steve_zeke , 1 month ago

@pluralistic
Love the photo! My wife is a fiber artist and she’s created boro-inspired work (along with many other styles). I can’t wait to show her your photo.

pluralistic OP , 1 month ago

For the rest of May, my bestselling solarpunk utopian novel The Lost Cause (2023) is available as a $2.99, DRM-free ebook!

https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-lost-cause-4

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18+ pluralistic OP , 1 month ago

Inkjump Linkdump: A long weekend's supply of miscellany.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112502961268621726

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18+ pluralistic OP , 1 month ago

#20yrsago AT&T: the hollow phone company https://web.archive.org/web/20040605001440/https://werbach.com/blog/2004/05/24.html#a1485

#15yrsago Kid keeping a lending library of banned books in her locker https://web.archive.org/web/20090525190940/http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090305151758AA7dWwd

#10yrsago Scratch-built Mold-a-Rama machine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2P7MaZUrSQQ

#5yrsago Real estate title insurance company exposed 885,000,000 customers’ records, going back 16 years: bank statements, drivers’ licenses, SSNs, and tax records https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/05/first-american-financial-corp-leaked-hundreds-of-millions-of-title-insurance-records/

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18+ pluralistic OP , 1 month ago

#5yrsago Germany demands an end to working cryptography https://memex.craphound.com/2019/05/24/germany-demands-an-end-to-working-cryptography/

#5yrsago Comcast fights shareholder call for lobbying transparency, saying that it would be “burdensome” to reveal how much it spends lobbying states https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/05/comcast-does-so-much-lobbying-that-it-says-disclosing-it-all-is-too-hard/

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18+ pluralistic OP , 1 month ago

Yesterday's threads: They brick you because they can; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112498129085361411

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18+ pluralistic OP , 1 month ago

My latest nationally bestselling novel is "The Bezzle," an ice-cold revenge story of high-tech finance crime starring the forensic accountant Martin Hench:

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250865878/thebezzle

Signed copies from Chevalier's Books:

https://www.chevaliersbooks.com/product-page/the-bezzle

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My latest nonfiction book is "The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation" from Verso Books:

http://seizethemeansofcomputation.org

Signed copies available from Book Soup:

https://www.booksoup.com/book/9781804291245

Both are national bestsellers!

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18+ pluralistic OP , 1 month ago

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."

https://craphound.com/shop/

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18+ pluralistic OP , 1 month ago

Upcoming appearances:

• Media Ecology Association keynote (Amherst, NY), Jun 6-9
  https://media-ecology.org/convention

• HOPE XV, Jul 14 (Queens, NY)
  https://www.hope.net/talks.html

• American Association of Law Libraries keynote (Chicago), Jul 21
  https://www.aallnet.org/conference/agenda/keynote-speaker/

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18+ pluralistic OP , 1 month ago

Recent appearances:

• RISD Debates in AI keynote:
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdSEcmplaDs

• @AuthorsAlliance 10th Anniversary (at 1:55:00)
  https://archive.org/details/authors-alliance-10th-anniversary-presentation

• Upstream podcast
  https://podscripts.co/podcasts/upstream/the-big-tech-con-w-cory-doctorow

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18+ pluralistic OP , 1 month ago

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18+ pluralistic OP , 1 month ago

Today's top sources: @slashdot (https://slashdot.org), Bruce Schneier (https://www.schneier.com/).

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18+ pluralistic OP , 1 month ago

For the rest of May, my bestselling solarpunk utopian novel The Lost Cause (2023) is available as a $2.99, DRM-free ebook!

https://www.amazon.com/Lost-Cause-Cory-Doctorow-ebook/dp/B0BQGGP2XT/

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craige , 1 month ago

unfortunately that discount only applies to the US store @pluralistic

I'll grab a copy anyway 😀️