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Pluralistic: Naomi Klein's "Doppelganger" (05 September 2023)
Today's links
Naomi Klein's "Doppelganger": On late capitalism's double-vision and double trouble.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
This day in history: 2013, 2018
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
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Author Cory DoctorowPosted on September 5, 2023September 15, 2023Categories UncategorizedTags antisemitism, books, climate, conspiratorialism, corporatism, feminism, gender, gift guide, heel turns, israel, leftism vs liberalism, memoir, naomi klein, naomi wolf, no logo, power, rabbit holes, race, realignment, reviews, shock doctrine, zionism2 Comments on Pluralistic: Naomi Klein's "Doppelganger" (05 September 2023)
Pluralistic: Podcasting "Ideas Lying Around" (12 June 2023)
Today's links
Podcasting "Ideas Lying Around": A theory of change based on shovel-ready ideas.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
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Author Cory DoctorowPosted on June 12, 2023June 15, 2023Categories UncategorizedTags audio, chokepoint capitalism, ideas lying around, milton friedman, mp3s, podcasts, saving the news from big tech, shock doctrine, the lost cause, theories of change1 Comment on Pluralistic: Podcasting "Ideas Lying Around" (12 June 2023)
Anything That Can’t Go On Forever Will Eventually Stop
Ticketmaster and Ideas Lying Around.
Eva Rinaldi, CC BY-SA 2.0 (modified)/Kim Traynor, CC BY-SA 3.0 (modified)
A lot of regulations went up in flames in the Reagan/Thatcher era: labor laws, environmental rules, finance frameworks. But the most consequential shift of the age was the change in antitrust law, specifically, the advent of the “consumer welfare” standard that supposed that monopolies were mostly totally amazing, miracles of coordination and efficiency that would make all our lives better thanks to the singular genius of the men (and a few women) who led them.
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Author Cory DoctorowPosted on November 20, 2022October 14, 2023Categories MediumTags Hipster Antitrust, Lets Gooooooooooo, shock doctrine, Swifties, ticketmaster
Pluralistic: 06 Dec 2020
Today's links
Ad-tech as a bubble overdue for a bursting: Upton Sinclair was an optimist.
The largest strike in human history: The Shock Doctrine's breaking-point.
Soviet computing graveyard: Recovering a Saratov-2 from presumed extinction.
This day in history: 2015, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Continue reading "Pluralistic: 06 Dec 2020"
Author Cory DoctorowPosted on December 6, 2020December 8, 2021Categories UncategorizedTags ad-tech, bubbles, freakonomics, india, labor, modi, neoliberalism, paleocomputing, podcasts, shock doctrine, sovkitsch, spoken word, surveillance capitalism, urbex1 Comment on Pluralistic: 06 Dec 2020
Pluralistic: 14 Aug 2020
Today's links
The CARES Shock Doctrine: How the Dems and the GOP took care of billionaires and fucked the rest of us.
NYC homeless lose bathroom access: Not a pot to piss in.
NYC Street View, WPA edition: Every municipal building in New York City, 1939-41.
Maidan in Belarus: Riot cops drop their shields and embrace protesters.
This day in history: 2015, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Continue reading "Pluralistic: 14 Aug 2020"
Author Cory DoctorowPosted on August 14, 2020August 15, 2021Categories UncategorizedTags architecture, bailouts, bathrooms, belarus, cares act, everybody poops, geography, homelessness, human rights, maidan, maps, nyc, old school, photography, richard neal, shock doctrine, solidarity, stimulus, ubran theory, wpa1 Comment on Pluralistic: 14 Aug 2020
Pluralistic: 17 May 2020
Today's links
Instagram's slow-mo appeals court: A nanosecond to block, 28 months to review.
DOD lie-detector manual leaked: How credible is the National Center for Credibility Assessment?
Farewell to Beyond the Beyond: Wired retires Bruce Sterling's blog, and he has thoughts.
Neoliberals won't waste this crisis: When the left abandoned leninism, the right swiped it.
This day in history: None
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading
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Author Cory DoctorowPosted on May 17, 2020Categories UncategorizedTags algorithmic censorship, blogging, bruce sterling, cyberpunk, dead media, econopocalypse, elite panic, euthanasia, facebook, filternet, final solutions, grandparents optional party, ideas lying around, instagram, junk science, leaks, lie detectors, neoliberalism, polygraphs, publishing, shock doctrine, solnit, wiredLeave a comment on Pluralistic: 17 May 2020
Pluralistic: 18 Mar 2020
Today's links
Ethiopian factory sports Jack Ma quotes: Global trade currents are shifting fast.
Charter orders all workers to keep showing up: Even the 15% of its workforce who could work from home.
MAGA firefighters dismiss coronavirus as Democrat hoax: And/or a Chinese bioweapon.
Flatter Me, a compliments card game: Kickstarting now.
American Airlines blew billions, now it wants a bailout: Socializing losses, privatizing gains.
John Green's mutual aid manifesto: The only way through is together.
How to split a single ventilator for four patients: Peer-reviewed simulations.
Bigoted Republican Congressjerk votes against coronavirus relief because it might cover same-sex partnerships: Rep Andy Biggs wants to send us all to meet Jesus.
Epidemiology and public health in 14 minutes: An epidemiologist and an sf writer make an outstanding science communications team.
3D printed ventilator hero got a patent threat: Human rights vs property rights.
If nothing is for sale, how will covid stimulus work? Can you fix a supply shock with stimulus?
How to make your own toilet paper: A craft for your isolated kiddos.
Plague precautions from 1665: No feasting, but you can tipple in a bar until 9PM.
This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, current writing projects, upcoming appearances, current reading
Continue reading "Pluralistic: 18 Mar 2020"
Author Cory DoctorowPosted on March 18, 2020March 17, 2021Categories UncategorizedTags 3d printing, africa, alibaba, andy biggs, arizona, aviation, bailouts, belt and road, bigotry, burbank, business, cable company fuckery, caribou data, charter, chilling effects, china, conspiracies, copyfight, coronavirus, coronavirus capitalism, covid-19, crafts, crowdfunding, denialism, epidemiology, ethiopia, explainers, facebook, first responders, flatter me, games, gop, guillotine watch, health, history, homophobia, italy, jack ma, john green, kickstarter, kindness games, late-stage capitalism, maga, makers, mmt, mutual aid, nerdfighters, ohio, parenting, patents, rwanda, scholarship, science fiction, shock doctrine, stimulus, telcoms, tom rutledge, trumpism, ventitlators, videos, youtube
Pluralistic: 17 Mar 2020
Today's links
The Masque of the Red Death and Punch Brothers Punch: My latest podcast is Poe/Twain bathos crossover.
Fill in your census online: Otherwise you and people you care about literally won't count.
Naomi Klein: this disaster has no room for disaster capitalism: It's our moment to seize.
Scalzi's canceled bookstore: Support your local indie bookseller, especially now.
My Twitter account was suspended: I got in trouble for putting trolls on a list called "Colossal Assholes."
Talking digital writing careers with the Writing Excuses podcast: Covering a lot of ground in 15 minutes.
A new anxiety podcast from Nightvale's Joseph Fink: Proud to be in the debut episode.
Patent trolls try to shut down covid testing: Monkey-selfies, Theranos, Softbank – it's a garbage matrioshke!
How to live with your kids: "Working and Learning from Home with Young Children."
Brave files GDPR complaint against Google: Sharing data between Google services is a no-no.
This day in history: 2005, 2015, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, current writing projects, upcoming appearances, current reading
Continue reading "Pluralistic: 17 Mar 2020"
Author Cory DoctorowPosted on March 17, 2020March 17, 2020Categories UncategorizedTags anxiety, bathos, bookselling, brave, census, colossal assholes, content moderation at scale, covid-19, crimes against humanity, disaster socialism, economics, eu, gdpr, google, home schooling, inside the black box, mark twain, masque of the red death, monkey selfies, naomi klein, npes, parenting, patent trolls, podcasts, poe, scalzi, science fiction, shock doctrine, solidarity, spoken word, theranos, twitter, writingLeave a comment on Pluralistic: 17 Mar 2020
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