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The role of prose quality in scholarship: Better-edited papers fare better in peer-reviewed journals.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/107966722716469033

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#10yrsago RIAA prez twirls mustache in anticipation of taking on his role of Internet Witchfinder General https://www.cnet.com/culture/riaa-chief-isps-to-start-policing-copyright-by-july-1/

#10yrsago Canadian cops want to add a spying tax to phone bills to pay for warrantless wiretapping https://web.archive.org/web/20121101000000*/https://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/6379/125/

#5yrsago How Kenyan spies and cops use electronic surveillance for illegal murder and torture squads https://privacyinternational.org/sites/default/files/track_capture_final.pdf

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#5yrsago Fair trade ebooks: how authors could double their royalties without costing their publishers a cent https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/digital/content-and-e-books/article/73044-london-book-fair-2017-cory-doctorow-unveils-his-latest-publishing-experiment-fair-trade-e-books.html

#1yrago Meet the new music boss, same as the old music boss: Monopsony begets monoposony https://pluralistic.net/2021/03/16/wage-theft/#excessive-buyer-power

#1yrago SMS security is flaming garbage https://pluralistic.net/2021/03/16/wage-theft/#override-service-registry

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Yesterday's threads: Fight inflation with a windfall profits tax; Russian "ESG" investments were always about financing invasions and murder; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/107961264506935865

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Hey look at this

* Wil Wheaton's Ernest Borg9 tee https://shopstands.com/?_kx=PrygD3I7W-eXK5S9GqC4yr63_RMt-wmOxPerJmhBrMw%3D.TAxTaA

* A brief tour of the PDP-11, the most influential minicomputer of all time https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/03/a-brief-tour-of-the-pdp-11-the-most-influential-minicomputer-of-all-time/

* Turn any boardgame into an RPG and collaborate to give one player the thrill of being indisputably the greatest gamer the world has ever seen https://kierongillen.itch.io/the-greatest-gamer (h/t Super Punch)

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* wordle_comcom: solving Wordle with adversarial interoperability https://github.com/Denbox/wordle_comcom

* Making Sense of Crypto & Web3 https://web3.lifeitself.us/

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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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Upcoming appearances:

* Competition & Regulation in Disrupted Times (Charles River Associates/Brussels), Mar 31
https://www.cra-brusselsconference.com/

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

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Recent appearances:

* The Bitcoin Podcast:
https://thebitcoinpodcast.com/the-bitcoin-podcast-387/

* Dangerous Visions: False Dawns and Wandergrounds - Dystopia, Then and Now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7W77EbjPaM

* Safety Orange (This Week in Tech)
https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech/episodes/865

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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/2022/03/16/mightier-than-the-sword/

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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 Byzantine Premium: The contradiction at the heart of Bitcoin advocacy":

https://doctorow.medium.com/the-byzantine-premium-8411521db843

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Today's top sources: Marginal Revolution (https://marginalrevolution.com).

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