Cory DoctorowToday's threads (a thread)
Inside: The Lost Cause prologue (part 2); and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/07/met-cute-ugly/
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My next novel is #TheLostCause, a hopeful tale of the climate emergency. As with all my audiobooks, Amazon refuses to sell this one, so I made my own indie audiobook and I'm pre-selling it right now through #Kickstarter:
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This weekend (October 7-8), I'm in #Milan to keynote Wired Nextfest/#WNF23:
https://eventi.wired.it/nextfest23-milano
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The Lost Cause prologue (part 2): It's a small world, after all.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/111192448226089051
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Cory Doctorow (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image My next novel is *The Lost Cause*, out on November 14; it's a hopeful tale of the fights we'll face *after* we address the polycrisis. #BillMcKibben called it "The first great YIMBY novel": https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250865939/the-lost-cause -- 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/2023/10/07/met-cute-ugly/#part-ii 1/
Hey look at this
* #Nintendo Company Brochure (2015) https://cabel.com/2023/10/06/nintendo-corporate-brochure-2015/
* The #UAW Just Secured a Landmark Win in the Fight for a Pro-Worker #GreenTransition https://jacobin.com/2023/10/uaw-strike-gm-electric-vehicle-battery-plants-union/
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#20yrsago #FCC releases #NumberPortability guidelines https://www.zdnet.com/article/fcc-issues-cell-swapping-guidelines/
#15yrsago US Customs: Sketching an SUV makes you a copyright infringer https://www.pressrepublican.com/news/local_news/keene-artist-had-hard-time-getting-back-into-us/article_57fca386-b99e-5b24-92c1-4358eb4d74ff.html
#15yrsago Canadian Conservative Party pledge to reintroduce the DMCA if elected https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2008/10/conservatives-to-reintroduce-c-61/
#15yrsago Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China — amazing memoir by American-born Chinese journalist https://memex.craphound.com/2008/10/07/factory-girls-from-village-to-city-in-a-changing-china-amazing-memoir-by-american-born-chinese-journalist/
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#10yrsago NSA freedom of information requests up 1000% post-Snowden https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2013/oct/07/nsa-inundated-foia-requests-after-snowden-leaks/
#10yrsago Harvard Business Review to universities: your subscription doesn’t include classroom use https://digitopoly.org/2013/10/06/harvard-business-school-publishing-crosses-the-evil-academic-line/
#5yrsago Using “forensic architecture” to punch Greek Nazis…in court https://forensic-architecture.org/investigation/the-murder-of-pavlos-fyssas
#5yrsago Texas cops seize lawn-sign depicting GOP elephant as sexual predator https://www.texastribune.org/2018/10/06/police-seize-texas-political-yard-sign-gop-elephant-girl-skirt/
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#1yrago "Don't spy on a privacy lab" (and other career advice for university provosts) https://pluralistic.net/2022/10/07/sensory-deprivation/#sensorship
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Yesterday's threads: Serializing the opening of "The Lost Cause"; and more!
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/111187957530358000
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Cory Doctorow (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image Today's threads (a thread) Inside: Serializing the opening of "The Lost Cause"; Hey look at this; and more! Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/06/green-new-deal-fic/ #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:
* Wired Nextfest/#WNF23 (#Milano), Oct 7-8
https://eventi.wired.it/nextfest23-milano
* #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/
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Wired Next Fest Milano - 7 e 8 ottobre, Castello Sforzesco
Se l’Italia è un luogo dell’innovazione, Milano ne è la capitale. L’edizione 2023 del Wired Next Fest vuole celebrare il rapporto tra i territori e l’innovazione, raccontare cioè la capacità del nostro paese di coniugare creatività e cultura, cambiamento e tradizione. Una dialettica che Milano sa incarnare come poche altre realtà nel nostro paese. Dibattiti e interviste ai protagonisti del mondo scientifico, culturale, politico, economico italiano, laboratori e momenti musicali: il 7 e 8 ottobre il Wired Next Fest arriva, per la prima volta, al Castello Sforzesco di Milano. Ti aspettiamo per costruire insieme il futuro.
Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* #TaylorBooks (#Charleston, WV), Oct 20, 12h-14h
http://www.taylorbooks.com/
* Seizing the Means of Computation (Edinburgh Futures Institute), Oct 25
https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/seizing-the-means-of-computation-with-cory-doctorow/
* The Internet Con at the @internetarchive (virtual), Oct 31
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/book-talk-the-internet-con-tickets-730939137637
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Recent appearances:
* Platform Decay, and How Amazon Raises Prices for Everyone (#SRSLYWrong)
https://srslywrong.com/podcast/297-platform-decay-and-how-amazon-raises-prices-for-everyone-w-cory-doctorow/
* The Diner Podcast
https://www.dinerpodcast.net/cory-doctorow-on-chokepoint-capitalism-en/
* Why the Internet Broke and How to Fix It (#Motherboard Cyber)
https://www.vice.com/en/article/dy3w4k/cyber-cory-doctorow-on-why-the-internet-broke-and-how-to-fix-it
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My latest column is "How the Writers Guild sunk AI's ship: No one's gonna buy enterprise AI licenses if they can't fire their workers"
https://doctorow.medium.com/how-the-writers-guild-sunk-ais-ship-236575979d5c
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