Cory DoctorowToday's threads (a thread)
Inside: Brinklump Linkdump; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/20/motley/
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Catch me in #Miami! I'll be at Books & Books in Coral Gables this Monday (1/22), 8PM:
https://www.booksandbooks.com/event/in-person-an-evening-with-cory-doctorow/
Otherlands added a second date (Jan 28) after my #Berlin book-talk sold out!
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I'm Kickstarting the audiobook for *The Bezzle*, sequel to *Red Team Blues*, narrated by #WilWheaton! Pre-order the audiobook and ebook, DRM free, as well as the hardcover. There's also bundles with *Red Team Blues* in ebook, audio or paperback:
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Brinklump Linkdump: Indiscriminate heterogeniety for the sabbath.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/111788942864134239
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Cory Doctorow (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image Life comes at you fast, links come at you faster. Once again, I've arrived at Saturday with a giant backlog of links I didn't fit in this week, so it's time for a #linkdump, the 14th in the series: https://pluralistic.net/tag/linkdump/ - 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/2024/01/20/motley/#i-have-heard-the-mermaids-singing 1/
#15yrsago Obama administration brings back the #FreedomOfInformationAct and transparency in government https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/01/on-day-one-obama-demands-open-government
#15yrsago Man arrested for shouting complaints about “Arab types” on Turkish Airlines flight https://nypost.com/2009/01/21/plane-crazy/
#15yrsago Net-based pressure forces UK government to cancel plans to make MPs’ expenses secret https://www.mysociety.org/2009/01/21/blimey-it-looks-like-the-internets-won/
#10yrsago Lunar panorama stitched from Chinese Chang’e lander images https://www.360cities.net/image/lunar-panorama-change-3-lander
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On Day One, Obama Demands Open Government
It's only his first day in office, but President Obama has already signaled a serious commitment to transparency and accountability in government. The President ordered federal agencies in a memorandum released today to approach the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) "with a clear presumption: in...
#10yrsago @Bluejo What Makes This Book So Great https://memex.craphound.com/2014/01/21/jo-waltons-what-makes-this-book-so-great/
#5yrsago Agency: @GreatDismal's followup to #ThePeripheral turns #Neuromancer on its head https://memex.craphound.com/2019/01/21/agency-william-gibsons-followup-to-the-peripheral-turns-neuromancer-on-its-head/
#5yrsago Latvia opens up its #KGB files and names 4,000+ “informants,” many of whom claim they were framed https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/18/world/europe/latvia-kgb-informants.html
#5yrsago The EU’s ambitious, fearless #antitrust czar is unlikely to win another term https://memex.craphound.com/2019/01/21/the-eus-ambitious-fearless-antitrust-czar-is-unlikely-to-win-another-term/
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#5yrsago “#Capitalism has outlived its usefulness” -#MartinLutherKing, Jr https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/1/16/1621178/-Dr-King-the-greatest-purveyor-of-violence-in-the-world-today-my-own-government
#5yrsago CES-goer says his camera was killed by a #SelfDrivingCar’s LIDAR https://arstechnica.com/cars/2019/01/man-says-ces-lidars-laser-was-so-powerful-it-wrecked-his-1998-camera/
#1yrago Tiktok's #enshittification https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys
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Dr King: "... the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today: my own government"
From a speech delivered 50 years ago. True then; true today. For all the praise given to the great Dr. King, it is curious that people fail to mention that after the legal victories he helped achieve for the Black Community his focus grew to include...
Yesterday's threads: 2600's amazing Hackers on Planet Earth con may go down to enshittification; and more!
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/111783440928109106
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Cory Doctorow (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image Today's threads (a thread) Inside: 2600's amazing Hackers on Planet Earth con may go down to enshittification; and more! Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/19/hope-less/ #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
Both are national bestsellers!
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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:
* Books & Books (#CoralGables, #Florida), Jan 22
https://www.booksandbooks.com/event/in-person-an-evening-with-cory-doctorow/
* The Lost Cause at Otherland (#Berlin), Jan 28
https://www.otherland-berlin.de/de/event-details/zusaetzlicher-autor-innenabend-mit-cory-doctorow.html?day=20240128×=1706466600,1706466600
* Marshall McLuhan Lecture 2024 (#Berlin), Jan 29
https://transmediale.de/en/2024/event/mcluhan-2024
* The Lost Cause at Otherland (#Berlin), Jan 30
https://www.otherland-berlin.de/de/event-details/autor-innenabend-mit-cory-doctorow.html
* The Bezzle at Third Place Books (#Seattle), Feb 26
https://www.thirdplacebooks.com/event/cory-doctorow
* #Tuscon Festival of Books, Mar 9/10
https://tucsonfestivalofbooks.org/?id=676
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Recent appearances:
* Internet Con (Bullseye)
https://www.npr.org/2024/01/19/1197956508/bullseye-with-jesse-thorn-draft-01-19-2024
* The Lost Cause (The Writer's Voice)
https://www.writersvoice.net/2024/01/cory-doctorow-the-lost-cause/
* What the Future will Bring (#HomelessRomantic)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_Vq8qW2A8I
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Today's top sources: @nelson (https://www.somebits.com/linkblog/), #SuperPunch (https://www.superpunch.net/), @slashdot (https://slashdot.org/), James Milner-Smyth.
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I'm Kickstarting the audiobook for *The Bezzle*, sequel to *Red Team Blues*, narrated by #WilWheaton! Pre-order the audiobook and ebook, DRM free, as well as the hardcover. There's also bundles with *Red Team Blues* in ebook, audio or paperback:
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