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American corporate criminals in the crosshairs (finally): Lisa Monaco says she's gonna enforce those bullshit deferred prosecution agreements.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/107265404832012359

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#20yrsago Hilary Rosen's Speech At The O'Reilly P2P Conference https://web.archive.org/web/20020208015307/http://www.finetuning.com/rosenp2p10-06-2001.html

#20yrsago Al Gore actually won the election https://web.archive.org/web/20011112155418/https://www.salon.com/politics/wire/2001/11/12/recount/index.html

#10yrsago Minimum wage hike coming to Guangdong, the world’s factory https://theworld.org/dispatch/news/regions/asia-pacific/china/111109/china-economy-manufacturing-guangdong

#10yrsago Trial of Byron Sonne, security researcher jailed for publicizing flaws in Toronto G20 security https://web.archive.org/web/20111113040125/http://toronto.openfile.ca/toronto/text/ruse-violated-byron-sonnes-rights

#10yrsago Scotland Yard arrest EDL members over alleged plot to attack Occupy London https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2011/nov/11/edl-arrests-london-occupy-armistice-day

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#10yrsago How SOPA will attack the Internet’s infrastructure and security https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/11/hollywood-new-war-on-software-freedom-and-internet-innovation

#10yrsago Silicon Valley job fair for people who want jobs in India https://www.computerworld.com/article/2498773/looking-for-work--here-s-a-job-fair-touting-tech-openings-in-india.html

#10yrsago US college grads’ salaries in steep decline https://innovationandgrowth.wordpress.com/2011/10/01/the-state-of-young-college-grads-2011/

#5yrsago The internet’s core infrastructure is dangerously unsupported and could crumble (but we can save it!) https://fordfoundcontent.blob.core.windows.net/media/2976/roads-and-bridges-the-unseen-labor-behind-our-digital-infrastructure.pdf

#5yrsago America’s had worse presidential races than this https://loweringthebar.net/2016/11/worst-presidential-race.html

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#5yrsago A Spotify bug thrashed subscribers’ drives for the past five months https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/11/for-five-months-spotify-has-badly-abused-users-storage-drives/

#5yrsago Dennis the Dentist: on the unkillable wrongness of nominative determinism https://timharford.com/2016/11/rich-the-banker-whats-not-in-a-name/

#1yrago Xi on interop and lock-in https://pluralistic.net/2020/11/12/thats-what-xi-said/#with-chinese-characteristics

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Wednesday's threads: Risk compensation considered harmful; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/107253390195870116

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My latest book is Attack Surface, a sequel to my bestselling Little Brother books, now in paperback, wherever books are sold.

Signed copies at @darkdel:

https://www.darkdel.com/store/p1840/Cory_Doctorow_-__Attack_Surface_HB_%26_TPB.html#/

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My book "How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism" is a critique of Big Tech connecting conspiratorial thinking to the rise of tech monopolies (proposing a way to deal with both) is now out in paperback:

https://onezero.medium.com/how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism-8135e6744d59

Signed copies here:
https://www.darkdel.com/store/p2024/Available_Now%3A__How_to_Destroy_Surveillance_Capitalism.html

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My ebooks and audiobooks (from @torbooks, @HoZ_Books, @mcsweeneys, 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."

https://craphound.com/shop/

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Upcoming appearances:

* Move Fast and Fix Things (Aaron Swartz Day), Nov 13
https://twitter.com/AaronSwartzDay/status/1459149072778948609https://www.aaronswartzday.org/

* Policy, Profit, Privacy, and Privilege: The Post-Pandemic Future of Remote Testing Technology (ACM-USTPC), Nov 15
https://www.acm.org/public-policy/ustpc/hottopics/remote-testing

* Alternative recommender systems in the DSA: How to protect free expression, create competition and empower users all at once (Article 19)
https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_FrUPBi7oT-2YT-BtoJQTAg

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Recent appearances:

* Tales From the Bridge:
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1795352/9527530

* Seize the Means of Computation (Internet Archive):
https://youtu.be/pzMlOtrhEwc?t=2241

* Making Money (Desert Island Discworld)
https://www.desertislanddiscworld.com/episodes/6-1-cory-doctorow-and-making-money/

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My first picture book is out! It's called Poesy the Monster Slayer and it's an epic tale of bedtime-refusal, toy-hacking and monster-hunting, illustrated by Matt Rockefeller. It's the monster book I dreamt of reading to my own daughter.

https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/14/poesy-the-monster-slayer/#poesy

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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: https://pluralistic.net/2021/11/12/with-a-fountain-pen/

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If you're a Medium subscriber, you can read these - as well as previews of upcoming magazine columns and early exclusives on doctorow.medium.com.

My latest Medium column is "Bait and Switch: Capitalism’s Shell Game: From Robert Bork to John Deere"

https://medium.com/@doctorow/bait-and-switch-7f61cff85aa3

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