Deena Mohamed's 'Shubiek Lubiek': An English edition of a brilliant Egyptian alt history comic about a world where wishes are real.

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Cory Doctorow

2023-01-11 12:15:09

*Shubeik Lubeik*, a trilogy of graphic novels by Deena Mohamed, took the Arab comics world by storm, winning Best Graphic Novel and Grand Prize at the Cairo Comix Festival; today, Pantheon Books releases a gorgeous hardcover omnibus English translation:

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Shubeik Lubeik by Deena Mohamed: 9781524748418 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

A brilliantly original debut graphic novel that imagines a fantastical alternate Cairo where wishes really do come true. Shubeik Lubeik—a fairy tale rhyme that means “your wish is my command”...

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Hey look at this

* 2023 CES Worst in Show Awards youtube.com/watch?v=iMYqdSSjfj…

* modern day monopoly stickers tradstickydesign.com/product-p…

* Bad news for thousands of crypto investors: They don’t own their accounts (see pluralistic.net/2022/02/03/liq…)

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#5yrsago Publicly funded private school creates “poor kids’ playground” for kids whose parents wouldn’t contribute to new playground equipment theguardian.com/education/2018…

#5yrsago Federal appeals court blasts North Carolina’s unconstitutional, Republican gerrymandering, orders new districts by Jan 24 nytimes.com/2018/01/09/us/nort…

#5yrsago Private prison tortures asylum seeker who refused “voluntary” labor theintercept.com/2018/01/11/ic…

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#5yrsago Federal prosecutors say that Ohio man used MacOS malware that covertly operated cameras and mics and exfiltrated porn searches for 13 years arstechnica.com/information-te…

#5yrsago Adversarial examples: attack can imperceptibly alter any sound (or silence), embedding speech that only voice-assistants will hear arxiv.org/pdf/1801.01944.pdf

#5yrsago At long last, open video formats are triumphing robert.ocallahan.org/2018/01/t…

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#5yrsago Federal Appeals Court rules that violating a website’s Terms of Service is not a crime eff.org/deeplinks/2018/01/nint…

#5yrsago Two years later, Google solves ‘racist algorithm’ problem by purging ‘gorilla’ label from image classifier wired.com/story/when-it-comes-…

#5yrsago Seven years after attempting to rip off Ken “@Popehat” White, fraudster gets 108-month federal prison sentence popehat.com/2018/01/11/anatomy…

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#5yrsago Missouri GOP governor accused of blackmailing married lover with nude pics. His colleagues already hate his guts. cnn.com/2018/01/11/politics/mi…

#10yrsago David Byrne and St Vincent concert video: Love This Giant npr.org/2013/01/09/168888064/d…

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Yesterday's threads: The learned helplessness of Pete Buttigieg; and more!

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Cory Doctorow

2023-01-10 13:03:29

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: The learned helplessness of Pete Buttigieg; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/01/10/the…

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Pluralistic: The learned helplessness of Pete Buttigieg (10 Jan 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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My latest book is Chokepoint Capitalism (with Rebecca Giblin), nonfiction about monopoly and fairness in creative labor markets.

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a book about why creative labor markets are rigged - and how to unrig them Competition is supposed to be fundamental to capitalism.

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My latest novel is Attack Surface, a sequel to my bestselling Little Brother books, now in paperback, wherever books are sold.

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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."

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Upcoming appearances:

* Library Learning Experience/American Library Association (#NewOrleans), Jan 27-30
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* Chokepoint Capitalism: Can It Be Defeated? (UCL Faculty of Laws), Feb 1
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* Future of Arts, Culture & Technology, ACMI, (#Melbourne), Feb 14
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* Australian Digital Alliance Copyright Forum (#Canberra), Feb 17:
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Recent appearances:

* The Majority Report with Sam Seder
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* Decoder:
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* Plutopia
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NYT: Binding Arbitration For Thee, But Not For Me - Cory Doctorow - Medium

If you’re in the habit of reading the fine print on the contracts and terms and conditions you sign or click “I Agree” to, you’ll have noticed the phrase “binding arbitration” buried in the text…

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