Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: Look at all the great stuff we lost because of inflation scare-talk; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/05/05/wmd…
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Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: Look at all the great stuff we lost because of inflation scare-talk; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/05/05/wmd…
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Cory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Tonight (May 5), I'll be at the Books, Inc in #MountainView with @mkapor for my new novel *Red Team Blues*:
booksinc.net/event/cory-doctor…
Tomorrow (May 6), I'll be in #Berkeley at the Bay Area Bookfest for a 3:30PM event with #GlynnWashington:
baybookfest.org/session/cory-d…
Sunday (May 7), it's an 11AM event with #WendyLiu:
baybookfest.org/session/chokep…
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Cory Doctorow: Red Team Blues - Bay Area Book Festival
Bay Area Book FestivalCory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Look at all the great stuff we lost because of inflation scare-talk: We swapped pandemic aid, new spending and minimum wage hikes for wage suppression and mass layoffs.
mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11031691…
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Cory Doctorow
2023-05-05 16:01:27
Cory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Hey look at this
* The Ether Dreams of Fin-de-Siècle Paris publicdomainreview.org/essay/e…
* How companies use dark patterns to keep you subscribed pudding.cool/2023/05/dark-patt…
* Will A.I. Become the New McKinsey? newyorker.com/science/annals-o… (h/t Kottke)
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Will A.I. Become the New McKinsey?
Ted Chiang (The New Yorker)Cory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •#15yrsago #NelsonMandela and the ANC are on the US terrorist watchlist and need waivers to enter the country usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/w…
#15yrsago HOWTO make a chili mister web.archive.org/web/2013031713…
#15yrsago #HomelandSecurity charter school will train tomorrow’s prison guards delawareonline.com/story/enter…
#10yrsago #BenLaurie on #Bitcoin links.org/files/decentralised-…
#10yrsago #DefenseDistributed claims working 3D printed handgun forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg…
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This Is The World's First Entirely 3D-Printed Gun (Photos)
Andy Greenberg (Forbes)Cory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •#5yrsago #NSA report discloses it tripled its #surveillance of Americans in 2017 reuters.com/article/us-usa-cyb…
#5yrsago Britain’s Great Firewall blocks access to official Disney sites, internet safety guides, VPNs, and coding sites for kids torrentfreak.com/uk-internet-f…
#5yrsago UK local elections: Conservative party forgets to alter placeholder text before distributing campaign literature independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli…
#1yrago A New York law to end to Wall Street's pension ripoff pluralistic.net/2022/05/05/meg…
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Conservatives issue local election leaflet boasting of 'what we're doing/have done for ward/area name'
Benjamin Kentish (The Independent)Cory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Yesterday's threads: Ostromizing democracy; and more!
mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11031118…
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Cory Doctorow
2023-05-04 15:44:39
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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Cory 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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My latest Medium column is "Weak Institutions: It's not a fair fight"
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Weak Institutions - Cory Doctorow - Medium
Cory Doctorow (Medium)Cory Doctorow
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Lou Katz
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Steve Popovich
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Cory Doctorow reshared this.