Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: Trump's not gonna protect workers from forced labor; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/07/03/states-rights-trumps-wrongs/
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Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: Trump's not gonna protect workers from forced labor; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/07/03/states-rights-trumps-wrongs/
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I'm going offline for a family vacation, so this is the last Pluralistic until July 14. See you then!
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Trump's not gonna protect workers from forced labor: But states hate noncompete "agreements."
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/114788604055811898
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Hey look at this
* What's Going on Online https://www.ninetiesinternet.com/
* State Department Wants to Know Student Visa Applicants’ Myspace Accounts https://theintercept.com/2025/07/01/trump-student-visa-social-media/
* The bug in the letter, part 2 https://www.robinsloan.com/lab/bug-in-the-letter-2/
* Turns Out Appeasing Trump Only Emboldened Him https://prospect.org/politics/2025-07-03-trump-prosecution-law-felonies-fascism/
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#15yrsago Futures for SF writers that aren’t the Singularity https://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2008/08/25/fresh-sf-futures/
#10yrsago Secret court will let NSA do mass surveillance for another six months https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/06/secret-us-court-allows-resumption-of-bulk-phone-metadata-spying/
#10yrsago Bigoted officials: First Amendment means we don’t have to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples https://edition.cnn.com/2015/06/30/us/same-sex-marriage-supreme-court-ruling-holdouts/index.html
#10yrsago McKinney, TX wants $79K to retreive emails of the cop who tackled bikini-clad teen https://www.techdirt.com/2015/06/30/city-claims-it-will-take-9000-hours-79000-to-fulfill-gawkers-request-emails-related-to-abusive-police-officer/
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#10yrsago US Customs and Border Protection: America’s largest, most corrupt police force https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-border-patrol-20150630-story.html#page=1
#5yrsago Snowden on Little Brother https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/01/bossware/#omnibus
#5yrsago Sun Ra's syllabus https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/01/bossware/#sun-ra
#5yrsago Invigilation CEO doxes student https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/01/bossware/#moral-exemplar
#5yrsago Big Cop's corporate armorers https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/01/bossware/#charitable-laundering
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#5yrsago EFF on EU interoperability policy https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/01/bossware/#eu-interop
#1yrago Austin Grossman's 'Fight Me' https://pluralistic.net/2024/07/01/the-big-genx-chill/#im-super-thanks-for-asking
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Yesterday's threads: Tessa Hulls's "Feeding Ghosts"; and more!
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/114782698543273927
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My latest novel is "Picks and Shovels," a historical technothriller set in the Weird Era of the PC, about Ponzi schemes, techbros, and the dawn of enshittification:
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250865908/picksandshovels
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My next nonfiction book is "Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It," out from MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux on October 7:
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374619329/enshittification/
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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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Upcoming appearances:
* #Manchester: Picks and Shovels at Blackwell's Bookshop, Jul 2
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/an-evening-with-cory-doctorow-tickets-1308451968059
* #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
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