ColesStreetPothole , 6 days ago

@pluralistic
Ha! Bea Wolf. Be A Wolf. Much better than the alternate—B.O. Wolf. 😆

pluralistic OP , 6 days ago

On July 14, I'm giving the closing keynote for the fifteenth Hackers On Planet Earth, in Queens, NY:

https://www.hope.net/talks.html

On July 20, I'm appearing at Chicago's Exile in Bookville:

https://exileinbookville.com/events/39808

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Support me this summer on the Clarion Write-A-Thon and help raise money for the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers' Workshop!

https://clarionwriteathon.com/members/profile.php?writerid=293388

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18+ pluralistic OP , 6 days ago

Weinersmith and Boulet's "Bea Wolf": An absolutely delightful retelling of the bardic masterpiece.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112672754149497353

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18+ pluralistic OP , 6 days ago

Hey look at this

• 1/25-Scale Cray C90 Wristwatch https://www.chrisfenton.com/1-25-scale-cray-c90-wristwatch/ (h/t Waxy)

• WHOA US Treasury Dept just sanctioned leadership at 🇷🇺Russian #antivirus company #kaspersky https://mamot.fr/@jsrailton@mastodon.social/112656256339461820

• The first use of any new technology... https://nealstephenson.substack.com/p/the-first-use-of-any-new-technology

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18+ pluralistic OP , 6 days ago

#15yrsago Consumer groups around the world demand transparency on secret copyright treaty https://web.archive.org/web/20090627012359/http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/2009/06/23/eu-us-consumer-groups-issue-resolution-on-enforcement-demand-role-in-acta/

#15yrsago Asking sf writers to imagine terrorist scenarios is stupid https://www.wired.com/2009/06/how-science-fiction-writers-can-help-or-hurt-homeland-security/

#15yrsago Lancaster, PA: the most spied-upon town in America https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2009-jun-21-na-spycam-city21-story.html

#15yrsago US Department of Defense classes protests as “low-level terrorism” https://web.archive.org/web/20090616112119/http://open.salon.com/blog/dennis_loo/2009/06/14/dod_training_manual_protests_are_low-level_terrorism

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18+ pluralistic OP , 6 days ago

#15yrsago Nokia and Siemens provided surveillance tools used to bust Iranian activists https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/apr/13/europe39s-telecoms-aid-with-spy-tech/

#15yrsago AOL CDs make great shims for home carpentry projects https://web.archive.org/web/20090625023007/http://antfarmjournal.com/AF-Journal/AOLshim9-21-9/index.html

#15yrsago Some Kindle books have secret caps on the number of times you can download them https://memex.craphound.com/2009/06/22/some-kindle-books-have-secret-caps-on-the-number-of-times-you-can-download-them/

#15yrsago Germany gets its first Pirate Party lawmaker https://www.thelocal.de/politics/20090621-20093.html

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18+ pluralistic OP , 6 days ago

#10yrsago CS Lewis explains why you should be proud to read children’s books https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/view.cfm?recnum=9117

#10yrsago Watch a Texas lawman’s pathetic scramble for a reason not to record him https://www.techdirt.com/2014/06/20/texas-deputy-displays-ignorance-laws-hes-enforcing-while-trying-to-shut-down-citizens-recording/

#10yrsago Podcast: How Amazon is holding Hachette hostage https://ia804509.us.archive.org/35/items/Cory_Doctorow_Podcast_277/Cory_Doctorow_Podcast_277_How_Amazon_is_holding_Hachette_hostage.mp3

#10yrsago Illinois State Cops blew $250K on “terrorist-catching” Stingray surveillance gadgets https://www.muckrock.com/foi/illinois-168/harris-corporation-11372/

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18+ pluralistic OP , 6 days ago

#10yrsago 50,000 march against austerity in London, BBC doesn’t notice https://tompride.wordpress.com/2014/06/21/bbc-and-press-ignore-massive-demonstration-against-austerity-in-london/</a

#5yrsago Texas Instrument’s post-#taxscam budget for financial engineering is $5B — triple its budget for actual engineering https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2019/06/23/thanks-uncle-sam-after-tax-cuts-texas-instruments-spent-5-billion-on-stock-three-times-more-than-rd/

#5yrsago Man-Eaters Volume Two: Fleshing out the world where girls turn into lethal werepanthers when they get their periods https://memex.craphound.com/2019/06/23/man-eaters-volume-two-fleshing-out-the-world-where-girls-turn-into-lethal-werepanthers-when-they-get-their-periods/

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18+ pluralistic OP , 6 days ago

#5yrsago In a bid to avoid climate vote, Oregon Republican Senators cross state lines, go into hiding, threaten to murder cops, as white nationalist paramilitaries pledge armed support https://www.vox.com/2019/6/21/18700741/oregon-republican-walkout-climate-change-bill

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18+ pluralistic OP , 6 days ago

Friday's threads: Neither the devil you know nor the devil you don't; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112656391353416578

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18+ pluralistic OP , 6 days 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 , 6 days 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 , 6 days ago

Upcoming appearances:

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

• Exile in Bookville, (Chicago), July 20
  https://exileinbookville.com/events/39808

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

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18+ pluralistic OP , 6 days ago

Recent appearances:

• Living Your Principles
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTfqxF5KyCc

• Reimagining the Internet
  https://publicinfrastructure.org/podcast/102-cory-doctorow-enshittification/

• Circulating ideas
  https://circulatingideas.com/2024/06/11/261-the-bezzle-by-cory-doctorow-summer-reading-spectacular/

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18+ pluralistic OP , 6 days ago

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18+ pluralistic OP , 6 days ago

On July 14, I'm giving the closing keynote for the fifteenth Hackers On Planet Earth, in Queens, NY:

https://www.hope.net/talks.html

On July 20, I'm appearing at Chicago's Exile in Bookville:

https://exileinbookville.com/events/39808

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Support me this summer on the Clarion Write-A-Thon and help raise money for the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers' Workshop!

https://clarionwriteathon.com/members/profile.php?writerid=293388

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18+ pyperkub , 6 days ago

@pluralistic That Cray Supercomputer on your wrist is fascinating to those of us who grew up with them as the top level in computing!

18+ Dam_ned , 6 days ago

@pluralistic ping @Bouletcorp @ZachWeinersmith 😋

eliotlear , 6 days ago

@pluralistic Yeah I first read that as, “I'm giving the closing keynote on Planet Earth"...

After which, I guess, we could all fold up our own chairs. We're cooked.

thegibson , 6 days ago

@pluralistic See you at HOPE!

We are going on at 1PM Saturday!

pluralistic OP , 6 days ago

@thegibson Amazing!