Cory DoctorowToday's threads (a thread)
Inside: A taxonomy of corporate bullshit; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/27/six-sells/
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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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A taxonomy of corporate bullshit: The six lies they've always told.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/111307611660938852
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Cory Doctorow (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image There's six lies that corporations have told since time immemorial. #NickHanauer, #JoanWalsh and #DonaldCohen's new book *Corporate Bullsh*t: Exposing the Lies and Half-Truths That Protect Profit, Power, and Wealth in America* provides an essential taxonomy of this dirty six: https://thenewpress.com/books/corporate-bullsht -- 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/2023/10/27/six-sells/#youre-holding-it-wrong 1/
Hey look at this
* Celebrating the #InternetFreedom Movement at the #EFFAwards https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/09/celebrating-internet-freedom-movement-eff-awards
* Running the “Reflections on #TrustingTrust” Compiler https://research.swtch.com/nih (h/t @nelson
* A 1940s #Halloween from Centuries of Sound https://centuriesofsound.com/2023/10/25/a-1940s-halloween-from-centuries-of-sound/
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Celebrating the Internet Freedom Movement at the EFF Awards
“It would be easy to see the world as all doom and gloom when you're tackling these issues… But we do this work because we CAN fix the internet. Our dream is that everyone in this room will not only stand up for their rights but find ten other friends to stand up with you.” - EFF’s Executive...
#20yrsago White House site blocks indexing of files about #Iraq https://home.bway.net/keith/whrobots/index.html
#20yrsago #WorldCon-running game https://web.archive.org/web/20031118200638/http://costik.com/weblog/2003_10_01_blogchive.html#106726489238821683
#10yrsago Spooks throw Obama under the bus: He knew about #Merkel spying since 2010 https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/cover-story-how-nsa-spied-on-merkel-cell-phone-from-berlin-embassy-a-930205.html
#10yrsago #CoachSeating is getting even worse https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702304384104579141941949066648
#10yrsago UK spies were terrified that the willing cooperation of telcos would get out; understood they were breaking the law https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/oct/25/leaked-memos-gchq-mass-surveillance-secret-snowden
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#5yrsago A detailed technical rebuttal of Bloomberg’s “backdoored servers” article https://www.servethehome.com/investigating-implausible-bloomberg-supermicro-stories/
#5yrsago Old dentists’ office walls are full of thousands of “buried teeth” https://www.valdostadailytimes.com/news/local_news/hundreds-of-teeth-found-in-downtown-valdosta-wall/article_2c6a0635-f973-58c2-8e18-949e63e4d9c7.html
#5yrsago Legal threats force retraction of peer-reviewed article about the problems with #PrivateEquity-backed #dermatologists https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/26/health/private-equity-dermatology.html
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Investigating Implausible Bloomberg Supermicro Stories
We thoroughly evaluate the claims made by Bloomberg in their Supermicro China tampering stories and found them likely impossible or implausible at best. We take stock of sources and discuss the next steps calling for formal SEC and shareholder investigations of Bloomberg.
#5yrsago Felons, Nazis: Michigan is occupied by an army of 3,000 armed, unregulated “#PoliceReservists” https://www.freep.com/story/news/investigations/2018/10/24/mcoles-michigan-reserve-cops/1353397002/
#1yrago Substituting economics for politics is a failure https://pluralistic.net/2022/10/27/economism/#what-would-i-do-if-i-were-a-horse
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Yesterday's threads: Amazon Alexa is a graduate of the Darth Vader MBA; and more!
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/111303159137975955
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Cory Doctorow (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image Today's threads (a thread) Inside: Amazon Alexa is a graduate of the Darth Vader MBA; and more! Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/26/hit-with-a-brick/ #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/
* #CBCIDEAS, Nov 16 (#Stratford, ON)
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/cbc-ideas-visionaries-in-conversation-tickets-729692809837
* Inspiring the Next Generation, Nov 16 (#Stratford, ON)
https://www.provocation.ca/upcoming-2023-events-stratford
* Generation of Lost Causes (#Toronto, Nov 22)
https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDMEVT495758&R=EVT495758
* Who Is Watching Big Tech? (#Toronto, Nov 27)
https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDMEVT496408&R=EVT496408
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* 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:
* A Drink with Cory Doctorow (#TheIdler)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAnnk3vef00
* Equity Mates Investing podcast
https://open.spotify.com/show/2ZzAxuxFmQ1U78pL3RMxns
* Economics and Other Science Fictions (#EverydayAnarchism)
https://www.everydayanarchism.com/103-debt-discussion-2-economics-and-other-science-fictions-with-cory-doctorow/
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You need to use a fedi-host that has a greater character-limit for posts (one I'm on allows 3000). That way, even though your threads would be no shorter, you'd need fewer chunks to accommodate the thread-length.
You need to use a fedi-host that has a greater character-limit for posts (one I'm on allows 3000). That way, even though your threads would be no shorter, you'd need fewer chunks to accommodate the thread-length.