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The Lost Cause
The Lost Cause

The Lost Cause asks: What do we do about people who cling to the belief that their own children are the enemy? When, in fact, they're often the elders that we love?

2023

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Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow

Stories

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This day in history

2003, 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022. — Next Tuesday (Dec 5), I’m at Flyleaf Books in Chapel Hill, NC, with my new solarpunk novel The Lost Cause, which 350.org’s Bill McKibben called “The first great YIMBY novel: perceptive, scientifically sound, and extraordinarily hopeful.” #20yrsago Dell won’t help customers remove spyware https://yro.slashdot.org/story/03/12/03/0257238/dell-to-techs-dont-help-customers-remove-spyware

This Day In History

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This day in history
This day in history
This Day In History

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All the books I reviewed in 2023

Plus three of my own. — Next Tuesday (Dec 5), I’m at Flyleaf Books in Chapel Hill, NC, with my new solarpunk novel The Lost Cause, which 350.org’s Bill McKibben called “The first great YIMBY novel: perceptive, scientifically sound, and extraordinarily hopeful.” It’s that time of year again, when I round up all the books I…

Books

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All the books I reviewed in 2023
All the books I reviewed in 2023
Books

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This day in history

2003, 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022. — Next Tuesday (Dec 5), I’m at Flyleaf Books in Chapel Hill, NC, with my new solarpunk novel The Lost Cause, which 350.org’s Bill McKibben called “The first great YIMBY novel: perceptive, scientifically sound, and extraordinarily hopeful.” #20yrago Bruce Sterling hits his stride on his blog https://web.archive.org/web/20040505163610/https://wiredblogs.tripod.com/sterling/index.blog?entry_id=154868

This Day In History

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This day in history
This day in history
This Day In History

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This day in history

2003, 2008, 2018, 2022. — Next Tuesday (Dec 5), I’m at Flyleaf Books in Chapel Hill, NC, with my new solarpunk novel The Lost Cause, which 350.org’s Bill McKibben called “The first great YIMBY novel: perceptive, scientifically sound, and extraordinarily hopeful.” #20yrsago San Francisco’s homelessness quagmire https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/SHAME-OF-THE-CITY-HOMELESS-ISLAND-They-live-2510831.php

This Day In History

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This day in history
This day in history
This Day In History

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Sponsored listings are a ripoff…for sellers

Welcome to the age of danegeld. — Tonight (November 29), I’m at NYC’s Strand Books with my novel The Lost Cause, a solarpunk tale of hope and danger that Rebecca Solnit called “completely delightful.” Not all ads are created equally sleazy. The privacy harms from surveillance ads, though real, are often hard to pin down. …

Scholarship

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Sponsored listings are a ripoff…for sellers
Sponsored listings are a ripoff…for sellers
Scholarship

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3 days ago

This day in history

2008, 2013, 2018, 2022. Tonight (November 29), I’m at NYC’s Strand Books with my novel The Lost Cause, a solarpunk tale of hope and danger that Rebecca Solnit called “completely delightful.” #15yrsago Peak Population: when will population growth stop, why, and how? https://www.alexsteffen.com/peak_population_and_sustainability #15yrsago James Boyle’s “The Public Domain” —…

This Day In History

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This day in history
This day in history
This Day In History

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Insurance companies are making climate risk worse

How to break the climate insurance doom-loop. — Tomorrow (November 29), I’m at NYC’s Strand Books with my novel The Lost Cause, a solarpunk tale of hope and danger that Rebecca Solnit called “completely delightful.” Conservatives may deride the “reality-based community” as a drag on progress and commercial expansion, but even the most noxious pump-and-dump capitalism is supposed…

Insurance

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Insurance companies are making climate risk worse
Insurance companies are making climate risk worse
Insurance

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This day in history

2003, 2013, 2018, 2022. — Tomorrow (November 29), I’m at NYC’s Strand Books with my novel The Lost Cause, a solarpunk tale of hope and danger that Rebecca Solnit called “completely delightful.” #20yrsago Big Mouth Billy Bass runs Linux, does impressions https://web.archive.org/web/20031123212606/http://bigmouth.here-n-there.com/ #10yrsago Pratchett’s “Raising Steam”: the magic of modernity https://memex.craphound.com/2013/11/27/pratchetts-raising-steam-the-magic-of-modernity/

This Day In History

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This day in history
This day in history
This Day In History

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This day in history

2008, 2013, 2018, 2022. — Tomorrow (November 29), I’m at NYC’s Strand Books with my novel The Lost Cause, a solarpunk tale of hope and danger that Rebecca Solnit called “completely delightful.” #15yrsago Canada’s Internet is crap https://web.archive.org/web/20081207154815/https://www.cbc.ca/searchengine/blog/2008/11/is_canada_becoming_a_digital_g.html #10yrsago Brainwashed: Neuroscience vs neurobollocks https://memex.craphound.com/2013/11/28/brainwashed-neuroscience-vs-neurobollocks/

This Day In History

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This day in history
This day in history
This Day In History

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The real AI fight

Effective Accellerationists and Effective Altruists are both in vigorous agreement about something genuinely stupid. — On Wednesday (November 29), I’m at NYC’s Strand Books with my novel The Lost Cause, a solarpunk tale of hope and danger that Rebecca Solnit called “completely delightful.” Last week’s spectacular OpenAI soap-opera hijacked the attention of millions of normal, productive people and nonsensually crammed them full of the fine…

Effective Altruism

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The real AI fight
The real AI fight
Effective Altruism

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Cory Doctorow

Cory Doctorow

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Writer, blogger, activist. Blog: https://pluralistic.net; Mailing list: https://pluralistic.net/plura-list; Mastodon: @pluralistic@mamot.fr

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