Podcasting "Capitalists Hate Capitalism": "Competition is for losers."

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Cory Doctorow

2024-04-18 11:02:07

This week on my podcast, I read "Capitalists Hate Capitalism," my latest column for @Locusmag:

locusmag.com/2024/03/cory-doct…

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

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Cory Doctorow: Capitalists Hate Capitalism

In conflict, we find clarity. We all hold contradictory views: We love our families, but they drive us crazy. We want more housing in our cities, but we don’t want our property values to decrease w…

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Hey look at this

* The town of ormož and its surroundings by Kate Wagner https://katewagner.neocities.org/ss/p/kate%20wagner%20the%20town%20of%20ormoz%CC%8C%20and%20its%20surroundings%20[final].pdf (h/t Super Punch)

* Phenomenal Katrina Christiansen campaign video youtube.com/watch?v=I44L1pzi4g… (h/t @bdgordon)

* The Life and Death of Hollywood harpers.org/archive/2024/05/th…

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#20yrsago Prison wipes creative-writing class HDDs after student wins PEN award prisonlegalnews.org/news/2005/…

#20yrsago EFF waging war on bullshit Internet patents web.archive.org/web/2004050711…

#20yrsago Brazil cracks down on sat-hackers who bounce ham signals off US military satellites wired.com/2009/04/fleetcom/

#15yrsago Clement Freud’s funniest joke britrish.com/2011/08/10/sir-cl…

#15yrsago RIP, JG Ballard news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainm…

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#15yrsago CIA waterboarded individual suspects up to 183 times theguardian.com/world/2009/apr…

#10yrsago Profile of Aeropress and Aerobie inventor Alan Adler priceonomics.com/the-invention…

#10yrsago UK tax authority caught sneaking in plan to sell Britons’ private financial records theguardian.com/politics/2014/…

#5yrsago AOC is going to Kentucky cnn.com/2019/04/19/politics/al…

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#5yrsago TSA admits that its pornoscanners flag Black women and others with curly hair for humiliating, invasive searches propublica.org/article/tsa-not…

#5yrsago NYC adopts law targeting the handful of skyscrapers that are spiking the city’s carbon footprint wired.com/story/new-yorks-aggr…

#5yrsago Read the source code for every classic Infocom text-adventure game! arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/04…

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#5yrsago Telcoms lobbyists have convinced 26 states to ban or restrict municipal broadband vice.com/en/article/kzmana/rep…

#5yrsago IPOs have sent Uber and Lyft fares skyrocketing, while driver pay plummets theguardian.com/technology/201…

#1yrago Iowa's starvation strategy pluralistic.net/2023/04/19/wha…

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Yesterday's threads: The true post-cyberpunk hero is a noir forensic accountant; and more!

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Cory Doctorow

2024-04-17 12:21:30

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: The true post-cyberpunk hero is a noir forensic accountant; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2024/04/17/pan…

#Pluralistic

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Pluralistic: The true post-cyberpunk hero is a noir forensic accountant (17 Apr 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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My last novel was "The Lost Cause," a solarpunk novel of radical hope in the climate emergency, from Tor Books (US)/Head of Zeus (UK):

lost-cause.org

Signed, personalized copies available from Dark Delicacies:

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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:

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Both are national bestsellers!

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The Lost Cause HB

Signed by Cory Doctorow.

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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:

* Torino Tech Biennale, Apr 21
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* The Bezzle at Book Passage (Corte Madera, Marin), Apr 27
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* Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (Winnipeg), May 2
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* Wordfest (Calgary), May 3
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* Massy Arts (Vancouver), May 4
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* Tartu Prima Vista Literary Fest, May 5-11
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* “Enshittification” and AI, with @timoreilly (virtual), May 14
oreilly.com/live-events/tim-or…

* "Finding the Money" screening (LA), May 15
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* Authorship in an Age of Monopoly and Moral Panics (SF), May 17
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* Media Ecology Association keynote (Amherst, NY), Jun 6-9
media-ecology.org/convention

* American Association of Law Libraries keynote (Chicago), Jul 21
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Recent appearances:

* NUOVO BARETTO UTOPIA
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* Cory Doctorow & Randall Munroe (Harvard Berkman-Klein Center)
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* Deep Dive podcast
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Kenobit

2024-04-16 10:31:46

NUOVO BARETTO UTOPIA - Puntata #11 - Ospite: Cory Doctorow