Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: Ostromizing democracy; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/05/04/ana…
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Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: Ostromizing democracy; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/05/04/ana…
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Cory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Tomorrow (May 5), I'll be at the Books, Inc in #MountainView at 7PM with @mkapor for my new novel *Red Team Blues*:
booksinc.net/event/cory-doctor…
This weekend (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 • • •Ostromizing democracy: To counter antidemocratic libertarians, we need an analytical assessment of group problem-solving.
mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11031109…
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Cory Doctorow
2023-05-04 15:21:18
Cory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Hey look at this
* #Colorado kills law that made it harder for cities to offer internet service arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20… (h/t Slashdot)
* The African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights has endorsed #FederatedMedia and #DecentralizedModeration as the only path for equitable social media achpr.au.int/index.php/en/news… (h/t Tim Engelhardt)
* #ClarenceThomas Had a Child in Private School. #HarlanCrow Paid the Tuition propublica.org/article/clarenc…
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Colorado kills law that made it harder for cities to offer Internet service
Ars TechnicaCory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •#10yrsago #DanKaminski on Bitcoin wired.com/2013/05/lets-cut-thr…
#5yrsago Western Illinois coroner will hold your family’s ashes hostage for $1,000, won’t produce a death certificate without payment apnews.com/article/illinois-no…
#5yrsago #WilWheaton’s frank, brave speech about his depression and anxiety wilwheaton.net/2018/05/my-name…
#5yrsago Three artificial pancreases: a special trio of Catalog of Missing Devices entries memex.craphound.com/2018/05/04…
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Illinois coroner to poor: Pay $1000 or county keeps remains
Sara Burnett (Associated Press)Cory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •#5yrsago Prominent #AI researchers call the entire field “alchemy” science.org/content/article/ai…
#5yrsago Scandal-haunted #ScottPruitt’s staffers are shopping dirt on Ryan Zinke to create a distraction theatlantic.com/politics/archi…
#5yrsago Tech conferences are relocating from the USA to Canada to attract attendees and speakers who don’t want to come to Trump’s America financialpost.com/technology/t…
#1yrago The eye-glazing scam of #MedicareDrugPlans pluralistic.net/2022/05/04/hou…
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A Pruitt Aide's Attack on Zinke Angers the White House
Elaina Plott Calabro (The Atlantic)Cory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Yesterday's threads: The Swivel-Eyed Loons Have A Point; and more!
mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11030581…
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Cory Doctorow
2023-05-03 17:00:36
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 • • •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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Shop | Cory Doctorow's craphound.com
craphound.comCory 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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Weak Institutions - Cory Doctorow - Medium
Cory Doctorow (Medium)Cory Doctorow
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memex.naughtons.orgScott Matter
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •This:
“ Realism is a demand dressed up as an observation. Realists like Margaret Thatcher insisted "there is no alternative" to neoliberalism, but what she meant was "stop trying to think of an alternative."
Reminds me of that Churchill quote about democracy being the worst system except for all the others we’ve tried. It’s absolutely about killing critique and exploration of alternatives.
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in reply to Scott Matter • • •It reminds me of a Bush Snr quote:
"Thatcher is someone who sees things more clearly than they actually are."
Scott Matter
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Love the Ostomizing piece.
Also:
“The Ostrom method – actually studying how something works, rather than asking yourself how it would work if everyone thought like you – is a powerful tonic to this, but it's not the only one.”
This is one reason anthropologists sometimes claim Ostrom as one of our own. She was doing what we do.
You might be interested in Anand Pandian’s book, A Possible Anthropology, where he makes this kind of argument about the role and value of ethnography.
I also connect this (in some early stage work, not close to publication) linking anthropology / ethnography and futures research.
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in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Chris Bussard
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •