Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: Social media needs (dumpster) fire exits; and more!
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Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: Social media needs (dumpster) fire exits; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2024/12/14/fir…
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Cory Doctorow
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Social media needs (dumpster) fire exits: No one wants to have a fire, but you need to plan for one anyway.
mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11365208…
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Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic@mamot.fr)
Mamot - Le Mastodon de La Quadrature du NetCory Doctorow
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Hey look at this
* It's Time to Break Up Big Medicine thebignewsletter.com/p/its-tim…
* 'Kids for Cash' Judge has sentence commuted by President Biden wnep.com/article/news/investig…
* I have a cunning plan ... antipope.org/charlie/blog-stat…
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It's Time to Break Up Big Medicine
Matt Stoller (BIG by Matt Stoller)Cory Doctorow
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#20yrsago Advertising techniques that Web-users hate nngroup.com/articles/most-hate…
#20yrsago Haunted Mansion’s cobwebbing-and-griming regimen web.archive.org/web/2004121611…
#15yrsago Danish police abuse climate-change demonstrators web.archive.org/web/2009121506…
#15yrsago Three strikes law reintroduced in New Zealand memex.craphound.com/2009/12/15…
#15yrsago SFPD won’t investigate hit-and-run car-v-bike accident web.archive.org/web/2009122011…
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The Most Hated Online Advertising Techniques
Therese Fessenden (Nielsen Norman Group)Cory Doctorow
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#15yrsago Comical legal case names kevinunderhill.typepad.com/low…
#10yrsago Photographer beaten, detained in London for being “cocky” to policeman who implies she is a terrorist youtube.com/watch?v=GAs4gZY1br…
#10yrsago HOWTO: Make glue-gun sticks out of sugar for building gingerbread houses memex.craphound.com/2014/12/15…
#10yrsago New York City’s worst landlords web.archive.org/web/2014121601…
#10yrsago Macedonia helped CIA kidnap and torture a German they mistook for a terrorist thelocal.de/20141210/cia-tortu…
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CIA tortured German it mistook for a terrorist
DPA/The Local (The Local Germany)Cory Doctorow
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#10yrsago Why it matters whether or not torture works theatlantic.com/health/archive…
#5yrsago Spain’s Xnet: leak-publishing corruption-fighters smh.com.au/world/spains-wikile…
#5yrsago DRM screws blind people wired.com/2014/12/e-books-for-…
#1yrago It all started with a mouse pluralistic.net/2023/12/15/mou…
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The Humane Interrogation Technique That Actually Works
Olga Khazan (The Atlantic)Cory Doctorow
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Yesterday's threads: The GOP is not the party of workers; and more!
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Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic@mamot.fr)
Mamot - Le Mastodon de La Quadrature du NetCory Doctorow
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My latest nationally bestselling novel is "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:
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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:
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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."
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Shop | Cory Doctorow's craphound.com
craphound.comCory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances:
* Should a Public Telecom Be An Election Issue/Davenport NDP (Remote), Dec 15
davenportndp.ca/public_telecom…
* ISSA-LA Holiday Celebration keynote (Los Angeles), Dec 18
issala.org/event/issa-la-decem…
* 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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December 18 ISSA-LA, AITP, CSA, ISC2, and WSC Holiday Celebration
Information Systems Security Association - Los AngelesCory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances:
* Should a Public Telecom Be An Election Issue/Davenport NDP (Remote), Dec 15
davenportndp.ca/public_telecom…
* ISSA-LA Holiday Celebration keynote (Los Angeles), Dec 18
issala.org/event/issa-la-decem…
* 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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December 18 ISSA-LA, AITP, CSA, ISC2, and WSC Holiday Celebration
Information Systems Security Association - Los AngelesCory Doctorow
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Recent appearances:
* Can we avoid the enshittification of clean-energy tech? (Volts.wtf)
volts.wtf/p/can-we-avoid-the-e…
* Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It (HOPE XV)
youtube.com/watch?v=YrciT_dc2s…
* How To Keep IoT From Becoming An IoTrash (@defcon)
youtube.com/watch?v=tA7bpp8qXx…
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Can we avoid the enshittification of clean-energy tech?
David Roberts (Volts)