pluralistic OP , 5 months ago

Catch me in #Miami! I'll be at Books and Books in Coral Gables on Jan 22 at 8PM:

https://www.booksandbooks.com/event/in-person-an-evening-with-cory-doctorow/

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I'm Kickstarting the audiobook for The Bezzle, sequel to Red Team Blues, narrated by #WilWheaton! Pre-order the audiobook and ebook, DRM free, as well as the hardcover. There's also bundles with Red Team Blues in ebook, audio or paperback:

http://thebezzle.org

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18+ pluralistic OP , 5 months ago

American education has all the downsides of standardization, none of the upsides: A common core, but no commons.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/111767080526301851

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18+ pluralistic OP , 5 months ago

Hey look at this

• Among Linguists, the #WordOfTheYear Is More of a Vibe https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/15/crosswords/linguistics-word-of-the-year.html

• The #FTC Just Blocked Four Mergers in a Month. Here’s How Its Latest Win Fits Into the Broader Campaign to Revive #Antitrust https://www.thesling.org/the-ftc-just-blocked-four-mergers-in-a-month-heres-how-its-latest-win-fits-into-the-broader-campaign-to-revive-antitrust/

• The charges against #Binance https://blog.mollywhite.net/binance-script/

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18+ pluralistic OP , 5 months ago

#20yrsago Developing nations shouldn’t respect US #copyright unless farm subsidies end https://www.wired.com/2004/01/a-taste-of-our-own-poison/

#20yrsago Self-parking #Prius https://www.seattlepi.com/business/article/look-no-hands-car-parks-itself-1134918.php

#20yrsago #Disney selling off #CelebrationFlorida https://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/16/us/disney-is-selling-a-town-it-built-to-reflect-the-past.html

#15yrsago #Zimbabwean $100 trillion note https://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/01/16/zimbawe.currency/index.html

#15yrsago UK MPs to hide their expenses from #FreedomOfInformation requests https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2009/jan/15/freedom-of-information-expenses

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18+ pluralistic OP , 5 months ago

#10yrsago Building a fully open, transparent laptop https://makezine.com/article/maker-news/building-an-open-source-laptop/

#10yrsago Why the sum of all positive integers is -1/12 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-I6XTVZXww

#10yrsago #NSA harvests 200M of SMSes every day with untargeted, global “#Dishfire” program https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/16/nsa-collects-millions-text-messages-daily-untargeted-global-sweep

#10yrsago Congress calls on Schneier to give it answers that the NSA won’t https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/01/today_i_briefed.html

#10yrsago How to have a healthy relationship with technology https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jan/16/digital-failures-software

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18+ pluralistic OP , 5 months ago

#10yrsago What’s the most profitable price for an ebook? https://blog.luzme.com/2014/01/10-things-may-know-ebook-prices/

#10yrsago #CopyrightTroll dodging disbarment by resigning from the bar? https://fightcopyrighttrolls.com/2014/01/15/how-to-avoid-disbarment-disbar-yourself/

#10yrsago The Encyclopedia of Early Earth, a graphic novel by Isabel Greenberg https://memex.craphound.com/2014/01/15/the-encyclopedia-of-early-earth-a-graphic-novel-by-isabel-greenberg/

#10yrsago Leaked: environmental chapter of the secret #TransPacificPartnership treaty https://wikileaks.org/tpp-enviro/

#10yrsago #BoothBabes are bad for business https://techcrunch.com/2014/01/13/booth-babes-dont-convert/

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18+ pluralistic OP , 5 months ago

#10yrsago Blackphone: a privacy-oriented, high-end, unlocked phone https://web.archive.org/web/20140115183757/https://www.blackphone.ch/

#10yrsago #HEADWATER: NSA program for sabotaging #Huawei routers over the Internet https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/01/headwater_nsa_e.html

#10yrsago Judge rules TSA #NoFly procedures unconstitutional https://www.loweringthebar.net/2014/01/judge-rules-for-plaintiff-in-no-fly-case.html

#10yrsago Dirty secrets of America’s most notorious #PatentTroll https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/01/mphj-exposed-the-real-dirt-notorious-scanner-troll

#10yrsago UK consultation on #OrphanWorks https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/copyright-uk-orphan-works-licensing-scheme

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18+ pluralistic OP , 5 months ago

#5yrsago Even the rightsholders think Europe’s #Article13 is a mess, call for an immediate halt in negotiations https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/01/even-rightsholders-think-europes-article-13-mess-call-immediate-halt-negotiations

#5yrsago AOC’s debut speech on the Congressional floor: “It is not normal to shut down the government when we don’t get what we want.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-No5ClLS1W8

#5yrsago Vermont official fact-checks mobile carriers’ coverage maps, proves they’re lying like crazy https://www.vermontpublic.org/vpr-news/2019-01-16/state-official-went-roaming-around-vermont-to-test-cell-coverage-claims

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18+ pluralistic OP , 5 months ago

#5yrsago The glass is half-full (of bile over Facebook’s business-model) https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/17/18186045/facebook-pew-research-ad-targeting-consumers-quitting

#5yrsago Privatized energy utilities are burning down their states, but antitrust can make them stop https://www.wired.com/story/to-prevent-wildfires-treat-utilities-like-railroad-barons/

#5yrsago Trump’s #FCC chairman won’t do anything about your cellular company selling your location to bountyhunters because #shutdown https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/01/ajit-pai-gives-carriers-free-pass-on-privacy-violations-during-fcc-shutdown/

#5yrsago Shutdowns don’t get bad linearly; they get bad exponentially https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-15/the-shutdown-s-bad-buckle-up-because-it-could-get-much-worse

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18+ pluralistic OP , 5 months ago

#5yrsago Tory voters: are you happy with your purchase? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ae5t1CZFCU8

#5yrsago Largest dump in history: 2.7 billion records; 773 million of them unique; 140 million never seen before https://www.wired.com/story/collection-one-breach-email-accounts-passwords/"

#1yrago 1,000,000 stranded #Southwest passengers deserved better from #PeteButtigieg https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/16/for-petes-sake/#unfair-and-deceptive

#1yrago Normalize Dark Corners! https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/15/normalize-dark-corners/

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18+ pluralistic OP , 5 months ago

Yesterday's threads: Sympathy for the spammer; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/111761024502416095

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18+ pluralistic OP , 5 months ago

My latest novel is "The Lost Cause," a solarpunk novel of radical hope in the climate emergency, from Tor Books (US)/Head of Zeus (UK):

http://lost-cause.org

Signed, personalized copies available from Dark Delicacies:

https://www.darkdel.com/store/p3007/Pre-Order_Signed_Copies%3A_The_Lost_Cause_HB.html#/

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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 , 5 months 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 , 5 months ago

Upcoming appearances:

• Enshittification: The Rise and Fall of Big Tech (#CrashCourseEconomics)
  https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_YsKONp5zRgeF6SVuIOb6hQ#/registration

• Books & Books (#CoralGables, #Florida), Jan 22
  https://www.booksandbooks.com/event/in-person-an-evening-with-cory-doctorow/

• Marshall McLuhan Lecture 2024 (#Berlin), Jan 29
  https://transmediale.de/en/2024/event/mcluhan-2024

• The Lost Cause at Otherland (#Berlin), Jan 30
  https://www.otherland-berlin.de/de/event-details/autor-innenabend-mit-cory-doctorow.html

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18+ pluralistic OP , 5 months ago

Recent appearances:

• The Lost Cause (The Writer's Voice)
  https://www.writersvoice.net/2024/01/cory-doctorow-the-lost-cause/

• What the Future will Bring (#HomelessRomantic)
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_Vq8qW2A8I

• Talking "The Lost Cause" with Warren Mosler (#MMTPodcast)
  https://www.patreon.com/posts/episode-182-cory-95211955

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18+ pluralistic OP , 5 months ago

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18+ pluralistic OP , 5 months ago

I'm Kickstarting the audiobook for The Bezzle, sequel to Red Team Blues, narrated by #WilWheaton! Pre-order the audiobook and ebook, DRM free, as well as the hardcover. There's also bundles with Red Team Blues in ebook, audio or paperback:

http://thebezzle.org

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