Cory DoctorowToday's threads (a thread)
Inside: Epic Systems, a lethal health record monopolist; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/10/02/upcoded-to-death/
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Tor Books has just published two new, free "Little Brother" stories: "Vigilant," about creepy surveillance in distance education:
https://reactormag.com/spill-cory-doctorow/
And "Spill," about oil pipelines and indigenous landback:
https://reactormag.com/vigilant-cory-doctorow/
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Epic Systems, a lethal health record monopolist: Clinical needs sacrificed to profit maximization.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113237780216406333
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Cory Doctorow (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image Epic Systems makes the dominant electronic health record (EHR) system in America; if you're a doctor, chances are you are *required* to use it, and for every hour a doctor spends with a patient, they have to spend *two* hours doing clinically useless bureaucratic data-entry on an Epic EHR. -- 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/2024/10/02/upcoded-to-death/#thanks-obama 1/
Hey look at this
* Inside the $621 Million Legal Battle for the ‘Soul of the Internet’ https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/internet-archive-major-label-music-lawsuit-1235105273/
* Alleged Tax Dodger Says It’s a “Legitimate Snail-Farming Operation” https://www.loweringthebar.net/2024/10/alleged-tax-dodger-says-its-a-legitimate-snail-farming-operation.html
* Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney renews blast at ‘gatekeeper’ platform owners https://venturebeat.com/games/epic-games-ceo-tim-sweeney-renews-blast-at-gatekeeper-platform-owners/ (h/t @slashdot)
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#20yrsago George Soros blogs https://web.archive.org/web/20041009162245/http://georgesoros.com/index.cfm?Fuseaction=Home
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#10yrsago Keurig sued for anti-competitive K-cup tactics https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/keurig-coffee-sued-for-600m-by-ontario-based-club-coffee-1.2783633
#10yrsago Directors’ commentary for “In Real Life” https://web.archive.org/web/20160331041746/http://www.forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2014/directors-commentary-cory-doctorow-jen-wang-talk-in-real-life/
#10yrsago David Cameron raps the Tories’ nasty party manifesto https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YBumQHPAeU
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#10yrsago Hong Kong and America: two systems, one corruption https://web.archive.org/web/20141006033919/http://www.lessig.org/2014/10/we-should-be-protesting-too/
#10yrsago World Intellectual Property Organization in shambolic chaos https://www.keionline.org/22621
#10yrsago Why the UK middle class should be rioting in the streets https://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/thinking-man/11109845/Why-arent-the-British-middle-classes-staging-a-revolution.html
#10yrsago Human beings are the gut flora of immortal, transhuman corporations https://memex.craphound.com/2014/10/02/human-beings-are-the-gut-flora-of-immortal-transhuman-corporations/
#10yrsago Daughter of Hong Kong leader thanks “taxpayers” for diamonds on Facebook https://
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timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/china/Hong-Kong-leaders-daughter-creates-controversy-with-Facebook-post/articleshow/44115995.cms
#10yrsago Nobody wants to host the 2022 Olympics https://sports.yahoo.com/why-no-one-wants-to-host-the-2022-olympics-225450509.html?soc_src=mediacontentstory
#5yrsago IRS admits it audits poor people because auditing rich people is too expensive https://www.propublica.org/article/irs-sorry-but-its-just-easier-and-cheaper-to-audit-the-poor#168476
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#5yrsago Elizabeth Warren proposes an “excessive lobbying tax” that would fund independent Congressional experts and public participation in policy https://medium.com/@teamwarren/excessive-lobbying-tax-fca7cc86a7e5
#5yrsago Apple bans an app because Hong Kong protesters might use it to avoid the murderous, out of control police https://memex.craphound.com/2019/10/02/apple-bans-an-app-because-hong-kong-protesters-might-use-it-to-avoid-the-murderous-out-of-control-police/
#5yrsago The complicated, nuanced story of how racialized French people fought to save their local McDonald’s https://www.npr.org/2019/09/05/758048712/libert-galit-and-french-fries
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Yesterday's threads: Everyday homeowners are human shields for Wall Street's Internet of Shit slumlords; and more!
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113232679662478149
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Cory Doctorow (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image Today's threads (a thread) Inside: Everyday homeowners are human shields for Wall Street's Internet of Shit slumlords; and more! Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/10/01/housing-is-a-human-right/ #Pluralistic 1/
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My latest nonfiction book is "The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation" from Verso Books:
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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:
* Was There Ever an Old, Good Internet? David Graeber Institute (Remote), Oct 3
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUsduuprjgpG9C4SAenCK4jOsawnkxDrY_-#/registration
* “Come distruggere il capitalismo della sorveglianza” (Pisa/Remote), Oct 12
https://www.internetfestival.it/programma/come-distruggere-il-capitalismo-della-sorveglianza/
* SOSS Fusion (Atlanta), Oct 22
https://sossfusion2024.sched.com/speaker/cory_doctorow.1qm5qfgn
* TusCon (Tucson), Nov 8-10
https://tusconscificon.com/
* International Cooperative Alliance (New Delhi), Nov 24
https://icanewdelhi2024.coop/welcome/pages/Programme
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The second meeting of "The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World..." group. This autumn we are starting a new programme to supplement David Graeber’s new collection of essays "The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World..." , edited and with an introduction by Nika Dubrovsky, which will be out in November. The second event will be a conversation on the opening essay of the collection, "There Never Was a West", led and moderated by Cory Doctorow.
Recent appearances:
* A Book Talk with Cory Doctorow and @hartzog at BU Law
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gkt9dlTX-gs
* Rethink: Is the internet getting worse?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0022z9r
* Annie's Book Stop Of Worcester
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYM3WOPOMC0
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A Book Talk with Cory Doctorow and Woodrow Hartzog at BU Law
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Tor Books has just published two new, free "Little Brother" stories: "Vigilant," about creepy surveillance in distance education:
https://reactormag.com/spill-cory-doctorow/
And "Spill," about oil pipelines and indigenous landback: