Cory DoctorowNote: I'm having my (other) hip replaced on Jan 11 and I've got a LOT of work to clear up between now and then. This may (or may not!) be the last edition of Pluralistic until I'm recovered from the surgery.
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Cory Doctorow's linkblog (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image In his 2014 novel *The Peripheral*, William Gibson plunges us into a far-future London, radically depopulated, quietly authoritarian, and under the iron thumb of "the Klept" - a fusion of the British chumocracy with post-Soviet Eurasian kleptoracy. https://memex.craphound.com/2014/10/28/the-peripheral-william-gibson-vs-william-gibson/ The origins of this society - its depopulation, its neo-aristocracy, its captivity to inscrutable AIs called "the Aunties" are lost to history. 1/
#20yrsago Harpercollins orders Michael Moore to remove criticism of GWB from his new book https://web.archive.org/web/20020110204753/https://www.salon.com/books/feature/2002/01/07/moore/index.html
#15yrsago John McCain: lying extremist http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/9541.html
#15yrsago Botnets will eat the Internet https://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/07/technology/07net.html
#10yrsago Leaked memo: USA blackmailed Spain into passing brutal, censoring copyright law https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2012/jan/05/us-pressured-spain-online-piracy
#10yrsago Lamar Smith: if you oppose SOPA, you don’t matter https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120105/04462117287/rep-lamar-smith-decides-lying-about-insulting-dismissing-opposition-to-sopa-is-winning-strategy.shtml
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#5yrsago This NES Classic jailbreak is a perfect parable of our feudal future of disobedient dishwashers https://memex.craphound.com/2017/01/07/this-nes-classic-jailbreak-is-a-perfect-parable-of-our-feudal-future-of-disobedient-dishwashers/
#5yrsago Wayne County, NY man tries to corner market on local newspaper when it prints his DUI mugshot https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2017/01/03/man-buys-stacks-of-local-newspapers-following-dwi-arrest/
#5yrsago Bible references make very weak passwords https://www.christianitytoday.com/news/2017/january/beware-of-making-jesus-your-password.html
#5yrsago Four Futures: using science fiction to challenge late stage capitalism and Thatcher’s “no alternative” https://memex.craphound.com/2017/01/06/four-futures-using-science-fiction-to-challenge-late-stage-capitalism-and-thatchers-no-alternative/
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#5yrsago New Senator from California can’t explain why she didn’t prosecute Trump’s Treasury pick when she was AG https://theintercept.com/2017/01/05/kamala-harris-fails-to-explain-why-she-didnt-prosecute-steven-mnuchins-bank/
#1yrago Congress bans "little green men" https://pluralistic.net/2021/01/06/methane-diet/#ndaa
#1yrago Mass court: "I agree" means something https://pluralistic.net/2021/01/06/methane-diet/#i-agree
#1yrago Food and Climate Change Without the Hot Air https://pluralistic.net/2021/01/06/methane-diet/#3kg-per-day
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Wednesday's threads: Hospital beds are a monopoly; and more!
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/107570777279941601
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Cory Doctorow's linkblog (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image Today's threads (a thread). Inside: Hospital beds are a monopoly; and more! Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2022/01/05/hillrom/ #Pluralistic 1/
My latest book is Attack Surface, a sequel to my bestselling Little Brother books, now in paperback, wherever books are sold.
Signed copies at Dark Delicacies:
https://www.darkdel.com/store/p1840/Cory_Doctorow_-__Attack_Surface_HB_%26_TPB.html#/
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My book "How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism" is a critique of Big Tech connecting conspiratorial thinking to the rise of tech monopolies (proposing a way to deal with both) is now out in paperback:
https://onezero.medium.com/how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism-8135e6744d59
Signed copies here:
https://www.darkdel.com/store/p2024/Available_Now%3A__How_to_Destroy_Surveillance_Capitalism.html
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My ebooks and audiobooks (from Tor Books, Head of Zeus, McSweeneys, 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."
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Upcoming appearances:
* CES Worst In Show (Repair Coalition), Jan 7:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkOyolU4_sjJZ-xoMf6fkig
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Recent appearances:
* Moral Panic (Drug Science Podcast)
https://www.drugscience.org.uk/podcast/53-moral-panic-with-cory-doctorow/
* It Could Happen Here podcast
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-it-could-happen-here-30717896/episode/an-interview-with-author-cory-doctorow-90500468/
* Privacy, online platforms & misinformation (Northsec 2021)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bWrE458cwE
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53. Moral Panic with Cory Doctorow - drugscience.org.uk
Moral Panic This week’s episode is as interesting and multi-disciplinary as its guest – Cory Doctorow – himself. Political activist, blogger, journalist, computer scientist and writer joins professor Nutt in conversation about Big data and Big problems of today’s world. Cory Doctorow is a Canadian-British citizen of Eastern European Jewish descent and, frankly, …
My first picture book is out! It's called Poesy the Monster Slayer and it's an epic tale of bedtime-refusal, toy-hacking and monster-hunting, illustrated by Matt Rockefeller. It's the monster book I dreamt of reading to my own daughter.
https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/14/poesy-the-monster-slayer/#poesy
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Here's today's edition: https://pluralistic.net/2022/01/07/the-klept/
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If you're a Medium subscriber, you can read these - as well as previews of upcoming magazine columns and early exclusives on doctorow.medium.com.
My latest Medium column is "The Internet Heist (Part I): The early days of the war to control the future"
https://doctorow.medium.com/the-internet-heist-part-i-3395769891b0
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Today's top sources: Naked Capitalism (https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/).
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