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Inside: McKinsey and Providence colluded to force poor patients into destitution; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2022/09/25/criminal-conspiracy/
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#SanFrancisco! I'm in town TODAY AT 2PM with "Chokepoint Capitalism," Rebecca Giblin's and my latest book!
https://sfpl.org/events/2022/09/25/author-rebecca-giblin-and-cory-doctorow-moderated-joseph-menn
Next stop, LA (Tues): https://www.booksoup.com/event/cory-doctorow-rebecca-giblin
If you can't make it and want a signed, personalized copy shipped to your door, our friends at Folio Books have you covered:
https://www.foliosf.com/chokepointcapitalism
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McKinsey and Providence colluded to force poor patients into destitution: "How would you like to pay that today?"
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/109060481442168963
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Hey look at this
* Framework’s new Chromebook is upgradable and customizable https://www.theverge.com/2022/9/21/23363862/framework-laptop-chromebook-edition-laptop-design-specs-price-release
* 20 Mechanical Principles combined in a Useless Lego Machine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1-YeqGynlw (h/t Boing Boing)
* Five Walled Gardens: Why Browsers are Essential to the Internet and How Operating Systems Are Holding Them Back https://research.mozilla.org/browser-competition/ (h/t Tech Crunch)
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#20yrsago Labels shoot selves in foot by focusing on stopping P2P https://www.itweb.co.za/content/WnxpE74D5O87V8XL
#20yrsago Haunted Mansion movie inches forward https://web.archive.org/web/20021201081611/http://disney.go.com/disneypictures/hauntedmansion/index.html
#15yrsago Chinese MMO bans in-game gender-bending https://web.archive.org/web/20071012015208/http://www.pacificepoch.com/newsstories/106627_0_5_0_M/
#15yrsago Harvard lawyers shred Harvard Coop’s claim that book prices are “property” https://web.archive.org/web/20071104003854/https://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=519661
#15yrsago Donald Duck foiled a patent application https://www.iusmentis.com/patents/priorart/donaldduck/?ph
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#15yrsago Scroogled in the Wall Street Journal https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB119073238834038729
#15yrsago Amazon creates gigantic DRM-free music store! https://web.archive.org/web/20071221112504/https://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20070925005710&newsLang=en
#10yrsago Guerrilla Grafters covertly add fruit-tree branches to ornamental trees https://web.archive.org/web/20120921003410/http://www.resilientcommunities.com/personal-biochar-kilns-portable-factories-diy-septic-cleaning-and-guerrilla-grafting/
#10yrsago UK government spent millions arming and training Congolese and Sudanese soldiers https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2012/sep/25/uk-millions-training-oppressive-regimes
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#10yrsago Pranksters crash final speech of corporate tax avoidance taxman, posh hilarity ensues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3w4tcIsaInE
#10yrsago Preservation Hall 50th Anniversary Collection: four discs of New Orleans jazz with guest appearances from Tom Waits, Pete Seeger, Del McCoury and others https://memex.craphound.com/2012/09/25/preservation-hall-50th-anniversary-collection-four-discs-of-new-orleans-jazz-with-guest-appearances-from-tom-waits-pete-seeger-del-mccoury-and-others/
#10yrsago Study: Republican state voting laws “will disenfranchise 10,000,000 Hispanic US citizens” https://web.archive.org/web/20120924083449/https://www.reuters.com/article/2012/09/24/us-usa-campaign-hispanics-idUSBRE88N01I20120924
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#10yrsago Laptop rental companies reach cash-free, pointless settlement with toothless FTC for taking secret naked pictures of customers having sex, harvesting medical records and banking passwords and more https://www.wired.com/2012/09/laptop-rental-spyware-scandal/
#10yrsago EU working group produces the stupidest set of proposed Internet rules in the entire history of the human race https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/09/proposed-eu-plan-to-stop-terrorist-sites-even-more-ridiculous-than-thought/
#10yrsago Debunking the NYT feature on the wastefulness of data-centers https://web.archive.org/web/20120926000823/http://blog.diegodoval.com/2012/09/23/a-lot-of-lead-bullets-a-response-to-the-new-york-times-article-on-data-center-efficiency/
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#10yrsago Cyclists are safe and courteous, and your disdain for them is grounded in cognitive bias https://slate.com/technology/2012/09/cyclists-are-annoying-why-you-think-theyre-a-menace-on-two-wheels.html
#10yrsago 64,000 drug-bust samples in Mass. were processed by a dirty lab tech who tampered with them, altered weight, faked positive tests for illegal substances https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2012/sep/14/mass_crime_lab_scandal_threatens
#10yrsago David Byrne and St Vincent performing each others’ songs together https://pitchfork.com/news/47868-watch-david-byrne-and-st-vincent-perform-each-others-songs/
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#5yrsago Deluded billionaire gives UC Irvine $200M to study homeopathy and “alternative” therapies https://skepchick.org/2017/09/uc-irvine-gets-200-million-teach-homeopathy/
#5yrsago Tinder stores a scary amount of information about what you do, including your Facebook history https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/sep/26/tinder-personal-data-dating-app-messages-hacked-sold
#5yrsago Equifax CEO Richard Smith is finally resigning https://consumerist.com/2017/09/26/equifax-ceo-resigns-following-massive-data-breach/
#5yrsago America’s worst patent judge gets a scorching language lesson from the appeals court https://www.techdirt.com/2017/09/25/appeals-court-tells-patent-trolls-favorite-judge-he-cant-just-ignore-supreme-court-to-keep-patent-cases-texas/
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#5yrsago Trump DoJ nominee Jon Adler loves Scientology’s bogus, occasionally lethal “detox” program https://www.wired.com/story/doj-nominee-jon-adler-heroes-health-fund/
#5yrsago Deloitte got comprehensively hacked in March and didn’t tell anyone https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/sep/25/deloitte-hit-by-cyber-attack-revealing-clients-secret-emails
#5yrsago John Oliver on monopolies, anti-trust and the death of real competitive markets https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00wQYmvfhn4
#5yrsago RIP Kit Reed, brilliant giant of science fiction https://www.facebook.com/EllenDatlow/posts/10155117324377075
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#1yrago The Scholars of Night: John M Ford was a goddamned WIZARD https://pluralistic.net/2021/09/26/mike-ford-rides-again/#cold-war-zeitgeist
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Yesterday's threads: Billionaire grifters hate her; and more!
https://mamot.fr/web/@pluralistic/109053663271436932
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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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Upcoming appearances:
* Chokepoint Capitalism event, Book Soup (LA), Sept 27
https://www.booksoup.com/event/cory-doctorow-rebecca-giblin
* Chokepoint Capitalism event, Alta Live (Zoom), Sept 28
https://www.altaonline.com/events/a41109319/alta-live-author-cory-doctorow/
* Discussing "Adventure Capitalism" with Raymond Craib, Skylight Books (LA), Sept 29
https://blog.pmpress.org/events/raymond-craib-and-cory-docrorow-discuss-adventure-capitalism-at-skylight-books-in-los-angeles/
* Regulating the Online Public Sphere: From Decentralized Networks to Public Regulation, Oct 3
https://globalfreedomofexpression.columbia.edu/events/regulating-the-online-public-sphere-from-decentralized-networks-to-public-regulation/
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* Chokepoint Capitalism event, Books and Books (Miami), Oct 12
https://www.booksandbooks.com/event/in-person-chokepoint-capitalism-an-evening-with-rebecca-giblin-and-cory-doctorow/
* Library Journal Day of Dialog (Zoom), Oct 20
https://www.libraryjournal.com/event/library-journal-day-of-dialog-2022-fall#program
* World Ethical Data Forum, Oct 26-28
https://worldethicaldataforum.org/
* Arthur C Clarke Award (DC), Nov 16
https://mailchi.mp/2e2b8a01e992/save-the-date-9142941
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Recent appearances:
* Cultural Capture by Chokepoint Capitalism (This Machine Kills)
https://soundcloud.com/thismachinekillspod/194-cultural-capture-by-chokepoint-capitalism-ft-rebecca-giblin-cory-doctorow
* Billionaires As Policy Failure Factories (Macro N Cheese)
https://realprogressives.org/podcast_episode/episode-190-billionaires-as-policy-failure-factories-with-cory-doctorow
* Where’s My Privacy? (Where's My Jetpack)
https://www.wheresmyjetpack.ca/2022/09/14/doctorow1/
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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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