This day in history

2016, 2020

#5yrsago Trump makes it easy to forget what a dumpster fire all the other GOP nomination hopefuls were www.lrb.co.uk/v38/n15/eliot-weinberger/they-could-have-picked

#1yrago A new contract for land https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/16/text-adventures-resurgent/#location-location-location

#1yrago What’s in Blueleaks https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/16/text-adventures-resurgent/#blueleaks

#1yrago EU court kills data-sharing deal with USA https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/16/text-adventures-resurgent/#nein

#1yrago AI Dungeon with GPT-3 https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/16/text-adventures-resurgent/#aidungeon

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 The Shakedown (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; and The Lost Cause, a utopian post-GND novel about truth and reconciliation with white nationalist militias.