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The Mafia hires good accountants: Honest cheaters enable the mob.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/107723451895068427

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#15yrsago Schoolkids “passing notes” by commenting on random blog-posts https://web.archive.org/web/20070203045817/http://informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2007/01/dear_steph_and.html

#15yrsago 9/11 Commission Report hobbled by DRM https://web.archive.org/web/20070204013047/https://techliberation.com/archives/041976.php

#10yrsago Too Big to Know: David Weinberger explains how knowledge works in the Internet age https://memex.craphound.com/2012/02/01/too-big-to-know-david-weinberger-explains-how-knowledge-works-in-the-internet-age/

#10yrsago WSJ publishes actual climate scientists’ letter on climate science https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052970204740904577193270727472662

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#10yrsago US trade rep and hotel caught lying about confidentiality of secret ACTA meeting in Hollywood https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120131/23161417605/hollywood-gets-to-party-with-tpp-negotiators-public-interest-groups-get-thrown-out-hotel.shtml

#5yrsago Sean Spicer defends handcuffing a 5-year-old American boy for hours at an airport immigration checkpoint https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/white-house-five-year-old-boy-detained-dulles-international-airport-hours-sean-spicer-pose-security-threat-donald-trump-muslim-ban-a7554521.html

#5yrsago Trump’s war on science, a chronology (Week 1) https://scienceblogs.com/confessions/2017/01/30/the-donald-trump-war-on-science-week-1-how-bad-could-it-be

#5yrsago Suspecting arson, cops subpoena homeowner’s pacemaker logs, then charge him with multiple felonies https://www.csoonline.com/article/3162740/cops-use-pacemaker-data-as-evidence-to-charge-homeowner-with-arson-insurance-fraud.html

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#5yrsago Federal judge orders emergency injunction and restraining order ending Trump’s #muslimban https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/02/judge-orders-halt-to-trumps-immigration-executive-order/

#1yrago Unidirectional entryism https://pluralistic.net/2021/02/01/dinos-and-rinos/#entryism

#1yrago The good news about vaccination bad news https://pluralistic.net/2021/02/01/dinos-and-rinos/#mixed-news

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Yesterday's threads: Grappling with Big Wrestling; Podcasting about the copyleft trolls who tried to shake me down; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/107718717022066208

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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/2022/02/01/collaborators-not-fools/

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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 Inevitability of Trusted Third Parties"

https://doctorow.medium.com/the-inevitability-of-trusted-third-parties-a51cbcffc4e2

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