Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: #RedForEd rides again in LA; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2025/03/29/jan…
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Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: #RedForEd rides again in LA; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2025/03/29/jan…
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Cory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •I'm on a 20+ city book tour for my new novel *Picks and Shovels*.
Catch me in #CHICAGO with PETER SAGAL on WEDNESDAY (Apr 2):
exileinbookville.com/events/44…
And in #BLOOMINGTON on FRIDAY (Apr 4):
morgensternbooks.com/event/202…
More tour dates here:
martinhench.com
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Authors on Tap: Cory Doctorow and Peter Sagal
exileinbookville.comCory Doctorow
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#RedForEd rides again in LA: Rest in power, Jane McAlevey.
mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11424576…
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Cory Doctorow
2025-03-29 12:41:27
Cory Doctorow
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Hey look at this
* Beautiful Things rifters.com/crawl/?p=11458
* The reactionary right is not a monolith programmablemutter.com/p/the-r…
* Trump Scrambles to Pardon Corporate Criminals He Once Prosecuted prospect.org/justice/2025-03-2…
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Trump Scrambles to Pardon Corporate Criminals He Once Prosecuted
Maureen Tkacik (The American Prospect)Cory Doctorow
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#20yrsago Chicken companies and copyright web.archive.org/web/2005032504…
#20yrsago Yahoo overtaking Google? web.archive.org/web/2005041002…
#20yrsago Biometric car lock defeated by cutting off owner’s finger news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacif…
#15yrsago 20,000 US BitTorrent users sued; 30,000 more lawsuits pending web.archive.org/web/2010040205…
#15yrsago Labour MP’s motion to subject Digital Economy Bill to full debate web.archive.org/web/2010040405…
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Ethics are the new craft
web.archive.orgCory Doctorow
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#15yrsago Recaptioning New Yorker cartoons with “Christ, what an asshole!” web.archive.org/web/2006020304…
#15yrsago NZ MPs reject software patents web.archive.org/web/2010040223…
#15yrsago EFF, AT&T and Google all on the same side of this privacy fight eff.org/press/archives/2010/03…
#15yrsago LibDems won’t support Digital Economy Bill at all web.archive.org/web/2010040202…
#10yrsago Clean Reader is a free speech issue theguardian.com/technology/201…
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Allow Clean Reader to swap 'bad' words in books – it's a matter of free speech
Cory Doctorow (The Guardian)Cory Doctorow
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#10yrsago Last Man: France’s amazing martial arts fantasy comic comes to the Anglosphere memex.craphound.com/2015/03/31…
#5yrsago How viruses experience social distancing pluralistic.net/2020/03/31/rea…
#5yrsago Corporate welfare vs food stamps pluralistic.net/2020/03/31/rea…
#5yrsago Monopolists stole your respirator pluralistic.net/2020/03/31/rea…
#5yrsago Amazon fires walkout organizer pluralistic.net/2020/03/31/rea…
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Last Man: France’s amazing martial arts fantasy comic comes to the Anglosphere – Cory Doctorow's MEMEX
memex.craphound.comCory Doctorow
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#5yrsago Reality endorses Sanders pluralistic.net/2020/03/31/rea…
#5yrsago Trump admits voter suppression pluralistic.net/2020/03/31/rea…
#5yrsago Attack Surface author's note pluralistic.net/2020/03/31/rea…
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Pluralistic: 31 Mar 2020 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.netCory Doctorow
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Yesterday's threads: Big Tech and "captive audience venues"; and more!
mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11424149…
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Cory Doctorow
2025-03-28 18:34:19
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.
us.macmillan.com/books/9781250…
Signed copies from Chevalier's Books:
chevaliersbooks.com/product-pa…
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My latest nonfiction book is "The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation" from Verso Books:
seizethemeansofcomputation.org
Signed copies available from Book Soup:
booksoup.com/book/978180429124…
Both are national bestsellers!
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Book details - Macmillan Publishers
MacmillanCory Doctorow
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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."
craphound.com/shop/
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Shop | Cory Doctorow's craphound.com
craphound.comCory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances:
* #Chicago: Picks and Shovels with Peter Sagal, Apr 2
exileinbookville.com/events/44…
* #Chicago: ABA Techshow, Apr 3
techshow.com/
* #Bloomington: Picks and Shovels at Morgenstern, Apr 4
morgensternbooks.com/event/202…
* #Bloomington: Ostrom Center, Apr 4
events.iu.edu/ostromworkshop/e…
* #Pittsburgh: Picks and Shovels at White Whale Books, May 15
whitewhalebookstore.com/events…
* #Pittsburgh: PyCon, May 16
us.pycon.org/2025/schedule/
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Authors on Tap: Cory Doctorow and Peter Sagal
exileinbookville.comCory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* #PDX: Teardown 2025, Jun 20-22
crowdsupply.com/teardown/portl…
* #PDX: Picks and Shovels at Barnes and Noble, Jun 20
stores.barnesandnoble.com/even…
* #NewOrleans: DeepSouthCon63, Oct 10-12, 2025
contraflowscifi.org/
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Author Signing with Cory Doctorow
stores.barnesandnoble.comCory Doctorow
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Recent appearances:
* Fire the unelected social media dictators (Al Jazeera Upfront)
youtube.com/watch?v=KXa4DzhkUZ…
* Capitalists Hate Capitalism (MMT Podcast)
pileusmmt.libsyn.com/195-capit…
* How to Destroy Our Tech Overlords (Homeless Romantic)
youtube.com/watch?v=epma2B0wjz…
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Fire the unelected social media dictators: Cory Doctorow on tech and US politics | UpFront
YouTubeCory Doctorow
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Pluralistic: #RedForEd rides again in LA (29 Mar 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.netCory Doctorow
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Super Punch
www.superpunch.netCory Doctorow
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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 WEDNESDAY (Apr 2):
exileinbookville.com/events/44…
And in #BLOOMINGTON on FRIDAY (Apr 4):
morgensternbooks.com/event/202…
More tour dates here:
martinhench.com
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Authors on Tap: Cory Doctorow and Peter Sagal
exileinbookville.comDas
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