Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: Naomi Alderman's 'The Future'; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/07/preppers-of-the-red-death/
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Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: Naomi Alderman's 'The Future'; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/07/preppers-of-the-red-death/
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Naomi Alderman's 'The Future': Billionaire preppers vs the end of the human race.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/111369787361012782
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Hey look at this
* How the meandering legal definition of '#FairUse' cost us #Napster but gave us Spotify https://www.engadget.com/hitting-the-books-the-internet-con-cory-doctorow-verso-153018432.html
* Regarding Proposed US Restrictions on #RISCV https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=6862
* DAK and the Golden Age of Gadget Catalogs https://cabel.com/2023/11/06/dak-and-the-golden-age-of-gadget-catalogs/
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#20yrsago Economist replies to #JackValenti on #BroadcastFlag http://arnoldkling.com/~arnoldsk/aimst5/valenti.html
#10yrsago New #RobFord video: Laughable Fumblebuck drops a gigaton of F-bombs https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/rob-ford-caught-on-video-in-violent-rant/article_67244e8f-8561-5d4b-8054-c30750f36779.html
#10yrsago Google security engineer on #NSA: “Fuck these guys” https://memex.craphound.com/2013/11/07/google-security-engineer-on-nsa-fuck-these-guys/
#5yrsago AT&T disconnects whole families from the internet because someone in their house is accused of copyright infringement https://memex.craphound.com/2018/11/07/att-disconnects-whole-families-from-the-internet-because-someone-in-their-house-is-accused-of-copyright-infringement/
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#1yrago The good news is that #PenguinRandomHouse can't buy all the other publishers: Now for the bad news https://pluralistic.net/2022/11/07/random-penguins/#if-you-wanted-to-get-there-i-wouldnt-start-from-here
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Yesterday's threads: Amazon is a ripoff; and more!
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/111364579966406818
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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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My latest novel is Red Team Blues, available wherever books are sold!
Signed copies at Dark Delicacies (US):
and Forbidden Planet (UK):
https://forbiddenplanet.com/385004-red-team-blues-signed-edition-hardcover/
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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:
* #SecondLife Book Club, with #RebeccaGiblin, Nov 8/17hPT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L07T82M_xzk
* The New Luddites Seizing the Means of Computation, with @brianmerchant (#HallwayTrack), Nov 9
https://www.verylittlegravitas.com/hallwaytrack
* #CBCIDEAS, Nov 16 (#Stratford, ON)
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/cbc-ideas-visionaries-in-conversation-tickets-729692809837
* Inspiring the Next Generation, Nov 16 (#Stratford, ON)
https://www.provocation.ca/upcoming-2023-events-stratford
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Upcoming appearances (contd):
* Gibson's Bookstore, Nov 18 (#Concord, NH)
https://www.gibsonsbookstore.com/event/doctorow-lost-cause
* 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.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDMEVT495758&R=EVT495758
* 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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