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2014, 2019, 2023.

Cory Doctorow
2 min readJan 12, 2024

I’m Kickstarting the audiobook for The Bezzle, the sequel to Red Team Blues, narrated by Wil Wheaton! You can pre-order the audiobook and ebook, DRM free, as well as the hardcover, signed or unsigned. There’s also bundles with Red Team Blues in ebook, audio or paperback.

#10yrsago Total corruption: Organised crime infiltrated and compromised UK courts, police, HMRC, Crown Prosecution Service, prisons, and juries https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/the-corruption-of-britain-uk-s-key-institutions-infiltrated-by-criminals-9052617.html

#10yrsago What blogging meant https://web.archive.org/web/20140111184521/https://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2014/01/08/what-blogging-was/comment-page-1/

#5yrsago In DHS tests, prototypes of Trump’s chosen barrier posts were easily defeated by hacksaws https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/test-steel-prototype-border-wall-showed-it-could-be-sawed-n956856

#5yrsago A month after the statutory restoration of expat Canadians’ voting rights, Supreme Court says taking those rights away was illegal https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/scc-sides-with-overseas-canadians-in-expat-voting-decision-1.4249319

#1yrago John Deere’s repair fake-out https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/12/beg-forgiveness-ask-permission/#deerey-me

#1yrago Good riddance to the Open Gaming License https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/12/beg-forgiveness-ask-permission/#whats-a-copyright-exception

A thrilling. account of one man taking on the ultra-rich dives into the complex worlds of financial machination and considers the exploitation of public good for personal gain. -Booklist

Back the Kickstarter for a DRM-free audiobook of The Bezzle here!

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Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow

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