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Cory Doctorow NONCONSENSUAL BLUE TICK Profile picture
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Nov 21, 2022 • 41 tweets • 37 min read • Read on X
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Inside: Universities secretly sold their students to online casinos; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2022/11/21/rah…

#Pluralistic 1/ A gaudy casino floor. In th...
My publisher @torbooks and @goodreads are drawing for a giveaway of advance copies of my next novel, "Red Team Blues," a Silicon Valley forensic accounting thriller about a cryptocurrency heist - If you're in the US or Canada, enter here to win a copy:

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Tomorrow (11/22), I'm hosting a @CalBookClub event with Kim Stanley Robinson where we'll be discussing his 1998 novel "The Gold Coast":

altaonline.com/california-boo… 3/
Universities secretly sold their students to online casinos: It's varsity-level corruption.

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Hey look at this

* Watch an @iFixit employee shoot a battery with a nailgun to teach us safety theverge.com/2022/11/18/234…

* Twitter Is Going Great twitterisgoinggreat.com (h/t @BoingBoing)

* "AOC" Handmade Moments/John Craigie (h/t Cindy Cohn) 5/ Image
#20yrsago BBC’s new site learns from you memex.craphound.com/2002/11/20/bbc…

#20yrsago Turducken: chicken-in-duck-in-turkey nytimes.com/2002/11/20/din…

#20yrsago The DMCA and the Mac web.archive.org/web/2002120419… 6/ Image
#20yrsago Ten Commandments judge Roy Moore overruled by Supreme Court salon.com/2005/06/28/ten…

#15yrsago Open Rights Groups – the first two years openrightsgroup.org/blog/open-righ…

#15yrsago Engraved Victorian tentacle-horrors from Dan Hillier danhillier.com 7/ Image
#15yrsago Disney lawyers enstupidize ride with dumb legal disclaimer flickr.com/photos/unsuper…

#15yrsago UK tax authorities repeatedly lose 25m peoples' tax records theguardian.com/politics/2007/… 8/ Image
#15yrsago Sardine in Outer Space: Cheerful anarchist comix for kids memex.craphound.com/2007/11/20/sar…

#15yrsago Time’s Joe Klein gets everything wrong in column about NSA domestic spying wired.com/2007/11/times-… 9/ Image
#10yrsago Five reasons to opt out of TSA pornoscanners this weekend huffpost.com/entry/5-reason…

#10yrsago Creationist fifth grade science textbook used in Louisiana public school buzzfeednews.com/article/andrew… 10/ Image
#10yrsago Toronto Mayor Rob Ford demonstrates his governance style memex.craphound.com/2012/11/21/tor…

#10yrsago Beyond the public debt: making a wider case for openness theguardian.com/technology/201… 11/ Image
#10yrsago US publishers sabotage treaty on the rights of people with print disabilities eff.org/deeplinks/2012…

#10yrsago Buyer beware: Nintendo nukes $400 worth of downloaded content during DRM-fail migration to Wii U arstechnica.com/gaming/2012/11… 12/ Image
#10yrsago Bibliomat: a vending machine for random rare and antiquarian books (with satisfying clunk) vimeo.com/53679084

#10yrsago Cowardice: Gutless House Republicans retract copyright paper in less than 24 hours techdirt.com/2012/11/17/tha… 13/ Image
#10yrsago Artist arrested at Oakland airport for wearing ornate watch cbsnews.com/news/man-with-…

#10yrsago Absurd licensing terms imposed on public domain works by libraries and museums papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf… 14/ Image
#10yrsago Solitaire.exe: a real deck of cards based on Windows 98 Solitaire evan-roth.com/work/solitaire…

#5yrsago After a Freedom of Information lawsuit, the White House visitor logs are now available online as a free searchable database projects.propublica.org/graphics/wh-co… 15/ Image
#5yrsago The stairs in a viral sensation public library in China run with blood, and its “books” are just sheets of aluminum screened with pictures of spines yahoo.com/news/chinas-fu… 16/ Image
#5yrsago The FCC will move to kill net neutrality over Thanksgiving and it thinks that we’ll all be too busy eating and shopping to notice techdirt.com/2017/11/21/fcc… 17/ Image
#5yrsago Paul Ryan imagines “Cindy,” a hypothetical beneficiary of his tax plan, doesn’t realize she and her child are starving to death shadowproof.com/2017/11/20/pau… 18/ Image
#5yrsago Trump’s Oklahoma campaign manager, who once introduced an anti-immigrant law to “stop sex trafficking of children,” admits to trafficking young boy for sex americanindependent.com/trump-campaign… 19/ Image
#5yrsago Wall Street and Trump are about to kill the CFPB, the only government agency that effectively polices bank scams, crimes and frauds theintercept.com/2017/11/18/wal… 20/ Image
#5yrsago Candid Wall Street barons worry that GOP tax plan will lead to literal euthanasia of the rentier vanityfair.com/news/2017/11/w… 21/
#5yrsago The Trump-funding, democracy-denying, Gawker-destroying Peter Thiel is finally no longer involved with Y Combinator buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanma… 22/ Image
#5yrsago Scientist puts his dog on the editorial boards of seven predatory journals as proof of their negligence perthnow.com.au/news/wa/the-pe… 23/ Image
#5yrsago Puerto Rico, abandoned by Trump and facing disaster capitalism looting by big business, turns to socialist and anarchist collectives to rebuild nybooks.com/online/2017/11… 24/ Image
#5yrsago America’s private health-care is rationed, but socialized medicine is luxury medicine jacobin.com/2017/11/single…

#5yrsago How technology’s built in “engagement maximization” destroys mental health in the Trump age, and what to do about it memex.craphound.com/2017/11/20/how… 25/ Image
#5yrsago After Roy Moore threatens to sue AL.com, the publisher puts him on notice to preserve all documents for their countersuit

#1yrago Inflation or price-gouging?: Big business loves inflation talk pluralistic.net/2021/11/20/qui… 26/ Image
#1yrago Harvard is full of rich, white low-achievers pluralistic.net/2021/11/18/bip…

#1yrago This is your Congress on drugs: Corruption kills pluralistic.net/2021/11/18/bip…

#1yrago Teamsters transformed pluralistic.net/2021/11/19/hof… 27/ Image
Thursday's threads: Private equity health-care monopolies are on a profitable killing spree; and more!

28/ Image: Rae Allen (modified...
My latest book is Chokepoint Capitalism (with @rgibli), nonfiction about monopoly and fairness in creative labor markets.

chokepointcapitalism.com

Signed copies available from @BookSoup:

booksoup.com/book/978080700… 29/
My latest novel is Attack Surface, a sequel to my bestselling Little Brother books, now in paperback, wherever books are sold.

Signed copies at @DarkDel:

darkdel.com/store/p1840/Co… 30/
My ebooks and audiobooks (from @torbooks, @HoZ_Books, @mcsweeneys, @BeaconPressBks et al) 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/ 31/ Image
Upcoming appearances:

* Kim Stanley Robinson's Gold Coast (@CalBookClub), Nov 22
altaonline.com/california-boo…

* Conversation with @superwuster, #Informed22/@knightfdn (Miami), 11/30:
informed22.interkinnect.com 32/ Image
Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* Library Learning Experience/@ALALibrary (New Orleans), 1/27-30
2023.alaliblearnx.org/cory-doctorow

* @Aus_Digital Copyright Forum (Canberra), 2/17:
digital.org.au/2022/11/08/doc… 33/ Image
Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* Antitrust, Regulation and the Political Economy (Brussels), Mar 2:
brusselsconference.com/registration 34/ Image
Recent appearances:

* @teamhumanshow interview
teamhuman.fm/episodes/229-c…

* How big tech traps consumers and shafts creators (@IrishTimes)
shows.acast.com/inside-politic…

* Copyright Waffle (@UKCopyrightLit)
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You can also follow these posts as a daily blog at pluralistic.net: no ads, trackers, or data-collection!

Here's today's edition: pluralistic.net/2022/11/21/rah… 36/
If you're a @Medium subscriber, you can read these essays - as well as previews of upcoming magazine columns and early exclusives on doctorow.medium.com. 37/
My latest @Medium column is "Anything That Can’t Go On Forever Will Eventually Stop: Ticketmaster and Ideas Lying Around"

doctorow.medium.com/anything-that-… 38/
If you prefer a newsletter, subscribe to the plura-list, which is also ad- and tracker-free, and is utterly unadorned save a single daily emoji. Today's is "🧟". Suggestions solicited for future emojis!

Subscribe here: pluralistic.net/plura-list 39/
Are you trying to wean yourself off Big Tech? Follow these threads on the #fediverse at @pluralistic@mamot.fr.

Here's today's edition: mamot.fr/@pluralistic/1… 40/
Today's top sources: @jstruan (superpunch.net). 41/ Image

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If Elon Musk wants to cut $2t from the US federal budget, there's a pretty straightforward way to get there - just eliminate all the beltway bandits who overcharge Uncle Sucker for everything from pharma to roads to (of course) rockets, and make the rich pay their taxes.

1/ A highwayman in a tailcoat and top-hat with Elon Musk's laughing face points a pair of oversized revolvers at a bent-double Uncle Sam, his face a bitter mask; Sam is being crushed under a small mountain of variegated fardels, e.g., large sacks, barrels, and railroad rails. In the background is a halftoned image of a Falcon Heavy rocket plummeting out of the sky, chased by a plume of flame. Image: Steve Jurvetson (modified) https://www.flickr.com/photos/jurvetson/52005460639/ CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/
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Jan 25
The core regulatory proposition of the tech industry is "it's not a crime if we do it with an app." It's not an unlicensed taxi if we do it with an app. It's not an illegal hotel room if we do it with an app.

1/ Two caricatures of top-hatted millionaires whose bodies are bulging money-sacks. Their heads have been replaced with potatoes. The potatoes' eyes have been replaced with the hostile red eye of HAL 9000 from Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' They stand in a potato field filled with stoop laborers. The sky is a 'code waterfall' as seen in the credit sequences of the Wachowskis' 'Matrix' movies. Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en
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Jan 24
"Boss politics" are a feature of corrupt societies. When a society is dominated by self-dealing, corrupt institutions, strongman leaders can seize control by appealing to the public's fury and desperation.

1/ An altered version of a Gilded Age editorial cartoon titled 'Who controls the Senate?' which depicts the Senate as populated by tiny, ineffectual politicians ringed by massive, bloated, brooding monopolists. A door labeled 'people's entrance.' is firmly locked. A sign reads, 'This is a senate of the monopolists, by the monopolists and for the monopolists.' The image has been altered: an editorial cartoon of Boss Tweed, portrayed as a portly man in a business suit with a money-bag for a head, stands in the foreground. He is wearing a MAGA hat. On his shoulder perches a tiny, 'big stick' swin...
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Then, the boss can selectively punish corrupt entities that oppose him, and since *everyone* is corrupt, these will be valid prosecutions.

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Jan 22
Turns out Donald Trump isn't the only world leader with a tech billionaire "first buddy" who gets to serve as an unaccountable, self-interested de facto business regulator. UK PM Kier Starmer has just handed the keys to the British economy over to Jeff Bezos.

1/ A vintage Puck cover illustration depicting a tophatted millionaire as a puppeteer, operating two marionettes, one dressed as a general, the other as a businessman. It has been altered: the puppeteer's face has been replaced with Jeff Bezos's. The general marionette's face has been replaced with Keir Starmer's. The other marionette's face has been replaced with a vintage oil pastel drawing of an outraged bricklayer in a folded paper hat. The puppet theater is surmounted by the UK royal crest. Image: UK Parliament/Maria Unger (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Keir_Starmer_...
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Oh, not literally. But here's what's happened: the UK's Competitions and Markets Authority, an organisation charged with investigating and punishing tech monopolists (like Amazon) has just been turned over to Doug Gurr, the guy who used to run Amazon UK.

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Jan 20
Many of us have left the big social media platforms; far more of us *wish* we could leave them; and even those of us who've escaped from Facebook/Insta and Twitter still spend a lot of time trying to figure out how to get the people we care about off of them, too.

1/ A page out of a medieval hand-illuminated grimoire; it is an illustration of a tree, with each branch terminating in a demon; these branches are annotated in an unknown script. The demons have been replaced with 19th century caricatures of shouting millionaire industrialists.
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We're less than a month into 2025 and I'm already overwhelmed by my backlog of links! Herewith, then, is my 25th linkdump post, a grab-bag of artful transitions between miscellaneous subjects. Here's the previous 24:



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