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:
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Sympathy for the spammer: The desperate and credulous are superspreaders in the botshit pandemic.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/111760906717503896
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Hey look at this
- It’s Time to Nationalize and Then Break Up #Boeing https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/its-time-to-nationalize-and-then
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#15yrsago #Wingsuit base jumpers are human flying squirrels — video https://vimeo.com/1778399
#10yrsago RIP, #NealBarretJunior https://locusmag.com/2014/01/neal-barrett-jr-1929-2014/
#10yrsago Patent mess goes to the Supreme Court https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/01/supreme-court-looks-to-rein-in-top-patent-court-with-two-new-cases/
#10yrsago Requirements for #DRM in #HTML5 are a secret https://memex.craphound.com/2014/01/14/requirements-for-drm-in-html5-are-a-secret/
#10yrsago #NSA official: mass spying has foiled one (or fewer) plots in its whole history https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/10/nsa-mass-surveillance-powers-john-inglis-npr
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#5yrsago From the empty, shutdown #IRS, automated processes are sending out property seizure notices, and no human can stop them https://theintercept.com/2019/01/14/irs-shutdown-federal-government-shut-down-irs-asset-seizures/
#5yrsago #GoogleWalkout meets #MeToo in a new anti-#arbitration campaign https://endforcedarbitration.medium.com/googlers-for-ending-forced-arbitration-launch-public-education-campaign-via-social-media-e46d7608cd0e
#5yrsago #AlexandriaOcasioCortez reaches more people on Twitter than the press and establishment Democrats https://www.axios.com/2019/01/13/ocasio-cortez-dominates-twitter
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#5yrsago In LA, the teachers of America’s largest school district are on strike https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jan/14/la-teachers-working-class-power-labor-strikes
#1yrago Kate Beaton’s “Ducks” https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/14/hark-an-oilpatch/#kate-beaton
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Saturday’s threads: Tech workers and gig workers nee
d each other; and more!https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/111749796128735682
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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
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.”
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