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in reply to Cory Doctorow

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#NewYorkers! The state legislature has passed landmark #RightToRepair legislation, but Governor Hochul hasn't signed it and it might die. This would be a travesty. If you're in New York, visit eff.org/rtr to help tell the Governor that we can't afford to wait (and tell your friends in New York, too!).

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in reply to Cory Doctorow

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What the fediverse (does/n't) solve: We can protect our communities from commodification, but it takes work.

mamot.fr/@pluralistic/10956492…

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No matter how benevolent a dictatorship is, it's still a dictatorship, and subject to the dictator's whims. We must demand that the owners and leaders of tech platforms be fair and good - but we must also be prepared for them to fail at this, sometimes catastrophically.

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

pluralistic.net/2022/12/23/sem…

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in reply to Cory Doctorow

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Hey look at this

* Speech-to-text with Whisper: How I Use It & Why harihareswara.net/posts/2022/s… (h/t @brainwane)

* A Parent’s Typical Day, as Envisioned by My Child’s Preschool mcsweeneys.net/articles/a-pare… (h/t @jkottke )

* Balkan Cosmology by Bruce Sterling (2022) bruces.medium.com/balkan-cosmo…

* In the Southeast, power company money flows to news sites that attack their critics npr.org/2022/12/19/1143753129/…

* Why the super rich are inevitable pudding.cool/2022/12/yard-sale… (h/t @andybaio)

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in reply to Cory Doctorow

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Hey look at this (cont'd)

* Private Equity Gave Your Bank Password to Hackers mattstoller.substack.com/p/pri…

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in reply to Cory Doctorow

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#20yrsago Broadcast Flag in NYT ourmidland.com/news/article/Cr…

#20yrsago better !pout !cry netfunny.com/rhf/jokes/88old/c…

#15yrsago What waterboarding feels like boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wa…

#10yrsago Why George Bush, resigned his lifetime NRA membership nytimes.com/1995/05/11/us/lett…

#5yrsago Reviving my Xmas daddy-daughter podcast, with Poesy! ia600101.us.archive.org/25/ite…

#5yrsago Reality Winner profile is a beautiful portrait of a brilliant, principled patriot who messed up nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/1…

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in reply to Cory Doctorow

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Yesterday's threads: Here are just two of the corporate giveaways hidden in the rushed, must-pass, end-of-year budget bill; and more!

mamot.fr/@pluralistic/10955881…

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in reply to Cory Doctorow

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My latest 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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in reply to Cory Doctorow

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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.

Signed copies at Dark Delicacies:

darkdel.com/store/p1840/Cory_D…

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in reply to Cory Doctorow

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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."

craphound.com/shop/

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in reply to Cory Doctorow

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Upcoming appearances:

* Library Learning Experience/American Library Association (#NewOrleans), Jan 27-30
2023.alaliblearnx.org/cory-doc…

* Chokepoint Capitalism: Can It Be Defeated? (UCL Faculty of Laws), Feb 1
ucl.ac.uk/laws/events/2023/feb…

* Australian Digital Alliance Copyright Forum (#Canberra), Feb 17:
digital.org.au/2022/11/08/doct…

* #Antitrust, Regulation and the Political Economy (#Brussels), Mar 2:
brusselsconference.com/registr…

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in reply to Cory Doctorow

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If you're a Medium subscriber, you can read these essays - as well as previews of upcoming magazine columns and early exclusives on doctorow.medium.com.

My latest Medium column is "'Metaverse' means 'pivot to video'"

doctorow.medium.com/metaverse-…

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in reply to Cory Doctorow

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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

I did and… it emailed my password back to me in plaintext. 😂🤦‍♂️
in reply to Scott Willsey

@scottaw Alas, there is only one free/open self-hosted, privacy respecting mailing list program with any currency, Mailman, and it has some serious gaps.

See here for more:

doctorow.medium.com/dead-lette…

in reply to Cory Doctorow

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Why do you (and most of my favorite authors) write more and faster than I can read? I manage to read two books a week, but that's not enough to read all the titles in my tsundoku. 😅

Also: congratulations!

in reply to Cory Doctorow

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why are you treating this like twitter? Make one post.
in reply to andy diller

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@dillera As noted in my bio, I post long threads from this account and there are many ways to get my essays if you don't like my Mastodon style - RSS, newsletter, Medium, Tumblr, a blog, etc. I recommend unfollowing me here and subscribing to one of those if you prefer. Links at pluralistic.net.
in reply to Cory Doctorow

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@dillera (as to treating like Twitter, I can hardly think of anything more Twitterlike than signing up for a feed that has been posting long threads for several YEARS and lecturing the author of that thread about the one true way to use Mastodon, from your 12-day-old Mastodon account)
in reply to Cory Doctorow

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I’m sure others have already pointed this out, but since the mistake is still in the post: The Girl Who… is not her debut novel. Please fix that.