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Uplinkchump Linkdump: A bushel of links for the weekend.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112580754031246809

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Cory Doctorow

2024-06-08 11:26:18

It's Linkdump Saturday! This is the day on which I clear the giant backlog of links from the previous week that I haven't managed to post in my newsletter's "Hey look at this" sections. This is my 19th linkdump; here's the previous 18 dumps:

https://pluralistic.net/tag/linkdump/

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/06/08/medley/#the-prospect

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#20yrsago Broadcast Treaty negotiations (day 2/3) https://web.archive.org/web/20040611121552/http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/001597.php

#20yrsago WIPO Broadcast Treaty: consolidated three-day notes https://web.archive.org/web/20040611123828/http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/001599.php#001599

#20yrsago Bush’s climate-change Lysenkoism https://web.archive.org/web/20040620082250/http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.06/view.html?pg=4?tw=wn_tophead_4

#15yrsago Chinese court hands down prison for extortion of virtual wealth https://memex.craphound.com/2009/06/09/chinese-court-hands-down-prison-for-extortion-of-virtual-wealth/

#15yrsago Repo man who specializes in recovering planes from deadbeat con-artists, gangsters and drug-lords https://www.salon.com/2009/06/06/lear_jet_repo_man/

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The Learjet repo man

Business has never been better for the fearless pilot who takes back millionaires' expensive toys.

^Salon.com

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#15yrsago GE sucks up government money, invests in secret stuff that we’re not allowed to know about https://web.archive.org/web/20090614090948/http://wyomingreview.com/?p=400

#15yrsago Terrorism is auto-immune war; war-on-terror does the terrorists’ job https://yorksranter.wordpress.com/2009/06/07/accidential-guerrilla-part-2-strategy/

#15yrsago More hard data on the impact of free/pirated downloads on book-sales https://magellanmediapartners.com/publishing-innovation/the_impact_of_piracy/

#10yrsago London property bubble entombs a thousand digger-machines https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2014/06/bizarre-secret-london-s-buried-diggers

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The bizarre secret of London’s buried diggers

I’ve made a discovery about what is buried under the swimming pools and basement conversions of wealthy west London. This booty is worth about £5m. More revealing, however, is another fact: this £5m w

^{Ed Smith (New Statesman)}

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#10yrsago Jay Lake, on blogging your own death https://www.dailydot.com/irl/jay-lake-speaker-for-dead/

#5yrsago A non-Aboriginal business has licensed the copyright on Australia’s Aboriginal flag, and are making copyright claims against Aboriginal businesses https://memex.craphound.com/2019/06/08/a-non-aboriginal-business-has-licensed-the-copyright-on-australias-aboriginal-flag-and-are-making-copyright-claims-against-aboriginal-businesses/

#5yrsago Payday lenders switched their trade show to a Trump hotel and sent Trump at least a million bucks, then he gave them carte blanche to make billions preying on poor people https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-inc-podcast-payday-lenders-spent-1-million-at-a-trump-resort-and-cashed-in

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The legacy of Jay Lake, the novelist who blogged his own death

At some point after reading several of Jay Lake's posts, you realize he is walking you through the process of death.

^{Simon Owens (The Daily Dot)}

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#1yrago Capitalists hate capitalism https://pluralistic.net/2023/06/09/commissar-merck/#price-giver

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Yesterday's threads: The airlines were patient zero in the junk-fee plague; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112575356760126698

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Cory Doctorow

2024-06-07 12:33:42

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: The airlines were patient zero in the junk-fee plague; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/06/07/drip-drip-drip/

#Pluralistic

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My latest nationally bestselling novel is "The Bezzle," an ice-cold revenge story of high-tech finance crime starring the forensic accountant Martin Hench:

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250865878/thebezzle

Signed copies from Chevalier's Books:

https://www.chevaliersbooks.com/product-page/the-bezzle

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My latest nonfiction book is "The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation" from Verso Books:

http://seizethemeansofcomputation.org

Signed copies available from Book Soup:

https://www.booksoup.com/book/9781804291245

Both are national bestsellers!

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The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation (Hardcover) | Book Soup

A USA TODAY BESTSELLERWinner of the 2024 Neil Postman Award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity"An essential read for anyone that wants to understand how we lost control of our digital spaces and infrastructure to Silicon Valley’s …

^{www.booksoup.com}

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My ebooks and audiobooks (from Tor Books, Head of Zeus, McSweeneys, Beacon, Verso 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:

* HOPE XV, Jul 14 (Queens, NY)
https://www.hope.net/talks.html

* @Locusmag Awards keynote (Oakland), Jun 20
https://locusmag.com/2024-locus-awards-weekend/

* American Association of Law Libraries keynote (Chicago), Jul 21
https://www.aallnet.org/conference/agenda/keynote-speaker/

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2024 Locus Awards Weekend, June 19-22

We can’t wait to see you at the Locus Awards Weekend, to be held June 19-22, 2024 in Oakland, California! WEDNESDAY – FRIDAY: We’ll kick off the event with a series of online read…

^{Locus Online}

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Recent appearances:

* Capitalist Realism vs. Science Fiction
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zz-iHWzqGK0

* @AllTechIsHuman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKThzsYGjEQ

* RISD Debates in AI keynote:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdSEcmplaDs

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Capitalist Realism vs. Science Fiction ft. Cory Doctorow

Science fiction is an effective way to put our current reality into context, and helps us imagine what our future might look like. For authors like Cory Doct...

^YouTube

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Today's top sources: Steven Clift.

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On June 20th, I'll be in Oakland, CA to keynote the @Locusmag Awards:

https://locusmag.com/2024-locus-awards-weekend/

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2024 Locus Awards Weekend, June 19-22

We can’t wait to see you at the Locus Awards Weekend, to be held June 19-22, 2024 in Oakland, California! WEDNESDAY – FRIDAY: We’ll kick off the event with a series of online read…

^{Locus Online}