Plinkpump linkdump: A blogging sabbath.

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Cory Doctorow

2025-05-17 15:17:34

Every now and again, I reach the end of the week with more stray links that I've been able to squeeze into the newsletter, and when that happens it's time for a linkdump. This is linkdump number 31; here's 1-30:

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linkdump – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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#20yrsago Dave Matthews’s new CD DRM crashes PCs ma.tt/2005/05/dave-matthews-st…

#15yrsago HOWTO Make a Admiral Ackbar paper-bag puppet web.archive.org/web/2010052503…

#10yrsago Self-sustaining botnet made out of hacked home routers arstechnica.com/information-te…

#10yrsago Leetspeak, circa 1901 slate.com/human-interest/2015/…

#10yrsago The business model of NSA apologists web.archive.org/web/2015051218…

#10yrsago Guard tells top senator that she can’t take notes on TPP web.archive.org/web/2015051311…

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#10yrsago Dragons Beware: Claudette’s back in the sequel to Giants Beware! memex.craphound.com/2015/05/12…

#10yrsago The Subprimes: a novel of the Piketty/Klein apocalypse web.archive.org/web/2019042505…"

#5yrsago Zuck wants Giphy pluralistic.net/2020/05/16/lab…

#5yrsago NYC teens fight period poverty pluralistic.net/2020/05/16/lab…

#5yrsago Democratize workplaces now pluralistic.net/2020/05/16/lab…

#5yrsago Rep Steve Cohen wants to clawback billionaires' bailout pluralistic.net/2020/05/16/lab…

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#5yrsago Plane ticket refunds (without airline cooperation) pluralistic.net/2020/05/12/evi…

#5yrsago Iceland's world-beating coronavirus app didn't help much pluralistic.net/2020/05/12/evi…

#5yrsago Adjacent, similar NYC neighborhoods with wildly different outcomes pluralistic.net/2020/05/12/evi…

#5yrsago The right's theories about human behavior are bankrupt pluralistic.net/2020/05/12/evi…

#1yrago Utah's getting some of America's best broadband pluralistic.net/2024/05/16/sym…

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Thursday's threads: Trump's CFPB kills data broker rule; and more!

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Cory Doctorow

2025-05-15 12:30:51

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Trump's CFPB kills data broker rule; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2025/05/15/ass…

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Pluralistic: Trump’s CFPB kills data broker rule (15 May 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory 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.

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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:

* Virtual: Writing to Resist (California Writers Club Berkeley), May 18:
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* #Seattle: Cascade PBS Ideas Festival, May 30
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* #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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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* #London: How To Academy with Riley Quinn, Jul 1
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* #Manchester: Picks and Shovels at Blackwell's Bookshop, Jul 2
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* #Manchester: Co-operatives UK Co-op Congress keynote, Jul 3
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* #NewOrleans: DeepSouthCon63, Oct 10-12, 2025
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Recent appearances:

* Fireside Fedi
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* Ctrl-ctrl-ctrl (Understood)
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* Remember when the internet was… good? What happened? (The Current)
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Fireside Fedi Videos

2025-05-14 03:53:21

Episode 16 - Cory Doctorow - Livestream 2025-05-13

Welcome Fedi Friends to episode 16 of Fireside Fedi! I'm your host ozoned. Fireside Fedi is a show about folks within the Fediverse. If you're seeing this, you are a part of the Fediverse.

With me today is Cory Doctorow! You might know Cory from such classics as the term "enshittification" that he coined during one of his many presentations. But besides having catch terms that even your grandparents can agree with about today's big tech platforms, Cory is also a science fiction author, activist and journalist. He's had a few books that us on the open social web might enjoy such as "How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism" and "The Internet Con : How to Seize the Means of Computation". Cory works for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, is a MIT Media Lab Research Affiliate, a visiting professor for numerous colleges. Cory holds and multiple honorary Doctorates. And might I add, I consider Cory to be one of the most charismatic and vocal advocates for digital privacy rights and I am claiming he is now King of the nerds. And there's just so much more to say about Cory, but I recommend everyone just go look up his Wikipedia, because if I have to talk about all of his accomplishments we'll run out of time. Cory thank you so much for joining me and I'm just blown away and honored to be able to speak to you.

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I'm on a 20+ city book tour for my new novel *Picks and Shovels*.

Catch me in #PDX with BUNNIE HUANG at Barnes and Noble on Jun 20:

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More tour dates (#London, #Manchester) here:

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