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Inside: Justin C Key's "The World Wasn't Ready For You"; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/19/justin-c-key/
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On September 22, I'm (virtually) presenting at the #DIGFestival in #Modena, Italy
https://dig-awards.org/en/dig-festival-2023-first-speakers-announced/
That night, I'll be in person at #LA's #BookSoup for the launch of #JustinCKey's "The World Wasn’t Ready for You"
https://www.booksoup.com/event/justin-c-key
On September 27, I'll be at Chevalier's Books in #LosAngeles with #BrianMerchant for a joint launch for my new book *The Internet Con* and his new book, *Blood in the Machine*:
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DIG Festival 2023, first speakers and title announced
From September 21 to 24 2023 Modena will once again become the international centre of investigative journalism, hosting talks, meetings, exhibitions, concerts, theatre performances and workshops. During the 4-days conference, DIG will bring nearly 100 events and speakers to the Italian city: among them Florence Aubenas, Cory Doctorow, Nicola Gratteri, Erik Gandini, Ana Juan, Daniela Pes and many more. The full speakers’ list will be revealed at the beginning of September.
Justin C Key's "The World Wasn't Ready For You": Black horror that cuts with a surgical scalpel.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/111091763948757999
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Cory Doctorow (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image *The World Wasn't Ready For You* is #JustinCKey's first book. It's a short story collection, from a major publisher. This is basically unheard of. Big publishers rarely publish collections, and when they do, it's almost always after a string of extremely successful novels: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/the-world-wasnt-ready-for-you-justin-c-key?variant=41016598036514 -- If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog: https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/19/justin-c-key/#clarion-west-2015 1/
Hey look at this
* The #EdgarAllanPoe Library | The Nevermore https://nevermore.rip
* Updated COVID-19 #Vaccines Available for Adults at No Cost https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/programs/bridge/index.html (h/t Kottke)
* Trust Us: Inside the #JerseyOffshore Investigation https://open.spotify.com/episode/4gx1BFPDvjFL21wl8iFUnO?si=f4c94df299a3413b
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#20yrsago You Might Be An Anti-#Spam Kook If… https://www.rhyolite.com/anti-spam/you-might-be.html
#20yrsago #IEEE members: save democracy from a broken standards-committee! https://web.archive.org/web/20030922031714/https://www.eff.org/Activism/E-voting/IEEE/
#15yrsago American Psychological Association members can’t aid in military #torture https://web.archive.org/web/20080805001530/https://www.apa.org/governance/resolutions/work-settings.html
#15yrsago #WelcomeToFearCity: a guide to scare tourists away from NYC https://www.flickr.com/search/?w=58226389@N07&q=fear city
#10yrsago #NSA contracted with notorious French spy-tech company #VUPEN https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2013/sep/17/nsas-contract-vupen-darth-vader-cybersecurity/
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#10yrsago Asbestos-bound first edition of #Fahrenheit451 https://web.archive.org/web/20160316135700/https://www.ebay.com/itm/190905167150?ssPageName=STRK%3AMESELX%3AIT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649
#10yrsago Report shows how the anti-#SOPA fight came from the bottom up https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2295953
#5yrsago #TedChiang lecture on interspecies communications https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7rkojpnwOE
#5yrsago Your wireless carrier is definitely throttling video, but not because of network congestion (#Verizon’s the worst) https://www.vice.com/en/article/bjanw5/wireless-carriers-throttle-video-for-no-good-reason-researchers-find
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#5yrsago My closing #DecentralizedWebSummit keynote: “#BigTech’s problem is Big, not Tech” https://decentralizedweb.net/videos/keynote-cory-doctorowbig-techs-problem-is-big-not-tech/
#5yrsago Your life will be better if you turn off #PushNotifications (and all notifications) https://www.vice.com/en/article/7xjb79/turn-off-push-notifications
#5yrsago 30 years after #cyberpunk, #Japan is still the (greying, insular, shrinking, climate-wracked) future https://offramp.sciarc.edu/articles/a-slow-utopia
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#5yrsago #RiceUniversity eliminates tuition for all but wealthiest students, makes housing free for poorest https://www.npr.org/2018/09/18/649160232/rice-university-says-middle-class-students-wont-have-to-pay-tuition
#5yrsago #CloudComputing and #DRM: a match made in hell https://web.archive.org/web/20180918200400/https://publicknowledge.org/news-blog/blogs/its-always-drms-fault
#5yrsago 3D print this #HarrietTubman stamp and fix all those twenties that Mnuchin forgot to take Andrew Jackson off of https://tubmanstamp.com
#5yrsago #AnitaHill on how sexual harassment allegations should be handled https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/18/opinion/anita-hill-brett-kavanaugh-clarence-thomas.html
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#5yrsago #Kalamazoo criminalizes homelessness, arrests city commissioner and other activists https://www.mlive.com/news/kalamazoo/2018/09/police_arrive_at_bronson_park.html
#5yrsago Denmark’s largest bank laundered €200B through its Estonian branch, ignoring glaring warning signs https://www.ft.com/content/cbc4b02a-bbda-11e8-8274-55b72926558f
#5yrsago Germany’s far-right top spy just lost his job after gaslighting the country about right-wing, violent mob https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/18/germanys-domestic-spy-chief-hans-georg-maassen-chemnitz
#1yrago How to ditch #Facebook without ditching your friends https://pluralistic.net/2022/09/19/interoperable-facebook/#federated
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Yesterday's threads: Biden should support the UAW; and more!
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/111087195637463193
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Cory Doctorow (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image Today's threads (a thread) Inside: Biden should support the UAW; and more! Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/18/co-determination/ #Pluralistic 1/
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
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My latest novel is Red Team Blues, available wherever books are sold!
Signed copies at Dark Delicacies (US):
and Forbidden Planet (UK):
https://forbiddenplanet.com/385004-red-team-blues-signed-edition-hardcover/
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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."
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Upcoming appearances:
* DIG Festival (#Modena, Italy), Sept 22
https://dig-awards.org/en/dig-festival-2023-first-speakers-announced/
* Launch for #JustinCKey's "The World Wasn’t Ready for You," #BookSoup (#LA), Sept 22
https://www.booksoup.com/event/justin-c-key
* Launch for "#TheInternetCon" and @brianmerchant's "#BloodInTheMachine," Chevalier's Books (#LA), Sept 27
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-internet-con-by-cory-doctorow-blood-in-the-machine-by-brian-merchant-tickets-696349940417
* An Evening with #VESchwab (#Boise), Oct 2
https://www.thecabinidaho.org/all-events/ve-schwab
* Wired Nextfest/#WNF23 (#Milano), Oct 7-8
https://eventi.wired.it/nextfest23-milano
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DIG Festival 2023, first speakers and title announced
From September 21 to 24 2023 Modena will once again become the international centre of investigative journalism, hosting talks, meetings, exhibitions, concerts, theatre performances and workshops. During the 4-days conference, DIG will bring nearly 100 events and speakers to the Italian city: among them Florence Aubenas, Cory Doctorow, Nicola Gratteri, Erik Gandini, Ana Juan, Daniela Pes and many more. The full speakers’ list will be revealed at the beginning of September.
Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* #TheInternetCon at #MoonPalaceBooks (#Minneapolis), Oct 15
https://moonpalacebooks.com/events/30127
* 26th #ACM Conference On Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing keynote (#Minneapolis), Oct 16
https://cscw.acm.org/2023/index.php/keynotes/
* 41st annual McCreight Lecture in the Humanities (#Charleston, WV), Oct 19
https://festivallcharleston.com/venue/university-of-charleston/
* Seizing the Means of Computation (Edinburgh Futures Institute), Oct 25
https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/seizing-the-means-of-computation-with-cory-doctorow/
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Recent appearances:
* How to Take Back the Internet (Wired Have a Nice Future)
https://www.wired.com/story/have-a-nice-future-podcast-21/
* Sci-fi and Amazon's empire (The Workers' Speculative Society)
https://soundcloud.com/reimaginevalue/doctorow
* An Audacious Plan to Halt the Internet's Enshittification and Throw It Into Reverse (@defcon 31)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rimtaSgGz_4
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