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Robin Sloan's "Moonbound": A solarpunk road-trip novel set 11,000 years in the future.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112598193338102458

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Cory Doctorow

2024-06-11 13:21:20

Robin Sloan has a well-deserved reputation as a sparkly, fizzy writer, the kind that can tell a smart/smartass story infused with fantasy-genre whimsy but grounded in high-tech, contemporary settings (think here of @charliejane's gorgeous *All the Birds In the Sky*):

https://memex.craphound.com/2016/01/26/charlie-jane-anderss-all-the-birds-in-the-sky-smartass-soulful-novel/

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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/2024/06/11/penumbraverse/#middle-anth

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Hey look at this

* CZM Book Club: "Party Discipline" by Cory Doctorow, Part One https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-cool-people-who-did-cool-96003360/episode/czm-book-club-party-discipline-by-183980124/

* Step to write software by human https://mamot.fr/@ploum/112591341366625479

* Monopoly Round-Up: The Harvey Weinstein of Antitrust https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-round-up-the-harvey-weinstein

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Monopoly Round-Up: The Harvey Weinstein of Antitrust

Google has a political machine run by an operative Josh Wright. Wright just went down in a sordid scandal. What this saga shows is far more than the antitrust establishment wants you to see.

^{Matt Stoller (BIG by Matt Stoller)}

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#20yrsago Kill a stupid Internet patent https://web.archive.org/web/20040612095150/https://www.eff.org/patent/contest/

#15yrsago Stiglitz: America’s double-standard on economic crises infuriates the poor world https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2009/07/third-world-debt200907

#15yrsago Chinese censorware will expose every PC in the nation to malware, ID theft, botnetting https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2009/06/11/chinas-new-mandatory-censorware-creates-big-security-flaws/

#15yrsago Eliot Spitzer explains himself https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2009/07/out-to-lunch-spitzer200907

#15yrsago Network neutrality advocated by…cable operators? https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2009/06/cable-group-turns-net-neutrality-around-over-isp-access-fees/

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Cable group turns net neutrality around over ISP access fees

Small cable operators say they worried about content providers charging ISPs " …

^{Ars Technica}

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#15yrsago Econoblogger explains why Batman villains shouldn’t cooperate https://eco-comics.blogspot.com/2009/06/should-batman-villains-betray-each_2173.html

#10yrsago Armed, masked Russian separatists seize “decadent” hackspace in Donetsk, Ukraine https://www.euronews.com/2014/06/10/in-donetsk-armed-pro-russian-separatists-target-seize-decadent-cultural-centre-

#10yrsago Pensacola newspaper editorial board condemns censorship of Little Brother https://www.pnj.com/story/opinion/editorials/2014/06/11/fear-books/10295745/

#10yrsago Rarity versus the Internet https://medium.com/message/you-need-to-hear-this-extremely-rare-recording-27619411e077

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You Need to Hear This Extremely Rare Recording  - The Message - Medium

Invoking that name — that mighty American Top 40 baritone — already carbon-dates this conversation. The setting: a college campus in a bygone era, when FM radio hosts could be mentioned in casual…

^{Rex Sorgatz (The Message)}

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#10yrsago Big Cable fronts fake anti-Net-Neutrality group whose “members” never joined https://www.vice.com/en/article/4w747j/community-groups-were-duped-into-joining-telecom-industrys-anti-net-neutrality-coalition

#10yrsago Join the Fastlane: hypothetical ISP from the cable company fuckery dystopia https://web.archive.org/web/20140614100545/http://jointhefastlane.com/

#10yrsago Happynomics versus econobollocks https://timharford.com/2014/06/the-four-lessons-of-happynomics/

#10yrsago Dada vs Hitler: the anti-Nazi collages of John Heartfield https://web.archive.org/web/20140530122539/http://www.kuriositas.com/2011/06/extraordinary-anti-nazi-photomontages.html

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Join the FastLane

The future of the Internet is here. Receive priority access to dozens of websites and services, with more being added every month. Cut through the noise and enjoy a premium, curated experience.

^{web.archive.org}

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#5yrsago The Church of the Subgenius’s Salvation Pack is the best $35 I ever spent https://memex.craphound.com/2019/06/11/the-church-of-the-subgeniuss-salvation-pack-is-the-best-35-i-ever-spent/

#5yrsago Countries with longer copyright terms have access to fewer books (pay attention, Canada!) https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3401684

#5yrsago Hackers stole a US Customs and Border Patrol facial recognition database https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/06/10/us-customs-border-protection-says-photos-travelers-into-out-country-were-recently-taken-data-breach/

#5yrsago Chrome-derived browsers threaten to fork from Google, refuse to eliminate ad-blocker features https://www.zdnet.com/article/opera-brave-vivaldi-to-ignore-chromes-anti-ad-blocker-changes-despite-shared-codebase/

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Opera, Brave, Vivaldi to ignore Chrome's anti-ad-blocker changes, despite shared codebase

Other browser makers don't seem to be on board with Google's decision to neuter its extensions API, and essentially, ad blockers.

^{Catalin Cimpanu (ZDNET)}

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#5yrsago Detroit charter school salutatorians use their graduation speeches to condemn their school for putting profits before kids https://www.freep.com/story/news/education/2019/06/10/salutatorians-criticize-charter-school-graduation/1381474001/

#5yrsago How fanfic archives lead the world in data organization https://www.wired.com/story/archive-of-our-own-fans-better-than-tech-organizing-information/

#5yrsago The Grand Dark: Richard Kadrey’s headlong rush of noir dieselpunk, so fast and so smart https://memex.craphound.com/2019/06/11/the-grand-dark-richard-kadreys-headlong-rush-of-noir-dieselpunk-so-fast-and-so-smart/

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Graduation gone bad: Salutatorians rip their Detroit charter school

Division breaks out at Universal Academy graduation ceremony.

^{John Wisely, Detroit Free Press (Detroit Free Press)}

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#5yrsago “The Grand Dark”: Kadrey’s latest is a noir, dieselpunk masterpiece that’s timely as hell https://web.archive.org/web/20190612041736/https://www.latimes.com/books/la-ca-jc-review-richard-kadrey-grand-dark-20190611-story.html

#1yrago The Shitty Tech Adoption Curve Has a Business Model https://pluralistic.net/2023/06/11/the-shitty-tech-adoption-curve-has-a-business-model/

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Richard Kadrey's 'The Grand Dark' feels like a Tom Waits ballad in a diesel punk novel

Richard Kadrey's latest novel, “The Grand Dark,” is a noir, diesel punk book set in a Weimar world of war trauma, debauchery, cabaret and looming disaster.

^{Cory Doctorow (Los Angeles Times)}

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Yesterday's threads: The CFPB is genuinely making America better, and they're going HARD; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112592669971236873

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Cory Doctorow

2024-06-10 13:56:41

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: The CFPB is genuinely making America better, and they're going HARD; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/06/10/getting-things-done/

#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 …

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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:

* @Locusmag Awards keynote (Oakland), Jun 20

* HOPE XV, Jul 14 (Queens, NY)
https://www.hope.net/talks.html
https://locusmag.com/2024-locus-awards-weekend/

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

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2024 Locus Awards Weekend, June 19-22

We can’t wait to see you at the Locus Awards Weekend, to be held June 19-22, 2024 in Oakland, California! WEDNESDAY – FRIDAY: We’ll kick off the event with a series of online read…

^{Locus Online}

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Recent appearances:

* Capitalist Realism vs. Science Fiction
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zz-iHWzqGK0

* All Tech is Human
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKThzsYGjEQ

* RISD Debates in AI keynote:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdSEcmplaDs

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Capitalist Realism vs. Science Fiction ft. Cory Doctorow

Science fiction is an effective way to put our current reality into context, and helps us imagine what our future might look like. For authors like Cory Doct...

^YouTube

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On June 20th, I'll be in Oakland, CA to keynote the @Locusmag Awards:

https://locusmag.com/2024-locus-awards-weekend/

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2024 Locus Awards Weekend, June 19-22

We can’t wait to see you at the Locus Awards Weekend, to be held June 19-22, 2024 in Oakland, California! WEDNESDAY – FRIDAY: We’ll kick off the event with a series of online read…

^{Locus Online}