Cory DoctorowToday's threads (a thread)
Inside: Keeping a suspense file gives you superpowers; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/10/26/one-weird-trick/
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I'll be in Tucson, AZ from November 8-10: I'm the Guest of Honor at the TusCon science fiction convention:
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Keeping a suspense file gives you superpowers: The single best part of "Getting Things Done."
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113374004855643253
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Cory Doctorow (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image Two decades ago, I was part of a group of nerds who got really interested in how each other managed to do what we did. The effort was kicked off by @Mala, who called it "Lifehacking" and I played a small role in getting that term popularized: https://craphound.com/lifehacksetcon04.txt -- 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/2024/10/26/one-weird-trick/#todo.txt 1/
Hey look at this
* BOOM: Judge Blocks $8.5B Fashion House Merger https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/boom-judge-blocks-85b-fashion-house
* How Google is Killing Bloggers and Small Publishers - And Why https://www.justapack.com/how-google-is-killing-bloggers-and-small-publishers-and-why/
* Bluesky is not decentralized https://beige.party/@possibledog/113367977656537478 (h/t Hacker News)
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#20yrago Printer cartridges aren’t copyrighted works https://web.archive.org/web/20041102085343/http://lawgeek.typepad.com/lawgeek/2004/10/static_control_.html
#15yrsago Italian politician sues 4000+ YouTube commenters https://web.archive.org/web/20091030044651/http://www.antoniodipietro.com/en/2009/10/we_will_defend_you_all_from_cu.html
#15yrago Terrified London cops spending millions gathering useless intelligence on peaceful protestors https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/libertycentral/2009/oct/26/police-protest-data-protection
#10yrsago Edward Snowden interviewed by Lawrence @lessig https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_Sr96TFQQE
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#10yrsago CHP officer who stole and shared nude photos of traffic-stop victim claims “it’s a game” https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/east-bay-chp-officer-accused-of-stealing-nude-photos-says-its-game-for-police-california-highway-patrol-sean-harrington/
#5yrsago “Affordances”: a new science fiction story that climbs the terrible technology adoption curve https://slate.com/technology/2019/10/affordances-cory-doctorow-sf-story-algorithmic-bias-facial-recognition.html
#5yrsago Nearly all Americans’ taxes will go down under Medicare for All https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/oct/25/medicare-for-all-taxes-saez-zucman
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#5yrsago Researchers’ budget blown when a migrating eagle’s tracker chip connects to an Iranian cellular tower and sends expensive SMSes https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50180781
#5yrsago New Hampshire state Rep John Potucek kills Right to Repair bill: “cellphones are throwaways…just get a new one” https://www.vice.com/en/article/lawmaker-kills-repair-bill-because-cellphones-are-throwaways/
#1yrago Amazon Alexa is a graduate of the Darth Vader MBA https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/26/hit-with-a-brick/#graceful-failure
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Yesterday's threads: Ian McDonald's "The Wilding"; and more!
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113368270151550446
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Cory Doctorow (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image Today's threads (a thread) Inside: Ian McDonald's "The Wilding"; and more! Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/10/25/bogman/ #Pluralistic 1/
My latest nationally bestselling novel is "The Bezzle," an ice-cold revenge story of high-tech finance crime starring the forensic accountant Martin Hench:
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250865878/thebezzle
Signed copies from Chevalier's Books:
https://www.chevaliersbooks.com/product-page/the-bezzle
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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:
* TusCon (Tucson), Nov 8-10
https://tusconscificon.com/
* International Cooperative Alliance (New Delhi), Nov 24
https://icanewdelhi2024.coop/welcome/pages/Programme
* ISSA-LA Holiday Celebration keynote (Los Angeles), Dec 18
https://issala.org/event/issa-la-december-18-dinner-meeting/
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Recent appearances:
* Maximum Iceland Scenario (@TWiT)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5MkCwktKz0
* Speciale intervista a Cory Doctorow (@digitaliafm)
https://digitalia.fm/744/
* Was There Ever An Old, Good Internet? (David Graeber Institute)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6Jlxx5TboE
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Maximum Iceland Scenario - Data Caps, 3rd Party Android Stores, Nuclear Amazon
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I'll be in Tucson, AZ from November 8-10: I'm the Guest of Honor at the @sf_tus science fiction convention:
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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/vigilant-cory-doctorow/
And "Spill," about oil pipelines and indigenous landback:
https://reactormag.com/spill-cory-doctorow/
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