Thank you to Cory Doctorow for stopping by #ThatWordChat during his busy promotional tour for 'The Bezzle'! Check it out here: craphound.com/bezzle/

On coining the word 'enshittification': I'm fine with you using it loosely. I think what makes it a successful word is that it becomes both a precise technical thing and a broadly understood thing that describes a lot of different phenomena. -Doctorow #ThatWordChat

I think that there is tremendous room in our futures, in the futures that are available to us, for a future in which we seize the means of computation right where technology serves us and not the other way around. - Doctorow #ThatWordChat

'Everything I write is about how you find hope under awful circumstances.' -Doctorow #ThatWordChat

I think that there's room for human agency, and I think hope is the idea that although the terrain is unknowably complex, then we attain the new vantage point. - Doctorow #ThatWordChat

On optimism and hope: Optimism is the cousin of pessimism, where one says things will get better no matter what we do, and the other says things will get worse no matter what we do. They both agree that what we do doesn't matter. - Doctorow #ThatWordChat

'The term 'bezzle' describes the magic interval after the con artist has your money, but before you know it's a scam - the period during which people all feel better off because everyone thinks they're doing well.' - Doctorow #ThatWordChat

'Red Team Blues' is set in the middle of the first decade of the 21st century, between the collapse of the dot-coms and the collapse of the housing market in 2008. #ThatWordChat

'The Bezzle' is the second book in a series that can be read in any order. He previously published 'Red Team Blues,' a 'cryptocurrency heist' with a forensic accountant protagonist. us.macmillan.com/books/97812508… #ThatWordChat

'You don't even have to have a union in place. You can strike over your boss's failure to recognize your union, and you'll have a ton of people who will march on that picket line with you.' #ThatWordChat

What can we, as editors and creators in the industry, do to be positive disruptors in this space? 'Organize your workplace,' Doctorow says. #ThatWordChat

'The imperatives of institutions that run counter to the interests of both literature and authors are harder to balance than you know. Macmillan has always let me retain my audiobook rights because I won't sell on Audible.' #ThatWordChat

Doctorow works with Macmillan Publishers for his works. 'Macmillan and I sincerely believe that this is a company that is made up of people who really believe in a mission of good literature and well-treated authors.' #ThatWordChat

'More so than technology, the technology has contributed to the concentration in markets, and also it kind of fuels or acts as a force multiplier on market power by a small number of firms.' -Doctorow #ThatWordChat

Questions posted to the creative community: 'Do you get to make the art you want to make? Can you reach the audiences for your work such as they are? And can you and the people who form your community of practice exercise some control over your norms?' #ThatWordChat

'The theme that runs through my work is community determination and self-determination. Not so much what the machines are doing, but who it's doing it for and who it's doing it to.' - Doctorow #ThatWordChat

Doctorow has been touring to promote 'The Bezzle.' See if he's coming to a city near you: craphound.com/bezzle/ #ThatWordChat

Doctorow has published multiple books over 18 months. How is he so prolific? 'Well, I write to distract myself from anxiety. And so during lockdown, I wrote nine books coming out between 2022 and 2026, which is why I'm on tour between 2022 and 2026.' #ThatWordChat

A warm welcome to Cory Doctorow NONCONSENSUAL BLUE TICK! Thanks for stopping by #ThatWordChat to discuss his latest books, 'The Bezzle' and 'The Internet Con.' #edibuddies #amEditing #amWriting

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