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Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: The true post-cyberpunk hero is a noir forensic accountant; and more!
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Cory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •I'm touring my new, nationally bestselling novel *The Bezzle*! Catch me TONIGHT (Apr 17) in CHICAGO, then Torino (Apr 21), Marin County (Apr 27), Winnipeg (May 2), Calgary (May 3), Vancouver (May 4), and beyond!
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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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The true post-cyberpunk hero is a noir forensic accountant: Blair Fix, Henry Farrell and Maria Farrell know more about Marty Hench than I do.
mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11228647…
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Cory Doctorow
2024-04-17 12:08:05
Cory Doctorow
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Hey look at this
* Stanford Law-4051/Comm-363 Governance of the Internet docs.google.com/document/d/1yB…
* Trampoline Unionism hamiltonnolan.com/p/trampoline…
* Civil rights groups decry effort to punish US federal inmates for social media use reuters.com/world/us/civil-rig… (h/t Gregory Charlin)
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Trampoline Unionism
Hamilton Nolan (How Things Work)Cory Doctorow
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#20yrsago The RIAA's Clean Slate “amnesty” euthanized web.archive.org/web/2004051713…
#20yrsago 1995 web-hosting rates web.archive.org/web/2004042111…
#15yrsago UK wine-sellers declare that wine has horoscopes, advise wine-drinkers to avoid certain moon-days theguardian.com/business/2009/…
#10yrsago Army comes clean about its recruitment AI, accidentally discloses info about pedophile- and terrorist-catching chatbots that roam the net spacenews.com/pepsi-drops-plan…
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Pepsi drops plans to use orbital billboard - SpaceNews
Jeff Foust (SpaceNews)Cory Doctorow
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#5yrsago The Antitrust Case Against Facebook: a turning point in the debate over Big Tech and monopoly memex.craphound.com/2019/04/18…
#5yrsago The sovereign nation of Iceland has finally invalidated the European trademark on “Iceland,” formerly held by a British discount grocery chain techdirt.com/2019/04/17/end-ab…
#5yrsago Dentistry’s evidentiary vacuum allows profiteering butchers to raid our mouths for millions memex.craphound.com/2019/04/18…
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The End Of The Absurdity: Iceland, The Country, Successfully Invalidates The Trademark Of Iceland Foods, The Grocer
TechdirtCory Doctorow
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#5yrsago 1% of England owns half of England whoownsengland.org
#5yrsago Effective July 15, British porn consumers will be required entrust their sexual tastes to private companies’ badly secured databases wired.com/story/porn-block-uk-…
#5yrsago We lost the fight for balance in the EU’s Copyright Directive, but here’s what we won felixreda.eu/2019/04/not-in-va…
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The UK porn block, explained
Matt Burgess (WIRED)Cory Doctorow
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#5yrsago John Oliver tackles the Sacklers: the litigious, secretive billionaires whose family business engineered the opioid crisis youtube.com/watch?v=-qCKR6wy94…
#1yrago How tech does regulatory capture pluralistic.net/2023/04/18/cur…
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Opioids II: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
YouTubeCory Doctorow
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Yesterday's threads: Rebecca Roque's "Till Human Voices Wake Us"; and more!
mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11228092…
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Cory Doctorow
2024-04-16 12:36:50
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
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."
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
andersonsbookshop.com/event/co…
* Torino Tech Biennale, Apr 21
biennaletecnologia.it/evento/c…
* 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…
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Cory Doctorow
EventbriteCory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* 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…
* "Finding the Money" screening (LA), May 15
laemmle.com/film/finding-money…
* Authorship in an Age of Monopoly and Moral Panics (SF), May 17
authorsalliance.org/2024/03/15…
Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* Media Ecology Association keynote (Amherst, NY), Jun 6-9
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
aallnet.org/conference/agenda/…
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Keynote Speaker - AALL Annual Meeting & Conference
AALL Annual Meeting & ConferenceCory Doctorow
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Recent appearances:
* How is life becoming “enshitified"? (Open To Debate)
soundcloud.com/canada2020/open…
* Cory Doctorow & Randall Munroe (Harvard Berkman-Klein Center)
youtube.com/watch?v=ulnlSRbH80…
* Deep Dive podcast
open.spotify.com/episode/0bS0D…
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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: The true post-cyberpunk hero is a noir forensic accountant (17 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 TONIGHT (Apr 17) in CHICAGO, then Torino (Apr 21), Marin County (Apr 27), Winnipeg (May 2), Calgary (May 3), Vancouver (May 4), and beyond!
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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
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