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#5yrsago Big Tech: “If the USA enforces antitrust laws against us, it means China will win!” https://www.wired.com/story/big-tech-breaking-will-only-help-china/

#5yrsago Federal lawsuit calls college textbook/ebook packages a “scam” https://www.vice.com/en/article/pajze9/people-are-finally-fighting-back-against-the-college-textbook-industrys-scam

#5yrsago To chase out low-waged workers, Mountain View is banning overnight RV and van parking https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-05-21/silicon-valley-s-shame-living-in-a-van-in-google-s-backyard

#5yrsago The Oliver Twist workhouse is becoming a block of luxury flats with a “poor door” https://web.archive.org/web/20170726143443/https://www.homesandproperty.co.uk/property-news/controversial-separate-entrance-planned-for-affordable-homes-at-oliver-twist-workhouse-luxury-flat-a112431.html

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People Are Finally Fighting Back Against the College Textbook Industry 'Scam'

Students who can't afford their course materials—along with a rogue professor—are taking on the system.

^{Allie Conti (VICE)}

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#5yrsago The Reality Bubble: how humanity’s collective blindspots render us incapable of seeing danger until it’s too late (and what to do about it) https://memex.craphound.com/2019/05/23/the-reality-bubble-how-humanitys-collective-blindspots-render-us-incapable-of-seeing-danger-until-its-too-late-and-what-to-do-about-it/

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Yesterday's threads: Red Lobster was killed by private equity, not Endless Shrimp; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112490583701352406

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Cory Doctorow

2024-05-23 13:14:48

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Red Lobster was killed by private equity, not Endless Shrimp; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/23/spineless/

#Pluralistic

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Hey look at this

* &udm=14 | the disenshittification Konami code https://udm14.com/

* 50 Billionaire Clans Have Poured $600 Million Into ‘Family Business’ of Buying Candidates https://4taxfairness.substack.com/p/50-billionaire-clans-have-poured

* Drivers Are Rising Up Against Uber’s ‘Opaque’ Pay System https://www.wired.com/story/drivers-are-rising-up-against-ubers-opaque-pay-system/

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50 Billionaire Clans Have Poured $600 Million Into ‘Family Business’ of Buying Candidates

The total will almost certainly top $1 trillion by the time the voting ends.

^{Americans For Tax Fairness (The Tax Decode)}

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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 …

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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:

* Media Ecology Association keynote (Amherst, NY), Jun 6-9
https://media-ecology.org/convention

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

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

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Keynote Speaker - AALL Annual Meeting & Conference

2024 AALL Annual Meeting & Conference Keynote Speaker CORY DOCTOROW “ENDING THE ENSHITTOCENE: WHY EVERYTHING IS TERRIBLE BUT WE CAN … "Keynote Speaker"

^{AALL Annual Meeting & Conference}

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Recent appearances:

* @AuthorsAlliance 10th Anniversary (at 1:55:00)
https://archive.org/details/authors-alliance-10th-anniversary-presentation

* Upstream podcast
https://podscripts.co/podcasts/upstream/the-big-tech-con-w-cory-doctorow

* Libraries in Response
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUQZPn9ffSs

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Author's Alliance 10th Anniversary Presentation : Author's Alliance : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Moral panics about technology are nothing new for creators. Copyright, in particular, has been a favorite tool to excite outrage. We were told that the...

^{Internet Archive}

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