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Cory Doctorow

@doctorow

1 May

The annual Locus Awards finalists have been announced and I am thrilled to pieces to see my novel ATTACK SURFACE, a standalone book in the Little Brother universe for adults, in the final ten for Best SF Novel!

locusmag.com/2021/05/2021-l…

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@matociquala

Even more exciting than making the top ten is the company it puts me in: the other finalists are:

* Machine by @matociquala
* Unconquerable Sun by Kate Elliott
* Agency by @GreatDismal
* The Relentless Moon by @MaryRobinette
* War of the Maps by @UnlikelyWorlds

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@scalzi

* The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson
* The Last Emperox by @scalzi
* Network Effect by @marthawells1
* Interlibrary Loan by Gene Wolfe

(also excited to see @torbooks, my publisher, next to so many of those names!)

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Cory Doctorow

@doctorow

1 May

@nature

In 2008, I traveled to the world's largest scientific data-centers for a @nature story. No matter whether the labs were devoted to internet archiving, the human genome, or the Higgs boson, they had two things in common: vast server farms, and @xkcd.

nature.com/news/2008/0809…

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Randall Munroe's webcomic is so unabashedly geeky, so unafraid to be obscure or format-breaking, so affectionate and knowing about the triumphs and pitfalls of science that it is absolute catnip for scientists.

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Last week, Munroe published strip #2456, "Types of scientific paper," a 3x4 grid of thumbnails of journal articles with titles like, "We put a camera somewhere new" and "My colleague is wrong and I can finally prove it."

xkcd.com/2456/

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Cory Doctorow

@doctorow

1 May

Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Political economy vs inflation; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/05/01/may…

#Pluralistic

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On May 7, the Gaithersburg Book Festival is featuring me in an interview conducted by John Scalzi; we pre-recorded the event but I'll be in the live chat for the premiere.

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https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1388537739012804608

Political economy vs inflation: Larry Summers is a dope.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1388537739012804608

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Cory Doctorow

@doctorow

1 May

As Biden lays out ambitious plans to stimulate the US economy and fight inequality with new money creation (spending) and money destruction (higher taxes on corporations, capital gains and the right), a firing squad of economists assembled to issue dire inflation warnings.

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(If you'd like an unrolled version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:)

pluralistic.net/2021/05/01/may…

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They're repeating the economic doctrine of the pasty 40 years, an austerity doctrine that focuses on the inflationary risks of "deficit spending" (when governments don't tax as much money out of the economy as they inject in the same year).

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