Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).
Inside: The Swivel-Eyed Loons Have A Point; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/05/03/par…
#Pluralistic
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This Friday (May 5), I'll be at @BooksIncStores in #MountainView with @mkapor for my new novel, *Red Team Blues*:
booksinc.net/event/cory-doc…
And on May 6/7, I'll be in #Berkeley at the #BABF2023:
baybookfest.org/session/cory-d…
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The Swivel-Eyed Loons Have A Point: My *Locus* column about the justifiable suspicions of the medical industry, lockdowns, license-plate cameras, and beyond.
mamot.fr/@pluralistic/1…
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Hey look at this
* @calyxinstitute hiring Interim Executive Director calyxinstitute.org/about/jobs/int…
* Scary 'Emergent' AI Abilities Are Just a 'Mirage' Produced by Researchers vice.com/en/article/wxj…
* Tell @Powells: Workers Deserve a #LivingWage change.org/p/tell-powell-…
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#10yrsago Why “connecting the dots” is the wrong way to think about stopping #terrorism edition.cnn.com/2013/05/02/opi…
#10yrsago Homemade laser pops 100 balloons
#10yrsago OpenWorm: an artificial life sim of an earthworm nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2013/05/op…
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#10yrsago Running on a long, deep pool of ooblek
#10yrsago #JelloBiafra and The Guantanamo School Of Medicine’s “White People and the Damage Done” memex.craphound.com/2013/05/03/jel…
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#10yrsago Easy win for publishing: network and systematize PR and marketing locusmag.com/2013/05/cory-d…
#5yrsago Mashup Maker: Another entry for the #CatalogOfMissingDevices eff.org/deeplinks/2018…
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#5yrsago Facebook has repeatedly fired stalker employees, then covered it up vice.com/en/article/bjp…
#5yrsago Oakland passes groundbreaking municipal law requiring citizen oversight of local surveillance arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
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#1yrago The Democrats' self-immolating fetish for #MeansTesting pluralistic.net/2022/05/03/uto…
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Yesterday's threads: Oops! All linkdump! and more!
mamot.fr/@pluralistic/1…
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My latest novel is Red Team Blues, available wherever books are sold!
Signed copies at @DarkDel:
darkdel.com/store/p2873/We…
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My latest nonfiction 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…
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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/
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Upcoming appearances:
* Red Team Blues at @BooksIncStores with @mkapor (#MountainView), 5/5
booksinc.net/event/cory-doc…
* @BayBookFest (#Berkeley/#BABF2023), 5/6-7
baybookfest.org/session/cory-d…
* #OSSummit (#Vancouver), 5/10
events.linuxfoundation.org/open-source-su…
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* @MassyArts Red Team Blues event with @seancranbury (#Vancouver), 5/10
eventbrite.ca/e/red-team-blu…
* Red Team Blues at @WordfestTweets (#Calgary), 5/11
wordfest.com/2023/event/wor…
* @GburgBookFest, (#Gaithersburg) 5/20
gaithersburgbookfestival.org/featured_autho…
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* @publicknowledge Emerging Tech keynote (#DC), 5/22
eventbrite.com/e/emerging-tec…
* #WEPFest with @RonDeibert, @hockeyesque and @DrNancyOlivieri (#Toronto), 5/23
westendphoenix.com/shop/wepfest-s…
* @HTLGIFestival (#Hay), 5/28
howthelightgetsin.org/events/the-ai-…
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* @HTLGIFestival (#Hay), 5/29
howthelightgetsin.org/events/the-dan…
* Red Team Blues event with @TimHarford (#Oxford), 5/29
eventbrite.co.uk/e/cory-doctoro…
* Red Team Blues event with @christreilly (#Nottingham), 5/30
waterstones.com/events/an-even…
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* Red Team Blues event with @cubicgarden (#Manchester), 5/31
waterstones.com/events/in-conv…
* @uclcs Peter Kirstein Lecture, 6/1 (#London):
eventbrite.co.uk/e/peter-kirste…
* @CymeraF, 6/3 (#Edinburgh)
cymerafestival.co.uk/cymera23-event…
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* Red Team Blues with @Marthalanefox at the @bl, 6/5 (#London):
bl.uk/events/an-even…
* @republica keynote, 6/7 (#Berlin)
re-publica.com/de/news/rp23-k…
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Recent appearances:
* Author Talk: Cory Doctorow and @Annaleen in Conversation/@SFPublicLibrary
* The Next Chapter/CBC
cbc.ca/player/play/21…
* @mediadeathcult
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