spiritplumber, 8 months ago

@pluralistic https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/09/15/la-quinta-inn-takeover-documented-by-group-friends-tiktok/70869192007/ This looks like something out of your stories.

pluralistic, 8 months ago

On September 22, I'm (virtually) presenting at the #DIGFestival in #Modena, Italy

https://dig-awards.org/en/dig-festival-2023-first-speakers-announced/

On September 27, I'll be at Chevalier's Books in #LosAngeles with #BrianMerchant for a joint launch for my new book The Internet Con and his new book, Blood in the Machine:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-internet-con-by-cory-doctorow-blood-in-the-machine-by-brian-merchant-tickets-696349940417

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pluralistic, 8 months ago

Greenwashing set Canada on fire: A generation of idealistic Canadian kids broke their backs every summer "planting thousands of blowtorches a day."

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/111075992121213249

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pluralistic, 8 months ago

Hey look at this

• Download the Tor.com Summer 2023 #ShortFiction Bundle https://www.tor.com/2023/09/15/download-the-tor-com-summer-2023-short-fiction-bundle/

• #DrewBarrymore Opens GM Assembly Plant Amid Impending Autoworker Strike https://www.theonion.com/drew-barrymore-opens-gm-assembly-plant-amid-impending-a-1850839158

• Meet the Guy in Charge of Cleaning Up #BurningMan https://www.gq.com/story/burning-man-2023-cleanup-interview

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pluralistic, 8 months ago

#15yrsago #SaulBass’s iconic logos https://blog.signalnoise.com/inspiration-logos-by-saul-bass/

#15yrsago #Interoperability and the #DMCA: comprehensive look at problems, some good solutions https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1224742

#15yrsago How to Ditch Your Fairy: hilarious kids book about the problems with fairies https://memex.craphound.com/2008/09/16/how-to-ditch-your-fairy-hilarious-kids-book-about-the-problems-with-fairies/

#10yrsago Video of top #NSA spook Gen’l Alexander’s Starship Enterprise clone/#InformationDominanceCenter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFNUbdARitk

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pluralistic, 8 months ago

#10yrsago Rewire: Digital Cosmopolitans in the Age of Connection https://memex.craphound.com/2013/09/16/rewire-digital-cosmopolitans-in-the-age-of-connection/

#10yrsago #PrinceJefri of #Brunei: how to blow billions https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2011/07/prince-jefri-201107

#5yrsago AMA study: shooters armed with #SemiautomaticRifles kill twice as many people https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2702134

#5yrsago More #googlers are quitting over the company’s plan to launch a censored, surveilling search product in China https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/carolineodonovan/google-project-dragonfly-employees-quitting

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pluralistic, 8 months ago

#5yrsago Our political upheaval wasn’t caused by mob rule, but by institutions designed to preserve elite oversight https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/09/democracy-threat-from-minority-rule-not-people.html

#5yrsago An “obsessive,” “anti-imperialist” #TuringComplete computer language with only one command https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Emn-UF4ArWk

#1yrago Moneylike: My Locus Magazine column about what makes #money money https://pluralistic.net/2022/09/16/nondiscretionary-liabilities/#quatloos

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pluralistic, 8 months ago

Yesterday's threads: Bill Willingham puts his graphic novel series "Fables" into the public domain; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/111070657372371548

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pluralistic, 8 months ago

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):

https://www.darkdel.com/store/p2873/Wed%2C_Apr_26th_6pm%3A_Red_Team_Blues%3A_A_Martin_Hench_Novel_HB.html#/

and Forbidden Planet (UK):

https://forbiddenplanet.com/385004-red-team-blues-signed-edition-hardcover/

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pluralistic, 8 months ago

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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pluralistic, 8 months ago

Upcoming appearances:

• DIG Festival (#Modena, Italy), Sept 22
  https://dig-awards.org/en/dig-festival-2023-first-speakers-announced/

• Launch for "#TheInternetCon" and @brianmerchant's "#BloodInTheMachine," Chevalier's Books (#LA), Sept 27
  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-internet-con-by-cory-doctorow-blood-in-the-machine-by-brian-merchant-tickets-696349940417

• An Evening with #VESchwab (#Boise), Oct 2
  https://www.thecabinidaho.org/all-events/ve-schwab

• Wired Nextfest/#WNF23 (#Milano), Oct 7-8
  https://eventi.wired.it/nextfest23-milano

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pluralistic, 8 months ago

Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

• 26th #ACM Conference On Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing keynote (#Minneapolis), Oct 16
  https://cscw.acm.org/2023/index.php/keynotes/

• 41st annual McCreight Lecture in the Humanities (#Charleston, WV), Oct 19
  https://festivallcharleston.com/venue/university-of-charleston/

• Seizing the Means of Computation (Edinburgh Futures Institute), Oct 25
  https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/seizing-the-means-of-computation-with-cory-doctorow/

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pluralistic, 8 months ago

Recent appearances:

• How to Take Back the Internet (Wired Have a Nice Future)
  https://www.wired.com/story/have-a-nice-future-podcast-21/

• Sci-fi and Amazon's empire (The Workers' Speculative Society)
  https://soundcloud.com/reimaginevalue/doctorow

• An Audacious Plan to Halt the Internet's Enshittification and Throw It Into Reverse (@defcon 31)
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rimtaSgGz_4

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pluralistic, 8 months ago

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My latest Medium column is "The proletarianization of tech workers: If there is hope, it is in the proles"

https://doctorow.medium.com/the-proletarianization-of-tech-workers-ad0a6b09f7e6

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pluralistic, 8 months ago

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geographile, 8 months ago

@pluralistic @defcon deshittification?