Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: Stinkpump Linkdump; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2023/12/02/melange/
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Cory Doctorow replied to Cory Doctorow's status
Next Tuesday (December 5), I'm at #FlyleafBooks in #ChapelHill, NC, with my new #solarpunk novel *The Lost Cause*, which 350.org's Bill McKibben called "The first great YIMBY novel: perceptive, scientifically sound, and extraordinarily hopeful."
https://www.flyleafbooks.com/doctorow-2023
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Cory Doctorow replied to Cory Doctorow's status
It's @eff's Power Up Your Donation Week: this week, donations to the Electronic Frontier Foundation are matched 1:1, meaning your money goes twice as far. I've worked with EFF for 22 years now and I have always been - and remain - a major donor, because I've seen firsthand how effective, responsible and brilliant this organization is. Please join me in helping EFF continue its work!
https://supporters.eff.org/donate/pu--SM
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Cory Doctorow replied to Cory Doctorow's status
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Stinkpump Linkdump: With a bonus jarring shift in tone.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/111512042483383443
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Cory Doctorow replied to Cory Doctorow's status
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#20yrsago Dell won’t help customers remove #spyware https://yro.slashdot.org/story/03/12/03/0257238/dell-to-techs-dont-help-customers-remove-spyware
#15yrsago #SpiderRobinson reads #JohnVarley’s “The Persistence of Vision” https://web.archive.org/web/20111215214809/http://hw.libsyn.com/p/b/f/e/bfea9a6569a591aa/SOTW057.mp3?sid=669e18ee3a02e91b0ddc3bc71878673a&l_sid=21159&l_eid=&l_mid=1970776&expiration=1323992876&hwt=f3158434ea94dcfa536ce7d3b1a49107
#15yrsago #Atheism Song — #AdamSandler’s #HannukahSong, but for nonbelievers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFqSNpK9vm8
#15yrsago Interview with Harvard law prof who’s challenging the constitutionality of the #RIAA suits https://archive.blogs.harvard.edu/mediaberkman/2008/12/02/radio-berkman-the-pay-us-hotline-fines-and-the-riaa/
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Cory Doctorow replied to Cory Doctorow's status
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#10yrsago RIP, #RoyTrumbull: happy mutant, TV/radio engineering legend, podcaster https://memex.craphound.com/2013/12/02/rip-roy-trumbull-happy-mutant-tv-radio-engineering-legend-podcaster/
#10yrsago Leaked UN document: countries want to end #WarOnDrugs and prohibition https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/nov/30/un-drugs-policy-split-leaked-paper
#10yrsago How big corporations and government spy agencies surveil and sabotage activist groups https://web.archive.org/web/20131121063549/http://www.corporatepolicy.org/spookybusiness.pdf
#10yrsago 84% of stocks owned by richest 10% of Americans https://money.com/stock-ownership-10-percent-richest/
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Cory Doctorow replied to Cory Doctorow's status
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#1yrago How tech changed global #labor struggles for better and worse https://pluralistic.net/2022/12/02/not-what-it-does/#who-it-does-it-to
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Cory Doctorow replied to Cory Doctorow's status
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Yesterday's threads: All the books I reviewed in 2023; and more!
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/111505684432989215
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Cory Doctorow replied to Cory Doctorow's status
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My latest novel is "The Lost Cause," a solarpunk novel of radical hope in the climate emergency, from Tor Books (US)/Head of Zeus (UK):
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
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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."
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Cory Doctorow replied to Cory Doctorow's status
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Upcoming appearances:
* The Lost Cause at #FlyleafBooks (#ChapelHill), Dec 5
https://www.flyleafbooks.com/doctorow-2023
* The Geneva Dialog (Dec 7)
https://genevadialogue.ch/event/geneva-manual-event/
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