This day in history

2007, 2017.

#15yrsago Canadian Parliament: no free speech rights to video of Parliament https://web.archive.org/web/20070601000000*/https://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/1989/125/

#5yrsago Traditional capitalism needs “extra” people, but managerial capitalism has no use for them https://web.archive.org/web/20170516210539/https://www.thenation.com/article/what-will-kill-neoliberalism/

#5yrsago Aviation is hell because airline exec pay is solely based on quarterly profits https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/28/business/corporate-profit-margins-airlines.html

#5yrsago My guest-appearance on Hello From the Magic Tavern https://hellofromthemagictavern.com/episodes/2017/05/29/season-2-ep-11

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: How to Beat Big Tech, Tame Big Content, and Get Artists Paid (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).