Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: Trump's CFPB kills data broker rule; and more!
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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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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 TONIGHT (May 15) at White Whale Books:
whitewhalebookstore.com/events…
and then in #PDX with BUNNIE HUANG at Barnes and Noble on Jun 20:
stores.barnesandnoble.com/even…
More tour dates (#London, #Manchester) here:
martinhench.com
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White Whale Bookstore
whitewhalebookstore.comCory Doctorow
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Trump's CFPB kills data broker rule: "No longer necessary or appropriate."
mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11451180…
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Cory Doctorow
2025-05-15 12:18:39
Cory Doctorow
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Hey look at this
* EU ruling: tracking-based advertising by Google, Microsoft, Amazon, X, across Europe has no legal basis iccl.ie/digital-data/eu-ruling…
* Will Congress Legalize Mark Zuckerberg As Your Therapist? thebignewsletter.com/p/will-co…
* Is it Euro-poor, or Ameri-poor? walkingtheworld.substack.com/p… (h/t Mitch Wagner)
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Is it Euro-poor, or Ameri-poor?
Chris Arnade (Chris Arnade Walks the World)Cory Doctorow
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#20yrsago Legal fund for French blogger being sued by for criticizing his town web.archive.org/web/2005051803…
#10yrsago Stephen Harper extended music copyright to please US record industry lobbyist michaelgeist.ca/2015/05/harper…
#10yrsago Millennial justice web.archive.org/web/2015051417…
#5yrsago Tear gas ice-cream pluralistic.net/2020/05/15/out…
#5yrsago Whistleblower warns of massive mortgage fraud pluralistic.net/2020/05/15/out…
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Harper Letter to Music Canada on Budget Day Confirms Copyright Extension the Product of Industry Lobbying - Michael Geist
Michael GeistCory Doctorow
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#5yrsago A people's vaccine pluralistic.net/2020/05/15/out…
#5yrsago Google's GDPR reckoning pluralistic.net/2020/05/15/out…
#5yrsago Understanding Qanon pluralistic.net/2020/05/15/out…
#1yrago Even if you think AI search could be good, it won't be good pluralistic.net/2024/05/15/the…
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Pluralistic: 15 May 2020 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.netCory Doctorow
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Yesterday's threads: Are the means of computation even seizable? and more!
mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11450759…
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Cory Doctorow
2025-05-14 18:27:16
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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Cory 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), May 18:
cwc-berkeley.org/writing-to-re…
* #Seattle: Cascade PBS Ideas Festival, May 30
eventbrite.com/e/cascade-pbs-i…
* #PDX: Teardown 2025, Jun 20-22
crowdsupply.com/teardown/portl…
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White Whale Bookstore
whitewhalebookstore.comCory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* #PDX: Picks and Shovels with BUNNIE HUANG at Barnes and Noble, Jun 20
stores.barnesandnoble.com/even…
* #Tualatin Public Library, Jun 22:
tualatinoregon.gov/library/aut…
* #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:
* Fireside Fedi
video.firesidefedi.live/w/huev…
* Ctrl-ctrl-ctrl (Understood)
cbc.ca/listen/cbc-podcasts/135…
* Remember when the internet was… good? What happened? (The Current)
cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-63-…
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Cory Doctorow
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Cory Doctorow
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I'm on a 20+ city book tour for my new novel *Picks and Shovels*.
Catch me in #PITTSBURGH TONIGHT (May 15) at White Whale Books:
whitewhalebookstore.com/events…
and then in #PDX with BUNNIE HUANG at Barnes and Noble on Jun 20:
stores.barnesandnoble.com/even…
More tour dates (#London, #Manchester) here:
martinhench.com
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White Whale Bookstore
whitewhalebookstore.comMelissa
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I hate to assume but when EU court rules against TCF in this way re tracking and ads.. those companies have to obey?
(Can you tell I'm American...)
Cory Doctorow
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Jess F
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •I was horrified to realize that ReedPop is RELX's exhibition business. RELX is a data broker for ICE. ReedPop runs PAX, New York Comic Con, and probably other pop culture cons. I got a receipt directly from RELX when i bought my PAX ticket.
All that attendee data is likely shared with ICE, although this is an assumption. That's really unsafe for attendees. These cons need to change their exhibition vendor stat.
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