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Written by Cory Doctorow on 2024-10-18 at 22:13

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Blue states should play "constitutional hardball"; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/10/18/states-rights/

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Written by Cory Doctorow on 2024-10-18 at 22:13

Next Wednesday (October 23) at 7PM, I'll be in Decatur, GA, 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 2024-10-18 at 22:14

Blue states should play "constitutional hardball": Scooping up medical professionals, teachers, doctors and anyone with a trans kid.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113330678990019698

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Written by Cory Doctorow on 2024-10-18 at 22:14

Hey look at this

• Organized Money https://www.organizedmoney.fm

• The FTC is finally making it easier to cancel your gym membership https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/16/24271649/ftc-click-to-cancel-subscriptions-final-rule

• EFF and IFPTE Local 20 Attain Labor Contract https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-and-ifpte-local-20-attain-labor-contract

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Written by Cory Doctorow on 2024-10-18 at 22:14

[#]20yrsago Interview with me on All About Symbian https://web.archive.org/web/20041209231331/http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/features/viewarticle.php?id=110

[#]20yrsago Weinberger: Photo-organizing infocalypse looms https://web.archive.org/web/20040715000000*/http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.10/photo.html

[#]10yrsago Comcast not welcome in Worcester, Mass thanks to bad customer service https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/10/its-a-terrible-company-comcast-not-welcome-in-city-council-says/

[#]10yrsago Justin Hall at @xoxo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mE6xyFyv7xk

[#]10yrsago Umbrella Revolution protesters retake the streets https://web.archive.org/web/20141020034358/http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/content/chaos-hong-kong-protest-camp-police-use-batons-pepper-spray-repel-surge-protesters

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Written by Cory Doctorow on 2024-10-18 at 22:15

[#]10yrsago CTO of NSA is moonlighting for Keith Alexander’s blue-chip rent-a-cybercops https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/oct/17/senior-nsa-official-moonlighting-private-cybersecurity-firm

[#]10yrsago If you don’t agree to the new Wii U EULA, Nintendo will kill-switch it https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/10/nintendo-updates-take-wii-u-hostage-until-you-agree-new-legal-terms

[#]10yrsago Canadian government threatens bird watchers for writing concerned letter about bee die-off https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/revenue-canada-targets-birdwatchers-for-political-activity-1.2799546

[#]5yrsago Design fiction, politicized: the wearable face projector https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PoudPCevN0

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Written by Cory Doctorow on 2024-10-18 at 22:15

[#]5yrsago Cable is bullshit, and so is 5G: give me fiber or give me death! https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/10/why-fiber-vastly-superior-cable-and-5g

[#]5yrsago Relatives and cronies of Cambodia’s dictator have bought “golden passports” from Cyprus and exfiltrated millions https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/cambodia-hunsen-wealth/

[#]5yrsago Berkeley city council unanimously votes to ban facial recognition technology https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/10/victory-berkeley-city-council-unanimously-votes-ban-face-recognition

[#]5yrsago Greta Grotesk: a font based on Greta Thunberg’s hand-lettered signs https://drive.google.com/file/d/1f6JdU9jG6J69mngi5-xYwbKXtCcnslJo/view

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Written by Cory Doctorow on 2024-10-18 at 22:15

[#]5yrsago Leaks reveal how creepy, cultish monopolist Intuit lobbied Congress and the IRS to kill free tax-filing https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-turbotax-20-year-fight-to-stop-americans-from-filing-their-taxes-for-free#168905

[#]5yrsago 6 years after expose revealed docs taking millions from pharma companies, it’s only getting worse https://www.propublica.org/article/we-found-over-700-doctors-who-were-paid-more-than-a-million-dollars-by-drug-and-medical-device-companies#169337

[#]5yrsago Pacifica Radio ignores injunction, continues to play canned content on NYC’s WBAI https://gothamist.com/news/judge-rules-wbai-can-return-air-owners-refuse-comply

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Written by Cory Doctorow on 2024-10-18 at 22:15

[#]5yrsago McSweeney’s: sure, Bernie is incredibly popular, but can he sway the “completely hateable assholes, who want what’s worst for everyone?” https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/bernies-policies-are-good-but-how-can-he-appeal-to-the-absolute-worst-people-ever

[#]5yrsago The first book collecting the new Nancy comic is incredibly, fantastically, impossibly great https://memex.craphound.com/2019/10/17/the-first-book-collecting-the-new-nancy-comic-is-incredibly-fantastically-impossibly-great/

[#]1yrago Deb Chachra's "How Infrastructure Works" https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/17/care-work/#charismatic-megaprojects

[#]1yrago What Americans want https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/18/the-people-no/#tell-ya-what-i-want-what-i-really-really-want

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Toot

Written by Cory Doctorow on 2024-10-18 at 22:16

Thursday's threads: You should be using an RSS reader; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113318050302408269

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Descendants

Written by Cory Doctorow on 2024-10-18 at 22:16

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 2024-10-18 at 22:16

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 2024-10-18 at 22:16

Upcoming appearances:

• SOSS Fusion (Atlanta), Oct 22

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

• Eagle Eye Books (Decatur, GA), 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 2024-10-18 at 22:17

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 2024-10-18 at 22:17

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Written by Cory Doctorow on 2024-10-18 at 22:17

Next Wednesday (October 23) at 7PM, I'll be in Decatur, GA, 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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