Cory DoctorowToday's threads (a thread)
Inside: Bad King Richard got rich by exploiting workers at King's Faire; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/25/huzzah/
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Tuesday (Oct 31) at 10hPT, @internetarchive is livestreaming my presentation on my recent book, *The Internet Con*:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/book-talk-the-internet-con-tickets-730939137637
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Bad King Richard got rich by exploiting workers at King's Faire: Creative workers are workers.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/111297347254134136
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Cory Doctorow (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image #KingRichardsFaire is the largest #renfaire in New England, and its owner, #DickShapiro, extracts a reported $400k/day - a sum that is only possible thanks to systematic and illegal worker misclassification, which lets him pay performers sub-minimum wages and deny them benefits: https://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/172267v/kings_faire_inc_aim%C3%A9e_bonnie_shapiro_nets_over/ -- If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog: https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/25/huzzah/#bad-king-richard 1/
Hey look at this
* @automattic is acquiring #Texts and betting big on the future of messaging https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/24/23928685/automattic-texts-acquisition-universal-messaging
* Announcing the Winners of the 2023 #HugoAwards https://www.tor.com/2023/10/23/announcing-the-winners-of-the-2023-hugo-awards/
* The World’s Most Popular Painter Sent His Followers After Me Because He Didn’t Like a Review of His Work. Here’s What I Learned (h/t @waxy)
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#20yrsago #Citi’s CEO’s SSN sky-written over NYC https://www.wired.com/2003/10/yo-mr-ceo-get-our-point-now/
#10yrsago Librarian to sister superior, 1948: #ComicBooks are good for kids! https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2013/oct/25/librarian-rebukes-nun-over-comic-books/
#10yrsago 19th century 9lb, 100-blade multitool with a pistol https://www.wired.com/2013/10/you-can-kill-a-man-100-ways-with-this-crazy-swiss-army-knife/
#10yrsago @cstross on #spooks: paranoid, fumbling, all-powerful http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2013/10/spook-century.html
#10yrsago Texas’s “texting judge” resigns, admitting she texted instructions to prosecutors https://montgomerycountypolicereporter.com/texting-judge-not-lol-coker-is-out/
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#10yrsago Manchester #cops trumpet seized “#3DPrintedGun” — turns out to be parts for a 3D printer https://www.theverge.com/2013/10/25/5027282/uk-police-seize-3d-printed-gun-components
#5yrsago The #CopyrightOffice just greenlit a suite of #DRMBreaking exemptions to the #DMCA https://www.vice.com/en/article/xw9bwd/1201-exemptions-right-to-repair
#5yrsago Ebay is full of used #VotingMachines full of real electoral data and riddled with security defects https://www.wired.com/story/i-bought-used-voting-machines-on-ebay/
#5yrsago #DisneyThemeParks have a serious problem with #cremain-scattering https://www.wsj.com/articles/disney-worlds-big-secret-its-a-favorite-spot-to-scatter-family-ashes-1540390229
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Yesterday's threads: Podcasting "Microincentives and Enshittification"; and more!
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/111291206120776031
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Cory Doctorow (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image Today's threads (a thread) Inside: Podcasting "Microincentives and Enshittification"; and more! Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/24/cursed-bigness/ #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:
* The Internet Con at the @internetarchive (virtual), Oct 31
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/book-talk-the-internet-con-tickets-730939137637
* @hackaday Supercon, Nov 4 (#Pasadena)
https://hackaday.io/superconference/
* The Lost Cause at #TheStrand (#NYC), Nov 29
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cory-doctorow-the-lost-cause-tickets-734958008187
* The Lost Cause at #FlyleafBooks (#ChapelHill), Dec 7
https://www.flyleafbooks.com/doctorow-2023
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Recent appearances:
* Economics and Other Science Fictions (#EverydayAnarchism)
https://www.everydayanarchism.com/103-debt-discussion-2-economics-and-other-science-fictions-with-cory-doctorow/
* 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
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103. Debt Discussion 2: Economics and Other Science Fictions with Cory Doctorow
For the second episode of Debt Discussions, Cory Doctorow returns to the show to talk about Chapter 2 of Debt, The Myth of Barter. Cory and I talk about the way that economics resembles science fiction, the original reception of Debt (especially on the blog Crooked Timber), and talk some
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