Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: Surveillance pricing lets corporations decide what your dollar is worth; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/06/24/price-discrimination/
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Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: Surveillance pricing lets corporations decide what your dollar is worth; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/06/24/price-discrimination/
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I'm at the end of my 24-city book tour for my new novel *Picks and Shovels*!
Catch me in #LONDON with RILEY QUINN from #TRASHFUTURE on July 1:
https://howtoacademy.com/events/cory-doctorow-the-fight-against-the-big-tech-oligarchy/
And in #MANCHESTER at Blackwell's Bookshop on July 2:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/an-evening-with-cory-doctorow-tickets-1308451968059
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Surveillance pricing lets corporations decide what your dollar is worth: From each according his ability (to pay).
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/114738474093932687
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Hey look at this
* The Stark Fist of Removal (1982) in book form with many new extras https://www.subgenius.com/scatalog/books.htm
* Scrambled Eggs and Paralyzed Policy: Breaking Up Consummated Mergers and Dominant Firms https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3736613 (h/t Matt Stoller)
* The McMansionization of the White House, or: Regional Car Dealership Rococo: a treatise https://www.patreon.com/posts/mcmansionization-126873692
* SnapNotSell https://snapnotsell.netlify.app
* Engineered Estrangement https://www.bylinesupplement.com/p/engineered-estrangement-an-interview
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#20yrsago Notes from fight to turn WIPO into a humanitarian agency https://web.archive.org/web/20050903072827/https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/003722.php
#20yrsago Software patents are bad for coders like literary patents would be for writers https://web.archive.org/web/20050622023635/http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/comment/story/0,12449,1510566,00.html
#20yrsago WIPO Development Agenda meeting docs photographed and posted https://web.archive.org/web/20051127092845/http://homes.eff.org/~renbucholz/wipo/
#20yrsago Dear Kansas: Why stop at “Intelligent Design?” What about Spaghetti Monsters? https://web.archive.org/web/20050626010148/http://www.venganza.org/
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#15yrsago Blacksad: hardboiled detective fiction about anthropomorphic animals (no, really) https://memex.craphound.com/2010/06/21/blacksad-hardboiled-detective-fiction-about-anthropomorphic-animals-no-really/
#15yrsago White House guts bill that would rein in CEO salaries; you can stop them http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/proxyreform
#15yrsago New Apple terms allow them to collect and share your “precise, real-time location” https://web.archive.org/web/20100622165913/https://consumerist.com/2010/06/privacy-change-apple-knows-your-phone-is-and-is-telling-people.html
#10yrsago Doctoral dissertation in graphic novel form https://spinweaveandcut.com/unflattening/
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#10yrsago EU set to kill street photography https://medium.com/vantage/freedom-of-panorama-is-under-attack-6cc5353b4f65
#5yrsago The politicization of K-pop stans https://pluralistic.net/2020/06/21/stans/#kpop-stans
#5yrsago Yahoo is a deadbeat billionaire zombie https://pluralistic.net/2020/06/21/stans/#altaba
#1yrago Neither the devil you know nor the devil you don't https://pluralistic.net/2024/06/21/off-the-menu/#universally-loathed
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Yesterday's threads: The case for a Canadian wealth tax; and more!
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/114733379784311326
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My last nationally bestselling novel was "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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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."
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