Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: Apple faces criminal sanctions for defying App Store antitrust order; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2025/05/01/its…
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Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: Apple faces criminal sanctions for defying App Store antitrust order; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2025/05/01/its…
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Cory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •I'm on a 20+ city book tour for my new novel *Picks and Shovels*.
Catch me in #NEWZEALAND at UNITY BOOKS in #AUCKLAND TODAY (May 2, 6PM):
eventbrite.co.nz/e/an-evening-…
and #WELLINGTON TOMORROW (May 3, 3PM):
unitybooks.co.nz/news-and-even…
More tour dates (PDX, Pittsburgh, London, Manchester) here:
martinhench.com
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SOLD OUT An Evening With Cory Doctorow
EventbriteCory Doctorow
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Apple faces criminal sanctions for defying App Store antitrust order: They lied to the judge, then covered it up, and now she's PISSED.
mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11443455…
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Cory Doctorow
2025-05-01 20:51:44
Cory Doctorow
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Hey look at this
* How an AI "therapist" relates to someone in active psychosis x.com/AISafetyMemes/status/191… (h/t Super Punch)
* The digital countermove to Trump tariffs ft.com/content/b882f3a7-f8c9-4…
* Cage-Tech cage-tech.com (h/t JWZ)
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The digital countermove to Trump tariffs
Cory Doctorow (Financial Times)Cory Doctorow
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#20yrsago Doonesbury on DRM web.archive.org/web/2005050117…
#15yrsago AT&T asks government to create national censorwall and system for disconnecting accused infringers arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
#15yrsago Asimov’s opens to electronic submission web.archive.org/web/2005051408…
#10yrsago Lego store detains 11 year old customer, accuses his father of being an unfit parent freerangekids.com/lego-store-d…
#10yrsago Telescreen watch: Vizio adds spyware to its TVs web.archive.org/web/2015090509…
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Lego Store Detains Boy, 11, for Being Too Young To Shop Alone - Free-Range Kids
lskenazy (Free-Range Kids)Cory Doctorow
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#5yrsago AMC: "We will never show another Universal movie" pluralistic.net/2020/04/30/day…
#5yrsago Financial services workers dying for junk mail pluralistic.net/2020/04/30/day…
#5yrsago Swedish covid death rates soar above neighbors' pluralistic.net/2020/04/30/day…
#5yrsago Medicare for All (Congressjerks) pluralistic.net/2020/04/30/day…
#5yrsago Berlin in color, after the Reich's fall pluralistic.net/2020/04/30/day…
#1yrago Live Nation/Ticketmaster is buying Congress pluralistic.net/2024/04/30/nix…
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Pluralistic: 30 Apr 2020 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.netCory Doctorow
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Yesterday's threads: Republicans want to force students to pay off scam college loans; and more!
mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11442992…
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Cory Doctorow
2025-05-01 01:15:07
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.
us.macmillan.com/books/9781250…
Signed copies from Chevalier's Books:
chevaliersbooks.com/product-pa…
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My latest nonfiction book is "The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation" from Verso Books:
seizethemeansofcomputation.org
Signed copies available from Book Soup:
booksoup.com/book/978180429124…
Both are national bestsellers!
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Book details - Macmillan Publishers
MacmillanCory Doctorow
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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."
craphound.com/shop/
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Shop | Cory Doctorow's craphound.com
craphound.comCory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances:
* #Auckland: Unity Books, May 2, 6PM
eventbrite.co.nz/e/an-evening-…
* #Wellington: Unity Books, May 3, 3PM
unitybooks.co.nz/news-and-even…
* #Pittsburgh: Picks and Shovels at White Whale Books, May 15
whitewhalebookstore.com/events…
* #Pittsburgh: PyCon, May 16
us.pycon.org/2025/schedule/
* Virtual: Writing to Resist (California Writers Club Berkeley):
cwc-berkeley.org/writing-to-re…
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SOLD OUT An Evening With Cory Doctorow
EventbriteCory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* #PDX: Teardown 2025, Jun 20-22
crowdsupply.com/teardown/portl…
* #PDX: Picks and Shovels with BUNNIE HUANG at Barnes and Noble, Jun 20
stores.barnesandnoble.com/even…
* #London: How To Academy with Riley Quinn, Jul 1
howtoacademy.com/events/cory-d…
* #Manchester: Picks and Shovels at Blackwell's Bookshop, Jul 2
eventbrite.co.uk/e/an-evening-…
* #Manchester: Co-operatives UK Co-op Congress keynote, Jul 3
uk.coop/events-and-training/ev…
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Cory Doctorow – The Fight Against the Big Tech Oligarchy | How To Academy
How To AcademyCory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* #NewOrleans: DeepSouthCon63, Oct 10-12, 2025
contraflowscifi.org/
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CONtraflow XI
www.contraflowscifi.orgCory Doctorow
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Recent appearances:
* Move Fast and Break Kings
flipboard.video/w/2aH2AFNTPjcd…
* Beyond the Web (Ostrom Workshop)
youtube.com/watch?v=-WfO-9G4Eg…
* Can we use the Internet for Democracy?
youtube.com/watch?v=Zh_HON6iql…
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2025-04-24 21:42:39
Cory Doctorow
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Pluralistic: Apple faces criminal sanctions for defying App Store antitrust order (01 May 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.netCory Doctorow
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I'm on a 20+ city book tour for my new novel *Picks and Shovels*.
Catch me in #NEWZEALAND at UNITY BOOKS in #AUCKLAND TODAY (May 2, 6PM):
eventbrite.co.nz/e/an-evening-…
and #WELLINGTON TOMORROW (May 3, 3PM):
unitybooks.co.nz/news-and-even…
More tour dates (PDX, Pittsburgh, London, Manchester) here:
martinhench.com
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SOLD OUT An Evening With Cory Doctorow
EventbriteFox in the Shell 💜🐾🦊
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First time I think that I've ever replied to your stuff, long time reader and fan of your books.
It's nice to see these corpo types finally get some real push back. We're all sick of being screwed around, so seeing a Judge take a hardline approach is really happy me making.
Now if we could just get more acountability like this...
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Cory Doctorow
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Fox in the Shell 💜🐾🦊
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Really hoping you're right.
Still, if nothing else, this, along with the Google stuff, definitely shows these people that they aren't as untouchable as they like to make themselves out to be.
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