Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: It's not a crime if we do it with an app; and more!
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Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: It's not a crime if we do it with an app; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2025/01/25/pot…
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Cory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •*Picks and Shovels* is a new, standalone technothriller starring Marty Hench, my two-fisted, hard-fighting, tech-scam-busting forensic accountant. You have JUST TWO MORE DAYS to pre-order it on my latest Kickstarter, which features a brilliant audiobook read by Wil Wheaton:
martinhench.com
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Cory Doctorow
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It's not a crime if we do it with an app: How Big Potato and the other food cartels did greedflation and got away with it.
mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11389017…
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Cory Doctorow
2025-01-25 17:28:50
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Cory Doctorow
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Hey look at this
* TikTok’s “cute winter boots” meaning explained usermag.co/p/tiktok-cute-winte…
* Book Review: 'Picks and Shovels' with a Bonus 'Bezzle' geekdad.com/2025/01/book-revie…
* Series of the Month: Martin Hench Novels by Cory Doctorow lovereading.co.uk/blog/series-…
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TikTok’s “cute winter boots” meaning explained
Taylor Lorenz (User Mag)Cory Doctorow
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#20yrsago What if Bill Gates hired Linus Torvalds? web.archive.org/web/2005020715…
#15yrsago Rogers Canada forces Android update that takes away root access mobile.slashdot.org/story/10/0…
#15yrsago Sane copyright doesn’t treat all copying as the same theguardian.com/technology/201…
#15yrsago ACTA: the leaked secret memos web.archive.org/web/2010013000…
#10yrsago Plan C: The top secret Cold War plan for martial law in the USA muckrock.com/news/archives/201…
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Copyright, companies, individuals and news: the rules of the road
Cory Doctorow (The Guardian)Cory Doctorow
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#10yrsago Google strong-arms indie musicians into accepting brutal, crowdfunding-killing deal for streaming service zoekeating.tumblr.com/post/108…
#10yrsago Great Firewall of Cameron blocks sex-abuse charities theguardian.com/technology/201…
#10yrsago The Haunted Mansion was almost the Tiki Room longforgottenhauntedmansion.bl…
#5yrsago Two years after a federal law banning shackling women during childbirth was passed, prisoners in America are still giving birth in chains theguardian.com/us-news/2020/j…
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Pregnant and shackled: why inmates are still giving birth cuffed and bound
Guardian staff reporter (The Guardian)Cory Doctorow
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#5yrsago Andrew Cuomo’s naked hostility drives out MTA president Andy Byford, the “Train Daddy” who has transformed the world’s rail systems railwayage.com/passenger/you-b…
#5yrsago Fatal car wrecks are correlated with stock-market fluctuations sciencedirect.com/science/arti…
#5yrsago Banks have returned to the pre-2008 world of automatic credit-limit increases for credit cards used by already indebted people bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…
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Bloomberg - Are you a robot?
www.bloomberg.comCory Doctorow
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#1yrago The long sleep of capitalism's watchdogs pluralistic.net/2024/01/26/noc…
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Pluralistic: The long sleep of capitalism’s watchdogs (26 Jan 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.netCory Doctorow
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Yesterday's threads: The first days of Boss Politics Antitrust; and more!
mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11388489…
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Cory Doctorow
2025-01-24 19:06:45
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:
* Picks and Shovels with Ken Liu (Boston), Feb 14
brooklinebooksmith.com/event/2…
* Picks and Shovels with Charlie Jane Anders (Menlo Park), Feb 17
keplers.org/upcoming-events-in…
* Picks and Shovels with Wil Wheaton (Los Angeles), Feb 18
dieselbookstore.com/event/Cory…
* Picks and Shovels with Dan Savage (Seattle), Feb 19
eventbrite.com/e/cory-doctorow…
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Cory Doctorow with Charlie Jane Anders — Kepler's Literary Foundation
Kepler's Literary FoundationCory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances:
* Picks and Shovels with Ken Liu (Boston), Feb 14
brooklinebooksmith.com/event/2…
* Picks and Shovels with Charlie Jane Anders (Menlo Park), Feb 17
keplers.org/upcoming-events-in…
* Picks and Shovels with Wil Wheaton (Los Angeles), Feb 18
dieselbookstore.com/event/Cory…
* Picks and Shovels with Dan Savage (Seattle), Feb 19
eventbrite.com/e/cory-doctorow…
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Cory Doctorow with Charlie Jane Anders — Kepler's Literary Foundation
Kepler's Literary FoundationCory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* Picks and Shovels with Lee Vinsel (Richmond, VA), Mar 5
fountainbookstore.com/events/1…
* Picks and Shovels at First Light Books (Austin), Mar 10
thethirdplace.is/event/cory-do…
* Picks and Shovels at Dark Delicacies (Burbank), Mar 13
darkdel.com/store/p3257/Thu%2C…
* Cloudfest (Europa Park), Mar 17-20
cloudfest.link/
* Picks and Shovels at Imagine! Belfast (Remote), Mar 24
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Thu, Mar 13th 6 pm: Pick & Shovel: A Martin Hench Novel HB
Dark DelicaciesCory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd)
* ABA Techshow (Chicago), Apr 3
techshow.com/
* Teardown 2025 (PDX), Jun 20-22
crowdsupply.com/teardown/portl…
* DeepSouthCon63 (New Orleans), Oct 10-12, 2025
contraflowscifi.org/
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ABA TECHSHOW
www.techshow.comCory Doctorow
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Recent appearances:
* A radical plan to fight U.S. tariffs and build an export industry jailbreaking consumer products from iPhones to tractors
cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-14-…
* Right to Repair with Karen Sandler (Software Freedom Conservancy):
videos.trom.tf/w/q1AAL629GYMFt…
* Just Say It's Capitalism (This Week in Tech)
twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tec…
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Just Say It's Capitalism | TWiT.TV
TWiT.tvCory Doctorow
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Pluralistic: It’s not a crime if we do it with an app (25 Jan 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.netCory Doctorow
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Today's top sources: Bruce Schneier (schneier.com/crypto-gram/)
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Crypto-Gram Newsletter - Schneier on Security
Schneier on SecurityCory Doctorow
2025-01-25 17:40:27
Cory Doctorow
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*Picks and Shovels* is a new, standalone technothriller starring Marty Hench, my two-fisted, hard-fighting, tech-scam-busting forensic accountant. You have JUST TWO MORE DAYS to pre-order it on my latest Kickstarter, which features a brilliant audiobook read by Wil Wheaton:
martinhench.com
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Scrape
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •I enjoyed the article on enshittification via apps. I have now removed Facebook and many other apps from my phone, and replaced them with Firefox and/or DuckDuckGo browser links. That said, I'd be interested in your thoughts on trust/security.
The same technology that allows for odious DRM, and which (potentially) protects apps from modification vs. browsers (namely,
secure processing nodes and software authentication) are also the Root of Trust/Security
Scrape
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •I enjoyed the article on enshittification via apps. I have now removed Facebook and many other apps from my phone, and replaced them with Firefox and/or DuckDuckGo browser links. That said, I'd be interested in your thoughts on trust/security.
The same technology that allows for odious DRM, and which (potentially) protects apps from modification vs. browsers (namely,
secure processing nodes and software authentication) are also the Root of Trust/Security