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4 Nov

Who's your joker?
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3 Nov

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3 Nov

Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Deep Reckonings; Past Performance is Not Indicative of Future Results; How Audible robs indie audiobook creators; Get an extra vote; A hopeful future; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2020/11/03/som…

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Deep Reckonings: Using deepfakes to conjure a contrafactual reality in which monsters confront their legacies.

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Past Performance is Not Indicative of Future Results: The limits of theory-free statistical inference.

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3 Nov

@Polygon

I've been talking to @Polygon's @TashaRobinson about my books for nearly two decades. She was one of the reviewers to dig into Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, my debut novel, all the way back in 2003 when she was at @TheOnion's @TheAVClub.

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She's always had smart things to say about my books (and is never shy about criticizing them) so I was delighted to talk with her about my latest, ATTACK SURFACE, for an interview: "Cory Doctorow on his drive to inspire positive futures."

polygon.com/2020/11/2/2154…

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As the title suggests, the interview digs into the relationship between our narratives about the future and the future itself when it arrives - the delights and perils of dystopianism, a philosophy that I find seductive even as I reject it.

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3 Nov

@xkcd

Today on @xkcd, an "Election Impact Score Sheet" that turns on the theory that "reminders from friends and family to vote have a bigger effect on turnout than anything campaigns do."

xkcd.com/2380/

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It's a call to action: if you have friends or family PA, ME, AK, MT, NM, WI, MI, IO, NC, NH, GA, NE, MI, FL, KS, MI or CO, drop them a line today - text, call, email - and remind them to vote. Prioritize these calls in roughly that order.

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If the people you reach need help with their plan to vote, refer them to a guide like this one, and help them work through it, figuring it out together.

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3 Nov

Amazon's ACX is a self-serve audiobook production platform: writers spend thousands of dollars to produce audiobooks of their own work. Amazon strongly incentivizes ACX producers to sell exclusively through Audible (which also distributes to Itunes).

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If you go exclusive, you get a better split of the proceeds - 40%. That's right: though you bore all production costs and Amazon has no costs associated with selling your audiobook, Amazon still keeps the majority of the revenue from it, even if you grant them exclusivity.

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As unfair as that may sound, it gets a LOT worse. As part of its effort to lure customers to Audible, Amazon now grants no-questions-asked returns on audiobooks, and claws back the lost revenue from those returns from the audiobook creators.

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