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Inside: Rebecca Roque's "Till Human Voices Wake Us"; and more!
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Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: Rebecca Roque's "Till Human Voices Wake Us"; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/16/dead-air/
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Cory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •I'm touring my new, nationally bestselling novel *The Bezzle*! Catch me TOMORROW (Apr 17) in CHICAGO, then Torino (Apr 21), Marin County (Apr 27), Winnipeg (May 2), Calgary (May 3), Vancouver (May 4), and beyond!
https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/16/narrative-capitalism/#bezzle-tour
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Pluralistic: Come see me on tour; How America’s oligarchs lull us the be-your-own-boss fairy tale (16 Feb 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.netCory Doctorow
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Rebecca Roque's "Till Human Voices Wake Us": A brilliant technorealist teen thriller/murder mystery.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112280902985876765
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Cory Doctorow
2024-04-16 12:30:14
Cory Doctorow
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Hey look at this
* Schools Were Just Supposed To Block Porn. Instead They Sabotaged Homework and Censored Suicide Prevention Sites https://themarkup.org/digital-book-banning/2024/04/13/schools-were-just-supposed-to-block-porn-instead-they-sabotaged-homework-and-censored-suicide-prevention-sites (h/t Naked Capitalism)
* What’s next for me… https://dangillmor.com/2024/04/14/whats-next-for-me/
* All Bad Bosses at Amazon Are Now Named ‘Wayne’ https://www.404media.co/bad-amazon-bosses-wayne/
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All Bad Bosses at Amazon Are Now Named ‘Wayne’
Jules Roscoe (404 Media)Cory Doctorow
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#20yrsago Mickey Mouse’s dwindling brand https://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/18/arts/film-building-a-better-mouse.html
#15yrsago Wired publishes documents detailing the FBI’s spyware https://www.wired.com/2009/04/fbi-spyware-pro/
#15yrsago Gorilla-viewing glasses prevent eye-contact https://www.buzzfeed.com/peggy/no-eye-contact-glasses/
#15yrsago Man assaulted by police during G20 died from internal bleeding, not heart-attack http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8004222.stm
#15yrsago Sales booming in remote-kill devices for cars sold to poor credit-risks https://edition.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/wayoflife/04/17/aa.bills.shut.engine.down/index.html
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No Eye-Contact Glasses
Peggy Wang (BuzzFeed)Cory Doctorow
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#15yrsago Canadian Members of Parliament voting records (finally) online https://web.archive.org/web/20090419144031/http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/620435
#15yrsago Jokes from the Cultural Revolution https://thechinabeat.blogspot.com/2009/04/jokes-from-great-proletarian-cultural.html
#15yrsago Swedish Pirate Party membership surges after Pirate Bay verdict https://web.archive.org/web/20090420055230/http://translate.google.com/translate?prev=hp&hl=en&js=n&u=http%3A%2F%2Fpress.piratpartiet.se%2F2009%2F04%2F17%2Finternet-kokar-piratpartiet-har-nu-fler-medlemmar-an-fp%2F&sl=sv&tl=en
#15yrsago Google Book Search settlement gives Google a virtual monopoly over literature https://memex.craphound.com/2009/04/17/google-book-search-settlement-gives-google-a-virtual-monopoly-over-literature/
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TheStar.com | Canada | MP voting records go online
web.archive.orgCory Doctorow
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#15yrsago @bruces’s “White Fungus” — architecture fiction for rising seas and the econopocalypse https://web.archive.org/web/20090420053737/http://www.sunarchitecture.nl/upload/49d601a8ba4b25.51434338.pdf
#10yrsago Video: @bartongellman and me opening for Ed Snowden at SXSW https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mltClsxsJw4
#10yrsago UK Tory MP who helped kill Legal Aid is wiped out by defending himself against sexual assault claim https://web.archive.org/web/20140414232920/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/130000-poorer-in-fees-nigel-evans-admits-regret-for-past-support-of-legal-aid-cuts-9259579.html
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Snowden 2.0: A Field Report from the NSA Archives (Full Session) | Interactive 2014 | SXSW
YouTubeCory Doctorow
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#5yrsago “A Message From the Future”: short film about the “Green New Deal Decade,” narrated by AOC, drawn by Molly Crabapple, presented by Naomi Klein https://theintercept.com/2019/04/17/green-new-deal-short-film-alexandria-ocasio-cortez/
#5yrsago Canadian Civil Liberties Association sues Toronto, Ontario, and Canada over the plan for a Google Sidewalk Labs “smart city” in Toronto https://www.vice.com/en/article/gy4bgj/canada-is-getting-sued-over-sidewalk-labs-smart-city-in-toronto
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Canada Is Getting Sued Over Sidewalk Labs’ ‘Smart City’ In Toronto
Jordan Pearson (VICE)Cory Doctorow
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#5yrsago Ecuadorean authorities have unjustly arrested free software developer @olabini as part of their Assange dragnet https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/04/free-ola-bini
#5yrsago Bernie Sanders outraised every other Democrat in North Carolina https://amp.charlotteobserver.com/news/politics-government/election/article229277549.html
#5yrsago What it’s like to watch someone you love fall down the Fox News rabbit-hole https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/04/i-gathered-stories-of-people-transformed-by-fox-news.html
#5yrsago When Rivers Were Trails: an indigenous take on Oregon Trail https://indianlandtenure.itch.io/when-rivers-were-trails
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The Ecuadorean Authorities Have No Reason to Detain Free Software Developer Ola Bini
Electronic Frontier FoundationCory Doctorow
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#5yrsago As the EU Copyright Directive was approved, Germany admitted it requires copyright filters, putting it on a collision course with the EU-Canada trade deal https://memex.craphound.com/2019/04/17/as-the-eu-copyright-directive-was-approved-germany-admitted-it-requires-copyright-filters-putting-it-on-a-collision-course-with-the-eu-canada-trade-deal/
#5yrsago London cops switch off wifi in the tube to make it harder for climate protesters to organise https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/17/18411820/london-underground-tube-wi-fi-down-shut-off-protests-extinction-rebellion
#5yrsago Republican lawmaker who dared AOC to come visit coal miners in his constituency gets scared, withdraws offer https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1118181129213943815
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UK police shut off Wi-Fi in London Tube stations to deter climate protestors
James Vincent (The Verge)Cory Doctorow
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#5yrsago Lulzy Instagram memers are organizing a deadly serious trade union https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/04/instagram-memers-are-unionizing/587308/
#5yrsago Denver suburb officially changes name from “Swastika Acres” to “Old Cherry Hills” https://www.denverpost.com/2019/04/16/swastika-acres-renamed/
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"The right thing to do": Cherry Hills Village officially rename Swastika Acres subdivision
Sam Tabachnik (The Denver Post)Cory Doctorow
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Yesterday's threads: How to screw up a whistleblower law; and more!
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112275463835302751
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Cory Doctorow
2024-04-15 13:26:59
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):
http://lost-cause.org
Signed, personalized copies available from Dark Delicacies:
https://www.darkdel.com/store/p3007/Pre-Order_Signed_Copies%3A_The_Lost_Cause_HB.html#/
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My latest nonfiction book is "The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation" from Verso Books:
http://seizethemeansofcomputation.org
Signed copies available from Book Soup:
https://www.booksoup.com/book/9781804291245
Both are national bestsellers!
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The Lost Cause HB
Dark DelicaciesCory 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."
https://craphound.com/shop/
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Shop | Cory Doctorow's craphound.com
craphound.comCory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances:
* The Bezzle at Anderson's Books (Chicago), Apr 17
https://www.andersonsbookshop.com/event/cory-doctorow-1
* Torino Tech Biennale, Apr 21
https://www.biennaletecnologia.it/evento/come-sfuggire-al-merdocene-e-costruire-un-internet-migliore/
* The Bezzle at Book Passage (Corte Madera, Marin), Apr 27
https://www.bookpassage.com/event/cory-doctorow-bezzle-martin-hench-novel-corte-madera-store
* Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (Winnipeg), May 2
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/cory-doctorow-tickets-798820071337
* Wordfest (Calgary), May 3
https://wordfest.com/2024/event/wordfest-presents-cory-doctorow-2/
* Massy Arts (Vancouver), May 4
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/solo-reading-cory-doctorow-the-bezzle-tickets-876989167207
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Cory Doctorow
EventbriteCory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* Tartu Prima Vista Literary Fest, May 5-11
https://tartu2024.ee/en/kirjandusfestival/
* “Enshittification” and AI, with @timoreilly (virtual), May 14
https://www.oreilly.com/live-events/tim-oreilly-and-cory-doctorow-on-enshittification-and-the
* "Finding the Money" screening (LA), May 15
https://www.laemmle.com/film/finding-money?date=2024-05-15
* Authorship in an Age of Monopoly and Moral Panics (SF), May 17
https://www.authorsalliance.org/2024/03/15/authors-alliance-10th-anniversary-event-authorship-in-an-age-of-monopoly-and-moral-panics/
* Media Ecology Association keynote (Amherst, NY), Jun 6-9
https://media-ecology.org/convention
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Authors Alliance 10th Anniversary Event: Authorship in an Age of Monopoly and Moral Panics
Authors AllianceCory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* American Association of Law Libraries keynote (Chicago), Jul 21
https://www.aallnet.org/conference/agenda/keynote-speaker/
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Keynote Speaker - AALL Annual Meeting & Conference
AALL Annual Meeting & ConferenceCory Doctorow
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Recent appearances:
* Deep Dive podcast
https://open.spotify.com/episode/0bS0DS1H7ghHkiyx4KzXBV?si=fe7242019e734d61
* Digital capitalism course: What is digital capitalism? (Transnational Institute)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCzWpEQcd7E
* The Scam Economy (Lost Dollar Business Club)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SChg9ZiY_bk
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Episode 186: When the World Is A Bezzle w/ Cory Doctorow
Episode 186: When the World Is A Bezzle w/ Cory Doctorow (Spotify)Cory Doctorow
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Pluralistic: Rebecca Roque’s “Till Human Voices Wake Us” (16 Apr 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.netCory Doctorow
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I'm touring my new, nationally bestselling novel *The Bezzle*! Catch me TOMORROW (Apr 17) in CHICAGO, then Torino (Apr 21), Marin County (Apr 27), Winnipeg (May 2), Calgary (May 3), Vancouver (May 4), and beyond!
https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/16/narrative-capitalism/#bezzle-tour
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Pluralistic: Come see me on tour; How America’s oligarchs lull us the be-your-own-boss fairy tale (16 Feb 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.netSteinar Bang
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I had heard that title many years ago.
I had the feeling it was from a short story in a science fiction collection...?
So I googled and found this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Till_Human_Voices_Wake_Us
Could have been either the Lisa Tuttle story (it's from 1973, I think...?) or the Lewis Shiner story...?
The wikipedia article also had the origin of the phrase: T.S. Eliot
Wikimedia disambiguation page
Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)Steinar Bang
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Fiction Liberation Front--Till Human Voices Wake Us
www.fictionliberationfront.net