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Catch me in #Miami! I’ll be at Books and Books in Coral Gables on Jan 22 at 8PM:
https://www.booksandbooks.com/event/in-person-an-evening-with-cory-doctorow/
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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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Sympathy for the spammer: The desperate and credulous are superspreaders in the botshit pandemic.
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Hey look at this
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#15yrsago #Wingsuit base jumpers are human flying squirrels — video
#10yrsago RIP, #NealBarretJunior
#10yrsago Patent mess goes to the Supreme Court
#10yrsago Requirements for #DRM in #HTML5 are a secret
#10yrsago #NSA official: mass spying has foiled one (or fewer) plots in its whole history
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#5yrsago From the empty, shutdown #IRS, automated processes are sending out property seizure notices, and no human can stop them
#5yrsago #GoogleWalkout meets #MeToo in a new anti-#arbitration campaign
#5yrsago #AlexandriaOcasioCortez reaches more people on Twitter than the press and establishment Democrats
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#5yrsago In LA, the teachers of America’s largest school district are on strike
#1yrago Kate Beaton’s “Ducks”
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Saturday’s threads: Tech workers and gig workers nee
d each other; 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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Upcoming appearances:
Enshittification: The Rise and Fall of Big Tech (#CrashCourseEconomics)
https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_YsKONp5zRgeF6SVuIOb6hQ#/registration
Books & Books (#CoralGables, #Florida), Jan 22
Marshall McLuhan Lecture 2024 (#Berlin), Jan 29
The Lost Cause at Otherland (#Berlin), Jan 30
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