Cory DoctorowToday's threads (a thread)
Inside: Amazon is a ripoff; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/06/attention-rents/
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Amazon is a ripoff: New Amazon paradox just dropped.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/111364451740010626
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Cory Doctorow (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image There's a cheat-code in US #antitrustm it's been increasingly used since the #Reagan administration, when the "#ConsumerWelfare" theory ("#monopolies are fine, so long as the lower prices") shoved aside the long-established idea that antitrust law existed to prevent monopolies from forming *at all*. - 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/2023/11/06/attention-rents/#consumer-welfare-queens 1/
Hey look at this
* #BootsRiley: “The Only Answer Is Organizing on the Job” https://jacobin.com/2023/11/boots-riley-hollywood-gaza-class-struggle-wga-art/
* How #GoGuardian Invades #StudentPrivacy https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/10/how-goguardian-invades-student-privacy
* Surveillance Wages: A Taxonomy https://lpeproject.org/blog/surveillance-wages-a-taxonomy/
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Boots Riley: “The Only Answer Is Organizing on the Job”
Director, musician, and organizer Boots Riley puts class struggle front and center in all his work. He spoke with Jacobin about this year’s entertainment industry strikes, Israel’s war on Gaza, and how to jam radical politics through the Hollywood pipeline.
#20yrsago Dashboard cig lighters are the new cup-holders https://money.cnn.com/2003/11/04/pf/autos/lighters/index.htm
#10yrsago #Regex Runner: a game to teach regular expressions to kids https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fs2ZchTUEvQ
#5yrsago #Unisyn voting machine manual instructs election officials to use and recycle weak passwords https://memex.craphound.com/2018/11/06/unisyn-voting-machine-manual-instructs-election-officials-to-use-and-recycle-weak-passwords/
#5yrsago Steganographically hiding secret messages in fake fingerprints https://memex.craphound.com/2018/11/06/steganographically-hiding-secret-messages-in-fake-fingerprints/
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#5yrsago The internet is made up of revolutionary technologies, but isn’t revolutionary https://locusmag.com/2018/11/cory-doctorow-what-the-internet-is-for/
#5yrsago America for sale: 38% of all #ElectionFunding comes from 0.0001% of Americans (2,210 people account for 25% of the total) https://memex.craphound.com/2018/11/06/america-for-sale-38-of-all-election-funding-comes-from-0-0001-of-americans-2210-people-account-for-25-of-the-total/
#1yrago The End of #TheRoadToSerfdom https://pluralistic.net/2022/11/06/the-end-of-the-road-to-serfdom/
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Yesterday's threads: A link-clump demands a linkdump; and more!
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/111358811678808793
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Cory Doctorow (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image Today's threads (a thread) Inside: A link-clump demands a linkdump; and more! Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/05/variegated/ #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:
* #SecondLife Book Club, with #RebeccaGiblin, Nov 8/17hPT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L07T82M_xzk
* The New Luddites Seizing the Means of Computation, with @brianmerchant (#HallwayTrack), Nov 9
https://www.verylittlegravitas.com/hallwaytrack
* #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
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The Second Life Book Club with Draxtor - Rebecca Giblin meets Cory Doctorow
Upcoming appearances (cont):
* Gibson's Bookstore, Nov 18 (#Concord, NH)
https://www.gibsonsbookstore.com/event/doctorow-lost-cause
* Lost Cause at Simsbury Public Library, Nov 20 (#Simsbury, CT)
https://simsbury.librarycalendar.com/event/author-visit-cory-doctorow-29257
* Generation of Lost Causes, Nov 22 (#Toronto)
https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDMEVT495758&R=EVT495758
* Who Is Watching Big Tech? Nov 27 (#Toronto)
https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDMEVT496408&R=EVT496408
* 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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The Lost Cause, with Cory Doctorow
Saturday, November 18th, 2023, 1pm Cory Doctorow returns to Gibson's Bookstore to present his new novel, The Lost Cause! It’s thirty years from now. We’re making progress, mitigating climate change, slowly but surely. But what about all the angry old people who can’t let go?
Recent appearances:
* An Audacious Plan to Halt the Internet’s Enshittification and Throw It Into Reverse (@hackaday Supercon)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VT1ud0rAT7w
* The Material Power That Rules Computation (#ThisMachineKills)
https://soundcloud.com/thismachinekillspod/294-the-material-power-that-rules-computation-ft-cory-doctorow
* The Science in the Fiction
https://www.buzzsprout.com/2201157/13896228-ep-14-cory-doctorow-on-the-lost-cause-red-team-blues-and-chokepoint-capitalism
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Cory Doctorow: An Audacious Plan to Halt the Internet’s Enshittification and Throw It Into Reverse
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Today's top sources: @thepublicdomain (http://james-boyle.com/).
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Nami@pluralistic Hey :) did Khan publish the article in 2017 or 2018? I think there is a typo in the article
@compl4xx Right you are - fixed at the permalink, thank you!
Matt Diamond“If you trust Amazon search to find you the best product and click [one of] the first four items, you'll pay an average of 25% more..
On average, the best deal on Amazon is found in the seventeenth slot in the search results.”