing To Persecute Someone For Telling The Truth
As you hopefully have heard by now, a group of US intelligence community whistleblowers traveled to Moscow last week to present Ed Snowden with the Integrity Award from the Sam Adams Associates for…
#5yrsago #Epson is teaching the internet not to run security updates https://www.vice.com/en/article/pa98ab/printer-makers-are-crippling-cheap-ink-cartridges-via-bogus-security-updates
#5yrsago Printer refuses humor mag because “Christian owners” want to protect “the kids” https://www.patreon.com/posts/good-evening-21990238
#5yrsago #Parkland kids’ Rube Goldberg machine shows the aftermath of #SchoolShootings https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mue3N5a9NQE
#5yrsago Sensible, free guide to negotiating #BookContracts https://www.authorsalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/20181003_AuthorsAllianceGuidePublicationContracts.pdf
#5yrsago #Wannacry ransomware cost #NHS £92m ($121m) https://web.archive.org/web/20181015161904/https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3064515/wannacry-attack-cost-cash-strapped-nhs-an-estimated-gbp92m
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#5yrsago How would a “counterculture of #AI” look? https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/rethinking-ai-through-politics-of-1968/
#5yrsago @bruces on the next 50 years of #climate-wracked maker #architecture https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-p4DV80xrm8
#5yrsago China’s panicked upper middle class are easy picking for offshore #RealEstateScams https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/2167731/desperate-chinese-middle-class-take-big-risks-move-money-and-themselves
#5yrsago Blame #billionaires for #ClimateChange https://www.gq.com/story/billionaires-climate-change
#5yrsago Georgia Senator, asked about voter suppression, mugs constituent for his phone https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2018/10/14/david-perdue-snatch-phone-voter-suppression-sot-nr-vpx.cnn
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#5yrsago A dating website for Trump supporters leaked its customers’ data ON DAY ONE https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/15/donald-daters-a-dating-app-for-trump-supporters-leaked-its-users-data/
#5yrsago #CanadaPensionPlan is long on US #PrivatePrisons and immigrant detention centers https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/12/canada-pension-fund-invests-in-us-immigration-detention-firms
#5yrsago The #CongressionalProgressiveCaucus is (still) awash in corporate money https://theintercept.com/2018/10/14/congressional-progressive-caucus-corporate-pac-money/
#5yrsago Capitalism torched the world, #fascism rose from the ashes https://web.archive.org/web/20181014161843/https://eand.co/how-capitalism-torched-the-planet-and-left-it-a-smoking-fascist-greenhouse-fe687e99f070?gi=f85bd26fe222
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#5yrsago Obama’s policy on Bush’s crimes is how #BrettKavanaugh got to the Supreme Court https://theintercept.com/2018/10/09/brett-kavanaugh-supreme-court-bush-administration/
#1yrsago Billionaire dilettantes vs good Democrats https://pluralistic.net/2022/10/14/competitors-critics-customers/#billionaire-dilletantes
#1yrsago #MedievalTimes invents a modern #UnionBusting tactic https://pluralistic.net/2022/10/14/competitors-critics-customers/#ip
#1yrago How lawyers became sadists https://pluralistic.net/2022/10/15/lex-sadist/#incentives-matter
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Saturday's threads: Leaving Twitter had no effect of NPR's traffic; and more!
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/111234554761764809
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Cory Doctorow (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image Today's threads (a thread) Inside: Leaving Twitter had no effect on NPR's traffic; and more! Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/14/freedom-of-reach/ #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:
* 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/
* #TaylorBooks (#Charleston, WV), Oct 20, 12h-14h
http://www.taylorbooks.com/
* 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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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* 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:
* Grim Grinning Ghosts (That Hallowe'en Podcast)
https://thathalloweenpodcast.libsyn.com/grim-grinning-ghosts-with-author-cory-doctorow
* 1000 w/#RonPlacone
https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/1000wronplacone/episodes/Cory-Doctorow---004-e2a420a
* An Audacious Plan to Halt the Internet's Enshittification (#BurningMan Center Camp)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mu2fzvKxKvU
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cum privilegio ad imprimendum solem: "with the exclusive right to print."
Nice. Hadn't seen that phrase in many years since I read the play.
cum privilegio ad imprimendum solem: "with the exclusive right to print."
Nice. Hadn't seen that phrase in many years since I read the play.
Labrador Girl@pluralistic @medium “Their papers including invisible metadata that identified the case as destined for Judge Drain's court, in a bid to trick the court's Case Management/Electronic Case Files system to assign the case to him.”
Is it possible that similar tricks were played to get Aileen Cannon 2x on the Trump documents case?