I'm touring my new, nationally bestselling novel *The Bezzle*! Catch me in Boston with Randall "XKCD" Munroe (Apr 11), then Providence (Apr 12) and beyond!

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Prison-tech company bribed jails to ban in-person visits: "The Bezzle" is everting.

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Cory Doctorow

2024-04-02 14:09:47

Beware of geeks bearing gifts. When prison-tech companies started offering "free" tablets to America's vast army of prisoners, it set off alarm-bells for prison reform advocates - but not for the law-enforcement agencies that manage the great American carceral enterprise.

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#5yrsago Bernie Sanders raises $18.2m from 525,000 small-money donors (including me) cnn.com/2019/04/02/politics/be…

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Yesterday's threads: Humans are not perfectly vigilant; and more!

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Cory Doctorow

2024-04-01 15:09:50

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Humans are not perfectly vigilant; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2024/04/01/hum…

#Pluralistic

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Upcoming appearances:

* Computer Pasts/Computer Futures (NYU/virtual), Apr 4
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* The Bezzle at Harvard Berkman-Klein Center, with Randall Munroe (Boston), Apr 11
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* RISD Debates in AI (Providence), Apr 12
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* The Bezzle at Anderson's Books (Chicago), Apr 17
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* Torino Tech Biennale, Apr 21
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (Winnipeg), May 2
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* Tartu Prima Vista Literary Festival, May 5-11
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* “Enshittification” and the Future of AI, with @timoreilly (virtual), May 14
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* Authorship in an Age of Monopoly and Moral Panics (San Francisco), May 17
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* Media Ecology Association keynote (Amherst, NY), Jun 6-9
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* American Association of Law Libraries keynote (Chicago), Jul 21
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* Cory Doctorow’s new tech crime thriller takes us back to the days of Yahoo! (Betakit)
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I'm touring my new, nationally bestselling novel *The Bezzle*! Catch me in Boston with Randall "XKCD" Munroe (Apr 11), then Providence (Apr 12) and beyond!

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this thread might help explain why @EndlessOS had limited success in this space with our open source Linux-based OS packed with offline productivity apps and learning resources…

huffpost.com/entry/tech-compan…

For the institutions we were able to get on board, it was a godsend—I truly think it helped change lives for the better. But those pilots were few and far between, perhaps due to pushback from the for-profit prison tech players? 🫤

Tech companies roll out digital education pilot to incarcerated youth

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