I'm touring my new, nationally bestselling novel *The Bezzle*! Catch me NEXT THURSDAY (Apr 11) in BOSTON with Randall "XKCD" Munroe, then PROVIDENCE, RI (Apr 12) and beyond!

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General Mills and cheaply bought "dietitians" co-opted the anti-diet movement: If Steve Bannon was a dietitian...

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Cory Doctorow

2024-04-05 13:32:26

Steve Bannon isn't wrong: for his brand of nihilistic politics to win, all he has to do is "flood the zone with shit," demoralizing people to the point where they no longer even *try* to learn the truth.

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Pluralistic: General Mills and cheaply bought “dietitians” co-opted the anti-diet movement (05 Apr 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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Hey look at this

* Smart devices are turning out to be a poor investment androidpolice.com/smart-device…

* ode to a faux grecian urn mcmansionhell.com/post/7466556…

* Anatomy of a credit card rewards program bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/ana…

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#20yrsago Every copy of Reason customized with sat photos of subscribers’ homes web.archive.org/web/2010052107…

#15yrsago Congressman who’s giving payday loan companies legal 391% APR loans says he’s powerless to resist their lobbying consumerist.com/2009/04/05/hou…

#5yrsago The New York Times’s chilling multimedia package on China’s use of “smart city” tech to create an open-air prison nytimes.com/interactive/2019/0…

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#5yrsago Googler uprising leads to shut down of AI ethics committee that included the president of the Heritage Foundation vox.com/future-perfect/2019/4/…

#5yrsago Most paint-spatters are valid perl programs docs.google.com/document/d/1ZG…

#5yrsago The Internet Archive has recovered 500,000+ of the 50,000,000 songs Myspace “accidentally” deleted during a server migration techspot.com/news/79511-intern…

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#5yrsago Ontario’s low-budget Trump-alike wants to eliminate sedation for people getting colonoscopies toronto.citynews.ca/2019/04/04…

#5yrsago Colorado’s net neutrality law will deny grant money to ISPs that engage in network discrimination coloradosun.com/2019/04/05/col…

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Yesterday's threads: Too big to care; and more!

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Cory Doctorow

2024-04-04 13:29:06

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Too big to care; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2024/04/04/tea…

#Pluralistic

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Pluralistic: Too big to care (04 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:

darkdel.com/store/p3007/Pre-Or…

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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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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."

craphound.com/shop/

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Upcoming appearances:

* UCLA Institute for Law, Technology and Policy, Apr 10
pages.e2ma.net/pages/1972582/4…

* The Bezzle at Harvard Berkman-Klein Center, with Randall Munroe (Boston), Apr 11
cyber.harvard.edu/events/enshi…

* RISD Debates in AI (Providence), Apr 12
involved.risd.edu/event/977796…

* The Bezzle at Anderson's Books (Chicago), Apr 17
andersonsbookshop.com/event/co…

* Torino Tech Biennale, Apr 21
biennaletecnologia.it/evento/c…

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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* The Bezzle at Book Passage (Corte Madera, Marin), Apr 27
bookpassage.com/event/cory-doc…

* Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (Winnipeg), May 2
eventbrite.ca/e/cory-doctorow-…

* Wordfest (Calgary), May 3
wordfest.com/2024/event/wordfe…

* Massy Arts (Vancouver), May 4
eventbrite.ca/e/solo-reading-c…

* Tartu Prima Vista Literary Fest, May 5-11
tartu2024.ee/en/kirjandusfesti…

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

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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* Authorship in an Age of Monopoly and Moral Panics (SF), May 17
authorsalliance.org/2024/03/15…

* Media Ecology Association keynote (Amherst, NY), Jun 6-9
media-ecology.org/convention

* American Association of Law Libraries keynote (Chicago), Jul 21
aallnet.org/conference/agenda/…

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Recent appearances:

* The Scam Economy (Lost Dollar Business Club)
youtube.com/watch?v=SChg9ZiY_b…

* Private Prisons, Finance Ghouls and The Bezzle (It Could Happen Here)
iheart.com/podcast/105-it-coul…

* Cory Doctorow’s new tech crime thriller takes us back to the days of Yahoo! (Betakit)
betakit.com/cory-doctorow-the-…

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Today's top sources: Super Punch (superpunch.net/).

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I'm touring my new, nationally bestselling novel *The Bezzle*! Catch me NEXT THURSDAY (Apr 11) in BOSTON with Randall "XKCD" Munroe, then PROVIDENCE, RI (Apr 12) and beyond!

pluralistic.net/2024/02/16/nar…

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