Today’s threads (a thread)
Inside: The Cult of Mac; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/12/youre-holding-it-wrong/
#Pluralistic
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Today’s threads (a thread)
Inside: The Cult of Mac; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/12/youre-holding-it-wrong/
#Pluralistic
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Catch me in #Miami! I’ll be at Books and Books in Coral Gables on Jan 22 at 8PM:
https://www.booksandbooks.com/event/in-person-an-evening-with-cory-doctorow/
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I’m Kickstarting the audiobook for The Bezzle, sequel to Red Team Blues, narrated by #WilWheaton! Pre-order the audiobook and ebook, DRM free, as well as the hardcover. There’s also bundles with Red Team Blues in ebook, audio or paperback:
http://thebezzle.org
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The Cult of Mac: You cannot reason a person out of a position they did not reason themself into in the first place.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/111744097218211579
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Hey look at this
Terry Bisson (1942-2024) https://locusmag.com/2024/01/terry-bisson-1942-2024/
BOMBASTIC!Boeing Going Through An Internal Crisis https://www.airliners.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=213075< (h/t Naked Capitalism)
Wave of the hand defeats new $700k subway gates meant to deter fare evaders https://boingboing.net/2024/01/11/wave-of-the-hand-defeats-new-700k-subway-gates-meant-to-deter-fare-evaders.html
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#10yrsago Total corruption: Organised crime infiltrated and compromised UK courts, police, #HMRC, #CrownProsecutionService, prisons, and juries https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/the-corruption-of-britain-uk-s-key-institutions-infiltrated-by-criminals-9052617.html
#10yrsago What #blogging meant https://web.archive.org/web/20140111184521/https://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2014/01/08/what-blogging-was/comment-page-1/
#5yrsago In DHS tests, prototypes of Trump’s chosen barrier posts were easily defeated by hacksaws https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/test-steel-prototype-border-wall-showed-it-could-be-sawed-n956856
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#5yrsago A month after the statutory restoration of expat Canadians’ #VotingRights, Supreme Court says taking those rights away was illegal https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/scc-sides-with-overseas-canadians-in-expat-voting-decision-1.4249319
#1yrago #JohnDeere’s #repair fake-out https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/12/beg-forgiveness-ask-permission/#deerey-me
#1yrago Good riddance to the #OpenGamingLicense https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/12/beg-forgiveness-ask-permission/#whats-a-copyright-exception
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Yesterday’s threads: The real AI automation threat to workers; and more!
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/111738808659299421
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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):
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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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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Upcoming appearances:
Books & Books (#CoralGables, #Florida), Jan 22
https://www.booksandbooks.com/event/in-person-an-evening-with-cory-doctorow/
Marshall McLuhan Lecture 2024 (#Berlin), Jan 29
https://transmediale.de/en/2024/event/mcluhan-2024
The Lost Cause at Otherland (#Berlin), Jan 30
https://www.otherland-berlin.de/de/event-details/autor-innenabend-mit-cory-doctorow.html
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