Cory DoctorowToday's threads (a thread)
Inside: Mark Zuckerberg personally lost the Facebook antitrust case; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/18/chatty-zucky/
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I'm on a 20+ city book tour for my new novel *Picks and Shovels*.
Catch me in #NewZealand at UNITY BOOKS in #AUCKLAND (May 2, 6PM):
https://www.eventbrite.co.nz/e/an-evening-with-cory-doctorow-tickets-1320740102199
and #WELLINGTON (May 3, 3PM):
https://www.unitybooks.co.nz/news-and-events/author-talk-picks-and-shovels-by-cory-doctorow
More tour dates (#PDX, #Pittsburgh, #London, #Manchester) here:
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Mark Zuckerberg personally lost the Facebook antitrust case: A folder on his desktop called "mens rea."
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/114358994363238772
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Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic@mamot.fr)
Attached: 1 image It's damned hard to prove an antitrust case: so often, the prosecution has to prove that the company *intended* to crush competition, and/or that they raised prices or reduced quality because they knew they didn't have to fear competitors. -- 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/2025/04/18/chatty-zucky/#is-you-taking-notes-on-a-criminal-fucking-conspiracy 1/
Hey look at this
* Unions, Not Just Factories, Will Make America Great https://www.laborpolitics.com/p/unions-not-just-factories-will-make
* How Wales is building a sharing economy through its ‘libraries of things’ https://theprogressplaybook.com/2025/04/05/how-wales-is-building-a-sharing-economy-through-its-libraries-of-things/ (h/t Bill McKibben)
* Google Is Operating an Ad Tech Monopoly, Judge Rules https://gizmodo.com/google-is-operating-an-ad-tech-monopoly-judge-rules-2000590754
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#20yrsago White House drug agency giving away anti-drug ringtones https://web.archive.org/web/20050419024323/http://www.freevibe.com/stepup/freevibe_ringtones.asp
#15yrsago George Washington owes $100K in library fines https://www.loweringthebar.net/2010/04/president-accused-of-theft-failing-to-pay-massive-library-fines.html
#10yrsago Slack’s CEO gives charmingly bullshit-free justification for $2.8B valuation https://archive.nytimes.com/bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/04/16/is-slack-really-worth-2-8-billion-a-conversation-with-stewart-butterfield/
#5yrsago Delivery services are gouging restaurants to death https://pluralistic.net/2020/04/18/politics-of-discouragement/#rent-seekers
#5yrsago ICANN pauses selloff of .ORG registry https://pluralistic.net/2020/04/18/politics-of-discouragement/#savedotorg
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#5yrsago Garbage Math https://pluralistic.net/2020/04/18/politics-of-discouragement/#xkcd-2295
#5yrsago The Rent and Mortgage Cancellation Act https://pluralistic.net/2020/04/18/politics-of-discouragement/#ilhan-omar
#1yrago Podcasting "Capitalists Hate Capitalism" https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/18/in-extremis-veritas/#the-winnah
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Wednesday's threads: Trump fought the law and Trump won; and more!
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/114350608596473508
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My last nationally bestselling novel was "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:
* #Auckland: Unity Books, May 2, 6PM
https://www.eventbrite.co.nz/e/an-evening-with-cory-doctorow-tickets-1320740102199
* #Wellington: Unity Books, May 3, 3PM
https://www.unitybooks.co.nz/news-and-events/author-talk-picks-and-shovels-by-cory-doctorow
* #Pittsburgh: Picks and Shovels at White Whale Books, May 15
https://whitewhalebookstore.com/events/20250515
* #Pittsburgh: PyCon, May 16
https://us.pycon.org/2025/schedule/
* #PDX: Teardown 2025, Jun 20-22
https://www.crowdsupply.com/teardown/portland-2025
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* #PDX: Picks and Shovels with BUNNIE HUANG at Barnes and Noble, Jun 20
https://stores.barnesandnoble.com/event/9780062183697-0
* #London: How To Academy with Riley Quinn, Jul 1
https://howtoacademy.com/events/cory-doctorow-the-fight-against-the-big-tech-oligarchy/
* #Manchester: Picks and Shovels at Blackwell's Bookshop, Jul 2
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/an-evening-with-cory-doctorow-tickets-1308451968059
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Recent appearances:
* Can we use the Internet for Democracy?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zh_HON6iql8
* Fightback Against Trump's Tariff Attack (Avi Lewis)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9sgIAc6z_o
* The Voice of Canadian Humanism
https://open.spotify.com/episode/7uuwdZTIbWzKhBQ3mmMiRv?context=spotify%3Ashow%3A6N5hl8on16CfaeYArrKyqZ
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Can we use the Internet for Democracy? with Cory Doctorow
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I'm on a 20+ city book tour for my new novel *Picks and Shovels*.
Catch me in #NewZealand at UNITY BOOKS in #AUCKLAND (May 2, 6PM):
https://www.eventbrite.co.nz/e/an-evening-with-cory-doctorow-tickets-1320740102199
and #WELLINGTON (May 3, 3PM):
https://www.unitybooks.co.nz/news-and-events/author-talk-picks-and-shovels-by-cory-doctorow
More tour dates (PDX, Pittsburgh, London, Manchester) here:
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