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Inside: Bridget Read's 'Little Bosses Everywhere'; and more!
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Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: Bridget Read's 'Little Bosses Everywhere'; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2025/05/05/fre…
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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 #PITTSBURGH at White Whale Books on May 15:
whitewhalebookstore.com/events…
and then in #PDX at Barnes and Noble on Jun 20:
More tour dates (#London, #Manchester) here:
martinhench.com
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White Whale Bookstore
whitewhalebookstore.comCory Doctorow
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Bridget Read's 'Little Bosses Everywhere': America is a Ponzi scheme.
mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11445555…
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Cory Doctorow
2025-05-05 13:53:44
Cory Doctorow
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Hey look at this
* Spotify already has an app ready to test Apple’s new rules theverge.com/news/659891/spoti… (h/t Slashdot)
* DOJ confirms it wants to break up Google’s ad business arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
* 2025 Locus Awards Top Ten Finalists locusmag.com/2025/05/2025-locu… (The Bezzle is a finalist!)
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DOJ confirms it wants to break up Google’s ad business
Ryan Whitwam (Ars Technica)Cory Doctorow
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#20yrsago Haunted Mansion executed in sand web.archive.org/web/2005050715…
#20yrsago Ukranian TV sign-language interpreter blew whistle on crooked vote web.archive.org/web/2005050315…
#20yrsago 3D printer made from Meccano and hot-glue blog.rebang.com/?p=101
#20yrsago Brazil rejects Bush’s faith-based AIDS money theguardian.com/world/2005/may…
#20yrsago Boy Scout badge in Intellectual Property web.archive.org/web/2005052208…">
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Brazil spurns US terms for Aids help
Sarah Boseley (The Guardian)Cory Doctorow
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#15yrsago Satellite photos catch Greek tax-evaders nytimes.com/2010/05/02/world/e…
#15yrsago Six reasons to hate Facebook’s new anti-privacy system, “Connections” eff.org/deeplinks/2010/05/thin…
#15yrsago Viacom is becoming a lawsuit company instead of a TV company theguardian.com/technology/blo…
#15yrsago Bruce Schneier explains how to prevent terrorist attacks like Times Square car-bomb archive.nytimes.com/roomfordeb…
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Viacom v YouTube is a microcosm of the entertainment industry
Cory Doctorow (The Guardian)Cory Doctorow
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#15yrsago London cops’ signs in Internet cafe warn against loading porn and “extremism” flickr.com/photos/doctorow/458…
#15yrsago Windsor Executive Solutions: Bruce Sterling and Chris Nakashima-Brown’s transhuman monarch story futurismic.com/2010/05/04/new-…
#15yrsago BBC to project real-time election results on Big Ben’s tower news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/po…
#15yrsago Pratchett: Doctor Who isn’t science fiction web.archive.org/web/2010050614…
#15yrsago HOWTO live out of your car reddit.com/r/reddit.com/commen…
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No porn or jihadis, sign, Internet Cafe, Leather Lane, Clerkenwell, London, UK
FlickrCory Doctorow
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#15yrsago Star Wars Loteria tribute web.archive.org/web/2010050520…
#10yrsago FBI replies to Stingray Freedom of Information request with 5,000 blank pages techdirt.com/2015/05/01/fbi-ha…>
#10yrsago Court says DEA is allowed to secretly fill your truck with weed, get into firefights with Zetas techdirt.com/2015/05/01/who-pa…
#10yrsago Disrupting Richard Scarry welcometobusinesstown.tumblr.c…
#10yrsago Every question in every Q&A session web.archive.org/web/2015050215…
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A $1 Wager That Warchalking Does Not Exist
TechdirtCory Doctorow
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#10yrsago Algorithmic guilt: using secret algorithms to kick people off welfare slate.com/technology/2015/04/t…
#5yrsago Kim Stanley Robinson on "our rewritten imagination" pluralistic.net/2020/05/02/rew…
#5yrsago Ticketmaster gets $500m from Mohammad bin Salman pluralistic.net/2020/05/02/rew…
#5yrsago How "contact tracing" apps could be worse than useless pluralistic.net/2020/05/02/rew…
#5yrsago Prisons, meatpacking plants, nursing homes pluralistic.net/2020/05/02/rew…
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The Dangers of Letting Algorithms Decide Who Is Eligible for Welfare
Virginia Eubanks (Slate)Cory Doctorow
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#5yrsago My talk at Republica online pluralistic.net/2020/05/02/rew…
#5yrsago The Making of Prince of Persia pluralistic.net/2020/05/03/giv…
#5yrsago Lockdown CO2 and structural roots of the climate emergency pluralistic.net/2020/05/03/giv…
#5yrsago XML inventor quits Amazon over whistleblower firings pluralistic.net/2020/05/04/whi…
#5yrsago The failure of software licensing pluralistic.net/2020/05/04/whi…
#5yrsago Wired workers have unionized pluralistic.net/2020/05/04/whi…
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Pluralistic: 02 May 2020 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.netCory Doctorow
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#5yrsago Hospital CEOs making millions amid cuts pluralistic.net/2020/05/04/whi…
#5yrsago Pandemic could make Big Tech our permanent overlords pluralistic.net/2020/05/04/whi…
#1yrago Rosemary Kirstein's "The Steerswoman" pluralistic.net/2024/05/04/the…
#1yrago Google is (still) losing the spam wars to zombie news-brands pluralistic.net/2024/05/03/key…
#1yrago CDA 230 bans Facebook from blocking interoperable tools pluralistic.net/2024/05/02/kai…
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Pluralistic: 04 May 2020 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.netCory Doctorow
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Friday's threads: AI and the fatfinger economy; and more!
mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11444020…
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Cory Doctorow
2025-05-02 20:50:14
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:
* #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…
* #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…
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White Whale Bookstore
whitewhalebookstore.comCory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* #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…
* #NewOrleans: DeepSouthCon63, Oct 10-12, 2025
contraflowscifi.org/
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Cory Doctorow – The Fight Against the Big Tech Oligarchy | How To Academy
How To AcademyCory Doctorow
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Recent appearances:
* How Enshittification Conquered the 21st Century and How We Can Overthrow It (Cloudfest)
youtube.com/watch?v=_Ai-fC-2Bp…
* Move Fast and Break Kings
flipboard.video/w/2aH2AFNTPjcd…
* Beyond the Web (Ostrom Workshop)
youtube.com/watch?v=-WfO-9G4Eg…
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2025-04-24 21:42:39
Cory Doctorow
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Pluralistic: Bridget Read’s ‘Little Bosses Everywhere’ (05 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 #PITTSBURGH at White Whale Books on May 15:
whitewhalebookstore.com/events…
and then in #PDX at Barnes and Noble on Jun 20:
More tour dates (#London, #Manchester) here:
martinhench.com
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White Whale Bookstore
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