Today's links

Share Festival 2020: All online, all month.
Well-Armed Peasants: "Bring a pitchfork and a torch, with some well-armed peasants."
This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading

Share Festival 2020 (permalink)

The Share Festival is an annual highlight of the electronic arts and tech policy scene that flits between Turiin and Belgrade, full of awesome, weird and startling art and theory.

https://www.toshareproject.it/

This year's festival is (of course) all online, and it kicked off yesterday with a streamed concert from experimental music acts Pietra Tonale, Comet, Audiohacklab and Noise Delivery. It will end with Artmaker V, the latest iteration of a longrunning generative art project.

On the side-stages there's stuff like Fablabkids, a partnership with Maker Faire Torino for kids 5-14. More English-language info on Bruce Sterling's Tumblr:

https://brucesterling.tumblr.com/post/637382854375096320/share-festival-in-torino

Well-Armed Peasants (permalink)

Bardcore is medievalist hiphop music, scored with traditional(ish) instruments. The delightfully named Beedle the Bardcore (AKA Elise Roth) has a Youtube channel that's a treasure-trove of medieval hip-hop covers.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCynijyjqY-u6z8_sGKgCErg

Roth's just released the video for WELL-ARMED PEASANTS, a tribute to Megan Thee Stallion and Cardi B's WAP, and it's just fantastic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhCYn9aOxL4

Well-Armed Peasants is music to sharpen your pichfork by, and features historically accurate disses of the Magna Carta as a vastly overrated historical irrelevance:

https://going-medieval.com/2020/11/26/magna-carta-will-not-save-us/

Art thou overtaxing well-armed peasants?
Bring a pitchforik and a torch cause we're well-armed peasants

Enough's enough we've captured thy bride,
Time to abide as we plot thy regicide

We'll tie you up, and I advise,
Shut thy mouth thou art despised,
We're gonna hang, draw and quarter you,
From thy codpiece up to thine eyes

Hide thy crown and thy coat,
For we're well-armed peasants,
Dare thy knights for half a groat,
Because we're well-armed peasants.

This pairs very well with Penelope Scott's Silicon Valley disillusionment song RÄT:

https://pluralistic.net/2020/11/30/selmers-train/#honey-morello

This day in history (permalink)

#15yrsago Michigan HS students will need to take online course to graduate https://web.archive.org/web/20051215052603/https://www.chronicle.com/free/2005/12/2005121301t.htm

#15yrsago Diane Duane wonders if she should self-publish trilogy conclusion https://web.archive.org/web/20051215151654/https://outofambit.blogspot.com/archives/2005_12_01_outofambit_archive.html

#10yrsago Dan Gillmor’s Mediactive: masterclass in 21st century journalism demands a net-native news-media https://memex.craphound.com/2010/12/13/dan-gillmors-mediactive-masterclass-in-21st-century-journalism-demands-a-net-native-news-media/

#10yrsago Hiaasen’s STAR ISLAND: blisteringly funny tale of sleazy popstars and paparazzi https://memex.craphound.com/2010/12/13/hiaasens-star-island-blisteringly-funny-tale-of-sleazy-popstars-and-paparazzi/

#5yrsago North Carolina town rejects solar because it’ll suck up sunlight and kill the plants https://www.roanoke-chowannewsherald.com/2015/12/08/woodland-rejects-solar-farm/

#5yrsago MRA Dilbert: pictures and words by Scott Adams, together at last https://mradilbert.tumblr.com

#5yrsago American rents reach record levels of unaffordability https://web.archive.org/web/20120505135633/https://www.jchs.harvard.edu/americas-rental-housing

#1yrago Nulledcast: a podcast where hackers play live audio of themselves breaking into Ring cameras and tormenting their owners https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3bbq4/podcast-livestreams-hacked-ring-cameras-nulledcast

#1yrago Abbott Labs kills free tool that lets you own the blood-sugar data from your glucose monitor, saying it violates copyright law https://memex.craphound.com/2019/12/13/abbott-labs-kills-free-tool-that-lets-you-own-the-blood-sugar-data-from-your-glucose-monitor-saying-it-violates-copyright-law/

Colophon (permalink)

Today's top sources: Late-Stage Capitalism (https://www.reddit.com/r/LateStageCapitalism/).

Currently writing: My next novel, "The Lost Cause," a post-GND novel about truth and reconciliation. Yesterday's progress: 536 words (93097 total).

Currently reading: The City We Became, NK Jemisin

Latest podcast: Daddy-Daughter Podcast, 2020 Edition https://craphound.com/news/2020/12/11/daddy-daughter-podcast-2020-edition/

Upcoming appearances:

Colloquium on Information Security, Dec 14 https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-31st-hphpe-virtual-colloquium-on-information-security-tickets-128859336745
Keynote, NISO Plus, Feb 22-25, https://niso.plus/cory-doctorow-to-keynote-at-niso-plus-2021/

Recent appearances:

Worldshapers
https://theworldshapers.com/2020/12/06/episode-72-cory-doctorow/
A More Competitive Web (Techdirt Podcast): https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20201201/10183045801/techdirt-podcast-episode-264-more-competitive-web-with-cory-doctorow-daphne-keller.shtml
Big Tech Podcast:
https://www.cigionline.org/big-tech/cory-doctorow-true-dangers-surveillance-capitalism

Latest book:

"Attack Surface": The third Little Brother novel, a standalone technothriller for adults. The Washington Post called it "a political cyberthriller, vigorous, bold and savvy about the limits of revolution and resistance." Order signed, personalized copies from Dark Delicacies https://www.darkdel.com/store/p1840/Available_Now%3A_Attack_Surface.html
"How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism": an anti-monopoly pamphlet analyzing the true harms of surveillance capitalism and proposing a solution. https://onezero.medium.com/how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism-8135e6744d59
"Little Brother/Homeland": A reissue omnibus edition with a new introduction by Edward Snowden: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250774583; personalized/signed copies here: https://www.darkdel.com/store/p1750/July%3A__Little_Brother_%26_Homeland.html
"Poesy the Monster Slayer" a picture book about monsters, bedtime, gender, and kicking ass. Order here: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781626723627. Get a personalized, signed copy here: https://www.darkdel.com/store/p1562/_Poesy_the_Monster_Slayer.html.

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