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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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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Saturday's threads: Pinkdrunk Linkdump; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/111432460457539301

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