Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: AI can't do your job; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2025/03/18/asb…
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Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: AI can't do your job; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2025/03/18/asb…
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Cory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •I'm on a 20+ city book tour for my new novel *Picks and Shovels*.
Catch me in SAN DIEGO on Mar 24:
mystgalaxy.com/32425Doctorow
And in CHICAGO with PETER SAGAL on Apr 2:
exileinbookville.com/events/44…
More tour dates here:
martinhench.com
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Authors on Tap: Cory Doctorow and Peter Sagal
exileinbookville.comCory Doctorow
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AI can't do your job: But an AI salesman can convince your boss to fire you and replace you with a chatbot that can't do your job.
mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11418219…
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Cory Doctorow
2025-03-18 07:14:42
Cory Doctorow
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Hey look at this
* All Games Are Political jacobin.com/2025/03/board-game…
* Coding and Billing for Transgender Care While Protecting Patient Confidentiality chipsblog.pcc.com/coding-and-b…
* Consumer Guarantees (Right to Repair) Amendment Bill parliament.nz/en/pb/sc/make-a-…
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Coding and Billing for Transgender Care While Protecting Patient Confidentiality
Chip Hart (Chip's Blog)Cory Doctorow
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#20yrsago NYT publishes anonymous remarks slamming anonymity wendy.seltzer.org/blog/archive…
#15yrsago Peter Watts found guilty rifters.com/crawl/?p=1186
#15yrsago New ACTA leak: It’s a screwjob for the world’s poor countries web.archive.org/web/2010032007…
#10yrsago Brute-force iPhone password guesser can bypass Apple’s 10-guess lockout youtube.com/watch?v=meEyYFlSah…
#10yrsago Terry Pratchett’s advice to booksellers web.archive.org/web/2015031920…
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Bruteforcing the iOS Screenlock
YouTubeCory Doctorow
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#5yrsago Magic in the time of coronavirus pluralistic.net/2020/03/19/gb-…
#5yrsago Fox News is a suicide cult pluralistic.net/2020/03/19/gb-…
#5yrsago How to structure a fair covid bailout pluralistic.net/2020/03/19/gb-…
#5yrsago Data is the New Toxic Waste pluralistic.net/2020/03/19/gb-…
#5yrsago Africa's Facebook modders are world leaders pluralistic.net/2020/03/19/gb-…
#5yrsago Canada Reads documentary on Radicalized pluralistic.net/2020/03/19/gb-…
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Pluralistic: 19 Mar 2020 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.netCory Doctorow
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#5yrsago The worst Democrat in Congress just lost his job pluralistic.net/2020/03/19/gb-…
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Pluralistic: 19 Mar 2020 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.netCory Doctorow
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Yesterday's threads: David Enrich's "Murder the Truth"; and more!
mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11417702…
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Cory Doctorow
2025-03-17 09:20:03
Cory Doctorow
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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.
us.macmillan.com/books/9781250…
Signed copies from Chevalier's Books:
chevaliersbooks.com/product-pa…
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My latest nonfiction book is "The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation" from Verso Books:
seizethemeansofcomputation.org
Signed copies available from Book Soup:
booksoup.com/book/978180429124…
Both are national bestsellers!
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Book details - Macmillan Publishers
MacmillanCory Doctorow
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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."
craphound.com/shop/
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Shop | Cory Doctorow's craphound.com
craphound.comCory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances:
* Europa Park: Cloudfest, Mar 18
cloudfest.link/
* Virtual: Picks and Shovels at Imagine! Belfast, Mar 24
eventbrite.co.uk/e/cory-doctor…
* #Chicago: Picks and Shovels with Peter Sagal, Apr 2
exileinbookville.com/events/44…
* #Chicago: ABA Techshow, Apr 3
techshow.com/
* #Bloomington: Picks and Shovels at Morgenstern, Apr 4
morgensternbooks.com/event/202…
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cloudfest_official
cloudfest_officialCory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* #Pittsburgh: Picks and Shovels at White Whale Books, May 15
whitewhalebookstore.com/events…
* #Pittsburgh: PyCon, May 16
us.pycon.org/2025/schedule/
* #PDX: Teardown 2025, Jun 20-22
crowdsupply.com/teardown/portl…
* #PDX: Picks and Shovels at Barnes and Noble, Jun 20
stores.barnesandnoble.com/even…
* #NewOrleans: DeepSouthCon63, Oct 10-12, 2025
contraflowscifi.org/
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White Whale Bookstore
whitewhalebookstore.comCory Doctorow
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Recent appearances:
* The internet that could have been was ruined by billionaires (Real News Network)
therealnews.com/the-internet-t…
* Organized Money
audio.buzzsprout.com/6f5ly01qc…
* Did Nothing Wrong
didnothingwrongpod.com/p/episo…
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Episode 168 - Cory Doctorow
Griff Sombke (Did Nothing Wrong)Cory Doctorow
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Pluralistic: AI can’t do your job (18 Mar 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.netCory Doctorow
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I'm on a 20+ city book tour for my new novel *Picks and Shovels*.
Catch me in SAN DIEGO on Mar 24:
mystgalaxy.com/32425Doctorow
And in CHICAGO with PETER SAGAL on Apr 2:
exileinbookville.com/events/44…
More tour dates here:
martinhench.com
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Authors on Tap: Cory Doctorow and Peter Sagal
exileinbookville.comJohn 🎵
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PrettyBuildings
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Trump-Zölle: Diese Massnahme könnte die USA in die Knie zwingen
Alberto Silini (watson)Cory Doctorow reshared this.
Andy Polaine
in reply to PrettyBuildings • • •Andreas Grois
in reply to PrettyBuildings • • •@macst derStandard also reported that the EU commission is even considering measures to invalidate US patents.
This is, however, treated as a last-resort option, that also might be very hard to realize, given that it would need an unanimous vote and Hungary is unlikely to agree.