The future of Amazon coders is the present of Amazon warehouse workers: It's here, it's just not evenly distributed.

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Cory Doctorow

2025-03-13 17:35:00

My theory of the "shitty technology adoption curve" holds that you can predict the future impact of abusive technologies on you by observing the way these are deployed against people who have less social power than you:

pluralistic.net/2023/06/11/the…

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The Shitty Tech Adoption Curve Has a Business Model – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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Hey look at this

* Fowl Play: How Chicken Genetics Barons Created the Egg Crisis thebignewsletter.com/p/fowl-pl…

* In Memoriam: Mark Klein, AT&T Whistleblower Who Revealed NSA Mass Spying eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/memo…

* Thousands of Records, Including PII, Exposed Online in Healthcare Marketplace Connecting Facilities and Nurses Data Leak websiteplanet.com/news/eshyft-… (h/t Hacker News)

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#20yrsago How DRM will harm the developing world web.archive.org/web/2005031700…

#20yrsago AOL weasels about its Terms of Service yro.slashdot.org/story/05/03/1…

#20yrsago State of the Blogosphere: it’s big and it’s growing web.archive.org/web/2005032409…

#10yrsago Anti-vaxxer ordered to pay EUR100K to winner of “measles aren’t real” bet web.archive.org/web/2015031500…

#5yrsago TSA lifts liquid bans, telcos lift data caps pluralistic.net/2020/03/14/mas…

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#5yrsago Honest Government Ads, Covid-19 edition pluralistic.net/2020/03/14/mas…

#5yrsago Ada Palmer on historical and modern censorship pluralistic.net/2020/03/14/mas…

#5yrsago When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth pluralistic.net/2020/03/14/mas…

#5yrsago Masque of the Red Death pluralistic.net/2020/03/14/mas…

#1yrago The Coprophagic AI crisis pluralistic.net/2024/03/14/inh…

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Yesterday's threads: Firing the refs doesn't end the game; and more!

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Cory Doctorow

2025-03-12 17:57:15

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Firing the refs doesn't end the game; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2025/03/12/epi…

#Pluralistic

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Pluralistic: Firing the refs doesn’t end the game (12 Mar 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from 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:

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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

New York Times bestseller Cory Doctorow's The Bezzle is a high stakes thriller where the lives of the hundreds of thousands of inmates in California’s pris...

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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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Upcoming appearances:

* Europa Park: Cloudfest, Mar 17-20
cloudfest.link/

* Virtual: Picks and Shovels at Imagine! Belfast, Mar 24
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* #Chicago: Picks and Shovels with Peter Sagal, Apr 2
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* #Chicago: ABA Techshow, Apr 3
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* #Bloomington: Picks and Shovels at Morgenstern, Apr 4
morgensternbooks.com/event/202…

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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
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* #PDX: Picks and Shovels at Barnes and Noble, Jun 20
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* #NewOrleans: DeepSouthCon63, Oct 10-12, 2025
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Recent appearances:

* Did Nothing Wrong
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* CBC Bookends
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* The Futurists
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I'm on a 20+ city book tour for my new novel *Picks and Shovels*.

Catch me in BURBANK TONIGHT (Mar 13) with WIL WHEATON:

darkdel.com/store/p3257/Thu%2C…

And in SAN DIEGO on Mar 24:

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More tour dates here:

martinhench.com

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