Today’s threads (a thread)
Inside: Tech workers and gig workers need each other; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/13/solidarity-forever/
#Pluralistic
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Today’s threads (a thread)
Inside: Tech workers and gig workers need each other; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/13/solidarity-forever/
#Pluralistic
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Catch me in #Miami! I’ll be at Books and Books in Coral Gables on Jan 22 at 8PM:
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I’m Kickstarting the audiobook for The Bezzle, sequel to Red Team Blues, narrated by #WilWheaton! Pre-order the audiobook and ebook, DRM free, as well as the hardcover. There’s also bundles with Red Team Blues in ebook, audio or paperback:
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Tech workers and gig workers need each other: Each disenshittifies the other.
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Hey look at this
Maintenance: Of Everything
New Podcast “Necessary Tomorrows” Offers Hopeful Visions of the Future (h/t Chris Brown)
The #BillGates Problem
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#20yrsago #Kodak gives up on film cameras https://web.archive.org/web/20040401104936/http://www.msnbc.msn.com/Default.aspx?id=3948032&p1=0
#20yrsago @timoreilly@mastodon.social’s 2004 wishlist
#20yrsago #GeneWolfe interviewed by @neilhimself@mastodon.social
#20yrsago S-Train blogger confronts a troll in meatspace
#15yrsago Complete fan-reading of my essay collection “Content” https://archive.org/details/CoryDoctorow-Content_268
#15yrsago Bush official: we tortured #Gitmo detainee https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/13/AR2009011303372_pf.html
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#15yrsago #ThomasEdison’s price-fixing #EULA
#10yrsago Why fiction works
#10yrsago Holding mirrors up to police lines at #Euromaidan
#5yrsago China has a very Orwellian reason for banning typing “1984” on social media, while allowing people to read Nineteen Eighty-Four
#5yrsago #HannuRajaniemi’s Summerland: a midcentury spy thriller, with the afterlife
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#5yrsago Not customers: doctors have patients, libraries have patrons, lawyers have clients and teachers have students
#5yrsago Trump chose a thin-skinned, blowhard ignoramus as ambassador to Germany, and now no one will talk to him except Nazis
#5yrsago An embroidered computer whose circuits are ornate, golden thread
#1yrago Booklist on “Red Team Blues”
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Yesterday’s threads: The Cult of Mac; and more!
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My latest novel is “The Lost Cause,” a solarpunk novel of radical hope in the climate emergency, from Tor Books (US)/Head of Zeus (UK):
Signed, personalized copies available from Dark Delicacies:
https://www.darkdel.com/store/p3007/Pre-Order_Signed_Copies%3A_The_Lost_Cause_HB.html#/
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My latest nonfiction book is “The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation” from Verso Books:
Signed copies available from Book Soup:
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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