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Inside: Keeping a suspense file gives you superpowers; and more!
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Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: Keeping a suspense file gives you superpowers; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2024/10/26/one…
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Cory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •I'll be in Tucson, AZ from November 8-10: I'm the Guest of Honor at the TusCon science fiction convention:
tusconscificon.com/
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Sci Fi Conventions | TusCon 51 | Science Fiction | Fantasy & Horror
Sci Fi Conventions | TusCon 51 | Science Fiction | Fantasy & HorrorCory Doctorow
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Keeping a suspense file gives you superpowers: The single best part of "Getting Things Done."
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Cory Doctorow
2024-10-26 13:40:25
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Cory Doctorow
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Hey look at this
* BOOM: Judge Blocks $8.5B Fashion House Merger thebignewsletter.com/p/boom-ju…
* How Google is Killing Bloggers and Small Publishers - And Why justapack.com/how-google-is-ki…
* Bluesky is not decentralized beige.party/@possibledog/11336… (h/t Hacker News)
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How Google is Killing Bloggers and Small Publishers - And Why - Just a Pack
Michael Miszczak (Just A Pack)Possibly a Dog
2024-10-25 12:07:37
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Cory Doctorow
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#20yrago Printer cartridges aren’t copyrighted works web.archive.org/web/2004110208…
#15yrsago Italian politician sues 4000+ YouTube commenters web.archive.org/web/2009103004…
#15yrago Terrified London cops spending millions gathering useless intelligence on peaceful protestors theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
#10yrsago Edward Snowden interviewed by Lawrence @lessig youtube.com/watch?v=o_Sr96TFQQ…
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Protesting against police tactics
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#10yrsago CHP officer who stole and shared nude photos of traffic-stop victim claims “it’s a game” cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/…
#5yrsago “Affordances”: a new science fiction story that climbs the terrible technology adoption curve slate.com/technology/2019/10/a…
#5yrsago Nearly all Americans’ taxes will go down under Medicare for All theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
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Make no mistake: Medicare for All would cut taxes for most Americans
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#5yrsago Researchers’ budget blown when a migrating eagle’s tracker chip connects to an Iranian cellular tower and sends expensive SMSes bbc.com/news/world-europe-5018…
#5yrsago New Hampshire state Rep John Potucek kills Right to Repair bill: “cellphones are throwaways…just get a new one” vice.com/en/article/lawmaker-k…
#1yrago Amazon Alexa is a graduate of the Darth Vader MBA pluralistic.net/2023/10/26/hit…
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Lawmaker Kills Repair Bill Because ‘Cellphones Are Throwaways’
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Cory Doctorow
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Yesterday's threads: Ian McDonald's "The Wilding"; and more!
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Cory Doctorow
2024-10-25 13:22:00
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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:
us.macmillan.com/books/9781250…
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:
seizethemeansofcomputation.org
Signed copies available from Book Soup:
booksoup.com/book/978180429124…
Both are national bestsellers!
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Book details - Macmillan Publishers
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Cory 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
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Cory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances:
* TusCon (Tucson), Nov 8-10
tusconscificon.com/
* International Cooperative Alliance (New Delhi), Nov 24
icanewdelhi2024.coop/welcome/p…
* ISSA-LA Holiday Celebration keynote (Los Angeles), Dec 18
issala.org/event/issa-la-decem…
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Sci Fi Conventions | TusCon 51 | Science Fiction | Fantasy & Horror
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Cory Doctorow
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Recent appearances:
* Maximum Iceland Scenario (@TWiT)
youtube.com/watch?v=P5MkCwktKz…
* 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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Speciale intervista a Cory Doctorow (#744) | Digitalia - Notizie di tecnologia
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Pluralistic: Keeping a suspense file gives you superpowers (26 Oct 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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Cory Doctorow
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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:
tusconscificon.com/
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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:
reactormag.com/spill-cory-doct…
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Spill - Reactor
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