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Written by Cory Doctorow on 2024-10-14 at 16:54

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Dirty words are politically potent; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/10/14/pearl-clutching/

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Written by Cory Doctorow on 2024-10-14 at 16:54

On October 23 at 7PM, I'll be in Decatur, presenting my novel The Bezzle at Eagle Eye Books:

https://eagleeyebooks.com/event/2024-10-23/cory-doctorow

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Written by Cory Doctorow on 2024-10-14 at 16:55

Dirty words are politically potent: Why "enshittification" took hold.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113306708980756702

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Written by Cory Doctorow on 2024-10-14 at 16:55

Hey look at this

• Risks vs. Harms: Youth & Social Media https://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2024/10/09/risks-vs-harms-youth-social-media.html

• Privacy Policies of Sex Worker Directories https://sexworkersear.ch/2024/09/11/privacy-policies/

• "Small Yard, High Fence": These four words conceal a mess https://www.programmablemutter.com/p/small-yard-high-fence-these-four

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Written by Cory Doctorow on 2024-10-14 at 16:55

[#]15yrsago Finland makes broadband a right https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/finland-makes-1mb-broadband-access-a-legal-right/

[#]10yrsago Dead Set: Richard Kadrey’s young adult horror novel https://memex.craphound.com/2014/10/14/dead-set-richard-kadreys-young-adult-horror-novel/

[#]10yrsago Gamergate as a hate-group https://memex.craphound.com/2014/10/14/gamergate-as-a-hate-group/

[#]10yrsago Lamar “SOPA” Smith dispatches GOP commissars to National Science Foundation https://gizmodo.com/the-gop-intensifies-its-attacks-on-the-national-science-1645733575

[#]10yrsago Paolo Bacigalupi’s “The Doubt Factory” https://memex.craphound.com/2014/10/14/paolo-bacigalupis-the-doubt-factory/

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Written by Cory Doctorow on 2024-10-14 at 16:56

[#]5yrsago What it would cost to build Trump’s snake-and-alligator border moat https://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2019/10/snake-and-alligator-border-moat-budget-analysis/160350/

[#]5yrsago German bank robber staged a 5-day fillibuster with his legally guaranteed right to a post-sentencing “final word” https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/09/europe/bank-robbery-five-day-speech-intl-scli-grm/index.html

[#]5yrsago Apple told TV Plus showrunners to avoid plots that might upset Chinese officials https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/alexkantrowitz/apple-china-tv-protesters-hong-kong-tim-cook

[#]5yrsago China’s new cybersecurity rules ban foreign companies from using VPNs to phone home https://memex.craphound.com/2019/10/14/chinas-new-cybersecurity-rules-ban-foreign-companies-from-using-vpns-to-phone-home/

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Written by Cory Doctorow on 2024-10-14 at 16:56

[#]5yrsago Proof-of-concept supply-chain poisoning: tiny, undetectable hardware alterations could compromise corporate IT https://memex.craphound.com/2019/10/14/proof-of-concept-supply-chain-poisoning-tiny-undetectable-hardware-alterations-could-compromise-corporate-it/

[#]1yrago Leaving Twitter had no effect on NPR's traffic https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/14/freedom-of-reach/#ex

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Toot

Written by Cory Doctorow on 2024-10-14 at 16:56

Saturday's threads: Quinque gazump linkdump; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113295734678599483

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Descendants

Written by Cory Doctorow on 2024-10-14 at 16:56

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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Written by Cory Doctorow on 2024-10-14 at 16:56

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."

https://craphound.com/shop/

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Written by Cory Doctorow on 2024-10-14 at 16:57

Upcoming appearances:

• @okfn Tech We Want Online Summit (Remote), Oct 18

https://okfn.org/en/events/the-tech-we-want-online-summit/

• SOSS Fusion (Atlanta), Oct 22

https://sossfusion2024.sched.com/speaker/cory_doctorow.1qm5qfgn

• Eagle Eye Books (Decatur), Oct 23

https://eagleeyebooks.com/event/2024-10-23/cory-doctorow

• 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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Written by Cory Doctorow on 2024-10-14 at 16:57

Recent appearances:

• 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

• Go Fact Yourself

https://maximumfun.org/episodes/go-fact-yourself/ep-158-aida-rodriguez-cory-doctorow/

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Written by Cory Doctorow on 2024-10-14 at 16:57

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Written by Cory Doctorow on 2024-10-14 at 16:57

On October 23 at 7PM, I'll be in Decatur, presenting my novel The Bezzle at Eagle Eye Books:

https://eagleeyebooks.com/event/2024-10-23/cory-doctorow

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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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Written by Mushi on 2024-10-14 at 17:00

@pluralistic hey, Cory, for the past few days I’m just getting the same sequence of pictures (with some added) labeled “long thread “ with no other text except at the beginning, and no alt text for the pictures, I think there might be something wonky with your auto post set up

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Written by Cory Doctorow on 2024-10-14 at 17:04

@Mushi https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/16/how-to-make-the-least-worst-mastodon-threads/

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Written by Mushi on 2024-10-14 at 17:19

@pluralistic oh thanks, it’s just a bit jarring. I think I get what you want to do, and I like reading your stuff, but it’s just the “long thread cw “ thing with no context or alt text that might be disorienting. Sorry to be a nuisance

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