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Inside: Uline's billions fund voter suppression; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2022/10/26/boxed-in/
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Tonight (Oct 26), I'm hosting an online launch for Chelsea Manning's new book, "Readme.txt: A Memoir" via Bookshop.org:
https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_o0AsiTEdS1OBkjZap_z75Q
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Uline's billions fund voter suppression: The Uihlein family used to fund the John Birch Society, today it's the Big Lie.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/109235246677305145
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Hey look at this
* Kim Stanley Robinson: We Need Democratic Socialism https://jacobin.com/2022/10/kim-stanley-robinson-democratic-socialism-science-fiction-utopianism-capitalism-climate-crisis/
* A fine selection of bonker facades from the DC suburbs https://mcmansionhell.com/post/699110995935805440/a-fine-selection-of-bonker-facades-from-the-dc
* Halloween, When You'll Return to Me https://ashtonbarkho.hearnow.com/halloween-when-youll-return-to-me
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#20yrsago Hilary Rosen debates file-sharing at Oxford https://web.archive.org/web/20021208065047/http://tirian.magd.ox.ac.uk/~nick/UnionDebate/
#15yrsago LOLCat programming language: LOLCode https://blog.notdot.net/2007/6/LOLCodenet-Now-your-LOLCats-can-use-the-CLR
#15yrsago US terrorist watchlist “galloping toward the million mark” https://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-10-23-Watchlist_N.htm
#10yrsago Colbert to Trump: I’ll pay $1M to your favorite charity if you let me put my balls in your mouth https://web.archive.org/web/20121027135746/http://americanlivewire.com/steven-colbert-makes-1-million-dollar-charity-offer-to-trump-to-stick-his-balls-in-his-mouth/
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#10yrsago Aviation vulnerability: Scan boarding passes to discover if you’re in for deep screening; print new barcodes if you don’t like what you find https://puckinflight.wordpress.com/2012/10/19/security-flaws-in-the-tsa-pre-check-system-and-the-boarding-pass-check-system/
#10yrsago Copyright versus human rights https://www.techdirt.com/2012/10/26/no-copyright-is-not-human-right/
#5yrsago A new, virulent ransomware epidemic is fuelled by yet another leaked NSA cyberweapon https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/10/bad-rabbit-used-nsa-eternalromance-exploit-to-spread-researchers-say/
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#5yrsago A socialist candidate for Minneapolis city council has broken all fundraising records through individual $25 donations https://theintercept.com/2017/10/26/minneapolis-city-council-socialist-ginger-jentzen/
#5yrsago Six months before the breach, a researcher warned Equifax that all its data was unprotected https://www.vice.com/en/article/ne3bv7/equifax-breach-social-security-numbers-researcher-warning
#5yrsago A common satellite comms package for ships and oil rigs has a backdoor that won’t be patched https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/backdoor-account-found-in-popular-ship-satellite-communications-system/
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#5yrsago 200 Trump inauguration protesters face 70 years in prison each over 6 broken windows https://theintercept.com/2017/10/25/trump-inauguration-protest-j20-trial/
#5yrsago Trump Cabinet Secretary’s hometown, 2-person company wins $300m power-rebuilding contract in Puerto Rico https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/small-montana-firm-lands-puerto-ricos-biggest-contract-to-get-the-power-back-on/2017/10/23/31cccc3e-b4d6-11e7-9e58-e6288544af98_story.html
#5yrsago Epson uses dubious patent claims to nuke ink sellers’ listings from eBay https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/10/epson-using-its-ebay-trusted-status-make-competing-ink-sellers-vanish
#5yrsago Those “heroic rogue GOP senators” just helped Trump shield Equifax and Wells Fargo from lawsuits https://theintercept.com/2017/10/24/after-day-of-feuding-jeff-flake-and-bob-corker-join-trump-to-upend-a-major-consumer-protection/
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#5yrsago Simple steps your small organization can take to defend itself against cyberattacks https://www.cs.rice.edu/~dwallach/howto-electronic-adversaries.pdf
#5yrsago Kaspersky’s explanation for possessing secret NSA cyberweapons is a doozy https://theintercept.com/2017/10/25/nsa-workers-software-piracy-may-have-exposed-him-to-russian-spies/
#5yrsago San Francisco may finally get decent internet access, thanks to municipal fiber https://www.wired.com/story/san-francisco-municipal-fiber/
#5yrsago Why electrical engineers should support the right to repair https://spectrum.ieee.org/why-we-must-fight-for-the-right-to-repair-our-electronics
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#5yrsago How the Chicago School’s extremist ideology destroyed the American economy with unchecked monopolies https://web.archive.org/web/20171024130131/https://www.thenation.com/article/america-has-a-monopoly-problem-and-its-huge/
#1yrago The Dems' most secret Congressional committee: The Steering and Policy Committee runs the show and we're not even allowed to know who's on it https://pluralistic.net/2021/10/25/people-do-stuff/#personnel-are-policy
#1yrago Maxing out our global credit-card with authoritarian debt: Or, why countries are spending more on "border security" than the climate emergency https://pluralistic.net/2021/10/26/inequality-and-guard-labor/#just-watch-me
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Monday's threads: An hour of interwar Halloween music; and more!
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/109222763582992842
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My latest book is Chokepoint Capitalism (with Rebecca Giblin), nonfiction about monopoly and fairness in creative labor markets.
https://chokepointcapitalism.com
Signed copies available from Book Soup:
https://www.booksoup.com/book/9780807007068
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My latest novel 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, Beacon 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:
* Launch for Chelsea Manning's "Readme.txt: A Memoir" (Bookshop.org), Oct 26:
https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_o0AsiTEdS1OBkjZap_z75Q
* World Ethical Data Forum, Oct 26-28
https://worldethicaldataforum.org/wedf-2022
* Radical Book Fair/Lighthouse Bookshop (Edinburgh), Nov 10
https://lighthousebookshop.com/events/chokepoint-capitalism-cory-doctorow-and-rebecca-giblin
* Arthur C Clarke Award (DC), Nov 16
https://www.clarkefoundation.org/2022-awards-event/
* Big Ideas Live (London), Nov 19
https://news.sky.com/bigideaslive
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Recent appearances:
* Why Patients Should Hack Med Tech (Defcon 30)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i1BF5YGS0w
* The Literary Life with Mitchell Kaplan (Lithub)
https://lithub.com/cory-doctorow-why-our-current-tech-monopolies-is-all-thanks-to-ronald-reagan-and-robert-bork/
* Sex and Politics with Dan Savage (use coupon code "Doctorow" for a free month):
https://index.supportingcast.fm/subscription/type/podcast#c3f7380e-441b-11ed-8f80-1f06b0646875
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Happy Spooky Season! My picture book "Poesy the Monster Slayer" is the perfect read for your little monsters: 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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