#20yrsago Would you give a fiver a month for a UK tech/civil liberties org? https://web.archive.org/web/20050726235521/http://www.pledgebank.com/rights

#15yrsago The comics Bill Watterson sent to Berkeley Breathed https://web.archive.org/web/20100728151135/https://tvbarn.com/tv-barn/comic-con-2010/

#15yrsago Interview: Ian McDonald’s research secrets revealed https://web.archive.org/web/20100726181934/http://www.cclapcenter.com/2010/07/an_interview_with_ian_mcdonald.html

#5yrsago BLM footage censored by copyright bots https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/23/circuit-split/#dolphins-in-tuna-nets

#5yrsago Where Will Everyone Go https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/23/circuit-split/#migration-models

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#5yrsago Canadian judge invalidates Safe Third Country Agreement https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/23/circuit-split/#kids-kages-kanada

#1yrago Holy CRAP the UN Cybercrime Treaty is a nightmare https://pluralistic.net/2024/07/23/expanded-spying-powers/#in-russia-crime-cybers-you

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Yesterday's threads: Installing Android phones in Blackberry chassis; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/114903998710540431

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My latest novel is "Picks and Shovels," a historical technothriller set in the Weird Era of the PC, about Ponzi schemes, techbros, and the dawn of enshittification:

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250865908/picksandshovels

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My next nonfiction book is "Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It," out from MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux on October 7:

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374619329/enshittification/

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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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Recent appearances:

* ORG at 20: In conversation with Maria Farrell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9H2An_D6io

* Why aren't we controlling our own tech? (Co-Op Congress)
https://www.youtube.com/live/GLrDwHgeCy4?si=NUWxPphk0FS_3g9J&t=4409

* If We Had a Choice, Would We Invent Social Media Again? (The Agenda/TVO)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJw38uIcmEw

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Support me this summer in the Clarion Write-A-Thon and help raise money for the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers' Workshop! This summer, I'm writing "The Reverse-Centaur's Guide to AI," a short book for Farrar, Straus and Giroux that explains how to be an effective AI critic:

https://clarionwriteathon.com/members/profile.php?writerid=293388

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