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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

2024-07-15 12:52:00

No one writes about Disney theme parks like Foxx Nolte; no one rises above the trivia and goes beyond the mere sleuthing of historical facts, no one *nails* the essence of what makes these parks work - and fail.

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/07/15/disnefried/#dialectics

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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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“The Wonderful Power of Storytelling,” by Bruce Sterling, 1991

*This speech was delivered thirty-three years ago, and that was quite a different world. The audience hadn’t been expecting much, because they were at a trade conference, and podium speeches are not…

^{Bruce Sterling (Medium)}

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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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#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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Ex-Fox & Friends co-host Clayton Morris leaves country amid fraud allegations

Morris and his wife say they plan to fight lawsuits from abroad.

^{Tony Cook and Tim Evans, The Indianapolis Star (The Indianapolis Star)}

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

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

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Cory Doctorow

2024-07-14 12:06:20

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: The true, tactical significance of Project 2025; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/07/14/fracture-lines/

#Pluralistic

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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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The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation (Hardcover) | Book Soup

A USA TODAY BESTSELLERWinner of the 2024 Neil Postman Award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity"An essential read for anyone that wants to understand how we lost control of our digital spaces and infrastructure to Silicon Valley’s …

^{www.booksoup.com}

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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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Upcoming appearances:

* Exile in Bookville, (Chicago), July 20
https://exileinbookville.com/events/39808

* American Association of Law Libraries keynote (Chicago), Jul 21
https://www.aallnet.org/conference/agenda/keynote-speaker/

* @defcon 32 (Las Vegas), Aug 8-11
https://shop.defcon.org/products/def-con-32-las-vegas-convention-center

* Albacon (Albuquerque/remote), Sep 13-15
https://albacon.org/2024/

* TusCon (Tucson), Nov 8-10
https://tusconscificon.com/

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Authors on Tap: Cory Doctorow

Indie bookstore located in the historic Fine Arts Building on Chicago's Michigan Avenue. Where books and music meet.

^{exileinbookville.com}

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Recent appearances:

* The Paradigm Shift
https://paradigm-shift-on-4zzz.pinecast.co/episode/dbf12eaf/tech-criticism-with-cory-doctorow

* How To Fix The Internet (@eff)
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/06/podcast-episode-fighting-enshittification

* Big Tech and the News (Tech Policy Press)
https://www.techpolicy.press/big-tech-and-the-news/

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Big Tech and the News

Rebecca Rand and Justin Hendrix explore perspectives on what to do about journalism, drawing on ideas from Anya Schiffrin and Cory Doctorow.

^{Rebecca Rand (Tech Policy Press)}

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

https://exileinbookville.com/events/39808

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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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Authors on Tap: Cory Doctorow

Indie bookstore located in the historic Fine Arts Building on Chicago's Michigan Avenue. Where books and music meet.

^{exileinbookville.com}