Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: Christopher Brown's 'A Natural History of Empty Lots'; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/09/17/cyberpunk-pastoralism/
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Does anyone found a way to buy this ebook in a DRM-free format and care to share a link to it? I want to pay the author but cergainly don't want to send money to the publishers who threaten libraries and the @internetarchive
Does anyone found a way to buy this ebook in a DRM-free format and care to share a link to it? I want to pay the author but cergainly don't want to send money to the publishers who threaten libraries and the @internetarchive
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@pluralistic Christopher Brown reminds me of John McPhee if John McPhee wrote about abandoned parking lots.
@ErosBlog @pluralistic Wow. Now THAT is a recommendation.
@pluralistic "[...] since I happened upon him one morning, thoughtfully mowing his roof with a scythe"
This is the best sentence I will read today, bravo.
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On September 24th, I'll be speaking in person at the Boston Public Library!
https://bpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/events?startDate=2024-09-24&endDate=2024-09-24
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The paperback edition of The Lost Cause, my nationally bestselling, hopeful solarpunk novel is out this month!
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250865946/thelostcause
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Christopher Brown's 'A Natural History of Empty Lots': A gorgeous, lush tale of the nature bursting through every seam.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113153415021927218
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Hey look at this
* Google will now link to The Internet Archive to add more context to Search results https://9to5google.com/2024/09/11/google-search-internet-archive-wayback-machine/
* Mark Zuckerberg says he’s done apologizing https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/11/mark-zuckerberg-says-hes-done-apologizing/ (h/t @slashdot)
* Big publishers think libraries are the enemy https://www.citationneeded.news/hachette-v-internet-archive/
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@pluralistic @slashdot my preferred is the skin head wig. Fantastic! For Executives :DDD
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#20yrsago Spam subjects printed on custom tees https://web.archive.org/web/20040922090125/http://www.spamshirt.com/home.php?lang=en
#15yrsago Smokescreen privacy game uses fun missions to show kids how data on social services can be used against them https://web.archive.org/web/20090918144940/http://www.smokescreengame.com/
#10yrsago Bill to ban terms of service that say you’re not allowed to complain https://web.archive.org/web/20140915162934/https://www.nationaljournal.com/tech/congress-fight-for-your-right-to-yelp-20140915/
#5yrsago The Babysitter’s Coven https://memex.craphound.com/2019/09/17/the-babysitters-coven/
#1yrago How To Think About Scraping https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/17/how-to-think-about-scraping/
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Yesterday's threads: Anti-cheat, gamers, and the Crowdstrike disaster; and more!
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113147376306367338
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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
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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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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."
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Upcoming appearances:
* The Right to Read, Boston Public Library, Sep 24
https://bpl.bibliocommons.com/events/66cf2d8bf520192f005fcc50
* SOSS Fusion (Atlanta), Oct 22
https://sossfusion2024.sched.com/speaker/cory_doctorow.1qm5qfgn
* TusCon (Tucson), Nov 8-10
https://tusconscificon.com/
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Recent appearances:
* @defcon 32 - Disenshittify or die! How hackers can seize the means of computation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EmstuO0Em8
* The Van Show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDa_a-NlILs
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On September 24th, I'll be speaking in person at the Boston Public Library!
https://bpl.bibliocommons.com/events/66cf2d8bf520192f005fcc50
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The paperback edition of The Lost Cause, my nationally bestselling, hopeful solarpunk novel is out this month!
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250865946/thelostcause
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