Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: "When Franny Stands Up," Eden Robins' debut novel; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2022/11/01/eden-robins/
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Hey DC! There's gonna be a *very special* invite-only book party for "Chokepoint Capitalism" on Nov 17; it's going to be a gathering of a lot of DC trustbuster types and while it's not *technically* a public event, there are a limited number of free spaces that the organizers have asked me to distribute on a first come/first serve basis. If you'd like to come and you're free on the night of the 17th, please let me know (email doctorow@craphound.com) and I'll get you an invite!
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"When Franny Stands Up," Eden Robins' debut novel: Supernaturual comediennes of WWII.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/109261771880004616
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Hey look at this
* Why ‘The Communist Manifesto’ Still Matters https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/31/books/review/a-spectre-haunting-china-mieville.html
* Extract the fediverse handles of your Twitter followings and import them on Mastodon https://fedifinder.glitch.me
* Into the muck https://europeanreviewofbooks.com/into-the-muck/en (h/t John Naughton)
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#20yrsago Manhattan is WiFi-saturated https://web.archive.org/web/20021106202827/http://werbach.com/blog/images/PIPsurvey.gif
#20yrsago Be a crooked CEO for Hallowe’en https://www.forbes.com/2002/10/28/cx_mh_1028halloween.html?sh=7600cc714eeb
#20yrsago Expoloring Liverpool’s forgotten network of makework tunnels https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2342183.stm
#15yrsago Scissor spiders made from TSA confiscata https://heartlessmachine.wordpress.com/2007/08/28/stainless-steel-spiders-from-stolen-scissors/
#15yrsago AT&T’s guilt-by-association algorithm for finding “terrorists” https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2007/10/29/att-explains-guilt-association/
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#15yrsago BBC exec’s straw-man defence of DRM https://memex.craphound.com/2007/10/30/bbc-execs-straw-man-defence-of-drm/
#15yrsago War on Terror’s war on chemistry sets https://12angrymen.wordpress.com/2007/10/31/endangered-species-the-chemistry-set/
#15yrsago HOWTO Make an anatomically correct batwing costume from old umbrellas https://www.evilmadscientist.com/2007/umbrella-bat-costume-update-now-more-anatomically-correct/
#10yrsago Free/open source programmer and Creative Commons activist Bassel Khartabil faces torture in notorious Syrian prison https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/10/torture-fears-open-source-software-activist-detained-syria
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#10yrsago Rookie: Yearbook One – Sassy’s second coming https://memex.craphound.com/2012/10/31/rookie-yearbook-one-sassys-second-coming/
#10yrsago Scary horror movie set in Disneyland’s Haunted Mansion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0M-yetCGm-A
#10yrsago Kim Stanley Robinson’s 2312: a novel that hints at what we might someday have (and lose) https://memex.craphound.com/2012/10/30/kim-stanley-robinsons-2312-a-novel-that-hints-at-what-we-might-someday-have-and-lose/
#5yrsago Sony’s new robot dog doubles down on DRM https://www.vice.com/en/article/bj778v/sony-wants-to-sell-you-a-subscription-to-a-robot-dog-aibo-90s-pet
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#5yrsago Ohio Republicans create winnable electoral districts by siting nonvoting prisons near friendly voters https://www.cleveland.com/datacentral/2017/10/prisons_are_important_pieces_i.html
#5yrsago Indiana’s voter-purging software removes voters without notice, is wrong 99% of the time https://www.thedailybeast.com/lawsuit-indiana-purging-voters-using-software-thats-99-inaccurate
#5yrsago Researchers can fool machine-learning vision systems with a single, well-placed pixel https://arxiv.org/pdf/1710.08864.pdf
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#5yrsago The 2-person Montana company Whitefish Energy just lost its $300M contract to fix Puerto Rico’s grid https://web.archive.org/web/20171029180711/https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/29/puerto-ricos-governor-demands-nullification-of-whitefish-energys-300m-power-grid-contract.html
#5yrsago A viral “angriest librarian” explains why America needs libraries now more than ever https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-29/portland-s-angriest-librarian-isn-t-mad-anymore
#5yrsago Universal health care is “free stuff” as in “freedom” https://jacobin.com/2017/10/medicare-for-all-single-payer-freedom
#5yrsago UK Tory aides are circulating a list of accused sexual predators and harassers in Parliament https://order-order.com/2017/10/29/tory-aides-spreadsheet-names-36-sex-pest-mps/
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#5yrsago RIP Teaforia, the $1000 IoT tea-infuser https://mashable.com/article/teforia-infuser-business#FlBfCDr4haqM
#5yrsago How the tech workers of WWII thwarted the Nazis with high-tech sabotage https://medium.com/@silicondomme/hacking-the-holocaust-abcd332947ae
#1yrago LaserWriter II: Tamara Shopsin's celebration of the heroic era of the Mac https://pluralistic.net/2021/10/29/norwegian-potato-flour-enchiladas/#r2r
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Friday's threads: Adobe steals your color; and more!
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/109244994692328555
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My latest book is Chokepoint Capitalism (with Rebecca Giblin), nonfiction about monopoly and fairness in creative labor markets.
https://chokepointcapitalism.com
Signed copies available from Book Soup:
https://www.booksoup.com/book/9780807007068
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My latest novel is Attack Surface, a sequel to my bestselling Little Brother books, now in paperback, wherever books are sold.
Signed copies at Dark Delicacies:
https://www.darkdel.com/store/p1840/Cory_Doctorow_-__Attack_Surface_HB_%26_TPB.html#/
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My ebooks and audiobooks (from Tor Books, Head of Zeus, McSweeneys, Beacon 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:
* Radical Book Fair/Lighthouse Bookshop (Edinburgh), Nov 10
https://lighthousebookshop.com/events/chokepoint-capitalism-cory-doctorow-and-rebecca-giblin
* Chokepoint Capitalism at Waterstone's Oxford, Nov 12:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/chokepoint-capitalism-rebecca-giblin-and-cory-doctorow-oxford-tickets-443951941207
* Aaron Swartz Day and International Hackathon, Nov 13:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/aaron-swartz-day-and-international-hackathon-tickets-453532256187
* Arthur C Clarke Award (DC), Nov 16
https://www.clarkefoundation.org/2022-awards-event/
* Big Ideas Live (London), Nov 19
https://news.sky.com/bigideaslive
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Recent appearances:
* Why Patients Should Hack Med Tech (Defcon 30)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i1BF5YGS0w
* The Literary Life with Mitchell Kaplan (Lithub)
https://lithub.com/cory-doctorow-why-our-current-tech-monopolies-is-all-thanks-to-ronald-reagan-and-robert-bork/
* Sex and Politics with Dan Savage (use coupon code "Doctorow" for a free month):
https://index.supportingcast.fm/subscription/type/podcast#c3f7380e-441b-11ed-8f80-1f06b0646875
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Happy Spooky Season! My picture book "Poesy the Monster Slayer" is the perfect read for your little monsters: it's an epic tale of bedtime-refusal, toy-hacking and monster-hunting, illustrated by Matt Rockefeller. It's the monster book I dreamt of reading to my own daughter.
https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/14/poesy-the-monster-slayer/#poesy
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My latest Medium column is "How to Leave Dying Social Media Platforms (without ditching your friends)"
https://doctorow.medium.com/how-to-leave-dying-social-media-platforms-9fc550fe5abf
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