Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).
Inside: Being good at your job is praxis; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2022/10/18/adm…
#Pluralistic 1/
Montreal! I'm at @LawMcGill's Global Governance of Online Harms, 10/20:
eventbrite.ca/e/the-global-g…
At @ArgoBookshop, 10/23:
eventbrite.ca/e/cory-doctoro…
At @LibraryJournal's Day of Dialog, 10/20:
libraryjournal.com/event/library-…
And Ottawa @Writersfest, 10/24
writersfestival.org/events/fall-20… 2/
Being good at your job is praxis: The FTC can mandate Right to Repair without (further) Congressional authorization.
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Hey look at this
* Donations to the Tor Project are matched 1:1 by Friends of Tor donate.torproject.org
* Regulating DAOs schneier.com/blog/archives/…
* Why There's No Such Thing as a Good Billionaire 4/
#15yrsago God’s Mechanics: Vatican Astronomer reconciles religion and science memex.craphound.com/2007/10/19/god…
#10yrsago Math journal accepts computer-generated nonsense paper thatsmathematics.com/blog/archives/… 5/
#10yrsago New Zealand record industry flubs its first three-strikes prosecution torrentfreak.com/music-biz-dump…
#5yrsago The video game industry’s best-of-class DRM is routinely cracked in less than 24 hours arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/10… 6/
#5yrsago A curiously incomplete history of the early years of DRM vice.com/en/article/evb…
#5yrsago A working modem using HTML5 sound martinmelhus.com/web-audio-modem 7/
#5yrsago Trump’s “free market” FCC loves monopolies, especially when they rip off prisoners’ families wired.com/story/fcc-shou…
#1yrago At last, a new Econ 101 textbook: CORE's "The Economy" vs homo economicus pluralistic.net/2021/10/18/lab… 8/
#1yrago Copyfraudster censors investigation of implausible covid gadget: When a US law is used to censor Indian scientific reporting pluralistic.net/2021/10/18/lab…
#1yrago Corporatism made John Deere ripe for a strike pluralistic.net/2021/10/18/lab… 9/
Yesterday's threads: A giant grocery merger will send "inflation" through the roof; and more!
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My latest book is Chokepoint Capitalism (with @rgibli), nonfiction about monopoly and fairness in creative labor markets.
chokepointcapitalism.com
Signed copies available from @BookSoup:
booksoup.com/book/978080700… 11/
My latest novel is Attack Surface, a sequel to my bestselling Little Brother books, now in paperback, wherever books are sold.
Signed copies at @DarkDel:
darkdel.com/store/p1840/Co… 12/
My ebooks and audiobooks (from @torbooks, @HoZ_Books, @mcsweeneys, @BeaconPressBks et al) 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/ 13/
Upcoming appearances:
* The Global Governance of Online Harms - @LawMcGill (Montreal), 10/20
eventbrite.ca/e/the-global-g…
* @LibraryJournal Day of Dialog (Zoom), 10/20
libraryjournal.com/event/library-…
* Chokepoint Capitalism Event, @ArgoBookshop (Montreal), 10/23
eventbrite.ca/e/cory-doctoro… 14/
Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* Surviving Apocalyptic Economics, with @rushkoff and @rgibli, Ottawa @Writersfest, 10/24
writersfestival.org/events/fall-20…
* Launch for xychelsea's "Readme.txt: A Memoir" (Bookshop.org), 10/26:
xychelsea.tv/#event-booksho… 15/
Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* @WEDF_forum, 10/26-28
worldethicaldataforum.org/registration
* #RadicalBookFair/@Lighthousebks (Edinburgh), 11/10
lighthousebookshop.com/events/chokepo…
* Arthur C Clarke Award (DC), 11/16
clarkefoundation.org/2022-awards-ev… 16/
Recent appearances:
* Literary Life with Mitchell Kaplan (@lithub)
lithub.com/cory-doctorow-…
* Sex and Politics with @fakedansavage (use code "Doctorow" for a free month):
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* Regulating the Online Public Sphere (@ColumbiaGFoE)
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Happy #SpookySeason! My picture book "Poesy the Monster Slayer" is the perfect read for your little monsters: it's an epic tale of bedtime-refusal, toy-hacking and monster-hunting, illustrated by @mcrockefeller.
pluralistic.net/2020/07/14/poe… 18/
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My latest Medium column is "Unspeakable: Big-Tech-as-cop vs. abolishing Big Tech"
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Today's top sources: @slashdot (slashdot.org). 23/
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