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Pluralistic: Larry Summers’ inflation scare-talk incinerated climate action (20 Nov 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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/

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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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Lobbyist Documents Reveal Health Care Industry Battle Plan Against “Medicare for All”

Industry groups are reprising an old strategy to take down new enthusiasm for universal health care.

The Intercept

#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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Administration Admits Border Deployment Was a $200 Million Election Stunt

The military is leaving the southern border, and the caravan hasn’t even arrived yet.

Vanity Fair
‘Nothing on this page is real’: How lies become truth in online America

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Saturday's threads: Pinkdrunk Linkdump; and more!

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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/

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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):

http://lost-cause.org

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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The Lost Cause | Cory Doctorow's craphound.com

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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