Cory DoctorowToday's threads (a thread)
Inside: When private equity destroys your hospital; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/28/5000-bats/
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I'm on tour with my new novel *The Bezzle*! Catch me TOMORROW in PHOENIX (Feb 29, Changing Hands). After that, it's Tucson, San Francisco, Anaheim and more!
https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/16/narrative-capitalism/#bezzle-tour
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When private equity destroys your hospital: Looters literally want to kill you.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112010008939377781
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Cory Doctorow (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image As someone who writes a lot of fiction about corporate crime, I naturally end up spending a lot of time being *angry* about corporate crime. It's pretty goddamned enraging. But the fiction writer in me is *especially* upset at how *cartoonishly evil* the perps are - routinely doing things that I couldn't ever get away with putting in a novel. 1/
Hey look at this
* Jumbo Shrimp celebrating public-domain characters in 2024 https://www.milb.com/news/the-show-before-the-show-episode-445-jacksonville-jumbo-shrimp-public-domain (h/t Joshua Bradley)
* The Rentier Economy, Vulture Capital, and Enshittification https://c4ss.org/content/59416
* FTC Chair Lina Khan takes victory lap on blocking Nvidia-Arm merger https://www.cnbc.com/2024/02/27/ftc-chair-lina-khan-takes-victory-lap-on-blocking-nvidia-arm-merger.html
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The Show Before the Show: Episode 445
Check out the latest episodes of The Show Before the Show, MiLB.com's official podcast. A segment rundown is listed below, in case you want to skip to a particular section. Like the podcast? Subscribe, rate and review on Apple Podcasts. The podcast is also available via Spotify, Megaphone and other
#15yrsago Amusement park offers surveillance footage of you as a souvenir https://web.archive.org/web/20090401000000*/https://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1198732.ece
#10yrsago Report from Trustycon: like RSA, but without the corruption https://www.cnet.com/news/privacy/trustycons-rsa-conference-rebels-promise-more-to-come/
#10yrsago King no longer claims to own “candy,” still claims it owns “saga” https://www.techdirt.com/2014/02/26/king-backs-off-ridiculously-broad-candy-trademark-will-still-be-obnoxious-other-ways/
#5yrsago #FixItAlready: @eff's wishlist for fixing tech’s worst privacy and security choices https://fixitalready.eff.org/#/
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#5yrsago The “Reputation Management” industry continues to depend on forged legal documents https://www.techdirt.com/2019/02/28/pissed-consumer-exposes-new-york-luxury-car-dealers-use-bogus-notarized-letters-to-remove-critical-reviews-update/
#5yrsago Pentagon Inspector General reveals widespread retaliation against whistleblowers with impunity for the retaliators and the wrongdoers https://rollcall.com/2019/02/25/pentagon-harbors-culture-of-revenge-against-whistleblowers/
#5yrsago Amazon killed Seattle’s homelessness-relief tax by threatening not to move into a massive new building, then they canceled the move anyway https://www.seattletimes.com/business/amazon/huge-downtown-seattle-office-space-that-amazon-had-leased-is-reportedly-put-on-market/
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Pissed Consumer Exposes New York Luxury Car Dealer's Use Of Bogus Notarized Letters To Remove Critical Reviews [UPDATE]
UPDATE: I spoke to former employee of Luxsport who claims Stephanie Lynch’s notary stamp was stolen by Lance Ludkin, the founder of LuxSport. This theft was reported to local law enforcement …
#5yrsago Bad security design made it easy to spy on video from Ring doorbells and insert fake video into their feeds https://web.archive.org/web/20190411195308/https://dojo.bullguard.com/dojo-by-bullguard/blog/ring/
#5yrsago London’s awful estate agents are cratering, warning of a “prolonged downturn” in the housing market https://www.bbc.com/news/business-47389160
#5yrsago Yet another study shows that the most effective “anti-piracy” strategy is good products at a fair price https://www.vice.com/en/article/3kg7pv/studies-keep-showing-that-the-best-way-to-stop-piracy-is-to-offer-cheaper-better-alternatives
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#5yrsago EFF’s roadmap for a 21st Century antitrust doctrine https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/02/antitrust-enforcement-needs-evolve-21st-century
#1yrago VW wouldn't help find kidnapped child because his mother wasn't paying for find-my-car subscription https://pluralistic.net/2023/02/28/kinderwagen/#worst-timeline
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Antitrust Enforcement Needs to Evolve for the 21st Century
Yesterday, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced the creation of a new task force to monitor competition in technology markets. Given the inadequacies of federal antitrust enforcement over the past generation, we welcome the new task force and reiterate our suggestions for how regulators can...
Yesterday's threads: Hypothetical AI election disinformation risks vs real AI harms; and more!
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112003752702555413
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Cory Doctorow (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image Today's threads (a thread) Inside: Hypothetical AI election disinformation risks vs real AI harms; and more! Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/27/ai-conspiracies/ #Pluralistic 1/
My last novel was "The Lost Cause," a solarpunk novel of radical hope in the climate emergency, from Tor Books (US)/Head of Zeus (UK):
Signed, personalized copies available from Dark Delicacies:
https://www.darkdel.com/store/p3007/Pre-Order_Signed_Copies%3A_The_Lost_Cause_HB.html#/
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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
Both are national bestsellers!
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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 Bezzle at Changing Hands (Phoenix), Feb 29
https://www.changinghands.com/event/february2024/cory-doctorow
* Tucson Festival of Books, Mar 9/10
https://tucsonfestivalofbooks.org/?id=676
* Enshittification: How the Internet Went Bad and How to Get it Back (virtual), Mar 26
https://libcal.library.ubc.ca/event/3781006
* Wondercon (Anaheim), Mar 29-31
https://www.comic-con.org/wc/
* The Bezzle at Anderson's Books (Chicago), Apr 17
https://www.andersonsbookshop.com/event/cory-doctorow-1
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (Winnipeg), May 2
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/cory-doctorow-tickets-798820071337
* Tartu Prima Vista Literary Festival, May 5-11
https://tartu2024.ee/en/kirjandusfestival/
* Media Ecology Association keynote (Amherst, NY), Jun 6-9
https://media-ecology.org/convention
* American Association of Law Libraries keynote (Chicago), Jul 21
https://www.aallnet.org/conference/agenda/keynote-speaker/
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Recent appearances:
* Radioactive (@krclradio)
https://krcl.org/blog/grist-investigates-doctorow-seed/
* The enshittification of music (Music Ally)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gh20fD3XXbg
* Aaron Swartz (EpistemiCast)
https://open.spotify.com/episode/5t9QVHSQBjIXKUiN2EvEmK
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Grist Investigates Land Grant Colleges, including Utah State University.
Data shows these public universities continue to benefit from extractive industries on stolen Indigenous land. Plus, author Cory Doctorow on the worlds of the ultrarich and the for-profit prison system, and a legislative update from Stop...
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I'm on tour with my new novel *The Bezzle*! Catch me TOMORROW in PHOENIX (Feb 29, Changing Hands). After that, it's Tucson, San Francisco, Anaheim and more!
https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/16/narrative-capitalism/#bezzle-tour
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