Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: Private equity finally delivered Sarah Palin's death panels; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/26/death-panels/
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Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: Private equity finally delivered Sarah Palin's death panels; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/26/death-panels/
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Tonight (Apr 26), I'll be in #Burbank at Dark Delicacies at 6PM with my new book, *Red Team Blues*:
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From Apr 26-28, Barnes and Noble is offering a 25% discount on preorders for my upcoming novels (use discount code PREORDER25):
The Lost Cause (Nov 2023)
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-lost-cause-cory-doctorow/1142827022
The Bezzle (Red Team Blues #2) (Feb 2024)
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-bezzle-cory-doctorow/1143329885
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Private equity finally delivered Sarah Palin's death panels: Hospices are unregulated, heavily subsidized charnel houses.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/110267012246870118
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Hey look at this
* Eminent cryptographer #MatthewGreen on Red Team Blues https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2023/04/24/book-review-red-team-blues/
* An Economic Model Of #IntermediaryLiability https://james.grimmelmann.net/files/articles/economic-model-of-intermediary-liability.pdf
* Center for the Study of Political Graphics https://www.politicalgraphics.org
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#10yrsago HOWTO die at #BurningMan https://burners.me/2013/04/25/9-ways-to-die-at-burning-man/
#10yrsago #FairUse decision: remixing is legal even when there is no intent to comment or parody original work https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/features/richard-prince-wins-major-victory-in-landmark-copyright-suit-59404/
#10yrsago Debunking the #HTML5 #DRM myths https://web.archive.org/web/20130427210336/http://freeculture.org/blog/2013/04/23/dont-let-the-myths-fool-you-the-w3cs-plan-for-drm-in-html5-is-a-betrayal-to-all-web-users/
#10yrsago Akissi: kids’ comic about a mischievous girl in Cote D’Ivoire https://memex.craphound.com/2013/04/26/akissi-kids-comic-about-a-mischievous-girl-in-cote-divoire/
#10yrsago Publishing should fight ebook retailers for more data https://web.archive.org/web/20130428235824/http://www.thebookseller.com/blogs/tangible-assets.html
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#10yrsago #JelloBiafra talks #Occupy, music, and Obama https://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/apr/25/jello-biafra-obama-occupy
#10yrsago Too-big-to-fail banks implicated in $500 trillion fraud: biggest price-rigging scandal in history https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/everything-is-rigged-the-biggest-price-fixing-scandal-ever-82255/
#5yrsago A who’s-who of tech manufacturers sent scaremongering letters to the Illinois legislature to kill #RightToRepair https://www.vice.com/en/article/vbxk3b/appliance-companies-are-lobbying-against-right-to-repair
#5yrsago Security researchers can turn #Alexa into a transcribing, always-on listening device https://threatpost.com/researchers-hacked-amazons-alexa-to-spy-on-users-again/131401/
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#5yrsago Microsoft sends recycler to jail for reinstalling obsolete, licensed copies of Windows on refurbished PCs https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/true-crime/wp/2018/04/24/recycling-innovator-eric-lundgren-loses-appeal-on-computer-restore-discs-must-serve-15-month-prison-term/
#5yrsago Trump’s finance watchdog wants to make the public database of crooked banks go dark https://www.npr.org/2018/04/25/605835307/the-consumer-complaints-database-that-could-disappear-from-view
#5yrsago #LittleBrother is 10 years old today: I reveal the secret of writing future-proof science fiction https://www.tor.com/2018/04/26/ten-years-of-cory-doctorows-little-brother/
#1yrago #BottledWater monopolist admits #recycling is bullshit https://pluralistic.net/2022/04/26/plastic-fatalistic/#recycled-lies
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Yesterday's threads: How Amazon makes everything you buy more expensive, no matter where you buy it; and more!
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/110261031781219190
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My latest book is Red Team Blues, available wherever books are sold!
Signed copies at Dark Delicacies:
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My latest nonfiction book is Chokepoint Capitalism (with Rebecca Giblin), nonfiction about monopoly and fairness in creative labor markets.
https://chokepointcapitalism.com
Signed copies available from Book Soup:
https://www.booksoup.com/book/9780807007068
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My ebooks and audiobooks (from Tor Books, Head of Zeus, McSweeneys, Beacon 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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