Today’s threads (a thread)
Inside: Tech workers and gig workers need each other; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/13/solidarity-forever/
#Pluralistic
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@pluralistic@mamot.fr
“As to Mercury? Well, I’m a Cancer, and as everyone knows, Cancers don’t believe in astrology.”
Perfect. Masterful.
Catch me in #Miami! I’ll be at Books and Books in Coral Gables on Jan 22 at 8PM:
https://www.booksandbooks.com/event/in-person-an-evening-with-cory-doctorow/
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I’m Kickstarting the audiobook for The Bezzle, sequel to Red Team Blues, narrated by #WilWheaton! Pre-order the audiobook and ebook, DRM free, as well as the hardcover. There’s also bundles with Red Team Blues in ebook, audio or paperback:
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Tech workers and gig workers need each other: Each disenshittifies the other.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/111749638666675028
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Hey look at this
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Maintenance: Of Everything https://books.worksinprogress.co
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New Podcast “Necessary Tomorrows” Offers Hopeful Visions of the Future https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/new-podcast-necessary-tomorrows-offers-hopeful-visions-of-the-future-302028975.html (h/t Chris Brown)
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The #BillGates Problem https://www.c-span.org/video/?531845-1/the-bill-gates-problem
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#20yrsago #Kodak gives up on film cameras https://web.archive.org/web/20040401104936/http://www.msnbc.msn.com/Default.aspx?id=3948032&p1=0
#20yrsago @timoreilly@mastodon.social’s 2004 wishlist https://web.archive.org/web/20040119133107/http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/4117
#20yrsago #GeneWolfe interviewed by @neilhimself@mastodon.social https://web.archive.org/web/20040407120711/http://www.bordersstores.com/features/feature.jsp?file=gaimanwolfe
#20yrsago S-Train blogger confronts a troll in meatspace https://web.archive.org/web/20040211084754/http://s-train.kaphmedia.net/archives/000318.php
#15yrsago Complete fan-reading of my essay collection “Content” https://archive.org/details/CoryDoctorow-Content_268
#15yrsago Bush official: we tortured #Gitmo detainee https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/13/AR2009011303372_pf.html
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#15yrsago #ThomasEdison’s price-fixing #EULA https://web.archive.org/web/20090125121517/http://www.alchemysite.com/blog/2009/01/eula-end-user-license-agreement-edison.html
#10yrsago Why fiction works https://locusmag.com/2014/01/cory-doctorow-cheap-writing-tricks/
#10yrsago Holding mirrors up to police lines at #Euromaidan https://web.archive.org/web/20140113120206/http://www.kyivpost.com/multimedia/photo/mirror-action-in-memory-of-nov-30-334467.html
#5yrsago China has a very Orwellian reason for banning typing “1984” on social media, while allowing people to read Nineteen Eighty-Four https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/01/why-1984-and-animal-farm-arent-banned-china/580156/
#5yrsago #HannuRajaniemi’s Summerland: a midcentury spy thriller, with the afterlife https://memex.craphound.com/2019/01/13/hannu-rajaniemis-summerland-a-midcentury-spy-thriller-with-the-afterlife/
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#5yrsago Not customers: doctors have patients, libraries have patrons, lawyers have clients and teachers have students https://memex.craphound.com/2019/01/13/not-customers-doctors-have-patients-libraries-have-patrons-lawyers-have-clients-and-teachers-have-students/
#5yrsago Trump chose a thin-skinned, blowhard ignoramus as ambassador to Germany, and now no one will talk to him except Nazis https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/u-s-ambassador-richard-grenell-is-isolated-in-berlin-a-1247610.html
#5yrsago An embroidered computer whose circuits are ornate, golden thread https://ireneposch.net/the-embroidered-computer/
#1yrago Booklist on “Red Team Blues” https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/13/marty-hench/#red-team-blues
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My latest novel is “The Lost Cause,” a solarpunk novel of radical hope in the climate emergency, from Tor Books (US)/Head of Zeus (UK):
Signed, personalized copies available from Dark Delicacies:
https://www.darkdel.com/store/p3007/Pre-Order_Signed_Copies%3A_The_Lost_Cause_HB.html#/
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My latest nonfiction book is “The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation” from Verso Books:
http://seizethemeansofcomputation.org
Signed copies available from Book Soup:
https://www.booksoup.com/book/9781804291245
Both are national bestsellers!
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@pluralistic@mamot.fr
Much better.
Good effort.
