Today’s threads (a thread)
Inside: Tech workers and gig workers need each other; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/13/solidarity-forever/
#Pluralistic
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Today’s threads (a thread)
Inside: Tech workers and gig workers need each other; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/13/solidarity-forever/
#Pluralistic
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#15yrsago #ThomasEdison’s price-fixing #EULA https://web.archive.org/web/20090125121517/http://www.alchemysite.com/blog/2009/01/eula-end-user-license-agreement-edison.html
#10yrsago Why fiction works https://locusmag.com/2014/01/cory-doctorow-cheap-writing-tricks/
#10yrsago Holding mirrors up to police lines at #Euromaidan https://web.archive.org/web/20140113120206/http://www.kyivpost.com/multimedia/photo/mirror-action-in-memory-of-nov-30-334467.html
#5yrsago China has a very Orwellian reason for banning typing “1984” on social media, while allowing people to read Nineteen Eighty-Four https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/01/why-1984-and-animal-farm-arent-banned-china/580156/
#5yrsago #HannuRajaniemi’s Summerland: a midcentury spy thriller, with the afterlife https://memex.craphound.com/2019/01/13/hannu-rajaniemis-summerland-a-midcentury-spy-thriller-with-the-afterlife/
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#5yrsago Not customers: doctors have patients, libraries have patrons, lawyers have clients and teachers have students https://memex.craphound.com/2019/01/13/not-customers-doctors-have-patients-libraries-have-patrons-lawyers-have-clients-and-teachers-have-students/
#5yrsago Trump chose a thin-skinned, blowhard ignoramus as ambassador to Germany, and now no one will talk to him except Nazis https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/u-s-ambassador-richard-grenell-is-isolated-in-berlin-a-1247610.html
#5yrsago An embroidered computer whose circuits are ornate, golden thread https://ireneposch.net/the-embroidered-computer/
#1yrago Booklist on “Red Team Blues” https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/13/marty-hench/#red-team-blues
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Yesterday’s threads: The Cult of Mac; and more!
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/111744260283564528
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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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Recent appearances:
The Lost Cause (The Writer’s Voice)
https://www.writersvoice.net/2024/01/cory-doctorow-the-lost-cause/
What the Future will Bring (#HomelessRomantic)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_Vq8qW2A8I
Talking “The Lost Cause” with Warren Mosler (#MMTPodcast)
https://www.patreon.com/posts/episode-182-cory-95211955
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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:
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