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Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Demon-haunted computers are back, baby; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/18/descartes-delenda-est/

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Catch me in ! 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 ! 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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Demon-haunted computers are back, baby: Surely no one will ever find a way to abuse this security system that treats the computer's owner as an attacker.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/111777335501524470

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Hey look at this

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@zephoria's PhD thesis: Teen sociality online http://www.danah.org/papers/TakenOutOfContext.pdf

Appeals court rules bloggers have same speech protections as journalists https://www.reuters.com/article/2014/01/17/us-usa-blogger-ruling-idUSBREA0G1HI20140117/

AOC’s debut speech as Congresswoman is the most popular Congressional video in C-SPAN history https://twitter.com/HowardMortman/status/1085950970092310528

Regular says she was banned from eating at the bar at Manhattan’s scammy Nello restaurant because she might be a sex-worker https://www.thecut.com/2019/01/will-manhattan-restaurant-nello-let-women-sit-alone-at-bar.html

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Why the Fed wants to crush workers https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/19/creditors-vs-workers/#finance-colored-glasses

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Yesterday's threads: The super-rich got that way through monopolies; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/111771733398007895

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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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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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Upcoming appearances:

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Recent appearances:

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I'm Kickstarting the audiobook for The Bezzle, sequel to Red Team Blues, narrated by ! 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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