pluralistic, 1 month ago

I'm touring my new, nationally bestselling novel The Bezzle! Catch me TODAY (Apr 10) at UCLA, then Chicago (Apr 17), Torino (Apr 21) Marin County (Apr 27), Winnipeg (May 2), Calgary (May 3), Vancouver (May 4), and beyond!

https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/16/narrative-capitalism/#bezzle-tour

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matociquala, 1 month ago

@pluralistic Darn it, I thought for a moment you were going to be in my LOCAL Amherst...

pluralistic, 1 month ago

@matociquala Namespace collision!

matociquala, 1 month ago

@pluralistic BOOM!

c0dec0dec0de, 1 month ago

@matociquala @pluralistic bloody English would be right bollocksed if namespace collisions were actually explosive.

18+ pluralistic, 1 month ago

The unexpected upside of global monopoly capitalism: We're all fighting the same enemy.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112247033815960944

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18+ pluralistic, 1 month ago

• The @internetarchive Just Backed Up an Entire Caribbean Island https://www.wired.com/story/internet-archive-backed-up-aruba-caribbean-island/

• Google’s Protected Audience Protects Advertisers (and Google) More Than It Protects You https://blog.mozilla.org/en/privacy-security/googles-protected-audience-protects-advertisers/

• When ‘ruthless’ Boeing cut costs, the damage spread https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/boeings-long-fall-and-how-it-might-recover/ (h/t @boingbot

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18+ pluralistic, 1 month ago

#20yrsago Promising anti-obesity pill https://web.archive.org/web/20040419011611/http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/apr2004/tc2004048_9548_tc122.htm

#20yrsago NDP leader Jack Layton endorses P2P https://memex.craphound.com/2004/04/09/canadas-ndp-leader-endorses-p2p/

#20yrsago EFF on Gmail https://web.archive.org/web/20040420195950/https://blogs.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/001375.php#001375

#15yrsago Cold dead hand of Frank Herbert reaches up from grave, stabs Dune Second Life megafans in the back https://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2009/04/enforcers-of-dune.html

#15yrsago French government nukes crazy Internet law in open revolt against Sarkozy https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2009/apr/09/france-illegal-downloads-state-surveillance

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18+ pluralistic, 1 month ago

#10yrsago NSA spies on human rights groups, including those in the USA https://techcrunch.com/2014/04/08/snowden-council-of-europe-testimony/

#10yrsago Prosecutors wage war on judges who insist on fairness https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2014/03/07/judge-says-prosecutors-should-follow-the-law-prosecutors-revolt/

#10yrsago LAPD officers sabotage their own voice-recorders: nothing to hide, nothing to fear? https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/04/lapd-officers-monkey-wrenched-cop-monitoring-gear-in-patrol-cars/

#5yrsago Today, Michigan regulators vote on conservative education “reform” plan to purge the word “democracy” from curriculum https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/04/michigan-conservatives-vie-to-cut-democracy-from-classroom.html

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18+ pluralistic, 1 month ago

#5yrsago The Chinafication of the internet continues as the UK proposes blocking any service that hosts “illegal” or “harmful” material https://memex.craphound.com/2019/04/09/the-chinafication-of-the-internet-continues-as-the-uk-proposes-blocking-any-service-that-hosts-illegal-or-harmful-material/

#5yrsago How to Do Nothing: Jenny Odell’s case for resisting “The Attention Economy” https://memex.craphound.com/2019/04/09/how-to-do-nothing-jenny-odells-case-for-resisting-the-attention-economy/

#1yrsago How To Make a Child-Safe TikTok https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/09/how-to-make-a-child-safe-tiktok/

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18+ pluralistic, 1 month ago

Yesterday's threads: Steven Brust's "Lyorn"; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112241728762752735

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18+ pluralistic, 1 month ago

My last novel was "The Lost Cause," a solarpunk novel of radical hope in the climate emergency, from Tor Books (US)/Head of Zeus (UK):

http://lost-cause.org

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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18+ pluralistic, 1 month 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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18+ pluralistic, 1 month ago

Upcoming appearances:

• The Bezzle at Harvard Berkman-Klein Center, with Randall Munroe (Boston), Apr 11
  https://cyber.harvard.edu/events/enshittification

• RISD Debates in AI (Providence), Apr 12
  https://involved.risd.edu/event/9777963

• The Bezzle at Anderson's Books (Chicago), Apr 17
  https://www.andersonsbookshop.com/event/cory-doctorow-1

• Torino Tech Biennale, Apr 21
  https://www.biennaletecnologia.it/evento/come-sfuggire-al-merdocene-e-costruire-un-internet-migliore/

• The Bezzle at Book Passage (Corte Madera, Marin), Apr 27
  https://www.bookpassage.com/event/cory-doctorow-bezzle-martin-hench-novel-corte-madera-store

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18+ pluralistic, 1 month ago

Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

• Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (Winnipeg), May 2
  https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/cory-doctorow-tickets-798820071337

• Wordfest (Calgary), May 3
  https://wordfest.com/2024/event/wordfest-presents-cory-doctorow-2/

• Massy Arts (Vancouver), May 4
  https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/solo-reading-cory-doctorow-the-bezzle-tickets-876989167207

• Tartu Prima Vista Literary Fest, May 5-11
  https://tartu2024.ee/en/kirjandusfestival/

• “Enshittification” and AI, with @timoreilly (virtual), May 14
  https://www.oreilly.com/live-events/tim-oreilly-and-cory-doctorow-on-enshittification-and-the

• "Finding the Money" screening (LA), May 15
  https://www.laemmle.com/film/finding-money?date=2024-05-15

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18+ pluralistic, 1 month ago

Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

• Authorship in an Age of Monopoly and Moral Panics (SF), May 17
  https://www.authorsalliance.org/2024/03/15/authors-alliance-10th-anniversary-event-authorship-in-an-age-of-monopoly-and-moral-panics/

• Media Ecology Association keynote (Amherst, NY), Jun 6-9
  https://media-ecology.org/convention

• American Association of Law Libraries keynote (Chicago), Jul 21
  https://www.aallnet.org/conference/agenda/keynote-speaker/

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18+ pluralistic, 1 month ago

Recent appearances:

• Digital capitalism course: What is digital capitalism? (Transnational Institute)
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCzWpEQcd7E

• The Scam Economy (Lost Dollar Business Club)
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SChg9ZiY_bk

• Private Prisons, Finance Ghouls and The Bezzle (It Could Happen Here)
  https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-it-could-happen-here-30717896/episode/private-prisons-finance-ghouls-and-the-161844728/

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18+ pluralistic, 1 month ago

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18+ pluralistic, 1 month ago

I'm touring my new, nationally bestselling novel The Bezzle! Catch me TODAY (Apr 10) at UCLA, then Chicago (Apr 17), Torino (Apr 21) Marin County (Apr 27), Winnipeg (May 2), Calgary (May 3), Vancouver (May 4), and beyond!

https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/16/narrative-capitalism/#bezzle-tour

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