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A word to Facebook employees

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@pluralistic "Quiet quitting" is the best thing employees at these fucked up companies can do. Just don't do anything. Do the bare minimum to not get fired, make them pay you every month for showing up and being essentially dead weight.

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*Picks and Shovels* is a new, standalone technothriller starring Marty Hench, my two-fisted, hard-fighting, tech-scam-busting forensic accountant. You can pre-order it on my latest Kickstarter, which features a brilliant audiobook read by Wil Wheaton:

martinhench.com

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*Picks and Shovels* is a new, standalone technothriller starring Marty Hench, my two-fisted, hard-fighting, tech-scam-busting forensic accountant. You can pre-order it on my latest Kickstarter, which features a brilliant audiobook read by Wil Wheaton:

martinhench.com

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Recent appearances:

* Elon Musk’s Move Into Politics: Yanis Varoufakis and Cory Doctorow on Fighting Billionaire Control
youtube.com/live/I0kvjNh7czM

* Can we avoid the enshittification of clean-energy tech? (Volts.wtf)
volts.wtf/p/can-we-avoid-the-e

* Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It (HOPE XV)
youtube.com/watch?v=YrciT_dc2s

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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* Picks and Shovels with John Hodgman (NYC), Feb 26
eventbrite.com/e/cory-doctorow

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

* Picks and Shovels at Imagine! Belfast (Remote), Mar 24
eventbrite.co.uk/e/cory-doctor

* DeepSouthCon63 (New Orleans), Oct 10-12, 2025
contraflowscifi.org/

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Recent appearances:

* Elon Musk’s Move Into Politics: Yanis Varoufakis and Cory Doctorow on Fighting Billionaire Control
youtube.com/live/I0kvjNh7czM

* Can we avoid the enshittification of clean-energy tech? (Volts.wtf)
volts.wtf/p/can-we-avoid-the-e

* Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It (HOPE XV)
youtube.com/watch?v=YrciT_dc2s

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Upcoming appearances:

* Picks and Shovels with Ken Liu (Boston), Feb 14
brooklinebooksmith.com/event/2

* Picks and Shovels with Charlie Jane Anders (Menlo Park), Feb 17
keplers.org/upcoming-events-in

* Picks and Shovels with Wil Wheaton (Los Angeles), Feb 18
dieselbookstore.com/event/Cory

* Picks and Shovels with Dan Savage (Seattle), Feb 19
eventbrite.com/e/cory-doctorow

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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* Picks and Shovels with John Hodgman (NYC), Feb 26
eventbrite.com/e/cory-doctorow

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

* Picks and Shovels at Imagine! Belfast (Remote), Mar 24
eventbrite.co.uk/e/cory-doctor

* DeepSouthCon63 (New Orleans), Oct 10-12, 2025
contraflowscifi.org/

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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:

* Picks and Shovels with Ken Liu (Boston), Feb 14
brooklinebooksmith.com/event/2

* Picks and Shovels with Charlie Jane Anders (Menlo Park), Feb 17
keplers.org/upcoming-events-in

* Picks and Shovels with Wil Wheaton (Los Angeles), Feb 18
dieselbookstore.com/event/Cory

* Picks and Shovels with Dan Savage (Seattle), Feb 19
eventbrite.com/e/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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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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Yesterday's threads: The Brave Little Toaster; and more!

mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11379335

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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

--

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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A beautiful timeline of a future in which the climate crisis is met and overcome thecorrespondent.com/214/in-20

RIP, Mike Resnick gofundme.com/f/help-mike-resni

Kelly and Zach Weinersmith's "A City On Mars" pluralistic.net/2024/01/09/ast

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Yesterday's threads: The Brave Little Toaster; and more!

mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11379335

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More than 800 Russian academic articles retracted after “bombshell” report reveals plagiarism and other misconduct science.org/content/article/ru

The Communications Workers of America is seeking to unionize tech and video game workers latimes.com/business/technolog

Multiple Amazon employees have been fired for spying on Ring owners’ cameras vice.com/en/article/ring-fired

How to read long, difficult books bradford-delong.com/2019/12/a-

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A beautiful timeline of a future in which the climate crisis is met and overcome thecorrespondent.com/214/in-20

RIP, Mike Resnick gofundme.com/f/help-mike-resni

Kelly and Zach Weinersmith's "A City On Mars" pluralistic.net/2024/01/09/ast

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New US Attorney General versus a baked potato fafblog.blogspot.com/2005_01_0

Companies that have fired people for blogging web.archive.org/web/2006042715

MP wants to ban email disclaimers bbc.com/news/uk-politics-30710

Apple won’t let EFF release a DRM-free app eff.org/deeplinks/2014/12/down

Universal wants to take away prisoners’ mixtapes bbc.com/news/technology-307241

Russia bans trans people from driving bbc.com/news/world-europe-3073

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More than 800 Russian academic articles retracted after “bombshell” report reveals plagiarism and other misconduct science.org/content/article/ru

The Communications Workers of America is seeking to unionize tech and video game workers latimes.com/business/technolog

Multiple Amazon employees have been fired for spying on Ring owners’ cameras vice.com/en/article/ring-fired

How to read long, difficult books bradford-delong.com/2019/12/a-

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Hey look at this

* Cassette Tape Plays MP3s hackaday.com/2025/01/06/casset

* K Ray chrisbathgate.blogspot.com/202

* Used Meta AI to edit a selfie, now instagram is using my face on ads targeted at me old.reddit.com/r/ABoringDystop

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New US Attorney General versus a baked potato fafblog.blogspot.com/2005_01_0

Companies that have fired people for blogging web.archive.org/web/2006042715

MP wants to ban email disclaimers bbc.com/news/uk-politics-30710

Apple won’t let EFF release a DRM-free app eff.org/deeplinks/2014/12/down

Universal wants to take away prisoners’ mixtapes bbc.com/news/technology-307241

Russia bans trans people from driving bbc.com/news/world-europe-3073

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Chapter One of "Picks and Shovels" (Part 1): My next novel is the origin story of Martin Hench, Silicon Valley's greatest forensic accountant.

mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11379993

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Hey look at this

* Cassette Tape Plays MP3s hackaday.com/2025/01/06/casset

* K Ray chrisbathgate.blogspot.com/202

* Used Meta AI to edit a selfie, now instagram is using my face on ads targeted at me old.reddit.com/r/ABoringDystop

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Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Chapter One of "Picks and Shovels" (Part 1); and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2025/01/09/the

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Chapter One of "Picks and Shovels" (Part 1): My next novel is the origin story of Martin Hench, Silicon Valley's greatest forensic accountant.

mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11379993

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The AI bubble is the new crypto bubble: you can tell because the same people are behind it, and they're doing the same thing with AI as they did with crypto - trying desperately to find a use case to cram it into, despite the yawning indifference and outright hostility of the users:

pluralistic.net/2023/03/09/aut

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