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For decades, scammy "book doctors" and vanity presses spun a tale about how Big Publishing was too conservative and risk-averse for really really adventurous books, and the only way to get your visionary work published was to pay them to fill your garage with badly printed books that you'd spend the rest of your life trying to get other people to read:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/07/04/self-publishing/

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Here to see @pluralistic!

pluralistic,
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@yaygya thank you for coming!

pluralistic, to random
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Has anyone managed to use the CCPA (or GDPR?) to force Mailchimp to cough up a list of all the mailing lists you've been nonconsensually added to?

pluralistic, to random
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The DRM-free ebooks for my pre-apocalyptic, hopeful climate emergency novel The Lost Cause is on sale in the USA!

Today, you can get the Kobo edition for $2.99:

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

And all month, the Kindle edition is also $2.99:

https://www.amazon.com/Lost-Cause-Cory-Doctorow-ebook/dp/B0CF5475GR

pluralistic,
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@arikb It's the same deal with every one. Publisher gets 70%, and I get 30% of that.

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Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Google is (still) losing the spam wars to zombie news-brands; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/03/keyword-swarming/

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pluralistic,
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I'm touring my new, nationally bestselling novel The Bezzle! Catch me TONIGHT (May 3) in CALGARY and TOMORROW (May 4) in VANCOUVER. Next is Tartu, Estonia, and beyond!

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

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pluralistic,
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I'm coming to Tartu, Estonia!

May 8, 6PM: Prima Vista Literary Festival keynote, "Overcoming the Enshittocene,"
University of Tartu Library (Struwe 1)

May 10, 8AM: Science Fiction Research Association talk, "AI, copyright and creative workers’ labor rights"
Institute of Foreign Languages and Cultures building (Lossi 3, lobby)

May 10, 3PM: A talk for hackers on seizing the means of computation
(University of Tartu Delta Centre, Narva 18, room 1037)

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pluralistic,
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@zverik It's open tot he public!

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Even Google admits - grudgingly - that it is losing the spam wars. The explosive proliferation of botshit has supercharged the sleazy "search engine optimization" business, such that results to common queries are 50% Google ads to spam sites, and 50% links to spam sites that tricked Google into a high rank (without paying for an ad):

https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2024/03/core-update-spam-policies#site-reputation

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pluralistic,
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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/03/keyword-swarming/#site-reputation-abuse

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Thank you @pluralistic for an entertaining and enlightening lecture at in Winnipeg tonight. End the Enshitticine!

pluralistic,
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@Plumbert thank you for coming!

pluralistic, to random
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Idaho®

pluralistic, to Halifax
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That is some straight up devilry right there.

pluralistic, to random
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"Leave a loose end dangling."

My "Think Like An Artist" card (CBC Arts' answer to Brian Eno's Oblique Strategies deck).

https://www.cbc.ca/arts/feeling-stuck-we-asked-67-canadian-artists-for-their-best-creative-advice-1.7191836

pluralistic,
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@Patrickoldhiker Explained here: https://locusmag.com/2014/01/cory-doctorow-cheap-writing-tricks/

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Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: CDA 230 bans Facebook from blocking interoperable tools; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/02/kaiju-v-kaiju/

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pluralistic,
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I'm touring my new, nationally bestselling novel The Bezzle! Catch me TONIGHT (May 2) in WINNIPEG then TOMORROW (May 3) in CALGARY 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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pluralistic,
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I'm coming to Tartu, Estonia!

May 8, 6PM: Prima Vista Literary Festival keynote, "Overcoming the Enshittocene,"
University of Tartu Library (Struwe 1)

May 10, 8AM: Science Fiction Research Association talk, "AI, copyright and creative workers’ labor rights"
Institute of Foreign Languages and Cultures building (Lossi 3, lobby)

May 10, 3PM: A talk for hackers on seizing the means of computation
(University of Tartu Delta Centre, Narva 18, room 1037)

pluralistic,
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@inkican Lucky for you, it's licensed CC BY so you're free to choose an alternative illustration and republish the article with it, provided you maintain attribution and a link to the license.

pluralistic,
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@inkican No sweat.

pluralistic, to random
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Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act is the most widely misunderstood technology law in the world, which is wild, given that it's only 26 words long!

https://www.techdirt.com/2020/06/23/hello-youve-been-referred-here-because-youre-wrong-about-section-230-communications-decency-act/

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/02/kaiju-v-kaiju/#cda-230-c-2-b

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Won't be making the @pluralistic talk in tonight, cause broke af, but that does not mean you shouldn't.

If I had the world's ear for a minute, I'd hand him the mic.

pluralistic,
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@jpaskaruk The organisers tell me that there are free/cheap concession tickets for low-waged/unemployed comrades. Try contacting the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives?

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I hadn't realised that @pluralistic had sold the TV rights for Little Brother to BBC News, but I just caught a bit of it over lunch.

pluralistic,
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@cpswan Snort.

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Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Boeing's deliberately defective fleet of flying sky-wreckage; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/01/boeing-boeing/

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pluralistic,
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@captainchaos Thanks, fixed at the permalink.

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