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Yesterday's threads: Trump's Tiktok two-step is a lesson for future presidents; and more!

mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11399199…

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Cory Doctorow

2025-02-12 17:03:32

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Trump's Tiktok two-step is a lesson for future presidents; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2025/02/12/you…

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Pluralistic: Trump’s Tiktok two-step is a lesson for future presidents (12 Feb 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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My last nationally bestselling novel was "The Bezzle," an ice-cold revenge story of high-tech finance crime starring the forensic accountant Martin Hench.

us.macmillan.com/books/9781250…

Signed copies from Chevalier's Books:

chevaliersbooks.com/product-pa…

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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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Book details - Macmillan Publishers

New York Times bestseller Cory Doctorow's The Bezzle is a high stakes thriller where the lives of the hundreds of thousands of inmates in California’s pris...

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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:

* Boskone (Boston), Feb 14
schedule.boskone.org/62/

* Picks and Shovels with Ken Liu (Boston), Feb 14
brooklinebooksmith.com/event/2…

* Picks and Shovels with Yanis Varoufakis (Jacobin/virtual), Feb 15
youtube.com/watch?v=xkIDep7Z4L…

* Picks and Shovels with Charlie Jane Anders (Menlo Park), Feb 17
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* Picks and Shovels with Wil Wheaton (Los Angeles), Feb 18
dieselbookstore.com/event/Cory…

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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* Picks and Shovels with Dan Savage (Seattle), Feb 19
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* Picks and Shovels at Another Story (Toronto), Feb 23
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* Picks and Shovels with John Hodgman (NYC), Feb 26
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* Picks and Shovels (Penn State), Feb 27
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* Picks and Shovels at the Doylestown Bookshop (Doylestown, PA), Mar 1
eventbrite.com/e/cory-doctorow…

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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* Picks and Shovels with Maximillian Alvarez (Baltimore), Mar 2
redemmas.org/events/cory-docto…

* Picks and Shovels with Matt Stoller (DC), Mar 4
loyaltybookstores.com/picksnsh…

* Picks and Shovels with Lee Vinsel (Richmond, VA), Mar 5
fountainbookstore.com/events/1…

* With Great Power Came No Responsibility: How Enshittification Conquered the 21st Century and How We Can Overthrow It (Indiana University/virtual), Mar 7
events.iu.edu/mediaiub/event/1…

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Upcoming appearances (cont'd)

* Picks and Shovels at First Light Books (Austin), Mar 10
thethirdplace.is/event/cory-do…

* Picks and Shovels with Wil Wheaton (Burbank), Mar 13
darkdel.com/store/p3257/Thu%2C…

* Cloudfest (Europa Park), Mar 17-20
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* Picks and Shovels at Imagine! Belfast (Remote), Mar 24
eventbrite.co.uk/e/cory-doctor…

* Picks and Shovels with Peter Sagal (Chicago), Apr 2
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* ABA Techshow (Chicago), Apr 3
techshow.com/

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Upcoming appearances (cont'd)

* Picks and Shovels at Morgenstern (Bloomington), Apr 4
morgensternbooks.com/event/202…

* Teardown 2025 (PDX), Jun 20-22
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* DeepSouthCon63 (New Orleans), Oct 10-12, 2025
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Recent appearances:

* The Writer's Voice
writersvoice.net/2025/02/black…

* The threat of big tech oligarchy and why the internet sucks (David Moscrop)
youtube.com/watch?v=s0Jfhn5wJ-…

* Elon Musk's Digital Coup and the Future of the Internet (System Crash)
youtube.com/watch?v=zEZPa-YzaU…

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I'm on a 20+ city book tour for my new novel *Picks and Shovels*.

Catch me for free TOMORROW (Feb 14) in Boston at Boskone:

schedule.boskone.org/62/

And on SATURDAY (Feb 15) for a virtual event with Yanis Varoufakis:

youtube.com/watch?v=xkIDep7Z4L…

More tour dates here:

martinhench.com

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