• Cory Doctorow@mamot.frOP
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    8 months ago

    #5yrsago The glass is half-full (of bile over Facebook’s business-model)

    #5yrsago Privatized energy utilities are burning down their states, but antitrust can make them stop

    #5yrsago Trump’s #FCC chairman won’t do anything about your cellular company selling your location to bountyhunters because #shutdown

    #5yrsago Shutdowns don’t get bad linearly; they get bad exponentially

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    • Cory Doctorow@mamot.frOP
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      8 months ago

      #5yrsago Tory voters: are you happy with your purchase?

      #5yrsago Largest dump in history: 2.7 billion records; 773 million of them unique; 140 million never seen before "

      #1yrago 1,000,000 stranded #Southwest passengers deserved better from #PeteButtigieg

      #1yrago Normalize Dark Corners!

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        • Cory Doctorow@mamot.frOP
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          8 months ago

          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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          • Cory Doctorow@mamot.frOP
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            8 months ago

            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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                • Cory Doctorow@mamot.frOP
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                  8 months ago

                  You can follow these posts as a daily blog at pluralistic.net: no ads, trackers, or data-collection!

                  Here’s today’s edition:

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                  If you prefer a newsletter, subscribe to the plura-list, which is ad-/tracker-free, and is utterly unadorned save a single daily emoji. Today’s is “🧜🏿‍♂️”. Suggestions solicited for future emojis!

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                  • Cory Doctorow@mamot.frOP
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                    8 months ago

                    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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