"Malcolm X advocates armed Negroes!" What was wrong with that? I'll tell you what's wrong. I was a black man talking about physical defense against the white man. The white man can lynch and burn and bomb and beat Negroes -- that's all right: "Have patience" ... "The customs are entrenched" ... "Things will get better."
-- Malcolm X
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*Picks and Shovels* is a new, standalone technothriller starring Marty Hench, my two-fisted, hard-fighting, tech-scam-busting forensic accountant. You have one more week to pre-order it on my latest Kickstarter, which features a brilliant audiobook read by Wil Wheaton:
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Enshittification isn't caused by venture capital: Sure, they want "profit at all costs" but ask yourself, 'why is enshittification profitable?'
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Hey look at this
* DOJ Closes Tulsa Massacre Probe as Trump Takes Office prospect.org/justice/2025-01-2…
* Martin Luther King Jr's prescient criticism of technology and power bloodinthemachine.com/p/martin…
* Faiz Shakir Would Like the DNC to Do Something prospect.org/politics/2025-01-…
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Martin Luther King Jr's prescient criticism of technology and power
Brian Merchant (Blood in the Machine)Cory Doctorow
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#20yrsago American Airlines invents reasons to ask me for a dossier on my friends’ addresses memex.craphound.com/2005/01/21…
#15yrsago TSA plants baggie of white powder in traveler’s bag inquirer.com/philly/news/local…
#15yrsago Hand, Hand, Fingers, Thumb: classic kids’ book about drumming beatnik monkeys memex.craphound.com/2010/01/21…
#15yrsago Does the Uncanny Valley exist? web.archive.org/web/2010012318…
#10yrsago Alien overlord: stop blaming me for your city’s housing bubble! newyorker.com/humor/daily-shou…
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Stop Complaining That I, Zathbog of Planet Cibwarv, Am Inflating U.S. Housing Prices
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#5yrsago Boda Boda fashion show: equipping Nairobi motor taxi drivers with outfits to match their glorious bikes janhoek.net/BODA-BODA-MADNESS
#5yrsago China announces ban of single-use plastic bags and straws dw.com/en/china-to-ban-single-…</a.
#5yrsago Greta Thunberg has a crisply articulated demand cnn.com/2020/01/21/business/gr…
#5yrsago Riot Baby: an afrofuturist science fiction novella of race, rage and fierce resistance memex.craphound.com/2020/01/21…
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China bans single-use plastic bags and straws
Deutsche WelleCory Doctorow
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Saturday's threads: Pinkslump linkdump; and more!
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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.
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Signed copies from Chevalier's Books:
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My latest nonfiction book is "The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation" from Verso Books:
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Signed copies available from Book Soup:
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Both are national bestsellers!
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Book details - Macmillan Publishers
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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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Shop | Cory Doctorow's craphound.com
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Upcoming appearances:
* Picks and Shovels with Ken Liu (Boston), Feb 14
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* Picks and Shovels with Charlie Jane Anders (Menlo Park), Feb 17
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* Picks and Shovels with Wil Wheaton (Los Angeles), Feb 18
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* Picks and Shovels with Dan Savage (Seattle), Feb 19
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Cory Doctorow with Dan Savage — 'Picks and Shovels: A Martin Hench Novel'
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* Picks and Shovels with John Hodgman (NYC), Feb 26
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* Picks and Shovels (Penn State), Feb 27
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* Picks and Shovels at the Doylestown Bookshop (Doylestown, PA), Mar 1
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* Picks and Shovels at Red Emma's (Baltimore), Mar 2
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* Picks and Shovels with Lee Vinsel (Richmond, VA), Mar 5
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Cory Doctorow presents "Picks and Shovels"
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* Picks and Shovels at First Light Books (Austin), Mar 10
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* Picks and Shovels at Dark Delicacies (Burbank), Mar 13
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* Cloudfest (Europa Park), Mar 17-20
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* Picks and Shovels at Imagine! Belfast (Remote), Mar 24
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* Teardown 2025 (PDX), Jun 20-22
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* DeepSouthCon63 (New Orleans), Oct 10-12, 2025
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Recent appearances:
* Right to Repair with Karen Sandler (Software Freedom Conservancy):
videos.trom.tf/w/q1AAL629GYMFt…
* Just Say It's Capitalism (This Week in Tech)
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* Lost Dollar Business Club
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Just Say It's Capitalism | TWiT.TV
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Pluralistic: Enshittification isn’t caused by venture capital (20 Jan 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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*Picks and Shovels* is a new, standalone technothriller starring Marty Hench, my two-fisted, hard-fighting, tech-scam-busting forensic accountant. You have one more week to pre-order it on my latest Kickstarter, which features a brilliant audiobook read by Wil Wheaton:
martinhench.com
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in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •1: first, there are quite a few people who like social media to be a dumpster fire of hatred and bigotry. We should not forget that inconvenient truth.
2: Programmers used to be rare enough to command high wages. Suddenly, masses of them are fired and companies think they don't need them. I really wonder what happened.
(This is a real question and -no- artificial intelligence is not the answer as it is not ready yet)
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in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •The above article is an absolute must read, specially if you trust BlueSky after leaving X or FakeBook. It is also available on the Cory Doctorow's craphound.com podcast if you don't feel to read the article. Say no to enshittification.
#mustread #article #mustlisten #podcast #discernement #enshittification
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