pluralistic, 23 days ago

I'm touring my new, nationally bestselling novel The Bezzle! Catch me THURSDAY (May 2) in Winnipeg (May 2) then FRIDAY (May 3) in CALGARY (May 3) and SATURDAY (May 4) in VANCOUVER. Next is Tartu, Estonia, and beyond!

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

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18+ pluralistic, 23 days ago

Live Nation/Ticketmaster is buying Congress: The other gig economy.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112361198887232225

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18+ pluralistic, 23 days ago

Hey look at this

• The Rambo Academy Wayward Wormhole – New Mexico 2024 https://www.kittywumpus.net/blog/the-wayward-wormhole-new-mexico-2024/

• The Disenshittify Project https://deshittify.us/index.html

• Whistleblower Laws That Protect Lawbreakers https://prospect.org/infrastructure/transportation/2024-04-30-whistleblower-laws-protect-lawbreakers/

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18+ pluralistic, 23 days ago

#20yrsago @cstross's future-rant https://web.archive.org/web/20040515161445/http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blosxom.cgi/2004/Apr/29

#20yrsago Apple’s new DRM reneges on your purchase conditions, picks your pocket https://web.archive.org/web/20040624182851/http://lawgeek.typepad.com/lawgeek/2004/04/meet_the_new_it.html

#15yrsago Solitary confinement is torture: psych expert https://web.archive.org/web/20090501235955/https://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/04/solitaryconfinement/

#15yrsago The Doctor Will Sue You Now: the missing chapter of Ben Goldacre’s “Bad Science” about the selling of vitamin therapy instead of anti-virals to AIDS patients in South Africa https://www.badscience.net/2009/04/matthias-rath-steal-this-chapter/

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18+ GrowingForJustice, 22 days ago

@pluralistic so why the heck are your very ordinary illustrations in this thread marked "sensitive content"?

18+ pluralistic, 22 days ago

@GrowingForJustice https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/16/how-to-make-the-least-worst-mastodon-threads/

18+ pluralistic, 23 days ago

#10yrsago Rob Ford’s mayoral career considered as a reality TV show – straining suspension of disbelief https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/toronto/the-ford-show-is-riveting-but-soon-well-stop-believing-it/article18232290/

#10yrsago Email considered harmful https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/04/smartphone-addiction-research-work-email/

#10yrsago WIPO sends criminal prosecution threats over publication of internal docs about its Director General’s corruption https://www.techdirt.com/2014/04/28/shameful-wipo-threatens-blogger-with-criminal-charges-accurately-reporting-wipo-directors-alleged-misconduct/

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18+ pluralistic, 23 days ago

#5yrsago Jimmy Fallon played a video game on air, meaning that streaming your own game gets you taken down as a pirate, thanks to NBC https://old.reddit.com/r/beatsaber/comments/bi9cp5/beat_saber_stream_blocked_by_jimmy_fallon_show/

#5yrsago Thanks to the 2008 foreclosure crisis, a Kuwaiti ponzi schemer was able to single-handedly blight cities across America https://buffalonews.com/news/local/how-a-kuwaitis-ponzi-scheme-left-a-trail-of-blight-in-buffalo/article_7d39e12a-495f-5bba-b7f4-87d07eefa496.html

#5yrsago Uber drivers across America are going on strike https://philly.curbed.com/2019/4/25/18516670/uber-drivers-shutdown-strike-protest-philly

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18+ pluralistic, 23 days ago

#5yrsago Facebook never delivered its “Clear History” feature https://www.tomsguide.com/us/facebook-privacy-problems,news-29944.html

#1yrago The seductive, science fictional power of spreadsheets https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/29/gedankenexperimentwahn/#high-on-your-own-supply

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18+ pluralistic, 23 days ago

Yesterday's threads: Cigna's nopeinator; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112356121876413036

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18+ pluralistic, 23 days 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, 23 days 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, 23 days ago

Upcoming appearances:

• 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, 23 days 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, 23 days ago

Recent appearances:

• Come sfuggire al “Merdocene” e costruire un Internet migliore (Torino Biennale Tecnologia)
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5NC2EZCYBg

• Show Me The Money Club (The Rideshare Guy)
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCETi3XqSds

• NUOVO BARETTO UTOPIA
  https://videoteca.kenobit.it/w/azRmQBCenVwjSRz9WCp8JS

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18+ pluralistic, 23 days ago

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18+ pluralistic, 23 days ago

I'm touring my new, nationally bestselling novel The Bezzle! Catch me THURSDAY (May 2) in Winnipeg (May 2) then FRIDAY (May 3) in CALGARY (May 3) and SATURDAY (May 4) in VANCOUVER. Next is Tartu, Estonia, and beyond!

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

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