Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: Ian McDonald's "The Wilding"; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/10/25/bogman/
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I'll be in Tucson, AZ from November 8-10: I'm the Guest of Honor at the TusCon science fiction convention:
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@pluralistic Hrm. We *may* be going through Tucson on the 10th as we drive back to Phoenix from an obligatory trip to see aging parents.
I wonder if I have the cred to crash? (Or I could just get a day pass.)
@denebeim See you there!
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Ian McDonald's "The Wilding": A gorgeous, goddamned terrifying novel from one of the absolute greats.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113368203369663917
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Hey look at this
* How one engineer beat the ban on home computers in socialist Yugoslavia https://www.theguardian.com/games/2024/oct/24/how-one-engineer-beat-the-ban-on-home-computers-in-socialist-yugoslavia
* “Not Medically Necessary”: Inside the Company Helping America’s Biggest Health Insurers Deny Coverage for Care https://www.propublica.org/article/evicore-health-insurance-denials-cigna-unitedhealthcare-aetna-prior-authorizations
* Stand-up to Protect Our Vote https://www.standupstandup.tech/ (h/t @brainwane)
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#20yrsago Pitcairn rapists convicted but not jailed https://www.smh.com.au/world/six-pitcairn-men-guilty-of-rape-and-assaults-20041026-gdjzlz.html
#20yrsago Build a $100 GNU/Linux machine https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/04/10/25/2337253/how-cheap-can-a-pc-be
#15yrsago On the literary and scholarly awesomeness of the timezone file https://blog.jonudell.net/2009/10/23/a-literary-appreciation-of-the-olsonzoneinfotz-database/
#10yrsago Canadian MPs improvised spears to fight off shooter while PM Harper hid in the closet https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-attack-mps-fashioned-spears-while-harper-hid-in-closet/article21278580/
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#5yrsago Zuck claims he chows down with politicos from “across the spectrum” but they all seem to be far-right creeps https://theintercept.com/2019/10/25/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-dinners/
#1yrago Bad King Richard got rich by exploiting workers at King's Faire https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/25/huzzah/#bad-king-richard
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Yesterday's threads: The housing crisis considered as an income crisis; and more!
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113361748299466842
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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:
* TusCon (Tucson), Nov 8-10
https://tusconscificon.com/
* International Cooperative Alliance (New Delhi), Nov 24
https://icanewdelhi2024.coop/welcome/pages/Programme
* ISSA-LA Holiday Celebration keynote (Los Angeles), Dec 18
https://issala.org/event/issa-la-december-18-dinner-meeting/
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Recent appearances:
* Maximum Iceland Scenario ( @TWiT)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5MkCwktKz0
* Speciale intervista a Cory Doctorow ( @digitaliafm)
https://digitalia.fm/744/
* Was There Ever An Old, Good Internet? (David Graeber Institute)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6Jlxx5TboE
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I'll be in Tucson, AZ from November 8-10: I'm the Guest of Honor at the @sf_tus science fiction convention:
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Tor Books has just published two new, free "Little Brother" stories: "Vigilant," about creepy surveillance in distance education:
https://reactormag.com/vigilant-cory-doctorow/
And "Spill," about oil pipelines and indigenous landback:
https://reactormag.com/spill-cory-doctorow/
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