Notes from Dr. Borkosky

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[3] His grandparents and father emigrated to Canada from the Soviet Union.

", That's no surprise, given that Doctorow, an iconic figure in the blogosphere, has been outspoken about, for starters, the upside of file-sharing and the evils of digital-rights management. [citation needed] Doctorow contributed the foreword to Sound Unbound: Sampling Digital Music and Culture (The MIT Press, 2008) edited by Paul D. Miller a.k.a. The new European data protection law requires us to inform you of the following before you use our website: We use cookies and other technologies to customize your experience, perform analytics and deliver personalized advertising on our sites, apps and newsletters and across the Internet based on your interests. Check out some of our greatest hits below, explore the categories listed on the left-hand side of the page, or head to CR.org for ratings, reviews, and consumer news. Technology can't create trust, but it can surely allow trusted parties to keep secrets among themselves — and technology, foolishly used, can annihilate trust utterly. The comedic role-playing game Kingdom of Loathing features a boss-fight against a monster named Doctor Oh who is described as wearing a red cape and goggles. (more…), 12 years ago, I covered the launch of artist Jason Polan's project to sketch every single person in New York City (he'd previously sketched every work of art in the MOMA). See our Privacy Policy and Third Party Partners to learn more about the use of data and your rights. [35], Doctorow released another young adult novel, For the Win, in May 2010. Seems like it could be over anything, including BB’s heavy-handed main site ads and extensive advertorials. [46][clarification needed][third-party source needed], He popularised the term "metacrap" by a 2001 essay titled "Metacrap: Putting the torch to seven straw-men of the meta-utopia.

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[36][37], In September 2012, Doctorow released The Rapture of the Nerds, a novel written in collaboration with Charles Stross. multiple warring Klingon clades! "[23], Doctorow was the keynote speaker at the July 2016 Hackers on Planet Earth conference. [48], His essay "You Can't Own Knowledge" is included in the Freesouls book project. Oh, wait. (He's not saying, but Bruder thinks it might have been graveyard humor, Snowden signing his own death-warrant). Kind of a shame, as his treatise on the history and possible future of copyright was what got me thinking about the whole issue. [1][third-party source needed] The company used a drink called OpenCola as part of its promotional campaign. March 4, 2013. Then again, he also sells (for money!) [64] The commentary before the fight and assorted hit, miss and fumble messages during the battle make reference to Doctorow's advocacy for open-source sharing and freedom of media. You can follow him on Twitter @simondumenco. Doctorow. (more…), [[Chelsea Manning's support team sends us this update on Chelsea Manning and her courageous fight against Grand Juries, which has seen her imprisoned for months, effectively in solitary, a situation that the UN Rapporteur on Torture has deemed to be a form of torture. Thanks for visiting Consumerist.com. Seems like it could be over anything

I did wonder where he’d gone and considered creating a thread but didn’t want to create a fuss but it’s a real shame he’s gone. Poitras trusts Maharidge because of their long friendship, and Maharidge trusts Bruder for the same reason. Doctorow served as Canadian Regional Director of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 1999. [17][third-party source needed] Doctorow became a British citizen by naturalisation on 12 August 2011. This is a rabit hole that is probably going to cost me the entire day’s worth of productivity…. [28], His novel Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town, published in June 2005, was chosen to launch the Sci-Fi Channel's book club, Sci-Fi Essentials (now defunct). [61] When Doctorow won the 2007 EFF Pioneer Award, the presenters gave him a red cape, goggles and a balloon. Steve Rousseau decided to try "podfasting" (listening to podcasts at faster-than-normal speed) at progressively higher speeds to see whether he could consume more of the internet-mattress-subsidized high-quality audio bubble as he could before that bubble burst. [7][verification needed], Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, Doctorow's first novel, was published in January 2003, and was the first novel released under one of the Creative Commons licences, allowing readers to circulate the electronic edition as long as they neither made money from it nor used it to create derived works. Boing Boing's Cory Doctorow was mugged for his sunglasses by a street-corner drug dealer near his home in San Francisco. [6] He quit high school,[7][verification needed] received his Ontario Academic Credit (high school diploma) from the SEED School in Toronto,[citation needed] and attended four universities without obtaining a degree. (more…), Burbank librarian Sarah McKinley Oakes (previously) also nannies for a six year old whose parents are French Stewart — from Third Rock from the Sun — and the actor Vanessa Claire Smith. Maybe he violated a forum rule and got banned until 2030. In future history greenwald will only be remembered as the guy who threw Reality Winner under a bus. Check your browser settings or contact your network [citation needed] The professorship included a one-year writing and teaching residency at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, United States. I'm so pleased to be invited and I'm looking forward to seeing you there! [8], Cory Doctorow is unrelated to the American novelist E. L. : "Any sufficiently successful product launch is indistinguishable from a DDoS; any sufficiently advanced user indistinguishable from an attacker.") It looks like portions of our site are being blocked! What a shame. [citation needed], Doctorow's short story collection "With a Little Help" was released in printed format on May 3, 2011. It won the 2013 Prometheus Award.[39]. In 2019 the Pennsylvania Attorney General published a 900-page grand jury report on sexual predators in the Catholic Church and the coverups the church and its official had undertaken; at the time, the church promised to end the coverup and engage in truth and reconciliation with the parishoners who'd been preyed upon by clergy.

Last post was Feb 4th: [10], Doctorow later relocated to London and worked as European Affairs Coordinator for the Electronic Frontier Foundation for four years,[1][third-party source needed] helping to establish the Open Rights Group, before leaving the EFF to pursue writing full-time in January 2006;[citation needed] Doctorow remained a Fellow of the EFF for some time after his departure from the EFF Staff.

2 hours 56 min ago, By Cory Doctorow, as it says on his Wikipedia page, “is a Canadian-British blogger, journalist, and science fiction author who served as co-editor of the blog Boing Boing. and affiliate links. A while back I somehow found myself thinking up one of those check-the-right-box magazine quizzes to help decide if you’d enjoy Cory Doctorow’s writings. Our hearts are with Chelsea. Read the rules you agree to by using this website in our Terms Our forum rules are detailed in the Community Guidelines. As of October … - My bet is on Greenwald and or the fact that the advertorial deal struck with StackCommerce has turned BB into a den of perverse, Machiavellian marketing: Our mission is to enable people to organically discover products and brands they love on the publications and media they engage with every day. Thanks for visiting Consumerist.com. BoingBoing, on the other hand, is the site whose co-editor Cory Doctorow was quoted everywhere over the past couple of weeks thanks to his post bashing the Times' new pay-wall, which fully kicks in this week after a brief test run in Canada. At times, it reads like a comedy of errors (Bruder notes that several of her parcels had been stolen off her doormat and marvels that the Snowden box sat unattended for several days while she was out of town), and at others, like a painstakingly researched opsec thriller, with phones in freezers and meetings in members clubs like Soho House (joining takes months and personal references, so spooks who get shifted around all the time struggle to get memberships). My latest are: a YA graphic novel called In Real Life (with Jen Wang); a nonfiction book about the ar…, I write books. [citation needed], His Sunburst Award-winning short story collection[29] A Place So Foreign and Eight More was also published in 2004: "0wnz0red" from this collection was nominated for the 2004 Nebula Award for Best Novelette. Boing Boing So in order to link to a URL on LiveJournal or WordPress or Twitter or Blogspot, we’d have to first confirm that no one had ever made an infringing link, anywhere on that site. It's actually the Times that deploys journalists around the world at mind-boggling expense -- journalists who literally put their lives on the line every day -- to report from the front lines. Both were deserters from the Red Army, and as a result Doctorow's father was born in a displaced persons camp near Baku, Azerbaijan. program [1][11] He was named the 2006–2007 Canadian Fulbright Chair for Public Diplomacy at the USC Center on Public Diplomacy, sponsored jointly by the Royal Fulbright Commission,[12] the Integrated Media Systems Center, and the USC Center on Public Diplomacy. SOPA Strike is compiling a list of sites that are also going dark for Jan 18. This was exacerbated by massive administrative incompetence: the city had not allocated funds for improved security, training or cyberinsurance, despite having had its emergency services network taken over by ransomware the previous hear, and five city CIOs had departed in the previous four years either through firings or forced resignations. Speaking as a lifelong child of the suburbs, flee! Feels like the end of an era, remembering all the interesting, wonderful, and important topics I would never have heard of without his contributions and active engagement with the community.

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