pluralistic, 6 months ago

Naomi Alderman's 'The Future': Billionaire preppers vs the end of the human race.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/111369787361012782

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pluralistic, 6 months ago

Hey look at this

• How the meandering legal definition of '#FairUse' cost us #Napster but gave us Spotify https://www.engadget.com/hitting-the-books-the-internet-con-cory-doctorow-verso-153018432.html

• Regarding Proposed US Restrictions on #RISCV https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=6862

• DAK and the Golden Age of Gadget Catalogs https://cabel.com/2023/11/06/dak-and-the-golden-age-of-gadget-catalogs/

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pluralistic, 6 months ago

#20yrsago Economist replies to #JackValenti on #BroadcastFlag http://arnoldkling.com/~arnoldsk/aimst5/valenti.html

#10yrsago New #RobFord video: Laughable Fumblebuck drops a gigaton of F-bombs https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/rob-ford-caught-on-video-in-violent-rant/article_67244e8f-8561-5d4b-8054-c30750f36779.html

#10yrsago Google security engineer on #NSA: “Fuck these guys” https://memex.craphound.com/2013/11/07/google-security-engineer-on-nsa-fuck-these-guys/

#5yrsago AT&T disconnects whole families from the internet because someone in their house is accused of copyright infringement https://memex.craphound.com/2018/11/07/att-disconnects-whole-families-from-the-internet-because-someone-in-their-house-is-accused-of-copyright-infringement/

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pluralistic, 6 months ago

#1yrago The good news is that #PenguinRandomHouse can't buy all the other publishers: Now for the bad news https://pluralistic.net/2022/11/07/random-penguins/#if-you-wanted-to-get-there-i-wouldnt-start-from-here

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pluralistic, 6 months ago

Yesterday's threads: Amazon is a ripoff; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/111364579966406818

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pluralistic, 6 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, 6 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, 6 months ago

Upcoming appearances:

• #SecondLife Book Club, with #RebeccaGiblin, Nov 8/17hPT
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L07T82M_xzk

• The New Luddites Seizing the Means of Computation, with @brianmerchant (#HallwayTrack), Nov 9
  https://www.verylittlegravitas.com/hallwaytrack

• #CBCIDEAS, Nov 16 (#Stratford, ON)
  https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/cbc-ideas-visionaries-in-conversation-tickets-729692809837

• Inspiring the Next Generation, Nov 16 (#Stratford, ON)
  https://www.provocation.ca/upcoming-2023-events-stratford

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pluralistic, 6 months ago

Upcoming appearances (contd):

• Gibson's Bookstore, Nov 18 (#Concord, NH)
  https://www.gibsonsbookstore.com/event/doctorow-lost-cause

• Lost Cause at Simsbury Public Library, Nov 20 (#Simsbury, CT)
  https://simsbury.librarycalendar.com/event/author-visit-cory-doctorow-29257

• Generation of Lost Causes, Nov 22 (#Toronto)
  https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDMEVT495758&R=EVT495758

• Who Is Watching Big Tech? Nov 27 (#Toronto)
  https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDMEVT496408&R=EVT496408

• The Lost Cause at #TheStrand (#NYC), Nov 29
  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cory-doctorow-the-lost-cause-tickets-734958008187

• The Lost Cause at #FlyleafBooks (#ChapelHill), Dec 7
  https://www.flyleafbooks.com/doctorow-2023

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pluralistic, 6 months ago

Recent appearances:

• An Audacious Plan to Halt the Internet’s Enshittification and Throw It Into Reverse (@hackaday Supercon)
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VT1ud0rAT7w

• The Material Power That Rules Computation (#ThisMachineKills)
  https://soundcloud.com/thismachinekillspod/294-the-material-power-that-rules-computation-ft-cory-doctorow

• The Science in the Fiction
  https://www.buzzsprout.com/2201157/13896228-ep-14-cory-doctorow-on-the-lost-cause-red-team-blues-and-chokepoint-capitalism

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pluralistic, 6 months ago

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failedLyndonLaRouchite, 6 months ago

@pluralistic

If it is REALLY a #ClimateCrisis do we need to justify travel like this ?

guy_middleton, 6 months ago

@pluralistic The Toronto Public Library links are down due to a ransomware attack -- could you post details here instead?

pluralistic, 6 months ago

@guy_middleton

• Generation of Lost Causes, Nov 27 (Toronto)
  https://web.archive.org/web/20230907160105/https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDMEVT495758&R=EVT495758

• Who Is Watching Big Tech? Nov 27 (Toronto)
  https://web.archive.org/web/20230907160103/https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDMEVT496408&R=EVT496408