Today's threads (a thread).
Inside: Grappling with Big Wrestling; Podcasting about the copyleft trolls who tried to shake me down; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2022/01/31/heel-turn/
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Grappling with Big Wrestling: Vince McMahon has a monopoly on violence.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/107718460203365401
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Podcasting about the copyleft trolls who tried to shake me down: Pixsy and the depravity of speculative invoicing.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/107718677575759210
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#20yrsago How audio CD DRM works https://web.archive.org/web/20040229105505/www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/Articles/Specific.asp?ArticleHeadline=Cactus%20Data%20Shield%20200&index=0
#10yrsago Scientists and scholars boycott Elsevier over bad business practices and copyright maximalism http://thecostofknowledge.com/
#10yrsago DRM is to publishing as junk science was to Stalinism https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/columns-and-blogs/cory-doctorow/article/50413-with-a-little-help-digital-lysenkoism.html
#10yrsago Judge: to ask for anonymity in porno copyright troll case, you must enter your name into the public record https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-asks-judge-prevent-%E2%80%98catch-22%E2%80%99-porn-downloading-lawsuit
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#5yrsago Trump’s favorite voter fraud expert is registered to vote in three states https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-us-news-ap-top-news-elections-voting-80497cfb5f054c9b8c9e0f8f5ca30a62
#5yrsago Six Wakes: a locked-room science fiction murder mystery, delightfully confounded by cloning and memory backups https://memex.craphound.com/2017/01/31/six-wakes-a-locked-room-science-fiction-murder-mystery-delightfully-confounded-by-cloning-and-memory-backups/
#1yrago Know Nothings, conspiratorialism and Pastel Q https://pluralistic.net/2021/01/31/rhymes-with-pastel-q/#paranoid-style
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Yesterday's threads: The battle for Ring Zero; and more!
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/107713364891831215
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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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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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My latest Medium column is "The Inevitability of Trusted Third Parties"
https://doctorow.medium.com/the-inevitability-of-trusted-third-parties-a51cbcffc4e2
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