Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: Dave Maass and Patrick Lay's "Death Strikes: The Emperor of Atlantis"; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/23/peter-kien-viktor-ullmann/
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Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: Dave Maass and Patrick Lay's "Death Strikes: The Emperor of Atlantis"; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/23/peter-kien-viktor-ullmann/
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Berliners: @otherlandberlin has added a second date (Jan 28) for my book-talk after the first one sold out - book now!
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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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Dave Maass and Patrick Lay's "Death Strikes: The Emperor of Atlantis": A graphic novel based on a musical written by inmates at a Nazi death-camp.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/111805423061925618
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Hey look at this
* It’s Time To Revisit #PriceControls, Beginning with Limits on #OverdraftFees https://www.thesling.org/its-time-to-revisit-price-controls-beginning-with-limits-on-overdraft-fees/
* Tools for Thinking About #Censorship https://www.exurbe.com/tools-for-thinking-about-censorship/
* #AIWatermarking Won't Curb #Disinformation https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/01/ai-watermarking-wont-curb-disinformation
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#20yrsago Europe to get fake-tree microwave masts https://www.theregister.com/2004/01/22/how_to_hide_a_phone/
#20yrsago Ian McDonald’s Kling Klang Klatch https://memex.craphound.com/2004/01/24/ian-mcdonalds-kling-klang-klatch/
#15yrsago Australian family caged, detained, starved and deported by US customs https://www.smh.com.au/national/mercy-dash-family-denied-entry-to-us-20090125-gdtb2n.html
#15yrsago Rick Lieder’s fantastic backyard bird photos — new book https://memex.craphound.com/2009/01/24/rick-lieders-fantastic-backyard-bird-photos-new-book/
#10yrsago #Snowden’s Russian asylum extended https://edition.cnn.com/2014/01/24/world/europe/russia-snowden/index.html
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#10yrsago You won’t believe how sweet this anti-hyperbole plugin is http://downworthy.snipe.net
#10yrsago Who reads books in America, and how? https://web.archive.org/web/20140119040800/http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2014/E-Reading-Update.aspx
#10yrsago Great Firewall of Cameron blocks game update because “XerathMageChainsExtended” contains “sex” https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jan/21/uk-porn-filter-blocks-game-update-that-contained-sex
#5yrsago #ElizabethWarren proposes #ThomasPiketty-style annual #WealthTax https://theintercept.com/2019/01/24/elizabeth-warren-proposes-annual-wealth-tax-on-ultra-millionaires/
#5yrsago #Braille #RPG #dice https://www.dotsrpg.org/3d-models
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#5yrsago #Davos audience erupts in uneasy laughter at mention of #AOC’s proposal for a 70% tax on income over $10,000,000 https://www.cnn.com/business/live-news/davos-2019-live-updates/h_2e61fb5a7c8252de33a30ec4afecdc18
#5yrsago #PeakIndifference: “extreme weather events” drive record US acceptance of #ClimateChange as an immediate problem https://memex.craphound.com/2019/01/24/peak-indifference-extreme-weather-events-drive-record-us-acceptance-of-climate-change-as-an-immediate-problem/
#5yrsago #SecretService #ChallengeCoin commemorates unpaid labor during the #shutdown https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/23/politics/challenge-coins-secret-service-government-shutdown/index.html
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#5yrsago The “reverse supply chain”: vast warehouses of deeply discounted, returned goods https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/01/where-amazon-returns-go-to-be-resold-by-hustlers/580363/
#5yrsago Google, Facebook and Microsoft were the top sponsors of a conference that featured #ClimateChangeDenial kooks https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/01/google-facebook-and-microsoft-sponsored-a-conference-that-promoted-climate-change-denial/
#5yrsago Facebook sold out the internet, secretly lobbied IN FAVOUR of #UploadFilters https://www.politico.eu/article/inside-story-facebook-fight-against-european-regulation/
#1yrago #DavidGraeber's "Pirate Enlightenment" https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/24/zana-malata/#libertalia
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Yesterday's threads: Boeing, Spirit and Jetblue, a monopoly horror-story; and more!
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/111799825024715112
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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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