Cory DoctorowToday's threads (a thread)
Inside: Too big to care; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/04/teach-me-how-to-shruggie/
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I'm touring my new, nationally bestselling novel *The Bezzle*! Catch me in Boston with Randall "XKCD" Munroe (Apr 11), then Providence (Apr 12) and beyond!
https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/16/narrative-capitalism/#bezzle-tour
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https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112213164548795444
Too big to care: Enshittification is a choice.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112213164548795444
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Cory Doctorow (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image Remember the first time you used Google search? It was like magic. After years of progressively worsening search quality from Altavista and Yahoo, Google was literally stunning, a gateway to the very best things on the internet. -- 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/2024/04/04/teach-me-how-to-shruggie/#kagi 1/
Hey look at this
* The Retraction Watch Mass Resignations List https://retractionwatch.com/the-retraction-watch-mass-resignations-list/ (h/t Gregory Charlin)
* I am the Comic/Comic Book Walk https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cecilseaskull/i-am-the-comic-comic-book-walk
* Capitalists Hate Capitalism https://locusmag.com/2024/03/cory-doctorow-capitalists-hate-capitalism/
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#15yrsago Why URL shorteners suck https://joshua.schachter.org/2009/04/on-url-shorteners
#15yrsago Heinlein’s house for sale https://web.archive.org/web/20090406105617/https://mcginnis.com/listings/detail.php?lid=41846127&limit=0&offset=0&aid=005900204&oid=005900002&temp=1057&aname=Sharon+Roland&aimg=1&chome=1&agent_hasfeat=2&&posc=6&post=10&cfq=elegant%3Dyes%26property_category%3D1%26county%3D41%26aid%3D005900204%26oid%3D005900002%26temp%3D1057%26aname%3DSharon%2BRoland%26aimg%3D1%26chome%3D1%26agent_hasfeat%3D2%26SRSearchDate%3D1238781456%26SRRecordCount%3D10%26SRPage%3D1%26SRPageCount%3D1%26SRPageLinks%3D6
#15yrsago Game industry exec celebrates 60+ hour work-weeks https://web.archive.org/web/20090405131359/playthisthing.com/mothers-dont-let-your-children-grow-be-game-developers
#15yrsago Nine year old’s survey project excluded from school because he learned some people don’t think of themselves as male or female https://thefourthvine.livejournal.com/102417.html
#15yrsago Help save @bruces and Jasmina Tesanovic from US immigration hell! https://web.archive.org/web/20090405213303/http://blog.wired.com/sterling/2009/04/bruce-sterling.html
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#15yrsago Pneumatic tube-based systems — the real series of tubes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvSeL_LfdbA
#15yrsago Berlusconi declares war on the press https://www.repubblica.it/2009/04/sezioni/esteri/nato-strasburgo/calunnia-tv/calunnia-tv.html
#10yrsago Private equity, an infection that is eating the world https://web.archive.org/web/20140330004925/https://www.ericgarland.co/2014/03/29/parasite-economy/
#10yrsago UK Tories call for a national of slaves https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2014/04/a-nation-of-slaves.html
#10yrsago Daniel Ellsberg to keynote HOPE X in NYC this summer https://www.2600.com/content/daniel-ellsberg-keynote-hope-x
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Ignite: Molly Wright Steenson - A Series of Tubes, EP 7
#10yrsago Yahoo beefs up security in two meaningful and important ways https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/04/yahoo-protects-users-lots-more-encryption
#10yrsago The Gettysburg Address: A Graphic Adaptation, a nuanced and moving history of race, slavery and the Civil War https://memex.craphound.com/2014/04/04/the-gettysburg-address-a-graphic-adaptation-a-nuanced-and-moving-history-of-race-slavery-and-the-civil-war/
#10yrsago Britain is turning into a country that can’t tell its terrorists from its journalists https://memex.craphound.com/2014/04/03/britain-is-turning-into-a-country-that-cant-tell-its-terrorists-from-its-journalists/
#10yrsago Stop-and-frisk as the most visible element of deep, violent official American racism https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/04/what-i-learned-about-stop-and-frisk-from-watching-my-black-son/359962/
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Yahoo Protects Users with Lots More Encryption
We were thrilled to hear today that Yahoo is carrying through a concerted effort to protect users across its sites and services by rolling out routine encryption in several parts of its infrastructure. The company's statement announced that, among other things, it now encrypts traffic between its...
#10yrsago David “Debt” Graeber evicted, implicates NYPD intelligence, claims revenge-harassment for OWS participation http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/015820.html
#10yrsago Open net gets a huge boost in the EU: net neutrality and no roaming fees https://web.archive.org/web/20140405234420/http://www.marietjeschaake.eu/2014/04/mep-european-parliament-supports-proposal-schaake-to-enshrine-net-neutrality-in-european-law/
#10yrsago Cats of Tanglewood Forest: illustrated modern folktale from Charles de Lint and Charles Vess https://memex.craphound.com/2014/04/03/cats-of-tanglewood-forest-illustrated-modern-folktale-from-charles-de-lint-and-charles-vess/
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#10yrsago House Science Committee: a parliament of Creationists, Climate Deniers (and dunces) https://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/the-curious-wavefunction/the-house-of-representatives-committee-on-science-is-turning-into-a-national-embarrassment/
#10yrsago Big Data has big problems https://www.ft.com/content/21a6e7d8-b479-11e3-a09a-00144feabdc0
#5yrsago 540 million Facebook users’ data exposed by third party developers https://www.upguard.com/breaches/facebook-user-data-leak
#5yrsago Elizabeth Warren proposes holding execs criminally liable for scams and data breaches https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/elizabeth-warren-its-time-to-scare-corporate-america-straight/2019/04/02/ca464ab0-5559-11e9-8ef3-fbd41a2ce4d5_story.html
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#5yrsago How @eff's @evacide plans to destroy the stalkerware industry https://www.wired.com/story/eva-galperin-stalkerware-kaspersky-antivirus/
#5yrsago After years of insisting that DRM in HTML wouldn’t block open source implementations, Google says it won’t support open source implementations https://memex.craphound.com/2019/04/03/after-years-of-insisting-that-drm-in-html-wouldnt-block-open-source-implementations-google-says-it-wont-support-open-source-implementations/
#5yrsago After months of insisting that #Article13 doesn’t require filters, top EU Commissioner says “Article 13 requires filters” https://memex.craphound.com/2019/04/03/after-months-of-insisting-that-article13-doesnt-require-filters-top-eu-commissioner-says-article-13-requires-filters/
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#5yrsago Notices at Intel press event seem to say attending photographers must assign copyright to all pictures and videos to the company? https://web.archive.org/web/20200616222543/http://mitchwagner.com/2019/04/02/video-consent-notice-posted-discreetly-in-a-couple-of-places-on-the-walls-at-the-intel-press-analyst-event-today/
#5yrsago Patagonia tells banks and oil companies that they can no longer buy co-branded vests https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/katienotopoulos/patagonia-power-vest-policy-change
#5yrsago Talking about Radicalized with the CBC: Privilege, atavism, techno-realism and seizing the means of information https://www.cbc.ca/books/cory-doctorow-on-radicalized-the-problem-with-superheroes-and-writing-speculative-fiction-in-a-jaded-world-1.5080939
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#5yrsago News organizations have all but abandoned their archives https://memex.craphound.com/2019/04/04/news-organizations-have-all-but-abandoned-their-archives/
#5yrsago After Christchurch shooting, Australia doubles down on being stampeded into catastrophically stupid tech laws https://memex.craphound.com/2019/04/04/after-christchurch-shooting-australia-doubles-down-on-being-stampeded-into-catastrophically-stupid-tech-laws/
#5yrsago A rapidly proliferating software license bars use by companies with poor labor practices https://www.wired.com/story/how-github-helping-overworked-chinese-programmers/
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#5yrsago “Open source” companies are playing games with licensing to sneak in proprietary code, freeze out competitors, fight enclosure https://www.scalevp.com/insights/making-sense-of-a-crazy-year-in-open-source/
#5yrsago Fear that far-right terrorists will stage attacks if Brexit is canceled https://theintercept.com/2019/04/04/specter-far-right-violence-haunts-brexit-britain/
#1yrago Elizabeth Warren on weaponized budget models https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/04/cbo-says-no/#wealth-tax
#1yrago The problem with economic models https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/03/all-models-are-wrong/#some-are-useful
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Monday's threads: Prison-tech company bribed jails to ban in-person visits; and more!
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112202083712996655
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Cory Doctorow (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image Today's threads (a thread) Inside: Prison-tech company bribed jails to ban in-person visits; and more! Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/02/captive-customers/ #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:
* Computer Pasts/Computer Futures (NYU/virtual), Apr 4
https://steinhardt.nyu.edu/events/deans-public-square-series-computer-pasts-computer-futures
* UCLA Institute for Law, Technology and Policy, Apr 10
https://pages.e2ma.net/pages/1972582/47480
* The Bezzle at Harvard Berkman-Klein Center, with Randall Munroe (Boston), Apr 11
https://cyber.harvard.edu/events/enshittification
* RISD Debates in AI (Providence), Apr 12
https://involved.risd.edu/event/9777963
* 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):
* Torino Tech Biennale, Apr 21
https://www.biennaletecnologia.it/evento/come-sfuggire-al-merdocene-e-costruire-un-internet-migliore/
* 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/
* “Enshittification” and the Future of AI, with @timoreilly (virtual), May 14
https://www.oreilly.com/live-events/tim-oreilly-and-cory-doctorow-on-enshittification-and-the
* Authorship in an Age of Monopoly and Moral Panics (San Francisco), May 17
https://www.authorsalliance.org/2024/03/15/authors-alliance-10th-anniversary-event-authorship-in-an-age-of-monopoly-and-moral-panics/
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* 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:
* The Scam Economy (Lost Dollar Business Club)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SChg9ZiY_bk
* Private Prisons, Finance Ghouls and The Bezzle (It Could Happen Here)
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-it-could-happen-here-30717896/episode/private-prisons-finance-ghouls-and-the-161844728/
* Cory Doctorow’s new tech crime thriller takes us back to the days of Yahoo! (Betakit)
https://betakit.com/cory-doctorow-the-bezzle-betakit-podcast/
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I'm touring my new, nationally bestselling novel *The Bezzle*! Catch me in Boston with Randall "XKCD" Munroe (Apr 11), then Providence (Apr 12) and beyond!
https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/16/narrative-capitalism/#bezzle-tour
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