Today's threads (a thread).
Inside: Spaniards fight Wall Street landlords; The Tesla-financial complex; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2021/11/24/no-puedo-pagar-no-pagara/
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Are you going to San Diego Comic-Con? Me too!
* I'll be signing at the Mysterious Galaxy Booth (#1325) on Sunday from 12-12:45PM
* And I'll be on a panel, The Kids Are (Kinda) All Right, on Sunday from 1:30-230PM
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Spaniards fight Wall Street landlords: When margins and misery are correlated.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/107333506438781097
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The Tesla-financial complex: When your financial instruments are better than your cars.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/107333671784994809
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#10yrsago Russian social media erupts as Putin apparat tries to suppress video of booing crowd https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-15869047
#10yrsago Canadian indigenous band declares state of emergency due to horrific conditions, government takes no notice https://www.huffpost.com/archive/ca/entry/attawapiskat-emergency_b_1104370
#10yrsago European Court of Justice: spying with national copyright censorwalls is illegal https://torrentfreak.com/european-court-isps-cant-spy-on-pirating-customers-111124/
#10yrsago Why you shouldn’t parse HTML with regexp https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags/1732454#1732454
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#5yrsago Daily Mail finds new depths to plumb, blames hypothetical immigrants for neo-Nazi’s murder of Labour MP https://twitter.com/i/web/status/801771576056287232
#1yrago Talking interop on EFF's podcast https://pluralistic.net/2020/11/24/zawinskiian-carcination/#comcom
#1yrago Cheap Chinese routers riddled with backdoors https://pluralistic.net/2020/11/24/zawinskiian-carcination/#jetstream
#1yrago Emailifaction is digital carcinization https://pluralistic.net/2020/11/24/zawinskiian-carcination/#carcinization
#1yrago Saudi Aramco is gushing debt https://pluralistic.net/2020/11/24/zawinskiian-carcination/#gusher
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Yesterday's threads: The definitive answers to Disney's pernicious queueing debates; and more!
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/107327327782751759
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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 Dark Delicacies:
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 Tor Books, Head of Zeus, 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."
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Upcoming appearances:
* The Kids Are (Kinda) All Right (San Diego Comic-Con), Nov 28
https://www.eventeny.com/events/comiccon-special-edition-1800/?action=schedule-item&action_ops[item_id]=9591
* Internet Governance Forum (Warsaw), Dec 10
https://www.intgovforum.org/en/schedule/20211210
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Recent appearances:
* Policy, Profit, Privacy, and Privilege: The Post-Pandemic Future of Remote Testing Technology (ACM-USTPC):
https://www.acm.org/public-policy/ustpc/hottopics/remote-testing
* Alternative recommender systems in the DSA:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPuB4JRRhw0
* Move Fast and Fix Things (Aaron Swartz Day)
https://youtu.be/LAL5js2vl0E?t=7854
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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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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 "Apple’s Right-to-Repair U-turn":
https://medium.com/@doctorow/apples-right-to-repair-u-turn-e678cf138f74
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Today's top sources: Naked Capitalism (https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/), Kottke (https://kottke.org/).
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