HEY #SEATTLE! I'm appearing at the Cascade PBS Ideas Festival THIS SATURDAY (May 31) with the folks from NPR's On The Media!

https://www.cascadepbs.org/festival/speaker/cory-doctorow

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AI turns Amazon coders into Amazon warehouse workers: A reverse-centaur in the loop.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/114581056865375475

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Hey look at this

* The CIA Secretly Ran a Star Wars Fan Site https://www.404media.co/the-cia-secretly-ran-a-star-wars-fan-site/

* Atomic Highway - Post Apocalyptic Roleplaying https://archive.org/details/atomic-highway-ebook-v-2/mode/1up (h/t Tierney Hamilton)

* THE SILICON VALLEY EFFECT https://law.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/SJIL_61-1_Arun.pdf

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#20yrsago Bulk of American calories comes from sweet drinks https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/05/050527111920.htm

#20yrsago Chicago’s Bean sculpture is free to photograph, at last https://memex.craphound.com/2005/05/27/chicagos-bean-sculpture-is-free-to-photograph-at-last/

#15yrsago Man single-handedly building a metro rail https://englishrussia.com/2010/05/24/the-most-unusual-metro-in-the-world/

#15yrsago Canada’s copyright minister: superinfringer https://memex.craphound.com/2010/05/27/canadas-copyright-minister-superinfringer/

#15yrsago Pinkwater’s ADVENTURES OF A CAT-WHISKERED GIRL, sequel to Neddiad and Yggyssey https://memex.craphound.com/2010/05/27/pinkwaters-adventures-of-a-cat-whiskered-girl-sequel-to-neddiad-and-yggyssey/

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#10yrsago Real estate bubble drives urban blight https://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/why-are-there-so-many-shuttered-storefronts-in-the-west-village

#10yrsago IRS leaks 100K taxpayers’ data to identity thieves https://theintercept.com/2015/05/27/data-breaches-wreak-havoc/

#10yrsago Swiss cops’ dawn raid snags top FIFA officials https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/27/sports/soccer/fifa-officials-face-corruption-charges-in-us.html

#5yrsago The Toronto Star's new owners donated to far-right Tories https://pluralistic.net/2020/05/27/literal-gunhumping/#plutewatch

#5yrsago How to pay artists while fighting censorship and Big Tech https://pluralistic.net/2020/05/27/literal-gunhumping/#pay-artists

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#5yrsago Ammosexuals point their guns at their crotches https://pluralistic.net/2020/05/27/literal-gunhumping/#youll-shoot-your-eye-out

#5yrsago Twitter's porn filters are dampening discussions of "cumgate" https://pluralistic.net/2020/05/27/literal-gunhumping/#cumgate

#5yrsago West Virginia's governor Jim Justice: billionaire, deadbeat https://pluralistic.net/2020/05/27/literal-gunhumping/#injustice

#5yrsago Hertz's bankruptcy was caused by private equity looting https://pluralistic.net/2020/05/27/literal-gunhumping/#hertz-uranus

#5yrsago Facebook shelved research that showed they were sowing division https://pluralistic.net/2020/05/27/literal-gunhumping/#joel-kaplan

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#5yrsago Youtube is automatically blocking criticism of the Chinese Communist Party https://pluralistic.net/2020/05/27/literal-gunhumping/#communist-bandit

#1yrago Against Lore https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/27/cmon-do-it-again/#better_to_remain_silent_and_be_thought_a_fool_than_to_speak_and_remove_all_doubt

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Yesterday's threads: Who Broke the Internet, Part IV; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/114575051336574353

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My last nationally bestselling novel was "The Bezzle," an ice-cold revenge story of high-tech finance crime starring the forensic accountant Martin Hench.

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250865878/thebezzle

Signed copies from Chevalier's Books:

https://www.chevaliersbooks.com/product-page/the-bezzle

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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."

https://craphound.com/shop/

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Upcoming appearances:

* #Seattle: Cascade PBS Ideas Festival, May 31
https://www.cascadepbs.org/festival/speaker/cory-doctorow

* Virtual: Fediforum, Jun 5
https://fediforum.org/2025-06/

* #PDX: Teardown 2025, Jun 20-22
https://www.crowdsupply.com/teardown/portland-2025

* #PDX: Picks and Shovels with BUNNIE HUANG at Barnes and Noble, Jun 20
https://stores.barnesandnoble.com/event/9780062183697-0

* #Tualatin Public Library, Jun 22:
https://www.tualatinoregon.gov/library/author-talk-cory-doctorow

* #London: How To Academy with Riley Quinn, Jul 1
https://howtoacademy.com/events/cory-doctorow-the-fight-against-the-big-tech-oligarchy/

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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* #Manchester: Picks and Shovels at Blackwell's Bookshop, Jul 2
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/an-evening-with-cory-doctorow-tickets-1308451968059

* #Manchester: Co-operatives UK Co-op Congress keynote, Jul 4
https://www.uk.coop/events-and-training/events-calendar/co-op-congress-2025-book-your-place

* #NewOrleans: DeepSouthCon63, Oct 10-12, 2025
http://www.contraflowscifi.org/

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Recent appearances:

* Kick 'Em In the Dongle (Understood)
https://www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-podcasts/1353-the-naked-emperor/episode/16148346-kick-em-in-the-dongle

* The Big Story
https://www.seekyoursounds.com/podcasts/the-big-story/cory-doctorow-explains-who-broke-the-internet

* Keynote (Pycon)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydVmzg_SJLw

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