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Inside: Conservativism considered as a movement of bitter rubes; and more!
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@pluralistic Did you know there is a My Little Pony movie about that?
Hey, German-speakers! Through a very weird set of circumstances, I ended up owning the rights to the German audiobook of my bestselling 2022 cryptocurrency heist technothriller *Red Team Blues* and now I'm selling DRM-free audio and ebooks, along with the paperback (all in German and English) on a Kickstarter that runs until August 11:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/doctorow/red-team-blues-auf-deutsche-drm-freie
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Conservativism considered as a movement of bitter rubes: And the grifters who love them.
Hey look at this
* Will The Truman Brewery Become Homes Or Offices? https://spitalfieldslife.com/2025/07/22/will-the-truman-brewery-become-homes-or-offices/
* A Startup is Selling Data Hacked from Peoples’ Computers to Debt Collectors https://www.404media.co/a-startup-is-selling-data-hacked-from-peoples-computers-to-debt-collectors/
* The Hater's Guide To The AI Bubble https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-gui/
* Ryanair mulls bigger bonus for spotting oversized bags https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c75rp3w77kpo
* Pre-Ordering Books Makes You More of a Citizen of Literature https://buttondown.com/charliejane/archive/pre-ordering-books-makes-you-more-of-a-citizen-of/
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#20yrsago History of the ingredients in a banana split https://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0405/p18s02-hfks.html
#15yrsago Similarities between gold farming networks and drug dealing networks https://web.archive.org/web/20100722104318/http://www.aurumahmad.com/vwe/gold-farming/
#15yrsago Where the global rifts are in the secret copyright treaty https://web.archive.org/web/20100724061132/http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/5222/125/
#15yrsago How Heinlein plotted https://memex.craphound.com/2010/07/21/how-heinlein-plotted/
#10yrsago Paul Erdős’s FBI file https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2015/jul/21/nothing-indicate-nothing-indicate-subject-had-any-/
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#10yrsago Hackers can pwn a Jeep Cherokee from the brakes and steering to the AC and radio https://www.wired.com/2015/07/hackers-remotely-kill-jeep-highway/
#5yrsago Trump's spent a billion on re-election https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/21/the-thief-of-joy/#moneyball
#5yrsago As We May Think https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/21/the-thief-of-joy/#story-not-article
#5yrsago Luxury homes to be washed away https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/21/the-thief-of-joy/#schadenflooding
#5yrsago The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/21/the-thief-of-joy/#tomine
#5yrsago Christopher Brown's Failed State https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/21/the-thief-of-joy/#failed-state
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Yesterday's threads: How my DRM-free principles left me owning the rights to a German audiobook; and more!
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/114891274337891401
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My latest novel is "Picks and Shovels," a historical technothriller set in the Weird Era of the PC, about Ponzi schemes, techbros, and the dawn of enshittification:
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250865908/picksandshovels
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My next nonfiction book is "Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It," out from MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux on October 7:
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374619329/enshittification/
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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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