Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: Brinklump Linkdump; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/20/motley/
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Cory Doctorow replied to Cory Doctorow's status
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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Cory Doctorow replied to Cory Doctorow's status
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Brinklump Linkdump: Indiscriminate heterogeniety for the sabbath.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/111788942864134239
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Cory Doctorow replied to Cory Doctorow's status
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#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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Cory Doctorow replied to Cory Doctorow's status
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#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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Cory Doctorow replied to Cory Doctorow's status
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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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Cory Doctorow replied to Cory Doctorow's status
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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 replied to Cory Doctorow's status
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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):
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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Cory Doctorow replied to Cory Doctorow's status
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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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