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Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Dave Maass and Patrick Lay's "Death Strikes: The Emperor of Atlantis"; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/23/peter-kien-viktor-ullmann/

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Berliners: @otherlandberlin has added a second date (Jan 28) for my book-talk after the first one sold out - book now!

https://www.otherland-berlin.de/de/event-details/zusaetzlicher-autor-innenabend-mit-cory-doctorow.html?day=20240128&times=1706466600,1706466600

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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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Dave Maass and Patrick Lay's "Death Strikes: The Emperor of Atlantis": A graphic novel based on a musical written by inmates at a Nazi death-camp.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/111805423061925618

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Hey look at this

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Europe to get fake-tree microwave masts https://www.theregister.com/2004/01/22/how_to_hide_a_phone/

Ian McDonald’s Kling Klang Klatch https://memex.craphound.com/2004/01/24/ian-mcdonalds-kling-klang-klatch/

Australian family caged, detained, starved and deported by US customs https://www.smh.com.au/national/mercy-dash-family-denied-entry-to-us-20090125-gdtb2n.html

Rick Lieder’s fantastic backyard bird photos — new book https://memex.craphound.com/2009/01/24/rick-lieders-fantastic-backyard-bird-photos-new-book/

’s Russian asylum extended https://edition.cnn.com/2014/01/24/world/europe/russia-snowden/index.html

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You won’t believe how sweet this anti-hyperbole plugin is http://downworthy.snipe.net

Who reads books in America, and how? https://web.archive.org/web/20140119040800/http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2014/E-Reading-Update.aspx

Great Firewall of Cameron blocks game update because “XerathMageChainsExtended” contains “sex” https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jan/21/uk-porn-filter-blocks-game-update-that-contained-sex

proposes -style annual https://theintercept.com/2019/01/24/elizabeth-warren-proposes-annual-wealth-tax-on-ultra-millionaires/

https://www.dotsrpg.org/3d-models

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audience erupts in uneasy laughter at mention of ’s proposal for a 70% tax on income over $10,000,000 https://www.cnn.com/business/live-news/davos-2019-live-updates/h_2e61fb5a7c8252de33a30ec4afecdc18

: “extreme weather events” drive record US acceptance of as an immediate problem https://memex.craphound.com/2019/01/24/peak-indifference-extreme-weather-events-drive-record-us-acceptance-of-climate-change-as-an-immediate-problem/

commemorates unpaid labor during the https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/23/politics/challenge-coins-secret-service-government-shutdown/index.html

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The “reverse supply chain”: vast warehouses of deeply discounted, returned goods https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/01/where-amazon-returns-go-to-be-resold-by-hustlers/580363/

Google, Facebook and Microsoft were the top sponsors of a conference that featured kooks https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/01/google-facebook-and-microsoft-sponsored-a-conference-that-promoted-climate-change-denial/

Facebook sold out the internet, secretly lobbied IN FAVOUR of https://www.politico.eu/article/inside-story-facebook-fight-against-european-regulation/

's "Pirate Enlightenment" https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/24/zana-malata/#libertalia

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Yesterday's threads: Boeing, Spirit and Jetblue, a monopoly horror-story; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/111799825024715112

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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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