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#15yrsago Nokia and Siemens provided surveillance tools used to bust Iranian activists https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/apr/13/europe39s-telecoms-aid-with-spy-tech/

#15yrsago AOL CDs make great shims for home carpentry projects https://web.archive.org/web/20090625023007/http://antfarmjournal.com/AF-Journal/AOLshim9-21-9/index.html

#15yrsago Some Kindle books have secret caps on the number of times you can download them https://memex.craphound.com/2009/06/22/some-kindle-books-have-secret-caps-on-the-number-of-times-you-can-download-them/

#15yrsago Germany gets its first Pirate Party lawmaker https://www.thelocal.de/politics/20090621-20093.html

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#10yrsago CS Lewis explains why you should be proud to read children’s books https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/view.cfm?recnum=9117

#10yrsago Watch a Texas lawman’s pathetic scramble for a reason not to record him https://www.techdirt.com/2014/06/20/texas-deputy-displays-ignorance-laws-hes-enforcing-while-trying-to-shut-down-citizens-recording/

#10yrsago Podcast: How Amazon is holding Hachette hostage https://ia804509.us.archive.org/35/items/Cory_Doctorow_Podcast_277/Cory_Doctorow_Podcast_277_How_Amazon_is_holding_Hachette_hostage.mp3

#10yrsago Illinois State Cops blew $250K on “terrorist-catching” Stingray surveillance gadgets https://www.muckrock.com/foi/illinois-168/harris-corporation-11372/

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Texas Deputy Displays Ignorance Of Laws He's 'Enforcing' While Trying To Shut Down A Citizen's Recording

Want to record the police while they’re on the job? Go ahead, the Supreme Court has (again) upheld your First Amendment right to do so, provided you aren’t on the wrong side of way too …

^Techdirt

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#10yrsago 50,000 march against austerity in London, BBC doesn’t notice https://tompride.wordpress.com/2014/06/21/bbc-and-press-ignore-massive-demonstration-against-austerity-in-london/</a

#5yrsago Texas Instrument’s post-#taxscam budget for financial engineering is $5B — triple its budget for actual engineering https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2019/06/23/thanks-uncle-sam-after-tax-cuts-texas-instruments-spent-5-billion-on-stock-three-times-more-than-rd/

#5yrsago Man-Eaters Volume Two: Fleshing out the world where girls turn into lethal werepanthers when they get their periods https://memex.craphound.com/2019/06/23/man-eaters-volume-two-fleshing-out-the-world-where-girls-turn-into-lethal-werepanthers-when-they-get-their-periods/

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Thanks, Uncle Sam! After tax cuts, Texas Instruments spent $5 billion on stock — three times more than R&D

**What did corporate America do with its big tax cut? It spent hundreds of billions of dollars on company shares last year, pushing stock buybacks...

^{Mitchell Schnurman (The Dallas Morning News)}

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#5yrsago In a bid to avoid climate vote, Oregon Republican Senators cross state lines, go into hiding, threaten to murder cops, as white nationalist paramilitaries pledge armed support https://www.vox.com/2019/6/21/18700741/oregon-republican-walkout-climate-change-bill

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Oregon Republicans are still on the lam to avoid voting on a major climate change bill

“Send bachelors and come heavily armed,” one Republican state senator warned police.

^{Umair Irfan (Vox)}

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Friday's threads: Neither the devil you know nor the devil you don't; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112656391353416578

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Cory Doctorow

2024-06-21 20:01:52

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Neither the devil you know nor the devil you don't; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/06/21/off-the-menu/

#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

* Exile in Bookville, (Chicago), July 20
https://exileinbookville.com/events/39808

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

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Authors on Tap: Cory Doctorow

Indie bookstore located in the historic Fine Arts Building on Chicago's Michigan Avenue. Where books and music meet.

^{exileinbookville.com}

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Recent appearances:

* Living Your Principles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTfqxF5KyCc

* Reimagining the Internet
https://publicinfrastructure.org/podcast/102-cory-doctorow-enshittification/

* Circulating ideas
https://circulatingideas.com/2024/06/11/261-the-bezzle-by-cory-doctorow-summer-reading-spectacular/

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Living Your Principles with Cory Doctorow (JT talks Politics and Technology)

Cory Doctorow is an author and activist. His most recent novel is THE BEZZLE, a thriller about the private prison industry.Starring JT ParrCreated by JT Parr...

^YouTube

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On July 14, I'm giving the closing keynote for the fifteenth Hackers On Planet Earth, in Queens, NY:

https://www.hope.net/talks.html

On July 20, I'm appearing at Chicago's Exile in Bookville:

https://exileinbookville.com/events/39808

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Support me this summer on the Clarion Write-A-Thon and help raise money for the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers' Workshop!

https://clarionwriteathon.com/members/profile.php?writerid=293388

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Authors on Tap: Cory Doctorow

Indie bookstore located in the historic Fine Arts Building on Chicago's Michigan Avenue. Where books and music meet.

^{exileinbookville.com}