By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 20/06/2026When I first glanced at this speaking offer, I thought, "Huh, I guess this is one to send on to my speaking agent," because the names the offer dropped were a bunch of rich people, and so I assumed that they were having some kind of summit and looking for a keynoter. 7/ 1333
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 20/06/2026Then I read a little more carefully and realized *they* - these billionaires and their lickspittles! - wanted *me* to pay *them*, *thousands of dollars*, so that I could shlep my ass to some luxury resort in order to have the *privilege* of speaking to them. 8/ 17012
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 20/06/2026I came up as a science fiction writer, and at some point, every sf writer learns "Yog's Law," coined by James D Macdonald when he was running the science fiction forum on GEnie, under the screen name "Yog Sysop": > money flows toward the writer en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_D... 9/en.wikipedia.orgJames D. Macdonald - Wikipedia 1528