Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: Ideas Lying Around; and more!
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Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: Ideas Lying Around; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2025/03/03/fri…
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Cory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •I'm on a 20+ city book tour for my new novel *Picks and Shovels*.
Catch me in DC TOMORROW (Mar 3):
loyaltybookstores.com/picksnsh…
and in RICHMOND on WEDNESDAY (Mar 4):
fountainbookstore.com/events/1…
More tour dates here:
martinhench.com
Mail-order signed copies from LA's Diesel Books:
dieselbookstore.com/picks-and-…
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Announcing the Picks and Shovels book tour | Cory Doctorow's craphound.com
martinhench.comCory Doctorow
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Ideas Lying Around: Trumpism is our oil crisis.
mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11409846…
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Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic@mamot.fr)
Mamot - Le Mastodon de La Quadrature du NetCory Doctorow
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Hey look at this:
* Norman Jewison’s ‘Rollerball’ depicted a world in which corporations controlled all information – is this dystopian vision becoming reality? theconversation.com/norman-jew…
* PrivacySafe Bot – Secure Password Generator privacysafe.bot
* Review: Rewind Cassette Player wired.com/review/review-rewind…
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Norman Jewison’s ‘Rollerball’ depicted a world in which corporations controlled all information – is this dystopian vision becoming reality?
The ConversationCory Doctorow
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#20yrsago Free Software Foundation tears MPAA a new one in Grokster brief moglen.law.columbia.edu/public…
#20yrsago Best-selling musicians’ ask SCOTUS to keep P2P legal nbcnews.com/id/wbna7052758
#20yrsago Canadian defense minister on US no-fly list? web.archive.org/web/2005030401…
#15yrsago LibDem Lords seek to ban web-lockers (YouSendIt, etc) in the UK memex.craphound.com/2010/03/03…
#15yrsago Building high-speed wireless in Afghanistan out of garbage freerangeinternational.com/201…
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Artists break with industry on file sharing
By Jonathan Krim (NBC News)Cory Doctorow
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#15yrsago HOWTO make smarter dumb mistakes about the future web.archive.org/web/2010030512…
#15yrsago EFF’s annual DMCA whitepaper gets a refresh eff.org/wp/unintended-conseque…
#15yrsago Audiobook DRM versus the patrons of the Cleveland Library web.archive.org/web/2010030407…
#15yrsago Danish activists demand to know why their governments block ACTA transparency www-computerworld-dk.translate…
#10yrsago America’s growing gangs of armed, arrest-making, untrained rent-a-cops washingtonpost.com/local/crime…
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Unintended Consequences: Twelve Years under the DMCA
Electronic Frontier FoundationCory Doctorow
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#10yrsago Bruce Schneier’s Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World memex.craphound.com/2015/03/02…
#10yrsago Ed Snowden says he’ll face trial in the US web.archive.org/web/2015030316…
#10yrsago First-ever photo of light behaving as a wave and particle phys.org/news/2015-03-particle…
#10yrsago Three steps to save ourselves from firmware attacks eff.org/deeplinks/2015/03/hard…
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The first ever photograph of light as both a particle and wave
Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (Phys.org)Cory Doctorow
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#10yrsago Razorhurst: blood-drenched gang warfare and ghosts in Gilded Age Sydney memex.craphound.com/2015/03/03…
#5yrsago Japanese condiment company releases "sliced mayo" pluralistic.net/2020/03/03/jus…
#5yrsago Recycling spy agencies' malware for fun and profit pluralistic.net/2020/03/03/jus…
#5yrsago Facebook neutered "Download Your Data" pluralistic.net/2020/03/03/jus…
#5yrsago A Lever Without a Fulcrum Is Just a Stick pluralistic.net/2020/03/03/jus…
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Razorhurst: blood-drenched gang warfare and ghosts in Gilded Age Sydney – Cory Doctorow's MEMEX
memex.craphound.comCory Doctorow
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#5yrsago EFF's Surveillance Self-Defense guide for students pluralistic.net/2020/03/03/jus…
#5yrsago The next frontier for school censorware is spying on kids all the time pluralistic.net/2020/03/02/be-…
#5yrsago My new podcast, "Disasters Don’t Have to End in Dystopia" pluralistic.net/2020/03/02/be-…
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Pluralistic: 02 Mar 2020 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.netCory Doctorow
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Saturday's threads: Zincchump Linkdump; and more!
mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11408674…
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Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic@mamot.fr)
Mamot - Le Mastodon de La Quadrature du NetCory Doctorow
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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.
us.macmillan.com/books/9781250…
Signed copies from Chevalier's Books:
chevaliersbooks.com/product-pa…
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My latest nonfiction book is "The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation" from Verso Books:
seizethemeansofcomputation.org
Signed copies available from Book Soup:
booksoup.com/book/978180429124…
Both are national bestsellers!
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Book details - Macmillan Publishers
MacmillanCory Doctorow
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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."
craphound.com/shop/
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Shop | Cory Doctorow's craphound.com
craphound.comChristian Tietze
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dandels
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •I'm so happy to see someone able to articulate my private thoughts.
I have a less capitalistic take on this though - I'd like to see the EU or even individual member states invest in a Digital Sovereignty programme where they have their own developers working to improve OSS software in order to transition away from things like Windows/O365 (almost) entirely. You could do both a lot of software dev and a lot of meaningul IRL things with money that is not spent on software licensing.
This probably sounds a lot like cliché FOSS advocacy,
Besides, the Real(tm)capitalists out there could rejoice if most of the software they use is free - that would bring the cost of doing business down, making it easier to "innovate" or something.
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GhostOnTheHalfShell
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •“ Tariffs will cause breakdowns in neoliberalism's fragile supply chains, and the ensuing chaos – mass unemployment, shortages, political rage – will make it even harder for countries (including the USA) to rebuild the productive capacity vaporized by 40 years of neoliberalism.”
Sadly, the far right has kept far ahead of the damage they self inflicted. They’ve been blaming democracy and an open society on the consequences of their own deliberate destruction of our sovereignty
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GhostOnTheHalfShell
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in reply to GhostOnTheHalfShell • • •Props to Cory for spreading this idea.
“Governments around the world signed up to protect giant American companies from small domestic competitors (from local app stores – for phones, games consoles, and IoT gadgets – to local printer cartridge remanufacturers) on the promise of tariff-free access to US markets. With Trump imposing tariffs will-ye or nill-ye on America's trading partners large and small, there is no reason to go on delivering rents to US Big Tech.”
#politics
Cavyherd
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •It's really disturbing that that particular comb-over is so recognizable....
(& seems to be becoming less convincing by the day....)
Fitz Bushnell
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •"Truly, it would be a rising tide that lifted all boats (except for oligarchs' superyachts – those, it will swamp and sink)."
Boy, that sounds great!
(in a Stephen Furst / Flounder voice)
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kryptec
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •going after IP rights like this seems like it should be a no brainer, especially consdering much of it should never have become law in the first place.
I have noticed almost all politicians have pretty much refused to engage with it so far though. With the right push I bet we can have at least one Canadian party put it in their platform for this election.
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sleepy62🍁🛠️ 🖥️ 🔬 🌞
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •"In times of crisis, ideas can move from the periphery to the center in an eyeblink."
I hope the Canadian government is considering some of these ideas.Tit for tat tariffs make no sense. Hit them where it hurts.
#cdnpoli
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Jerome
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