Reality-Based Communities: Anything that can't go on forever eventually stops.

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Cory Doctorow

2025-03-27 15:06:48

Remember the Global War on Terror? I know, it's been a minute. But there was a time when we were all meant to take terrorism - *real* terrorism, the knocking-down-buildings kind, not the being-mean-to-Teslas kind - seriously.

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Pluralistic: Reality-Based Communities (27 Mar 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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Hey look at this

* Locus Awards Poll Login poll.voting.locusmag.com

* How to Delete Your 23andMe Data eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/how-…

* China built hundreds of AI data centers to catch the AI boom. Now many stand unused. technologyreview.com/2025/03/2…

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#15yrsago Battlefield Earth screenwriter apologises nypost.com/2010/03/28/i-penned…

#15yrsago UK government’s smoke-filled room legislative process theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

#15yrsago UK government wants to secretly read your postal mail theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

#10yrsago What it’s like to teach evolution at the University of Kentucky orionmagazine.org/article/defe…

#10yrsago Prisoner escapes by faking an email ordering his release bbc.com/news/uk-england-london…

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#10yrsago 8-bit photo gun made from a Game Boy and a thermal printer vtol.cc/filter/works/gbg-8

#5yrsago Employers scramble to buy remote-worker spyware pluralistic.net/2020/03/28/unr…

#5yrsago United gets $25B stimulus and announces layoffs pluralistic.net/2020/03/28/unr…

#5yrsago Trump officials killed Walmart opioid prosecutions pluralistic.net/2020/03/28/unr…

#5yrsago Boardgame Remix Kit pluralistic.net/2020/03/28/unr…

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#5yrsago The Pandemic Playbook pluralistic.net/2020/03/28/unr…

#5yrsago Charter techs get $25 gift cards instead of hazard pay pluralistic.net/2020/03/28/unr…

#1yrago The credit card fee victory is a defeat pluralistic.net/2024/03/28/con…

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Yesterday's threads: The AOC-Sanders anti-oligarch tour is all about organizing; and more!

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Cory Doctorow

2025-03-26 18:15:07

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: The AOC-Sanders anti-oligarch tour is all about organizing; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2025/03/26/not…

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Pluralistic: The AOC-Sanders anti-oligarch tour is all about organizing (26 Mar 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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My last nationally bestselling novel was "The Bezzle," an ice-cold revenge story of high-tech finance crime starring the forensic accountant Martin Hench.

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Signed copies from Chevalier's Books:

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My latest nonfiction book is "The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation" from Verso Books:

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Signed copies available from Book Soup:

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Both are national bestsellers!

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Book details - Macmillan Publishers

New York Times bestseller Cory Doctorow's The Bezzle is a high stakes thriller where the lives of the hundreds of thousands of inmates in California’s pris...

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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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Upcoming appearances:

* #Chicago: Picks and Shovels with Peter Sagal, Apr 2
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* #Chicago: ABA Techshow, Apr 3
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* #Bloomington: Picks and Shovels at Morgenstern, Apr 4
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* #Pittsburgh: Picks and Shovels at White Whale Books, May 15
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* #Pittsburgh: PyCon, May 16
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* #PDX: Teardown 2025, Jun 20-22
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* #PDX: Picks and Shovels at Barnes and Noble, Jun 20
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* #NewOrleans: DeepSouthCon63, Oct 10-12, 2025
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Recent appearances:

* Capitalists Hate Capitalism (MMT Podcast)
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* How to Destroy Our Tech Overlords (Homeless Romantic)
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* The internet that could have been was ruined by billionaires (Real News Network)
therealnews.com/the-internet-t…

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I'm on a 20+ city book tour for my new novel *Picks and Shovels*.

Catch me in #CHICAGO with PETER SAGAL on Apr 2:

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And in #BLOOMINGTON on Apr 4:

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More tour dates here:

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