⠵⠻⠷⠕⠭ 🍥🍉⚪🌹Sunny porch, reading this month's #WestEndPhoenix #Toronto
Thanks for the new issue of #WestEndPhoenix Dave and crew! #LocalMedia #LocalPrint #Toronto #CommunityNews (They're only on big tech social media hope that changes soon)
Really nice surprise in the mailbox this morning from the #WestEndPhoenix. It's a moving meditation on mixtapes and how we connect through music told through short stories, prose poems, and nostalgia. https://www.westendphoenix.com #Toronto #SlowPrint #MixedTapes
West End Phoenix - Community Newspaper in Toronto
Slow print, small run, mighty and true, the non-profit West End Phoenix is a periodical community newspaper dreamed up by writer and Rheostatic Dave Bidini, giving voice to the swirl of neighbourhoods that make up one of North America’s fastest evolving catchments. We mail subscriptions everywhere -
Craig SailaHere's an amazing #design competition with a real chance of helping people who are so often ignored : the 1,000+ people who are #homeless and unsheltered in #Toronto
The un/SHELTERED: Toronto Design Challenge is open to anyone and has an impressive jury backed by sponsors (#WestEndPhoenix #Maytree) who have a real stack in the issue
The other two talks are up, the first broadly about how NGOs, civil society, disinformation and the state intersect
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgh78gix3oY
and the second https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-JqHnp8O6M
about strategies for navigating the current corrupt information environment and humans near you with intersectional defence in depth #WestEndPhoenix #Disinformation #CDNPoli #Toronto
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgh78gix3oY
and the second https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-JqHnp8O6M
about strategies for navigating the current corrupt information environment and humans near you with intersectional defence in depth #WestEndPhoenix #Disinformation #CDNPoli #Toronto
True Stories
If you're in #Toronto this week, #WestEndPhoenix is hosting a series of conversations this Thursday to Saturday on #misinformation, #disinformation, & #FakeNews
Each conversation features two experts on the subject, and includes @citizenlab's #GabbyLim, longtime disnfo journalist @craigsilverman, as well as #Canada's Justice Minister, #ArifVirani
Tx for in-person or online are very affordable, too
Looking forward to the first night of #WEPFest — put on by #Toronto’s best local #newspaper, #WestEndPhoenix
Tonight’s the book launch for @pluralistic
https://www.westendphoenix.com/shop/wepfest-spring-fundraiser
WEPFEST 3 DAY SPRING FUNDRAISER! — West End Phoenix
3 DAYS OF STORIES, IDEAS AND MUSIC TUESDAY, MAY 23 – CORY DOCTOROW BOOK LAUNCH THURSDAY, MAY 25 – JOHN SOUTHWORTH AND THE SOUTH SEAS ALBUM LAUNCH SATURDAY, MAY 27 – QUEER SONGBOOK ORCHESTRA $22.60 PER SHOW [PRICES INCLUDE HST] MAIN HALL, TRANZAC CLUB ( DIRECTIONS ) ALL SHOWS S
Cory DoctorowToday (May 22), I'm keynoting #PublicKnowledge's Emerging Tech conference in #DC:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/emerging-tech-tickets-600582126307
Tomorrow (May 23), I'll be in #Toronto for a book launch for *Red Team Blues* that's part of #WEPFest, a benefit for the *#WestEndPhoenix*, onstage with #DaveBidini (The #Rheostatics), Ron Diebert (#CitizenLab) and the #whistleblower Dr #NancyOlivieri:
https://www.westendphoenix.com/shop/wepfest-spring-fundraiser
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Today (5/20) at 3:15PM, I'll be at the #Gaithersburg Book Festival with my novel *Red Team Blues*:
https://www.gaithersburgbookfestival.org/featured_author/cory-doctorow/
Mon (5/22), I'm keynoting #PublicKnowledge's Emerging Tech conference in #DC:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/emerging-tech-tickets-600582126307
Tues (5/23), I'll be in #Toronto for a book launch that's part of #WEPFest, a benefit for the *#WestEndPhoenix*, onstage with #DaveBidini (The #Rheostatics), Ron Diebert (#CitizenLab) and the #whistleblower Dr #NancyOlivieri:
https://www.westendphoenix.com/shop/wepfest-spring-fundraiser
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Cory Doctorow - Gaithersburg Book Festival
Cory Doctorow is a regular contributor to the Guardian, Locus and many other publications. He is a special consultant to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an MIT Media Lab Research Associate and a visiting professor of Computer Science at the Open… Continue Reading