Cory Doctorow has a new newsletter. Here are the details. Anyone can subscribe gratis.
Hello, fellow locked-down participants in the 2020 timeline. I hope you,
your community, and the people you love are safe and well. We are (so far).
In late January, I left Boing Boing, on my 19th anniversary with the
site. It was a good run, and I wish everyone there the best, but it was
time (it’s complicated, and I’m still co-owner, but I’m not involved in
any way – it’s basically an indefinite, unpaid sabbatical).
I’ve still got a couple of posts in the queue – book reviews – but
I’ve moved my daily links and analysis to Pluralistic.net, an
old-fashioned blog with no ads, paywall, patronage begs, tracking, data
collection, roll downs, roll unders, pop ups, or other crufty detritus
that makes 90% of the web circa 2020 into unreadable, crufty ick. It
also has fulltext RSS, and the whole thing is licensed CC BY.
Pluralistic is also available as a daily newsletter, the Plura-list (har
har). Like the blog version, the newsletter has no ads or tracking or
data-collection – not even HTML where such a thing might sneak in. I’ve
pasted today’s edition below so you can get a taste for it.You can sign
up for it here:
https://pluralistic.net/plura-list
It’s also mirrored to the fediverse, via Mastodon. The account to follow is:
@pluralistic@mamot.fr
For those of you who are interested, here’s the Pluralistic workflow:
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New posts start off as Twitter threads at @doctorow
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These get manually, simultaneously reposted to the fediverse as
Mastodon toot threads
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Every morning, these are anthologized into a blog post for Pluralistic.net
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That’s then turned into a newsletter post for the Plura-list
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Then I create daily anthology threads for Mastodon and Twitter that
have links to all the day’s threads, and pin it to the top of each account.
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These are then turned into individual Tumblr posts, which are injected
into the stream at:
I hope you’ll read along, whether it’s on the blog, via RSS, on the
newsletter, on Mastodon, via Twitter, or on Tumblr. And please, take
care of yourself.
Cory