Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: The Swivel-Eyed Loons Have A Point; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/05/03/par…
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Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: The Swivel-Eyed Loons Have A Point; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/05/03/par…
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Cory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •This Friday (May 5), I'll be at the Books, Inc in #MountainView with @mkapor for my new novel *Red Team Blues*:
booksinc.net/event/cory-doctor…
And on May 6/7, I'll be in #Berkeley at the Bay Area Bookfest:
baybookfest.org/session/cory-d…
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Cory Doctorow: Red Team Blues - Bay Area Book Festival
Bay Area Book FestivalCory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •The Swivel-Eyed Loons Have A Point: My *Locus* column about the justifiable suspicions of the medical industry, lockdowns, license-plate cameras, and beyond.
mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11030561…
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Cory Doctorow
2023-05-03 16:09:31
Cory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Hey look at this
* The @calyxinstitute is seeking an experienced Interim Executive Director calyxinstitute.org/about/jobs/…
* Scary 'Emergent' AI Abilities Are Just a 'Mirage' Produced by Researchers, Stanford Study Says vice.com/en/article/wxjdg5/sca…
* Tell #PowellsBooks: Workers Deserve a Fair Contract with a #LivingWage change.org/p/tell-powell-s-boo… (h/t Tanya)
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Scary 'Emergent' AI Abilities Are Just a 'Mirage' Produced by Researchers, Stanford Study Says
Chloe Xiang (VICE)Cory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •#10yrsago Why “connecting the dots” is the wrong way to think about stopping terrorism edition.cnn.com/2013/05/02/opi…
#10yrsago Homemade laser pops 100 balloons youtube.com/watch?v=HuceDT2R4f…
#10yrsago OpenWorm: an artificial life sim of an earthworm nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2013/05/open…
#10yrsago Running on a long, deep pool of ooblek youtube.com/watch?v=yHlAcASsf6…
#10yrsago Jello Biafra and The Guantanamo School Of Medicine’s “White People and the Damage Done” memex.craphound.com/2013/05/03…
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Pocket Blu-ray laser kills 100 black balloons in a row! IMG *
YouTubeCory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •#10yrsago Easy win for publishing: network and systematize PR and marketing locusmag.com/2013/05/cory-doct…
#5yrsago Mashup Maker: Another entry for the Catalog of Missing Devices eff.org/deeplinks/2018/05/mash…
#5yrsago Facebook has repeatedly fired stalker employees, then covered it up vice.com/en/article/bjp9zv/fac…
#5yrsago Oakland passes groundbreaking municipal law requiring citizen oversight of local surveillance arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
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Sources: Facebook Has Fired Multiple Employees for Snooping on Users
Joseph Cox (VICE)Cory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •#1yrago The Democrats' self-immolating fetish for means-testing pluralistic.net/2022/05/03/uto…
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Pluralistic: 03 May 2022 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.netCory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Yesterday's threads: Oops! All linkdump! and more!
mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11030008…
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Cory Doctorow
2023-05-02 16:41:57
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 • • •Upcoming appearances:
* Red Team Blues at Books, Inc with @mkapor (#MountainView), May 5
booksinc.net/event/cory-doctor…
* Bay Area Bookfest (#Berkeley), May 6/7
baybookfest.org/session/cory-d…
* #OSSummit (#Vancouver), May 10
events.linuxfoundation.org/ope…
* Massy Books Red Team Blues event with Sean Cranbury (#Vancouver), May 10
eventbrite.ca/e/red-team-blues…
* Wordfest (#Calgary), May 11
wordfest.com/2023/event/wordfe…
* #Gaithersburg Book Festival, May 20
gaithersburgbookfestival.org/f…
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Cory Doctorow: Red Team Blues - Bay Area Book Festival
Bay Area Book FestivalCory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* 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…
* Red Team Blues event with @TimHarford (#Oxford), May 29
eventbrite.co.uk/e/cory-doctor…
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Emerging Tech
EventbriteCory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* 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-…
* Red Team Blues with #MarthaLaneFox at the #BritishLibrary, Jun 5 (#London):
bl.uk/events/an-evening-with-c…
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Peter Kirstein Lecture 2023 featuring Cory Doctorow
EventbriteCory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* Re:publica keynote, Jun 7 (#Berlin)
re-publica.com/de/news/rp23-ke…
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#rp23 Keynote von Cory Doctorow & Rebecca Giblin: Kreative Arbeitsmärkte und Monopole. | re:publica
republicaCory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Recent appearances:
* Author Talk: Cory Doctorow and @annaleen in Conversation/SFPL
youtube.com/watch?v=6Q6-tC3V52…
* The Next Chapter/CBC
cbc.ca/player/play/21993943720…
* Media Death Cult
youtube.com/watch?v=24k8r-p6ib…
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Author Talk: Cory Doctorow and Annalee Newitz in Conversation - Red Team Blues
YouTubeCory 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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My latest Medium column is "Weak Institutions: It's not a fair fight"
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Weak Institutions - 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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in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Cory Doctorow
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in reply to Euphoria 💕 • • •Anand R
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •The bit about the cashless society... CA recently sent me their tax rebate via a debit card. They could have sent a check. But no an ATM card that charged insane fees to use anywhere except CVS and Walgreens ATMs. And those would only dispense 20s while the card was for a number that ended in 50.
I eventually found a way to go online and just transfer the balance to my credit union but what about the people who don't have the (mental or physical) bandwidth to figure all this out?
Cory Doctorow reshared this.
Kat the Leopardess
in reply to Anand R • • •@anand I must also second this. California also uses cards for people to receive unemployment which strikes me as counter productive. Worse, they use B of A for the cards, which has always been unkind in terms of how they eek low income people out of the equation.
Anand mentions transferring his balance to his credit union but...what about the Underbanked?