America is a scam: Welcome to the age of cheating.

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Cory Doctorow

2025-05-28 18:25:28

Donald Trump is many things: a racist, an authoritarian, a rapist... but what he is, and has always been, above all and from the very start, is a scammer:

washingtonpost.com/politics/do…

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Pluralistic: America is a scam (28 May 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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Hey look at this

* Support Peertube support.joinpeertube.org/en/#f… (h/t Fediverse Report)

* The Internet of Consent anildash.com/2025/05/27/2025-0…

* Donald Trump’s War on Gender Is Also a War on Government newyorker.com/news/the-lede/do… (h/t Corey Robin)

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#20yrsago Copyright prevented transmission of Beatles music to aliens memex.craphound.com/2005/05/29…

#10yrsago Pornoscanner lobbyist’s new job: overseeing TSA spending theintercept.com/2015/05/27/ts…

#5yrsago Canadian newsrooms restructure as co-ops pluralistic.net/2020/05/29/min…

#5yrsago GOP lawmaker hid his diagnosis from Democrats pluralistic.net/2020/05/29/min…

#5yrsago Walmart's crummy anti-theft AI pluralistic.net/2020/05/29/min…

#5yrsago Masks work pluralistic.net/2020/05/29/min…

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#5yrsago What to do about the police pluralistic.net/2020/05/29/min…

#5yrsago Private equity goes mainstream pluralistic.net/2020/05/29/min…

#5yrsago How the IoT reinforces gentrification pluralistic.net/2020/05/29/min…

#5yrsago Big Tech distorts our discourse pluralistic.net/2020/05/29/min…

#1yrago The Pizzaburger Presidency pluralistic.net/2024/05/29/sub…

#15yrsago Canadian students speak out against the Canadian DMCA youtube.com/watch?v=WA1RDyN7JT…

#10yrsago How metadata compromises you youtube.com/watch?v=xP_e56Dsym…

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#5yrsago Corporate Dems include military contractors in bailout pluralistic.net/2020/05/28/hol…

#5yrsago World video premiere of the Little Brother stage play pluralistic.net/2020/05/28/hol…

#5yrsago Wisconsin cases surge after voting day pluralistic.net/2020/05/28/hol…

#5yrsago Teardown of an "anti-5g" USB stick pluralistic.net/2020/05/28/hol…

#5yrsago California is setting itself up for a brutal second wave pluralistic.net/2020/05/28/hol…

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#5yrsago Why ammosexuals are REALLY pointing guns at their own dicks pluralistic.net/2020/05/28/hol…

#5yrsago "News" broadcasts air scripted Amazon commercial pluralistic.net/2020/05/28/hol…

#5yrsago Cuomo legalizes nursing-home murders pluralistic.net/2020/05/28/hol…

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Yesterday's threads: AI turns Amazon coders into Amazon warehouse workers; and more!

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Cory Doctorow

2025-05-27 18:31:17

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: AI turns Amazon coders into Amazon warehouse workers; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2025/05/27/ran…

#Pluralistic

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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.

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Signed copies from Chevalier's Books:

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My latest nonfiction book is "The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation" from Verso Books:

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Signed copies available from Book Soup:

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Both are national bestsellers!

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Book details - Macmillan Publishers

New York Times bestseller Cory Doctorow's The Bezzle is a high stakes thriller where the lives of the hundreds of thousands of inmates in California’s pris...

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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:

* #Seattle: Cascade PBS Ideas Festival, May 31
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* Virtual: Fediforum, Jun 5
fediforum.org/2025-06/

* #PDX: Teardown 2025, Jun 20-22
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* #PDX: Picks and Shovels with BUNNIE HUANG at Barnes and Noble, Jun 20
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* #Tualatin Public Library, Jun 22:
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* #London: How To Academy with Riley Quinn, Jul 1
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* #Manchester: Picks and Shovels at Blackwell's Bookshop, Jul 2
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* #Manchester: Co-operatives UK Co-op Congress keynote, Jul 4
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* #NewOrleans: DeepSouthCon63, Oct 10-12, 2025
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Recent appearances:

* The Rideshare Guy
youtube.com/watch?v=iKeoCxJWVV…

* Kick 'Em In the Dongle (Understood)
cbc.ca/listen/cbc-podcasts/135…

* The Big Story
seekyoursounds.com/podcasts/th…

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HEY #SEATTLE! I'm appearing at the Cascade PBS Ideas Festival THIS SATURDAY (May 31) with the folks from NPR's On The Media!

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Cory Doctorow at Cascade PBS Ideas Festival

Cory Doctorow (craphound.com) is a science fiction author, activist and journalist. He is the author of many books, most recently PICKS AND SHOVELS and THE BEZZLE (followups to RED TEAM BLUES) and THE LOST CAUSE, a solarpunk science fiction novel of …

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