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Sphinxmumps Linkdump: My weekly declaration of link bankruptcy.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112621712220707098

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Cory Doctorow

2024-06-15 17:02:30

Welcome to my 20th Linkdump, in which I declare link bankruptcy and discharge my link-debts by telling you about all the open tabs I didn't get a chance to cover in this week's newsletters. Here's the previous 19 installments:

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/2024/06/15/disarrangement/#credo-in-un-dio-crudel

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#15yrsago Post one of Australia’s banned links, get fined AU$11,000/day https://web.archive.org/web/20090618142709/https://www.watoday.com.au/technology/banned-hyperlinks-could-cost-you-11000-a-day-20090615-c9rv.html

#15yrsago Free young adult novel, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making https://web.archive.org/web/20090620053229/http://catherynnemvalente.com/fairyland/

#15yrsago Twitter reschedules maintenance to avoid clobbering Iranian dissidents https://blog.twitter.com/official/en_us/a/2009/down-time-rescheduled.html

#10yrsago Timberland’s new warranty conditions screw the prisoners who must buy them https://www.consumerreports.org/consumerist/timberland-boots-have-a-lifetime-warranty-unless-youre-in-prison/

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#10yrsago Ikea bullies Ikeahackers with bogus trademark claim https://memex.craphound.com/2014/06/15/ikea-bullies-ikeahackers-with-bogus-trademark-claim/

#10yrsago Father’s Day: A Bear for Punishment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChdyOU4lQjY

#10yrsago FCC Chairman’s competition promise means nothing https://www.vice.com/en/article/pgak38/the-fcc-cant-help-cities-trapped-by-predatory-internet-deals-with-big-telecom</a

#10yrsago T-Mobile: your dead dad’s active phone will let you stay in touch https://consumerist.com/2014/06/13/t-mobile-rep-encourages-me-to-keep-dead-dads-mobile-line-open-to-hear-his-voice/

#1yrago Google makes millions on paid abortion disinformation https://pluralistic.net/2023/06/15/paid-medical-disinformation/#crisis-pregnancy-centers

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T-Mobile Rep Encourages Me To Keep Dead Dad’s Mobile Line Open To Hear His Voice

It can be incredibly painful to realize that you can barely remember what the voice of a dead loved one sounded like. However, we’re not sure that we accept the proposed solution of one T-Mob…

^Consumerist

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Yesterday's threads: Microsoft pinky swears that THIS TIME they'll make security a priority; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112616591432640378

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Cory Doctorow

2024-06-14 19:20:13

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Microsoft pinky swears that THIS TIME they'll make security a priority; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/06/14/patch-tuesday/

#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 …

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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:

* Go Fact Yourself, Los Angeles, Jun 20
https://laist.com/events/go-fact-yourself-live-with-aida-rodriguez

* @Locusmag reading (virtual), Jun 21
https://locusmag.com/2024-locus-awards-weekend/

* @Locusmag Awards keynote (Oakland), Jun 22
https://locusmag.com/2024-locus-awards-weekend/

* HOPE XV, Jul 14 (Queens, NY)
https://www.hope.net/talks.html
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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Go Fact Yourself LIVE with Cory Doctorow and Aida Rodriguez

Hosts J. Keith van Straaten and Helen Hong will welcome special celebrity guests and plus super-secret experts to try to stump them in their self-proclaimed areas of expertise.

^LAist

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Recent appearances:

* 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/

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

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102. Cory Doctorow Coined "Enshittification." He Sees 4 Ways to End It. - Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure at UMass Amherst

To kick off our Good Web series, Cory Doctorow joined us for a deep dive into his enshittification theory, and how regulation, labor power, competition, and user self-help will make it a thing of the past.

^{Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure}

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On Thursday (June 20), I'll be live onstage in Los Angeles for a recording of the Go Fact Yourself podcast:
https://laist.com/events/go-fact-yourself-live-with-aida-rodriguez

On Friday (June 21), I'm doing an online reading for the @Locusmag Awards at 16hPT.

On Saturday (June 22), I'll be in Oakland, CA for a panel and a keynote at the Locus Awards:

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

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Go Fact Yourself LIVE with Cory Doctorow and Aida Rodriguez

Hosts J. Keith van Straaten and Helen Hong will welcome special celebrity guests and plus super-secret experts to try to stump them in their self-proclaimed areas of expertise.

^LAist