Drinkslump linkdump: Another busy week!

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Cory Doctorow

2025-05-24 18:05:39

It's linkdump time, in which I skillfully weave together all the links that I was too busy to cram into the week's newsletter issues. Here's the previous 31 (!) installments:

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linkdump – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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#20yrsago Pat York: dear friend, writer, Boing Boing guestblogger, RIP memex.craphound.com/2005/05/22…

#20yrsago Alan Moore tells DC Comics to get bent web.archive.org/web/2005052722…

#20yrsago Thurl Ravenscroft, RIP: voice of Haunted Mansion and Grinch song, Tony the Tiger web.archive.org/web/2005052522…

#20yrsago Dutch mayor wants to ban hacker con web.archive.org/web/2005052516…

#15yrsago Ireland’s largest ISP begins disconnecting users who are accused of piracy web.archive.org/web/2010060517…

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#15yrsago Mark Twain’s autobiography to be finally published, 100 years after his death the-independent.com/arts-enter…

#15yrsago Igor Stravinsky, arrested for “tampering” with the Star Spangled Banner, 1940 web.archive.org/web/2010052612…

#15yrsago Mechanical irising peephole mechanism talkshopbot.com/forum/showthre…

#15yrsago InfoLadies of Bangladesh revolutionize rural life theguardian.com/journalismcomp…

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#15yrsago Google and Viacom blend high-profile copyright suits with extreme profanity, as nature intended arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…

#15yrsago Google offers encrypted search eff.org/deeplinks/2010/05/goog…

#15yrsago The Boneshaker: magic, latter-day Bradburian novel for young adults memex.craphound.com/2010/05/21…

#15yrsago Scientology raid uncovers dossiers on local “enemies”: sexual habits, health info, political opinions ansa.it/web/notizie/rubriche/e…

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#15yrsago Cracked vs. RIAA damages web.archive.org/web/2010052402…

#10yrsago NSA wanted to hack the Android store cbc.ca/news/canada/spy-agencie…

#10yrsago GM says you don’t own your car, you just license it web.archive.org/web/2015052200…

#10yrsago Today’s terrifying Web security vulnerability, courtesy of the 1990s crypto wars memex.craphound.com/2015/05/21…

#10yrsago Mark Zuckerberg just dropped another $100M to protect his privacy slate.com/business/2015/05/tec…

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#10yrsago Paper on changing peoples’ minds about marriage equality retracted retractionwatch.com/2015/05/20…

#10yrsago The Man Who Sold The Moon memex.craphound.com/2015/05/22…

#10yrsago Popehat on depression web.archive.org/web/2015052401…

#10yrsago An Internet of Things that act like red-light cameras antipope.org/charlie/blog-stat…

#10yrsago danah boyd explains student privacy bills medium.com/message/which-stude…

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#10yrsago Hedge funds buy swathes of foreclosed subprimes, force up rents, float rent-bonds motherjones.com/politics/2014/…

#10yrsago Hacktivist sees too much, FBI lock him up on child-porn charges, produce no evidence newsweek.com/2015/05/29/porn-r…

#5yrsago Casio censors calculator modder's Github project pluralistic.net/2020/05/23/pen…

#5yrsago Covid apps and false positives pluralistic.net/2020/05/23/pen…

#5yrsago Physical BLINK tag pluralistic.net/2020/05/22/cri…

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#5yrsago Mum uses GDPR to force Gran to take down pics pluralistic.net/2020/05/22/cri…

#5yrsago Coronavirus has made the super-rich MUCH richer pluralistic.net/2020/05/22/cri…

#5yrsago Copyright bots are slaughtering classical musicians' performances pluralistic.net/2020/05/22/cri…

#5yrsago Oh Joy Sex Toy's new teen sex-ed book pluralistic.net/2020/05/22/cri…

#5yrsago How spy agencies targeted Snowden journalists pluralistic.net/2020/05/21/pro…

#5yrsago Monopolies killed corporate R&D pluralistic.net/2020/05/21/pro…

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#5yrsago Spotify's trying to kill podcasting pluralistic.net/2020/05/21/pro…

#5yrsago Black Americans' covid mortality is 2.5X white mortality pluralistic.net/2020/05/21/pro…

#5yrsago On Madame Leota's side-table pluralistic.net/2020/05/21/pro…

#5yrsago Private equity's healthcare playbook is terrifying pluralistic.net/2020/05/21/pro…

#5yrsago Patent troll sues ventilator makers pluralistic.net/2020/05/21/pro…

#5yrsago The Lost Cause and MMT pluralistic.net/2020/05/21/pro…

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#5yrsago Walt's grandson calls for Disney execs' bonuses to be canceled pluralistic.net/2020/05/21/pro…

#1yrago Linkrot pluralistic.net/2024/05/21/now…

#1yrago How finfluencers destroyed the housing and lives of thousands of people pluralistic.net/2024/05/22/kot…

#1yrago Red Lobster was killed by private equity, not Endless Shrimp pluralistic.net/2024/05/23/spi…

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Wednesday's threads: Strange Bedfellows and Long Knives; and more!

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Cory Doctorow

2025-05-21 14:30:30

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Strange Bedfellows and Long Knives; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2025/05/21/et-…

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Pluralistic: Strange Bedfellows and Long Knives (21 May 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from 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.

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Signed copies from Chevalier's Books:

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My latest nonfiction book is "The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation" from Verso Books:

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Signed copies available from Book Soup:

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Both are national bestsellers!

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Book details - Macmillan Publishers

New York Times bestseller Cory Doctorow's The Bezzle is a high stakes thriller where the lives of the hundreds of thousands of inmates in California’s pris...

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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."

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Upcoming appearances:

* #Seattle: Cascade PBS Ideas Festival, May 30
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* Virtual: Fediforum, Jun 5
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* #PDX: Teardown 2025, Jun 20-22
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* #PDX: Picks and Shovels with BUNNIE HUANG at Barnes and Noble, Jun 20
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* #Tualatin Public Library, Jun 22:
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* #London: How To Academy with Riley Quinn, Jul 1
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* #Manchester: Picks and Shovels at Blackwell's Bookshop, Jul 2
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* #Manchester: Co-operatives UK Co-op Congress keynote, Jul 4
uk.coop/events-and-training/ev…

* #NewOrleans: DeepSouthCon63, Oct 10-12, 2025
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Recent appearances:

* The Big Story
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* Keynote (Pycon)
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* Reclaiming the Internet (Easy Prey)
easyprey.com/reclaiming-the-in…

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Today's top sources: Hacker News (news.ycombinator.com/), Kottke (kottke.org/), Tim Harford (timharford.com/), Super Punch (superpunch.net/), Jamie Boyle (thepublicdomain.org/).

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I'm on a 20+ city book tour for my new novel *Picks and Shovels*.

Catch me in #PDX with BUNNIE HUANG at Barnes and Noble on Jun 20:

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More tour dates (#London, #Manchester) here:

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