Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: 'We buy ugly houses' is code for 'we steal vulnerable peoples' homes'; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/05/11/ugl…
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Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: 'We buy ugly houses' is code for 'we steal vulnerable peoples' homes'; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/05/11/ugl…
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Cory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Tonight (May 11) at 7PM, I'm in #CALGARY for #Wordfest with my novel *Red Team Blues*; I'll be hosted by Peter Hemminger at the Memorial Park Library, 2nd Floor.
wordfest.com/2023/event/wordfe…
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Cory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •'We buy ugly houses' is code for 'we steal vulnerable peoples' homes': The pervasive, predatory sleaze of Homevestor, "the #1 homebuyer in the USA."
mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11035176…
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Cory Doctorow
2023-05-11 19:44:52
Cory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Hey look at this
* Andreessen Horowitz's State of #Crypto report: Narrative over numbers newsletter.mollywhite.net/p/an…
* The #McMansion as Harbinger of the American Apocalypse thebaffler.com/outbursts/bad-m…
* Goodbye, #Dooce waxy.org/2023/05/goodbye-dooce…
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Goodbye, Dooce - Waxy.org
Andy Baio (Waxy.org)Cory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •#20yrsago Lying, plagiarising #NYT writer outed, ousted nytimes.com/2003/05/11/nationa…
#20yrsago #COGECO’s Terms of Service: Assholes or idiots? memex.craphound.com/2003/05/11…
#10yrsago My Re:publica talk: “It’s not a fax machine connected to a waffle iron” youtube.com/watch?v=uWqx_1tDyq…
#10yrsago What makes a project remixable? mako.cc/academic/hill_monroy-r…
#10yrsago Bike lanes led to 49% increase in retail sales web.archive.org/web/2013031522…
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Times Reporter Who Resigned Leaves Long Trail of Deception
The New York TimesCory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •#5yrsago FanFlick Editor: an entry in @eff’s Catalog of Missing Devices eff.org/deeplinks/2018/05/fanf…
#5yrsago Here are the official lyrics to the #MrSoftee jingle thedailymeal.com/eat/mister-so…
#5yrsago Bite-Sized #Linux: a zine collecting awesome *nix tutorial webtoons wizardzines.gumroad.com/l/ltyw…
#5yrsago West Virginia Senator laughed at the idea that hating on teachers would bite him in the ass – then he lost his job theintercept.com/2018/05/11/we…
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West Virginia Republican Said Teachers Won’t “Have Any Significant Effect” On Elections. Then They Voted Him Out.
Zaid Jilani (The Intercept)Cory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •#5yrsago Pentagon sucks up to Trump by censoring mentions of #ClimateChange in its global risks assessment washingtonpost.com/news/energy…
#5yrsago Teens are cyberbullying themselves as a form of self-harm npr.org/sections/health-shots/…
#5yrsago Indigenous Canadians sue the Canadian government over decades of secret, involuntary, inhumane medical experiments theguardian.com/world/2018/may…
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Canada sued over years of alleged experimentation on indigenous people
Ashifa Kassam (The Guardian)Cory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •#5yrsago Individual FBI agents can be sued for blackmailing potential informants with no-fly list threats techdirt.com/2018/05/11/court-…
#1yrago The (billionaires') case against billionaires pluralistic.net/2022/05/11/a-d…
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Court: FBI Agents Can Be Held Accountable For Tossing Immigrants On The No-Fly List Because They Refused To Be Informants
TechdirtCory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Yesterday's threads: Two principles to protect internet users from decaying platforms; and more!
mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11034439…
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Cory Doctorow
2023-05-10 12:31:58
Cory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •My latest book is Red Team Blues, available wherever books are sold!
Signed copies at Dark Delicacies:
darkdel.com/store/p2873/Wed%2C…
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My latest nonfiction book is Chokepoint Capitalism (with Rebecca Giblin), nonfiction about monopoly and fairness in creative labor markets.
chokepointcapitalism.com
Signed copies available from Book Soup:
booksoup.com/book/978080700706…
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Wed, Apr 26th 6pm: Red Team Blues: A Martin Hench Novel HB
Dark DelicaciesCory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •My ebooks and audiobooks (from Tor Books, Head of Zeus, McSweeneys, Beacon 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
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Upcoming appearances:
* Wordfest (#Calgary), May 11
wordfest.com/2023/event/wordfe…
* #Gaithersburg Book Festival, May 20
gaithersburgbookfestival.org/f…
* Public Knowledge Emerging Tech keynote (#DC), May 22
eventbrite.com/e/emerging-tech…
* WEPFest with Ron Diebert, Dave Bidini and Nancy Olivieri (#Toronto), May 23
westendphoenix.com/shop/wepfes…
* #HowTheLightGetsIn (Hay), May 28
howthelightgetsin.org/events/t…
* #HowTheLightGetsIn (Hay), May 29
howthelightgetsin.org/events/t…
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Wordfest Presents Cory Doctorow - Wordfest
WordfestCory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* Red Team Blues event with @TimHarford (#Oxford), May 29
eventbrite.co.uk/e/cory-doctor…
* Red Team Blues event with Christian Riley (#Nottingham), May 30
waterstones.com/events/an-even…
* Red Team Blues event with @cubicgarden (#Manchester), May 31
waterstones.com/events/in-conv…
* UCL Peter Kirstein Lecture, Jun 1 (#London):
eventbrite.co.uk/e/peter-kirst…
* #Cymera23 Festival, Jun 3 (#Edinburgh)
cymerafestival.co.uk/cymera23-…
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Cory Doctorow 'Red Team Blues' with Tim Harford
EventbriteCory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* Red Team Blues with #MarthaLaneFox at the #BritishLibrary, Jun 5 (#London):
bl.uk/events/an-evening-with-c…
* Re:publica keynote, Jun 7 (#Berlin)
re-publica.com/de/news/rp23-ke…
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An Evening with Cory Doctorow: Techno Thriller
The British LibraryCory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Recent appearances:
* Slurry With The Turd On Top (Jordan, Jesse, Go!)
maximumfun.org/episodes/jordan…
* The Mark Thompson Show
youtube.com/watch?v=zs_eK8IC-5…
* Enshittification Part 1: Why Every Platform Goes Bad (On the Media)
wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/s…
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Slurry With The Turd On Top, with Cory Doctorow | Maximum Fun
Maximum FunCory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •You can also follow these posts as a daily blog at pluralistic.net: no ads, trackers, or data-collection!
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doctorow.medium.com/dont-curb-…
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Don’t Curb Your Enthusiasm - Cory Doctorow - Medium
Cory Doctorow (Medium)Cory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •If you prefer a newsletter, subscribe to the plura-list, which is also ad- and tracker-free, and is utterly unadorned save a single daily emoji. Today's is "👩🏻🚒". Suggestions solicited for future emojis!
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