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As stocks tumble, wealthy speculators bid up house prices: The long-run effect of Obama's choice to bail out lenders, not borrowers.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/107695601343499421

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Cops' imaginary fears send addicts to real jail: The deadly myth of the fentanyl contact high.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/107695728543448982

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#20yrsago John Ashcroft covers up blind justice's booby https://web.archive.org/web/20020124151626/https://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/HallsOfJustice/hallsofjustice.html

#15yrsago Google founder regrets censoring China https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2007/jan/27/news.newmedia

#15yrsago Japan’s health minister: Women are “birth-giving machines” https://web.archive.org/web/20070305015449/http://www.tokyomango.com/tokyo_mango/2007/01/health_minister.html

#10yrsago Here’s the utterly inconsequential recording that resulted in NZ PM John Key ordering raids on the free press https://web.archive.org/web/20120130200045/https://juha.saarinen.org/7955

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#10yrsago Polish MPs wear Guy Fawkes masks to protest ACTA https://web.archive.org/web/20120127040038/http://sg.news.yahoo.com/poland-signs-copyright-treaty-drew-protests-102302237.html

#10yrsago Twitter adopts country-specific censorship regime – how will that work? https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2012/jan/27/twitter-censor-tweets-by-country

#10yrsago Software piracy is vital to preservation https://web.archive.org/web/20120310162820/https://www.pcworld.com/article/248571/why_history_needs_software_piracy.html

#10yrsago EMI VP opposes SOPA, thinks better products at better prices will solve piracy https://torrentfreak.com/emi-boss-opposes-sopa-says-piracy-is-a-service-issue-120125/

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#5yrsago 19 crooks, 7,000 false identities, 1,800 drop addresses, and $200 million in credit card fraud https://www.justice.gov/usao-nj/pr/fugitive-arrested-200-million-credit-card-fraud-scam

#5yrsago White House confuses Theresa May, UK Prime Minister; with Teresa May, porn star https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/uk/white-house-confuses-uk-pm-theresa-mays-name-with-a-porn-stars/articleshow/56815083.cms

#5yrsago Immigration officers raid Good Samaritan Family Resource Center in San Francisco’s Mission District https://sfist.com/2017/01/26/ice_agents_descend_on_missions_good/

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#5yrsago US towns that pandered to anti-immigrant sentiment had to raise taxes and borrow to cover the millions in losses https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/in-these-six-american-towns-laws-targeting-the-illegals-didnt-go-as-planned/2017/01/26/b3410c4a-d9d4-11e6-9f9f-5cdb4b7f8dd7_story.html

#5yrsago France aggressively prosecutes citizens for “solidarity crimes”: feeding and housing migrants https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2017/1/25/france-prosecuting-citizens-for-crimes-of-solidarity

#5yrsago Brexit, Chicken and Ulysses Pacts: the negotiating theory behind the UK-EU stalemate https://timharford.com/2017/01/brexit-as-a-game-of-chicken/

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#1yrago Goldman CEO gets $17.5m reward for $4.5b fraud https://pluralistic.net/2021/01/27/viral-colonialism/#failing-up

#1yrago Facebook champions (its own) privacy https://pluralistic.net/2021/01/27/viral-colonialism/#ico-schtum

#1yrago Casino mogul steals First Nation's vaccine https://pluralistic.net/2021/01/27/viral-colonialism/#seriously-fuck-that-guy

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Jan 10's threads: Personnel are policy; Podcasting "Science fiction is a Luddite Literature"; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/107599072144356020

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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."

https://craphound.com/shop/

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Upcoming appearances:

* Boskone 59 (Feb 18-20)
https://boskone.org/program/schedule-text-view/

* Dangerous Visions and New Worlds: Radical Science Fiction, 1950 to 1985 (City Lights), Feb 27
https://citylights.com/events/dangerous-visions-and-new-worlds-radical-science-fiction-1950-to-1985/

* Emerging Technologies For the Enterprise, Apr 19-20
https://2022.phillyemergingtech.com

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Recent appearances:

* The End of Uber (The War on Cars)
https://thewaroncars.org/2022/01/26/the-end-of-uber-with-cory-doctorow/

* 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/

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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/2022/01/27/extraordinary-popular-delusions/

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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 "A Bug in Early Creative Commons Licenses Has Enabled a New Breed of Superpredator"

https://doctorow.medium.com/a-bug-in-early-creative-commons-licenses-has-enabled-a-new-breed-of-superpredator-5f6360713299

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Today's top sources: Naked Capitalism (https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/).

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