Subj : book: Picks and Shovels
To   : Ogg
From : j0hnny a1pha
Date : Wed Mar 26 2025 06:55 am

 > "New York Times bestselling author Cory Doctorow returns to the  
 > world of Red Team Blues to bring us the origin story of Martin  
 > Hench and the most powerful new tool for crime ever invented:  
 > the personal computer.

Nice!! "Red Team Blues" was a great cybercrime thriller. Doctorow knows
his tech, and I loved the mystery surrounding a lost cryptowallet,
organized crime set in the Bay Area. Martin Hench, the main character,
was in his 60's in the novel, so cool to see him back in the wild days of
SV, doing his thing.

The author is a net activist as well, who coined the term
"enshitification" to describe what Big Tech is doing to us now. I'm
pretty sure the game(s) Watchdogs 2 was influenced by another Doctorow
novle, "Little Brother" - another fantastic, realistic tech romp.

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