This day in history

2009, 2014, 2019, 2023.

Cory Doctorow
1 min readJan 18, 2024

Catch me in Miami! I’ll be at Books and Books in Coral Gables on Jan 22 at 8PM.

#15yrsago danah boyd’s PhD thesis: Teen sociality online http://www.danah.org/papers/TakenOutOfContext.pdf

#10yrsago Appeals court rules bloggers have same speech protections as journalists https://www.reuters.com/article/2014/01/17/us-usa-blogger-ruling-idUSBREA0G1HI20140117/

#5yrsago AOC’s debut speech as Congresswoman is the most popular Congressional video in C-SPAN history https://twitter.com/HowardMortman/status/1085950970092310528

#5yrsago Regular says she was banned from eating at the bar at Manhattan’s scammy Nello restaurant because she might be a sex-worker https://www.thecut.com/2019/01/will-manhattan-restaurant-nello-let-women-sit-alone-at-bar.html

#1yrago Why the Fed wants to crush workers https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/19/creditors-vs-workers/#finance-colored-glasses

Among the best of the current practitioners of near-future fiction, standing shoulder to shoulder with superlative peers such as Bruce Sterling, Kim Stanley Robinson, Charles Stross, and Justina Robson. — The Washington Post

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.

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Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow

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