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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · 4 months ago

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Foxx Nolte's "Hidden History of Walt Disney World"; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/07/15/disnefried/

#Pluralistic

The Arcadia Press cover of Foxx Nolte's 'Hidden History of Walt Disney World.'

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · 4 months ago

This Saturday (July 20), I'm appearing at Chicago's Exile in Bookville:

https://exileinbookville.com/events/39808

Support me this summer on the Clarion Write-A-Thon and help raise money for the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers' Workshop!

https://clarionwriteathon.com/members/profile.php?writerid=293388

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · 4 months ago

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Foxx Nolte's "Hidden History of Walt Disney World": The rough edges are more interesting than the polished surfaces.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112790596492246128

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · 4 months ago

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Hey look at this

* “The Wonderful Power of Storytelling,” by Bruce Sterling, 1991 https://bruces.medium.com/the-wonderful-power-of-storytelling-by-bruce-sterling-1991-9d2846c2c5df

* Follow the Crypto https://www.followthecrypto.org

* New firefox "Website Advertising Preferences" https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/1e1dim5/new_firefox_website_advertising_preferences/

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · 4 months ago

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#20yrsago Differences between WorldCon and the DNC https://www.mcfi.org/noreascon4/not-the-dnc.html

#15yrsago Top Shelf Jazz’s “Fast and Louche” — part Cab Calloway, part Atomic Fireballs, all good smutty Prohibition jazz https://memex.craphound.com/2009/07/15/top-shelf-jazzs-fast-and-louche-part-cab-calloway-part-atomic-fireballs-all-good-smutty-prohibition-jazz/

#15yrsago RIP, Phyllis Gotleib, the mother of Canadian science fiction https://memex.craphound.com/2009/07/15/rip-phyllis-gotleib-the-mother-of-canadian-science-fiction/

#15yrsago Kathe Koja’s KISSING THE BEE audiobook: betrayal and emotional whirlwinds told with originality and subtlety https://memex.craphound.com/2009/07/15/kathe-kojas-kissing-the-bee-audiobook-betrayal-and-emotional-whirlwinds-told-with-originality-and-subtlety/

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · 4 months ago

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#10yrsago The Shadow Hero: giving an origin story to comics’ first Asian-American superhero https://memex.craphound.com/2014/07/15/the-shadow-hero-giving-an-origin-story-to-comics-first-asian-american-superhero/

#5yrsago Ex-Fox & Friends host, accused of a Ponzi scheme that turned Indianapolis real-estate investors into slumlords, moves to Portugal https://www.indystar.com/story/news/2019/07/12/ex-fox-friends-host-clayton-morris-leaves-country-for-portugal-amid-fraud-allegations/1705521001/

#5yrsago 5G won’t fix America’s terrible broadband https://potsandpansbyccg.com/2019/07/11/will-broadband-go-wireless/?mc_cid=7a2fa307cd

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · 4 months ago

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#5yrsago Putting a price on our data won’t make the platforms stop abusing our privacy https://memex.craphound.com/2019/07/15/putting-a-price-on-our-data-wont-make-the-platforms-stop-abusing-our-privacy/

#5yrsago Presidential fundraising scorecard: who’s raising the most and who is most beholden to the ultra-wealthy and corporations? https://projects.propublica.org/itemizer/presidential-candidates/2020

#5yrsago Heirs’ property: how southern states allow white land developers to steal reconstruction-era land from Black families https://features.propublica.org/black-land-loss/heirs-property-rights-why-black-families-lose-land-south/#164706

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · 4 months ago

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#5yrsago The new £50 notes will feature Alan Turing (whilst HMG proposes bans on Turing complete computers AND working crypto) https://memex.craphound.com/2019/07/15/the-new-50-notes-will-feature-alan-turing-whilst-hmg-proposes-bans-on-turing-complete-computers-and-working-crypto/

#1yrago Linkty Dumpty https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/15/in-the-dumps/#what-vacation

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · 4 months ago

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Yesterday's threads: The true, tactical significance of Project 2025; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112784754641900598

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · 4 months ago

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My latest nationally bestselling novel is "The Bezzle," an ice-cold revenge story of high-tech finance crime starring the forensic accountant Martin Hench:

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250865878/thebezzle

Signed copies from Chevalier's Books:

https://www.chevaliersbooks.com/product-page/the-bezzle

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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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · 4 months ago

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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."

https://craphound.com/shop/

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