I'm on a 20+ city book tour for my new novel Picks and Shovels.
Catch me in #NewZealand at UNITY BOOKS in #AUCKLAND (May 2, 6PM):
https://www.eventbrite.co.nz/e/an-evening-with-cory-doctorow-tickets-1320740102199
and #WELLINGTON (May 3, 3PM):
https://www.unitybooks.co.nz/news-and-events/author-talk-picks-and-shovels-by-cory-doctorow
More tour dates (#PDX, #Pittsburgh, #London, #Manchester) here:
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Sarah Wynn-Williams's 'Careless People': "Too big to care."
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/114387533803607548
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Hey look at this
* Corporate Lawlessness Comes Next https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/corporate-lawlessness-comes-next
* Deconstructing Housing https://democracyjournal.org/magazine/76/deconstructing-housing/
* What Happens When Private Equity Owns Your Kid’s Day Care https://jacobin.com/2025/04/private-equity-day-care-childcare/
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#15yrsago India’s copyright bill gets it right https://web.archive.org/web/20100425031519/https://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/4974/196/
#15yrsago Hitler’s pissed off about fair use https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBO5dh9qrIQ
#10yrsago Fascinating, wide-ranging discussion with William Gibson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmh29gwEy7Y
#10yrsago Tory chairman accused of smearing party rivals’ Wikipedia entries https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/apr/21/grant-shapps-accused-of-editing-wikipedia-pages-of-tory-rivals
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#5yrsago Disney heiress slams top execs' compensation https://pluralistic.net/2020/04/22/filternet/#castmembers
#5yrsago Covid burns through Charter Cable employees https://pluralistic.net/2020/04/22/filternet/#thomas-rutledge-murderer
#5yrsago Unmasking the registrants of the "reopen" websites https://pluralistic.net/2020/04/22/filternet/#krebs
#5yrsago Apartment buildings didn't cause the pandemic https://pluralistic.net/2020/04/22/filternet/#kate-wagner
#5yrsago Web-wide copyright filters would be a disaster https://pluralistic.net/2020/04/22/filternet/#filternet
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This is a bonfire demo instance for testing purposes
