Cory DoctorowToday's threads (a thread)
Inside: Larry Summers' inflation scare-talk incinerated climate action; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/20/bloodletting/
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Today (November 20), I'm at the #Simsbury, CT Public Library at 7PM, presenting my new novel, The Lost Cause, a preapocalyptic tale of hope in the climate emergency:
https://simsbury.librarycalendar.com/event/author-visit-cory-doctorow-29257
On Wednesday, November 22, I'm at the #Toronto Reference Library with Vass Bednar:
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/705457551527?aff=oddtdtcreator
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Larry Summers' inflation scare-talk incinerated climate action: Now can we please stop listening to this ghoul?
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/111443949052172314
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Cory Doctorow (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image Economists tell us that the market can remain irrational longer than we can remain solvent, but how long can *economists* remain irrational? Judging from the inflation scare we just lived through, the answer appears to be "longer than you can remain solvent." -- 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/2023/11/20/bloodletting/#inflated-ego 1/
Hey look at this
* Chief Justice #JohnRoberts’s Guide to the New #SupremeCourtEthicsCode https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/chief-justice-john-robertss-guide-to-the-new-supreme-court-ethics-code (h/t #NakedCapitalism)
* The stones left unturned in the #SamBankmanFried trial https://newsletter.mollywhite.net/p/the-stones-left-unturned
* NAKATOMI CORP. CHRISTMAS '88 SWEATSHIRT https://www.lastexittonowhere.com/catalogue/nakatomi-corp-christmas-88-green-white-ink_16430/ (h/t #SuperPunch)
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#15yrsago #FreeToBeYouAndMe: the 35 Anniversary Edition: the book every kid needs https://memex.craphound.com/2008/11/20/free-to-be-you-and-me-the-35-anniversary-edition-the-book-every-kid-needs/
#15yrsago Digital Youth Project: If you care about kids and want to understand how they use technology and why, this is a must-read https://web.archive.org/web/20081127101442/http://digitalyouth.ischool.berkeley.edu/files/report/digitalyouth-WhitePaper.pdf
#10yrsago Data visualization shows US isolation in pushing for brutal #TransPacificPartnership https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2013/11/18/the-united-states-is-isolated-in-the-trans-pacific-partnership-negotiations/
#5yrsago Copyright and the “#MaleGaze”: a feminist critique of copyright law https://web.archive.org/web/20181106072516/http://harvardjlg.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/HLG204_2018.pdf
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#5yrsago Leaks reveal the health care industry’s playbook for smearing and spinning #MedicareForAll out of existence by 2020 https://theintercept.com/2018/11/20/medicare-for-all-healthcare-industry/
#5yrsago “The End of Trust” – @eff/#McSweeney’s collaboration on #privacy and #surveillance – is in stores and free to download now! https://www.eff.org/the-end-of-trust
#5yrsago On the role of truth and philosophy in fantastic fiction http://dreamcafe.com/2018/11/19/truth-as-a-vehicle-for-enhancing-fiction-fiction-as-a-vehicle-for-discovering-truth/
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#5yrsago Trump spent $200,000,000 on the election stunt of sending 6,000 troops to the border, then withdrew them before the caravan arrived https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/11/trump-troops-border-caravan-stunt
#5yrsago #Electrification 2.0: #RuralBroadband #CoOps are filling the void left by indifferent monopolists https://www.wired.com/story/rural-america-diy-internet-spirit-reboot/
#5yrsago Dystopia watch: a roundup of the DOD’s new #LessLethalWeapons https://www.wired.com/story/ingredients-powering-defense-department-new-nonlethal-weapons/
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#5yrsago Portrait of a #FakeNews troll and the racist retiree who believes everything he writes https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/nothing-on-this-page-is-real-how-lies-become-truth-in-online-america/2018/11/17/edd44cc8-e85a-11e8-bbdb-72fdbf9d4fed_story.html
#5yrsago This month, the climate-denyingist red state AGs lost their jobs to Dems: time to sue the US government https://web.archive.org/web/20181120113921/https://www.climateliabilitynews.org/2018/11/19/democratic-ag-midterm-climate-change/
#1yrago Anything That Can’t Go On Forever Will Eventually Stop https://pluralistic.net/2022/11/20/anything-that-cant-go-on-forever-will-eventually-stop/
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Cory Doctorow (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image Today's threads (a thread) Inside: Pinkdrunk Linkdump; and more! Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/18/collectanea/ #Pluralistic 1/
My latest novel is "The Lost Cause," a solarpunk novel of radical hope in the climate emergency, from Tor Books (US)/Head of Zeus (UK):
Signed, personalized copies available from Dark Delicacies:
https://www.darkdel.com/store/p3007/Pre-Order_Signed_Copies%3A_The_Lost_Cause_HB.html#/
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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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Upcoming appearances:
* Lost Cause at Simsbury Public Library, Nov 20 (#Simsbury, CT)
https://simsbury.librarycalendar.com/event/author-visit-cory-doctorow-29257
* Generation of Lost Causes, Nov 22 (#Toronto)
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/705457551527?aff=oddtdtcreator
* Who Is Watching Big Tech? Nov 27 (#Toronto)
https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDMEVT496408&R=EVT496408
* The Lost Cause at #TheStrand (#NYC), Nov 29
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cory-doctorow-the-lost-cause-tickets-734958008187
* The Lost Cause at #FlyleafBooks (#ChapelHill), Dec 7
https://www.flyleafbooks.com/doctorow-2023
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Recent appearances:
* Digital Markets Act; Interoperability; Entrenchment; Copyright; "What-About-Ism" (Digital Markets Research Hub)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xm23pO5_WKM
* Science fiction for a dystopian present (Institute of Art and Ideas)
https://iai.tv/video/science-fiction-for-a-dystopian-present-cory-doctorow?_auid=2020
* Pushing back on unconstrained capitalism (@changelog)
https://changelog.com/podcast/565
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Cory Doctorow: Digital Markets Act; Interoperability; Entrenchment; Copyright; "What-About-Ism"...
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That's a little nutty, Professor.
That's a little nutty, Professor.