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**Cory Doctorow** @pluralistic · Jul 24, 2023 *

Jul 24, 2023 *

Cory Doctorow @pluralistic

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Autoenshittification; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/24/rent-to-pwn/

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The interior of a luxury car. There is a dagger protruding from the steering wheel. The entertainment console has been replaced by the text 'You wouldn't download a car,' in MPAA scare-ad font. Outside of the windscreen looms the Matrix waterfall effect. Visible in the rear- and side-view mirror is the driver: the figure from Munch's 'Scream.' The screen behind the steering-wheel has been replaced by the menacing red eye of HAL9000 from Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.'

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Cryteria (modified)
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**Cory Doctorow** @pluralistic · Jul 24, 2023

Jul 24, 2023

Cory Doctorow @pluralistic

The #Clarion #ScienceFiction and #Fantasy #WritersWorkshop summer fundraiser is almost over! I am an alum, instructor and volunteer board member for this nonprofit workshop whose alums include Octavia Butler, Kim Stanley Robinson, Bruce Sterling, Nalo Hopkinson, Kameron Hurley, Nnedi Okorafor, Lucius Shepard, and Ted Chiang! Your donations will help us subsidize tuition for students, making Clarion - and sf/f - more accessible for all kinds of writers:

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/clarion-sf-fantasy-writers-workshop-23-campaign#/

IndiegogoClarion SF & Fantasy Writers Workshop '23 CampaignHelp us support new and important voices to the world of science fiction, fantasy, and horror! | Check out 'Clarion SF & Fantasy Writers Workshop '23 Campaign' on Indiegogo.