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Inside: Pluralistic is five; and more!
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Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: Pluralistic is five; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2025/02/19/gim…
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Cory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •I'm on a 20+ city book tour for my new novel *Picks and Shovels*.
Catch me in SEATTLE TONIGHT (Feb 19) with Dan Savage:
eventbrite.com/e/cory-doctorow…
And in TORONTO on SUNDAY (Feb 23) at Another Story Books:
eventbrite.ca/e/picks-shovels-…
More tour dates here:
martinhench.com
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Cory Doctorow with Dan Savage — 'Picks and Shovels: A Martin Hench Novel'
EventbriteCory Doctorow
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Pluralistic is five: Blogging as a way of clawing back your attention.
mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11403189…
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Cory Doctorow
2025-02-19 18:10:02
Cory Doctorow
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Hey look at this
* Trump Enforcers Affirm Lina Khan's Approach to Antitrust thebignewsletter.com/p/trump-e…
* The Tech Barons have a blueprint drawn in crayon. They have not thought any of this through. davekarpf.substack.com/p/the-t… (h/t Programmable Mutter)
* Why Massachusetts Isn’t California whatever.scalzi.com/2025/02/18…
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The Tech Barons have a blueprint drawn in crayon. They have not thought any of this through.
Dave Karpf (The Future, Now and Then)Cory Doctorow
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#20yrsago Strindberg and Helium: Depressive playwright and ecstatic balloon sidekick strindbergandhelium.com
#20yrsago Clickthrough licenses considered harmful web.archive.org/web/2005021811…
#20yrsago HOWTO defeat the DRM on your coffee-maker web.archive.org/web/2005022103…
#15yrsago Writers describe the positive impact of D&D on their lives web.archive.org/web/2010022113…
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Strindberg and helium
www.strindbergandhelium.comCory Doctorow
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#15yrsago School district admits installing covert webcam activation software on student laptops, denies wrongdoing businessinsider.com/school-tha…
#15yrsago New York’s small-town kangaroo courts: hives of abusive unchecked authority nytimes.com/2006/09/25/nyregio…
#10yrsago An Internet of Things that do what they’re told web.archive.org/web/2015022103…
#10yrsago Canada’s new surveillance bill eliminates any pretense of privacy michaelgeist.ca/2015/02/total-…
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"Total Information Awareness": The Disastrous Privacy Consequences of Bill C-51 - Michael Geist
Michael GeistCory Doctorow
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#10yrsago Livestream: students occupy Newark school superintendent’s office to protest forced privatization youtube.com/watch?v=skhwmmODjW…
#5yrsago Ios is now a vehicle to deliver unblockable adware pluralistic.net/2020/02/19/plu…
#5yrsago Rental car immobilizes itself when driven out of cellular range pluralistic.net/2020/02/19/plu…
#5yrsago Capitalism without capitalists pluralistic.net/2020/02/19/plu…
#5yrsago Trump's border wall defeated by 99 pesos' worth of rebar pluralistic.net/2020/02/19/plu…
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- YouTube
www.youtube.comCory Doctorow
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#5yrsago Rethinking "de-growth" and material culture pluralistic.net/2020/02/19/plu…
#5yrsago Machine learning doesn't fix racism pluralistic.net/2020/02/19/plu…
#5yrsago The Woman Who Loved Giraffes pluralistic.net/2020/02/19/plu…
#1yrago Middlemen without enshittification pluralistic.net/2024/02/19/cra…
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Pluralist: 19 Feb 2020 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.netCory Doctorow
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Yesterday's threads: America and "national capitalism"; and more!
mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11402622…
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Cory Doctorow
2025-02-18 18:08:28
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
MacmillanCory 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:
* #Seattle: Picks and Shovels with Dan Savage, Feb 19
eventbrite.com/e/cory-doctorow…
* #Toronto: Picks and Shovels at Another Story, Feb 23
eventbrite.ca/e/picks-shovels-…
* #Toronto: Ursula Franklin Lecture, Feb 24
eventbrite.ca/e/2025-ursula-fr…
* #NYC: Picks and Shovels with John Hodgman, Feb 26
eventbrite.com/e/cory-doctorow…
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Cory Doctorow with Dan Savage — 'Picks and Shovels: A Martin Hench Novel'
EventbriteCory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* #PennState: Picks and Shovels, Feb 27
bellisario.psu.edu/assets/uplo…
* #Doylestown, PA: Picks and Shovels at the Doylestown Bookshop, Mar 1
eventbrite.com/e/cory-doctorow…
* #Baltimore: Picks and Shovels with Maximillian Alvarez, Mar 2
redemmas.org/events/cory-docto…
* #DC: Picks and Shovels with Matt Stoller, Mar 4
loyaltybookstores.com/picksnsh…
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Cory Doctorow // PICKS AND SHOVELS: A MARTIN HENCH NOVEL
EventbriteCory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* #Richmond, VA: Picks and Shovels with Lee Vinsel, Mar 5
fountainbookstore.com/events/1…
* Virtual: With Great Power Came No Responsibility: How Enshittification Conquered the 21st Century and How We Can Overthrow It (Indiana University), Mar 7
events.iu.edu/mediaiub/event/1…
* #Austin: Picks and Shovels at First Light Books, Mar 10
thethirdplace.is/event/cory-do…
* Europa Park: Cloudfest, Mar 17-20
cloudfest.link/
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With Great Power Came No Responsibility: How Enshittification Conquered the 21st Century and How We Can Overthrow It
Indiana University CalendarCory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* Virtual: Picks and Shovels at Imagine! Belfast, Mar 24
eventbrite.co.uk/e/cory-doctor…
* #Chicago: Picks and Shovels with Peter Sagal, Apr 2
exileinbookville.com/events/44…
* #Chicago: ABA Techshow, Apr 3
techshow.com/
* #Bloomington: Picks and Shovels at Morgenstern, Apr 4
morgensternbooks.com/event/202…
* #PDX: Teardown 2025, Jun 20-22
crowdsupply.com/teardown/portl…
* #NewOrleans: DeepSouthCon63, Oct 10-12, 2025
contraflowscifi.org/
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Cory Doctorow in conversation with Alan Meban
EventbriteCory Doctorow
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Recent appearances:
* Picks and Shovels with Yanis Varoufakis and David Moscrop (Jacobin)
youtube.com/watch?v=xkIDep7Z4L…
* Forthright Radio
forthright.media/2025/02/14/co…
* The Writer's Voice
writersvoice.net/2025/02/black…
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Cory Doctorow: Picks and Shovels
Forthright RadioCory Doctorow
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Pluralistic: Pluralistic is five (19 Feb 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.netCory Doctorow
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I'm on a 20+ city book tour for my new novel *Picks and Shovels*.
Catch me in SEATTLE TONIGHT (Feb 19) with Dan Savage:
eventbrite.com/e/cory-doctorow…
And in TORONTO on SUNDAY (Feb 23) at Another Story Books:
eventbrite.ca/e/picks-shovels-…
More tour dates here:
martinhench.com
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Cory Doctorow with Dan Savage — 'Picks and Shovels: A Martin Hench Novel'
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