This day in history
2007, 2012, 2017, 2021.
#15yrsago Why knockoffs are good for fashion https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/09/24/the-piracy-paradox
#15yrsago Harvard Coop calls cops on students who wrote down textbook ISBNs https://web.archive.org/web/20071105192901/https://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=519615
#15yrsago Pirate Bay suing major media companies for sabotage, based on MediaDefender leak https://tech.slashdot.org/story/07/09/22/1029248/the-pirate-bay-files-suit-against-big-media
#10yrsago The Kairos Mechanism: a half-sequel to The Bone Shaker https://memex.craphound.com/2012/09/22/the-kairos-mechanism-a-half-sequel-to-the-bone-shaker/
#5yrsago On the road with America’s post-homed nomads https://lithub.com/life-on-the-road-and-in-a-walmart-parking-lot/
#5yrsago European Commission spent 360,000€ on a piracy study, then buried it because they didn’t like what it said https://felixreda.eu/2017/09/secret-copyright-infringement-study/
#5yrsago William Gibson interviewed: Archangel, the Jackpot, and the instantly commodifiable dreamtime of industrial societies https://memex.craphound.com/2017/09/22/william-gibson-interviewed-archangel-the-jackpot-and-the-instantly-commodifiable-dreamtime-of-industrial-societies/
#1yrago Facebook algorithm boosts pro-Facebook news https://pluralistic.net/2021/09/22/kropotkin-graeber/#zuckerveganism
#1yrago Mutual Aid and David Graeber: A new, illustrated edition of Kropotkin’s masterpiece, with an introduction from the great, much-missed hero of Occupy https://pluralistic.net/2021/09/22/kropotkin-graeber/#against-just-so
#1yrago Gig workers around the globe: One disease, many pathologies https://pluralistic.net/2021/09/22/kropotkin-graeber/#an-injury-to-one
Cory Doctorow (craphound.com) is a science fiction author, activist, and blogger. He has a podcast, a newsletter, a Twitter feed, a Mastodon feed, and a Tumblr feed. He was born in Canada, became a British citizen and now lives in Burbank, California. His latest nonfiction book is How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism. His latest novel for adults is Attack Surface. His latest short story collection is Radicalized. His latest picture book is Poesy the Monster Slayer. His latest YA novel is Pirate Cinema. His latest graphic novel is In Real Life. His forthcoming books include Chokepoint Capitalism (with Rebecca Giblin), a book about artistic labor market and excessive buyer power; Red Team Blues, a noir thriller about cryptocurrency, corruption and money-laundering (Tor, 2023); and The Lost Cause, a utopian post-GND novel about truth and reconciliation with white nationalist militias (Tor, 2023).
