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metin@graphics.social ("Metin Seven 🎨") wrote:

🧵 Following my previous human beatbox post, here's another amazing performance…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVZw7vQGR30

#music #beatbox #techno #video #dance #ElectronicMusic #live #YouTube

pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow") wrote:

I'm on a 20+ city book tour for my new novel *Picks and Shovels*.

Catch me in #PDX with BUNNIE HUANG at Barnes and Noble TODAY (Jun 20):

https://stores.barnesandnoble.com/event/9780062183697-0

And at the #TUALATIN Public Library on SUNDAY (Jun 22):

https://www.tualatinoregon.gov/library/author-talk-cory-doctorow

More tour dates (#London, #Manchester) here:

http://martinhench.com

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pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow") wrote:

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Here's today's edition: https://pluralistic.net/2025/06/20/the-doctor-will-gouge-you-now/

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pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow") wrote:

Recent appearances:

* FediForum Keynote
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7%5FGs1t0qe78

* Science Fiction is EXPOSING Scams and AI Dystopia (Bad Faith)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlrKlp%5FIiko

* The Rideshare Guy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKeoCxJWVVE

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pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow") wrote:

Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* #SanFrancisco: Enshittification at Public Works (The Booksmith), Oct 20
https://app.gopassage.com/events/doctorow25

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pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow") wrote:

Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* #Manchester: Co-operatives UK Co-op Congress keynote, Jul 4
https://www.uk.coop/events-and-training/events-calendar/co-op-congress-2025-book-your-place

* Virtual: ORG at 20: in conversation with Maria Farrell, Jul 16
https://www.openrightsgroup.org/events/org-at-20-cory-doctorow-in-conversation-with-maria-farrell/

* #DC: Enshittification at Politics and Prose, Oct 8
https://politics-prose.com/cory-doctorow-10825

* #SanFrancisco: Enshittification at Public Works (The Booksmith), Oct 20
https://app.gopassage.com/events/doctorow25

* #NewOrleans: DeepSouthCon63, Oct 10-12, 2025
http://www.contraflowscifi.org/

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pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow") wrote:

Upcoming appearances:

* #PDX: Teardown 2025, Jun 20-22
https://www.crowdsupply.com/teardown/portland-2025

* #PDX: Picks and Shovels with BUNNIE HUANG at Barnes and Noble, Jun 20
https://stores.barnesandnoble.com/event/9780062183697-0

* #Tualatin Public Library, Jun 22:
https://www.tualatinoregon.gov/library/author-talk-cory-doctorow

* #London: How To Academy with Riley Quinn, Jul 1
https://howtoacademy.com/events/cory-doctorow-the-fight-against-the-big-tech-oligarchy/

* #Manchester: Picks and Shovels at Blackwell's Bookshop, Jul 2
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/an-evening-with-cory-doctorow-tickets-1308451968059

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pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow") wrote:

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."

https://craphound.com/shop/

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pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow") wrote:

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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pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow") wrote:

Yesterday threads: Your Meta AI prompts are in a live, public feed; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/114710661795354899

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pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow") wrote:

#10yrsago What’s in the Pope’s barn-storming environmental message? https://www.wired.com/2015/06/popes-memo-climate-change-mind-blower/

#5yrsago Microsoft criticizes Apple's monopolism https://pluralistic.net/2020/06/19/art-of-the-deal/#honi-soit-qui-mal-y-pense

#5yrsago Austerity in disrepute https://pluralistic.net/2020/06/19/art-of-the-deal/#breadlines-r-us

#5yrsago Avia, c'est mort https://pluralistic.net/2020/06/19/art-of-the-deal/#avia

#5yrsago Trump's covid "test-tubes" are contaminated miniature soda bottles https://pluralistic.net/2020/06/19/art-of-the-deal/#art-of-the-deal

#5yrsago Trump wants to dismantle the OTF https://pluralistic.net/2020/06/19/art-of-the-deal/#save-otf

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pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow") wrote:

Hey look at this

* Introducing the Fediverse: a New Era of Social Media https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRJHIJy5Nno

* Police use controversial AI tool that looks at people’s sex lives and beliefs https://inews.co.uk/news/police-use-controversial-ai-tool-sex-lives-beliefs-3747154

* Micro Macintosh https://www.tindie.com/products/djmason9/micro-macintosh/ (h/t Mitch Wagner)

* You don't need an API key to archive Twitter Data https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/04/you-dont-need-an-api-key-to-archive-twitter-data/ (h/t Nelson Minar)

* Talking Heads - Psycho Killer (Official Video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJ54eImz88w (h/t Nelson Minar)

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pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow") wrote:

Oregon bans the corporate practice of medicine: Karma for Unitedhealthcare, Part II.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/114715845544195419

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pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow") wrote:

I'm on a 20+ city book tour for my new novel *Picks and Shovels*.

Catch me in #PDX with BUNNIE HUANG at Barnes and Noble TODAY (Jun 20):

https://stores.barnesandnoble.com/event/9780062183697-0

And at the TUALATIN Public Library on SUNDAY (Jun 22):

https://www.tualatinoregon.gov/library/author-talk-cory-doctorow

More tour dates (#London, #Manchester) here:

http://martinhench.com

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pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow") wrote:

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Oregon bans the corporate practice of medicine; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/06/20/the-doctor-will-gouge-you-now/

#Pluralistic

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Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
jef ("Jef Poskanzer") wrote:

It's the Solstice! Summer officially begins this evening at 7:41pm PDT. Here in the SF Bay Area, today will have 14h 43m 46s of daylight, tomorrow one second less. Earliest sunrise was a week ago, latest sunset will be on June 27/28 at 8:35:11pm.

Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
wendynather@infosec.exchange ("Wendy Nather") wrote:

@cstross @pluralistic The sad thing is that many of the bubble blowers I see are really old enough to know better. FOMO still plays an outsized role in this.

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

Hey, David Byrne's got a new track out. "Everybody Laughs":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YM-BTJKIz0Q

Looks like the album it's on will be available on Bandcamp:

https://davidbyrne.bandcamp.com/album/who-is-the-sky

Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
ilumium@eupolicy.social ("Jan Penfrat") wrote:

I also stressed on the record how disappointed we are with how slow #Microsoft is with its compliance. For a company that claims to "take compliance seriously", it's unacceptable to still being "on that journey" 2.5 years in, being unable to even provide exact dates for compliance.

Event closed, time for lunch. Thanks for having followed along! 👋

#DMA #DigitalMarketsAct

Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
ilumium@eupolicy.social ("Jan Penfrat") wrote:

Haha this conversation with #Windows lawyers is so wild I don't even find time to post here about it.

So, I asked them how it's legal under the #DMA's Art 5(2) data cross-use prohibition to automatically sign up Windows users with #OneDrive and thereby sharing my personal data (login credentials) with the service.

The lawyers confirmed that this is what they do and argued strangely this was legal because "there are many ways to sign in to Windows". Local accounts anyone? 🤥

Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
ilumium@eupolicy.social ("Jan Penfrat") wrote:

So funny how the #Windows lawyer starts off by dissing competitor #Apple by highlighting how Windows has always been an open platform where users can install apps from wherever they want without having to ask for permission 🔥

#DMA #DigitalMarketsAct

Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
ilumium@eupolicy.social ("Jan Penfrat") wrote:

Again, Linkedin refuses to share actual data of how users interact with consent screens, only speaking of "non-minimal numbers" of European users who opted out.

Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
ilumium@eupolicy.social ("Jan Penfrat") wrote:

#Linkedin clarifies they do not use Europeans' data for training #LLM/#AI models.

I assume that statement does not apply to other #Microsoft products like #Windows and of course #Copilot.

Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
ilumium@eupolicy.social ("Jan Penfrat") wrote:

Linkedin rep says they did NOT explicitly test their compliance solutions for neutrality. 👀

And results are probably not be public. How the heck is the public then supposed to know if compliance is working?

Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
ilumium@eupolicy.social ("Jan Penfrat") wrote:

After a lengthy statement by the #Linkedin rep, read out from paper with a machine-like voice, first questions from the audience:

Consumer org @beuc wants to know whether Linkedin's A/B testing for compliance solutions have been neutral and if the test results will be published. Super important for compliance #transparency!

#DMA #DigitalMarketsAct

Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
ilumium@eupolicy.social ("Jan Penfrat") wrote:

The way #Microsoft (and other #gatekeepers) present #DMA compliance is soooo annoying!

The "regulatory dialogue" with the Commission, according to #Linkedin's competition director, was a way for the company to "mature and progress in our DMA journey."

It's not a "journey", it's a law that creates legal obligations and prohibitions for the company. Get over it and get it down already. 😠

pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow") wrote:

I'm on a 20+ city book tour for my new novel *Picks and Shovels*.

Catch me in #PDX with BUNNIE HUANG at Barnes and Noble TOMORROW (Jun 20):

https://stores.barnesandnoble.com/event/9780062183697-0

And at the #TUALATIN Public Library on SUNDAY (Jun 22):

https://www.tualatinoregon.gov/library/author-talk-cory-doctorow

More tour dates (#London, #Manchester) here:

http://martinhench.com

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pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow") wrote:

Wage theft is notoriously hard to police, thanks to fear of retaliation and the precarity of victims of this crime.

The POWER Act passed as a result of the combined efforts of unions (SEIU, AFL-CIO) and the Working Families Party. Along with the Oregon Corporate Practice of Medicine ban, it shows how local, grassroots activism can protect everyday, working people from even the worst corporate criminals, even in Donald Trump's America.

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pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow") wrote:

As Brock Hrehor writes for *The American Prospect*, the POWER Act was passed after Trump gutted the National Labor Relations Board and left it unable to protect American workers. The POWER Act tackles one of the most pernicious forms of crime in America: wage theft, which accounts for more losses than all property crime in America combined, with losses overwhelming borne by Black and brown workers, especially women.

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pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow") wrote:

The POWER Act shifts the burden of proof for wage theft allegations from workers to their bosses and allows them to recover their stolen wages plus $2,000 in statutory damages per violation; it sets up a new fund (replenished with employer fines) that gives money to victims of retaliation, and it creates a public "bad boss" database of repeat offenders.

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