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Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Joseph Cox's "Dark Wire"; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/06/04/anom-nom-nom/

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Next weekend (June 7–9), I'm in Amherst, New York to keynote the 25th Annual Media Ecology Association Convention and accept the Neil Postman Award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity:

https://media-ecology.org/convention

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Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Ticketmaster jacks us for billions so it can pocket millions; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/06/03/aoi-aoi-oh/

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godzero,
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@enmodo @pluralistic
I stopped going to concerts run by that system many years ago. I just don't care enough about the acts to subject myself to the abuse, I'd rather go to local venues and see less corporatized music.

GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@pluralistic Gotta love the handy work of free market fundamentalists, they protected competition rather than competitors so well we have LiveNation and ticket master as their product. Will the wonders of freedom and prosperity never cease!

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Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Real innovation vs Silicon Valley nonsense; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/30/posiwid/

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pluralistic,
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This is the last day to get bestselling solarpunk utopian novel The Lost Cause (2023) as a $2.99, DRM-free ebook!

https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-lost-cause-4

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18+ baltakatei,
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@pluralistic No DRM in handy when you want to run FOSS local search indexing tools like Recoll. https://recoll.org/

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Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: The Pizzaburger Presidency; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/29/sub-bushel-comms-strategy/

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18+ RupertReynolds,
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@pluralistic craphound.com -- why go anywhere else?

I'd love to know where the name came from, mind you :-)

edit: corrected domain name!

18+ pluralistic,
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@RupertReynolds https://craphound.com/place/2003/09/06/craphound-2/

(My first professional sf story)

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Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Against Lore; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/27/cmon-do-it-again/

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pluralistic,
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For the rest of May, my bestselling solarpunk utopian novel The Lost Cause (2023) is available as a $2.99, DRM-free ebook!

https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-lost-cause-4

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megmuttonhead,
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@pluralistic I’m reading it now!

It’s excellent, and the vision of how we could begin to express the best we could be instead of the worst is both inspiring and terrifying—terrifying because I am on tenterhooks with worry about the harm a backlash might cause the protagonist and his allies.

I love it, but it’s also a scary, scary book to read, because its hopefulness makes clear what we have to lose (now as well as in the near future of the book).

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Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Inkjump Linkdump; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/25/anthology/

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pluralistic,
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For the rest of May, my bestselling solarpunk utopian novel The Lost Cause (2023) is available as a $2.99, DRM-free ebook!

https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-lost-cause-4

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steve_zeke,
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@pluralistic
Love the photo! My wife is a fiber artist and she’s created boro-inspired work (along with many other styles). I can’t wait to show her your photo.

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Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: They brick you because they can; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/24/record-scratch/

#Pluralistic

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The interior of a luxury sedan as seen from the driver's PoV, with the driver's hands on the wheel. Mounted to the vent is a Spotify 'Car Thing' - a $90 tablet designed to stream Spotify music. The image has been altered. The sky behind the driver's windscreen is animated TV static. The album thumbnail on the Car Thing UI has been replaced with a 'code waterfall' effect as seen in the credit sequences of the Wachowskis' 'Matrix' movies. A skeletal robed figure, clutching a sheaf of documents headed with the Spotify logo, reaches out a bony finger to prod at the Car Thing from the left side of the image.

pluralistic,
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For the rest of May, my bestselling solarpunk utopian novel The Lost Cause (2023) is available as a $2.99, DRM-free ebook!

https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-lost-cause-4

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18+ pluralistic,
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They brick you because they can: Samsung and Spotify are too big to care (and that's just the 'S'es).

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112498065635214965

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Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Red Lobster was killed by private equity, not Endless Shrimp; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/23/spineless/

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pluralistic,
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For the rest of May, my bestselling solarpunk utopian novel The Lost Cause (2023) is available as a $2.99, DRM-free ebook!

https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-lost-cause-4

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WillA763,

@pluralistic The last two CEOs of that company belong in prison.

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Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: How finfluencers destroyed the housing and lives of thousands of people; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/22/koteswar-jay-gajavelli/

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pluralistic,
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For the rest of May, my bestselling solarpunk utopian novel The Lost Cause (2023) is available as a $2.99, DRM-free ebook!

https://www.amazon.com/Lost-Cause-Cory-Doctorow-ebook/dp/B0BQGGP2XT/

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18+ pluralistic,
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How finfluencers destroyed the housing and lives of thousands of people: The real estate speculator bezzle has a very ugly third act.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112486219809006346

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Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Linkrot; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/21/noway-back-machine/

#Pluralistic

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A 1994 Yahoo homepage. It is animated. The blue links blur and then disappear.

pluralistic,
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For the rest of May, my bestselling solarpunk utopian novel The Lost Cause (2023) is available as a $2.99, DRM-free ebook!

https://www.amazon.com/Lost-Cause-Cory-Doctorow-ebook/dp/B0BQGGP2XT/

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jamesd,
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@pluralistic Also currently on sale at Kobo (which I just took advantage of :)

https://www.kobo.com/ca/en/ebook/the-lost-cause-4

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Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: The new globalism is global labor; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/20/a-common-foe/

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For the rest of May, my bestselling solarpunk utopian novel The Lost Cause (2023) is available as a $2.99, DRM-free ebook!

https://www.amazon.com/Lost-Cause-Cory-Doctorow-ebook/dp/B0BQGGP2XT/

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Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Monopoly is capitalism's gerrymander; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/18/market-discipline/

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forooghian,
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@pluralistic I was wondering why you chose to share the Amazon link, as opposed to one for purchasing directly from you?

pluralistic,
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@forooghian the sale is Amazon only

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Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: You were promised a jetpack by liars; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/17/fake-it-until-you-dont-make-it/

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TONIGHT (May 17), I'm in San Francisco at the @internetarchive to keynote the tenth anniversary of the @AuthorsAlliance:

https://www.authorsalliance.org/2024/03/15/authors-alliance-10th-anniversary-event-authorship-in-an-age-of-monopoly-and-moral-panics/

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jnareb,
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@pluralistic In regards to "The dancing robot on stage at the splashy event is literally a guy in a robot-suit" I can only say WTF? Boston Dynamics had created human like (and dog like) robots, and they work.

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Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Utah's getting some of America's best broadband; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/16/symmetrical-10gb-for-119/

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TOMORROW (May 17), I'm in San Francisco at the @internetarchive to keynote the tenth anniversary of the @AuthorsAlliance:

https://www.authorsalliance.org/2024/03/15/authors-alliance-10th-anniversary-event-authorship-in-an-age-of-monopoly-and-moral-panics/

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#1yrsago Rent control works https://pluralistic.net/2023/05/16/mortgages-are-rent-control/#housing-is-a-human-right-not-an-asset

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Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Even if you think AI search could be good, it won't be good; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/15/they-trust-me-dumb-fucks/

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pluralistic,
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TONIGHT (May 15), I'm in North Hollywood for a screening of Stephanie Kelton's Finding the Money:

https://www.laemmle.com/film/finding-money?date=2024-05-15

Friday (May 17), I'm in San Francisco at the @internetarchive to keynote the tenth anniversary of the @AuthorsAlliance:

https://www.authorsalliance.org/2024/03/15/authors-alliance-10th-anniversary-event-authorship-in-an-age-of-monopoly-and-moral-panics/

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johnquiggin,
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@pluralistic When I was a schoolkid, Honeywell had a stand at the local show/fair with a female appearing robot (actually a woman in a shiny bodysuit). The imposture was revealed after the show was over. Plus ca change

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