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Note: This is my last edition of Pluralistic for a month or so. I'm having my other hip replaced tomorrow. It's a welcome occasion, but it does mean that I'll be mostly sidelined for some weeks. See you on the other side!

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Personnel are policy: The Dems may do something to materially improve voters' lives. Maybe.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/107598934591374057

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Podcasting "Science fiction is a Luddite Literature": My last pre-op podcast.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/107599044767052800

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#20yrsago Norwegian cops arrest DVD Jon https://www.wired.com/2002/01/norway-cracks-down-on-dvd-hacker/

#20yrsago The Web Runs on Love, Not Greed https://web.archive.org/web/20020204123233/http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/200201/msg00089.html

#20yrsago 23 Myths About the Internet https://web.archive.org/web/20020113023059/www.postget.com/get/article.php?newsid=80499

#15yrsago Roth’s “Plot Against America” – chilling alternate fascist America https://memex.craphound.com/2007/01/08/roths-plot-against-america-chilling-alternate-fascist-america/

#15yrsago Gerlado Rivera threatens to beat up Keith Olbermann https://web.archive.org/web/20070118214100/http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/news_local_namesblog/2007/01/geraldo_wants_t.html

#15yrsago "After the Siege" - my novella about the Siege of Leningrad http://www.infinitematrix.net/stories/shorts/after-the-siege.html

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#15yrsago Printcrime on Escape Pod https://escapepod.org/2007/01/09/ep-flash-printcrime/

#15yrsago RIP, Yvonne De Carlo https://web.archive.org/web/20070112102858/https://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/TV/01/10/obit.decarlo.ap/index.html

#15yrsago Spa offers "Blackberry Thumb" massages https://nymag.com/news/intelligencer/26034/index.html

#10yrsago Lockdown: The coming war on general-purpose computing https://memex.craphound.com/2012/01/10/lockdown-the-coming-war-on-general-purpose-computing/

#10yrsago How Mastercard and Visa rip off merchants with secret, 1,000-page “agreement” https://web.archive.org/web/20120112025923/https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/credit-card-firms-they-dont-just-steal-from-cardholders-20120109

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#10yrsago Fight PIPA, SOPA’s Senate cousin, with this Senate scorecard https://web.archive.org/web/20120109120411/www.sopaopera.org/protect-ip/

#10yrsago GameStop competitor: we’re not as bad as GameStop, but neither is getting kicked in the testicles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MPjJLJRYv8

#10yrsago Paul Ryan drops support for SOPA https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/o9gq7/reddit_successfully_pressures_rep_paul_ryan_rwi/

#10yrsago The Economist publishes pathetic advertorial for the City of London https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/01/ian-fraser-the-economist-loses-the-plot-with-this-shallow-pro-city-propaganda.html

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#5yrsago My first Enigma machine: Mattel once sold a Barbie typewriter with built-in crypto capabilities https://www.cryptomuseum.com/crypto/mehano/barbie/

#5yrsago FBI arrest the VW executive who stonewalled on the first Dieselgate reports for defrauding the US Government https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/09/business/volkswagen-diesel-emissions-investigation-settlement.html

#5yrsago Apple Store employees fired after accusations of snooping on customers’ devices for sexual selfies and sharing them https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/queensland/apple-store-photo-ring-scandal-in-brisbane-privacy-commissioner-weighs-in-20161013-gs1d83.html

#1yrago Impeachment and realignment https://pluralistic.net/2021/01/10/realignments/#realignments

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#1yrago Busting myths about the Night of the Short Fingers https://pluralistic.net/2021/01/10/realignments/#mythbusting

#1yrago Censorship, Parler and antitrust https://pluralistic.net/2021/01/09/the-old-crow-is-getting-slow/#deplatforming

#1yrago The City We Became https://pluralistic.net/2021/01/09/the-old-crow-is-getting-slow/#i-love-ny</a

#1yrago Mashapedia: A third-party glossary of the technical concepts from Attack Surface https://pluralistic.net/2021/01/09/the-old-crow-is-getting-slow/#what-do-you-know

#1yrago Crowdsourcing a list of bad cops https://pluralistic.net/2021/01/09/the-old-crow-is-getting-slow/#brady-bunch

#1yrago Militarizing cops was a failure https://pluralistic.net/2021/01/08/competition-is-killing-us/#leso

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#1yrago Predatory lender seeks national bank charter https://pluralistic.net/2021/01/08/competition-is-killing-us/#oportun

#1yrago Competition is Killing Us https://pluralistic.net/2021/01/08/competition-is-killing-us/#borked

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Friday's threads: Jackpot watch; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/107582258168126997

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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 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."

https://craphound.com/shop/

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Recent appearances:

* Moral Panic (Drug Science Podcast)
https://www.drugscience.org.uk/podcast/53-moral-panic-with-cory-doctorow/

* It Could Happen Here podcast
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-it-could-happen-here-30717896/episode/an-interview-with-author-cory-doctorow-90500468/

* Privacy, online platforms & misinformation (Northsec 2021)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bWrE458cwE

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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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Here's today's edition: https://pluralistic.net/2022/01/10/see-you-in-the-funny-papers/

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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 "The Internet Heist (Part II): From Broadcast Flags to the Analog Hole"

https://doctorow.medium.com/the-internet-heist-part-ii-cb2add31a4fb

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