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Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr  ·  activity timestamp 20 hours ago

My ebooks and audiobooks (from FSGxMCD, 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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Tom Marble
Tom Marble
@tmarble@mstdn.io replied  ·  activity timestamp 6 hours ago

@pluralistic Brilliant because now is exactly the time for Dems to find their vertebrae.

In any case the future will not have the electoral college and will likely have ranked choice voting.

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oscarfalcon
oscarfalcon
@oscarfalcon@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 16 hours ago

@pluralistic

I kind of feel you give the US government TOO MUCH confidence (specially dems); the rest of the world are not holding their breath for the Usonian nightmare that is currently happening, would be great if the dems "found their spine" but there is ZERO trust right now and isolating and distancing the US might be best for the rest of the world right now.

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Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr replied  ·  activity timestamp 20 hours ago

The Nuremberg Caucus: What do Democrats have to lose?

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116046410916823849

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Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr replied  ·  activity timestamp 20 hours ago

Hey look at this

* Prescription: Social Media https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7_GTts4XTY&t=114s

* ENIAC Day Celebration https://www.helicoptermuseum.org/event-details/eniac-day-celebration

* Matrix is quietly becoming the chat layer for governments chasing digital sovereignty https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/09/matrix_element_secure_chat/

* The Children of Dilley https://www.propublica.org/article/life-inside-ice-dilley-children

* Martin Shkreli Had a Point https://lpeproject.org/blog/martin-shkreli-had-a-point/

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LPE Project

Martin Shkreli Had a Point

A decade ago, Martin Shkreli became the most hated man in America by raising the price of Daraprim – an antiparasitic essential for immunocompromised patients – from $17.50 to $750 per pill.
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ENIAC Day Celebration | AmericanHelicopter

ProPublica

The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center

ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of what comes next.

Matrix messaging gaining ground in government IT

FOSDEM 2026: One-to-one and group messaging, encrypted VoIP calls, video conferencing – the open protocol handles them all
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Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr replied  ·  activity timestamp 20 hours ago

#20yrsago Ray Bradbury: LA needs monorails! https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-feb-05-op-bradbury5-story.html

#20yrsago How statistics caught Indonesia’s war-criminals https://web.archive.org/web/20060423232814/https://www.wired.com/news/technology/1,70196-0.html

#20yrsago Canadian Red Cross vows to sue first aid kits, too https://memex.craphound.com/2006/02/10/canadian-red-cross-vows-to-sue-first-aid-kits-too/

#20yrsago Sports announcer traded for Walt Disney’s first character https://web.archive.org/web/20060312134156/http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news?slug=ap-nbc-michaels&prov=ap&type=lgns

#15yrago Government transparency doesn’t matter without accountability https://www.theguardian.com/technology/blog/2011/feb/10/government-data-crime-maps

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the Guardian

Government data like crime maps is not enough – there needs to be action

Cory Doctorow: The coalition wants to gain credibility by feeding us statistics, but why believe them when we need an app to avoid being kettled?
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Canadian Red Cross vows to sue first aid kits, too

Wired News: Coders Bare Invasion Death Count

Los Angeles Times

L.A.'s future is up in the air

SOMETIME IN THE next five years, traffic all across L.A. will freeze.
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Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr replied  ·  activity timestamp 20 hours ago

#10yrsago Hackers stole 101,000 taxpayers’ logins/passwords from the IRS https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/02/irs-website-attack-nets-e-filing-credentials-for-101000-taxpayers/

#10yrsago CIA boss flips out when Ron Wyden reminds him that CIA spied on the Senate https://www.techdirt.com/2016/02/10/cia-director-freaks-out-after-senator-wyden-points-out-how-cia-spied-senate/

#10yrsago Ta-Nehisi Coates will vote for Bernie Sanders, reparations or no reparations https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSJmxN-L300

#10yrsago Gmail will warn you when your correspondents use unencrypted mail transport https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/gmail/making-email-safer-for-you-posted-by/

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Google

Making email safer for you

Making email safer for you with two new security features in Gmail on the web.
Techdirt

CIA Director Freaks Out After Senator Wyden Points Out How The CIA Spied On The Senate

If you’re a CIA Director, one would assume that you know how to be cool under fire, right? Apparently that’s not the case for current CIA Director John Brennan who seemed to completely …
Ars Technica

IRS website attack nets e-filing credentials for 101,000 taxpayers

Breach comes a year after a previous hack compromised 300,000 people.
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Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr replied  ·  activity timestamp 20 hours ago

#10yrsago Detoxing is (worse than) bullshit: high lead levels in “detox clay” https://www.statnews.com/2016/02/02/detox-clay-fda-lead/

#10yrsago Nerdy Valentines to print and love https://www.evilmadscientist.com/2016/valentines-4/

#5yrsago A criminal enterprise with a country attachedhttps://pluralistic.net/2021/02/10/duke-sucks/#openlux

#5yrsago Tory donors reap 100X return on campaign contributions https://pluralistic.net/2021/02/10/duke-sucks/#chumocracy

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Pluralistic: 10 Feb 2021

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Evil Mad Scientist Valentines: 2016 Edition

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'Detox' clay may have dangerous amounts of lead, FDA says

A brand of clay marketed as safe for ingestion could expose consumers to lead poisoning.
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Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr replied  ·  activity timestamp 20 hours ago

#5yrsago Duke is academia's meanest trademark bully https://pluralistic.net/2021/02/10/duke-sucks/#devils

#5yrsago Crooked cops play music to kill livestreams https://pluralistic.net/2021/02/10/duke-sucks/#bhpd

#1yrago Hugh D'Andrade's "The Murder Next Door" https://pluralistic.net/2025/02/10/pivot-point/#eff

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Pluralistic: Hugh D'Andrade's "The Murder Next Door" (10 Feb 2025)

https://pluralistic.net

Pluralistic: 10 Feb 2021

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