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* How one engineer beat the ban on home computers in socialist Yugoslavia theguardian.com/games/2024/oct…

* “Not Medically Necessary”: Inside the Company Helping America’s Biggest Health Insurers Deny Coverage for Care propublica.org/article/evicore…

* Stand-up to Protect Our Vote standupstandup.tech/ (h/t @brainwane)

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#20yrsago Pitcairn rapists convicted but not jailed smh.com.au/world/six-pitcairn-…

#20yrsago Build a $100 GNU/Linux machine hardware.slashdot.org/story/04…

#15yrsago On the literary and scholarly awesomeness of the timezone file blog.jonudell.net/2009/10/23/a…

#10yrsago Canadian MPs improvised spears to fight off shooter while PM Harper hid in the closet theglobeandmail.com/news/polit…

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#5yrsago Zuck claims he chows down with politicos from “across the spectrum” but they all seem to be far-right creeps theintercept.com/2019/10/25/ma…

#1yrago Bad King Richard got rich by exploiting workers at King's Faire pluralistic.net/2023/10/25/huz…

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Yesterday's threads: The housing crisis considered as an income crisis; and more!

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Cory Doctorow

2024-10-24 09:43:25

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: The housing crisis considered as an income crisis; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2024/10/24/i-d…

#Pluralistic

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Pluralistic: The housing crisis considered as an income crisis (24 Oct 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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My latest nationally bestselling novel is "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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Both are national bestsellers!

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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:

* TusCon (Tucson), Nov 8-10
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* International Cooperative Alliance (New Delhi), Nov 24
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* ISSA-LA Holiday Celebration keynote (Los Angeles), Dec 18
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Sci Fi Conventions | TusCon 51 | Science Fiction | Fantasy & Horror

51st Annual Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Convention “The Best Little Sci-Fi, Fantasy & Horror Convention in Arizona."

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Recent appearances:

* Maximum Iceland Scenario (@TWiT)
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* Speciale intervista a Cory Doctorow (@digitaliafm)
digitalia.fm/744/

* Was There Ever An Old, Good Internet? (David Graeber Institute)
youtube.com/watch?v=T6Jlxx5Tbo…

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I'll be in Tucson, AZ from November 8-10: I'm the Guest of Honor at the @sf_tus science fiction convention:

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Tor Books has just published two new, free "Little Brother" stories: "Vigilant," about creepy surveillance in distance education:

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And "Spill," about oil pipelines and indigenous landback:

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