Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: Big Tech and "captive audience venues"; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2025/03/28/str…
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Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: Big Tech and "captive audience venues"; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2025/03/28/str…
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Cory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •I'm on a 20+ city book tour for my new novel *Picks and Shovels*.
Catch me in #CHICAGO with PETER SAGAL on WEDNESDAY (Apr 2):
exileinbookville.com/events/44…
And in #BLOOMINGTON next FRIDAY (Apr 4):
morgensternbooks.com/event/202…
More tour dates here:
martinhench.com
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Authors on Tap: Cory Doctorow and Peter Sagal
exileinbookville.comCory Doctorow
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Big Tech and "captive audience venues": The digital equivalent of baseball stadiums and airport concourses.
mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11424144…
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Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic@mamot.fr)
Mamot - Le Mastodon de La Quadrature du NetCory Doctorow
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Hey look at this
* FTC Commissioners File Suit to Contest Trump’s Alleged Firing prospect.org/justice/2025-03-2…
* Screamboat Is a Both a Steamboat Willie Horror Movie and Hardcore Disney Fan Film gizmodo.com/screamboat-directo…
* Ploopy upgraded its new Classic 2 open-source trackball with better scrolling theverge.com/news/637794/ploop…
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Ploopy upgraded its open-source trackball with better scrolling
Andrew Liszewski (The Verge)Cory Doctorow
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#20yrsago How HDTV killed firefighters, birthed the Broadcast Flag, and screwed America web.archive.org/web/2005102018…
#15yrsago ACLU prevails: US Fed Judge invalidates gene patent aclu.org/cases/association-mol…
#15yrsago UK record lobby has vehement feelings on Digital Economy Bill debate, won’t say what they are theguardian.com/technology/201…
#15yrsago Leaked doc: EU wants to destroy and rewrite Canada’s IP laws michaelgeist.ca/2010/03/ceta-d…
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Does the BPI want MPs to debate the digital economy bill properly?
Cory Doctorow (The Guardian)Cory Doctorow
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#10yrsago Stephen King versus Maine’s lying governor rawstory.com/2015/03/stephen-k…
#5yrsago Don't worry about groceries pluralistic.net/2020/03/29/gri…
#5yrsago California's missing medical stockpile pluralistic.net/2020/03/29/gri…
#5yrsago Cozy Catastrophes pluralistic.net/2020/03/29/gri…
#5yrsago Andrew Cuomo is not your woke bae pluralistic.net/2020/03/29/gri…
#5yrsago Alex Jones's one-two punch pluralistic.net/2020/03/29/gri…
#1yrago Subprime gadgets pluralistic.net/2024/03/29/boo…
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Stephen King hammers Maine governor for doubling down: 'He's not man enough to admit he made a mistake'
Arturo Garcia (Raw Story)Cory Doctorow
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Yesterday's threads: Reality-Based Communities; and more!
mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11423505…
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Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic@mamot.fr)
Mamot - Le Mastodon de La Quadrature du NetCory Doctorow
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My last nationally bestselling novel was "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:
chevaliersbooks.com/product-pa…
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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
MacmillanCory 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
craphound.comCory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances:
* #Chicago: Picks and Shovels with Peter Sagal, Apr 2
exileinbookville.com/events/44…
* #Chicago: ABA Techshow, Apr 3
techshow.com/
* #Bloomington: Picks and Shovels at Morgenstern, Apr 4
morgensternbooks.com/event/202…
* #Pittsburgh: Picks and Shovels at White Whale Books, May 15
whitewhalebookstore.com/events…
* #Pittsburgh: PyCon, May 16
us.pycon.org/2025/schedule/
* #PDX: Teardown 2025, Jun 20-22
crowdsupply.com/teardown/portl…
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Authors on Tap: Cory Doctorow and Peter Sagal
exileinbookville.comCory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* #PDX: Picks and Shovels at Barnes and Noble, Jun 20
stores.barnesandnoble.com/even…
* #NewOrleans: DeepSouthCon63, Oct 10-12, 2025
contraflowscifi.org/
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Author Signing with Cory Doctorow
stores.barnesandnoble.comLes Orchard
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ooh, that Barnes & Noble in PDX is easy bike distance from my house!
Guess I'll have to pick up a paper copy of Picks & Shovels after already scarfing it down on my e-reader - which I've apparently done with every installment in the Martin Hench series so far 😅