[Plura-list] An hour of interwar Halloween music

[Cory Doctorow]

Read today's issue online at: https://pluralistic.net/2022/10/24/spooky-season/

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I'm at Ottawa Writers Festival today (10/24), presenting with Rebecca Giblin and Douglas Rushkoff!

https://writersfestival.org/events/fall-2022-in-person-events/surviving-apocalyptic-economics

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Today's links

* An hour of interwar Halloween music: Spooky season listening from Centuries of Sound.

* Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.

* This day in history: 2002, 2007, 2012, 2017, 2021

* Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading

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🍁 An hour of interwar Halloween music

Through his delightful Centuries of Sound project, JM Errington is producing an hour-long mix of music for every year since 1853 - the dawn of music recording itself. Interspersed with these "annual" mixes are some thematic ones. His latest, "Halloween Between the Wars," is an hour of spooky interwar music and radio/film horror excerpts:

https://centuriesofsound.com/2022/10/24/halloween-between-the-wars-original-recordings-1927-1938/

The track-list for this is full of hot jazz, broad comedy, and spooktacular greats that are a refreshing break from "The Monster Mash": think Raymond Scott, the Washboard Rhythm Kings, Skip James, and Artie Shaw.

If you're hungry for more, check out last year's Halloween mix: "Hallowe’en Dance: Original Recordings 1902-1926," featuring 1920 spoken word from Aleister Crowley, the Edison Concert Band playing the "Skeleton Dance," Billy Murray's "I'm Afraid to Come Home in the Dark," and a 1910 brown wax home recording of comic ghost stories:

https://centuriesofsound.com/2021/10/31/the-cos-tapes-7-halloween-dance-original-recordings-1902-1926/

As great as the thematic programs are, you really need to check out the annual ones. Errington just published a very special 1943 installment, special because in '43, there was no US recorded music, thanks to a bitter strike over stolen royalties by the American Federation of Musicians.

For the '43 edition, then, Errington turned to "the small quantity of records being made in the USA, a host of South and Central American music, radio broadcasts, speeches, film dialogue and other assorted audio artefacts."

https://centuriesofsound.com/2022/10/06/1943/

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🍁 Hey look at this

* Carl Malamud's must-watch acceptance speech for the Internet Archive Hero Award https://archive.org/details/internet.archive.2022-10-19.hero.award

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🍁 This day in history

#20yrsago Curious Yellow: Internet-killing superworm https://web.archive.org/web/20021004143604/https://blanu.net/curious_yellow.html

#15yrsago Story written using only Cat in the Hat words https://web.archive.org/web/20071027035419/https://litlab.blogspot.com/2007/09/j-robert-lennon-cat-text.html

#15yrsago Haunted Mansion/Bela Lugosi’s Dead mashup: Haunted Bela https://web.archive.org/web/20071025052116/http://www.howardhallis.com/mash/hauntedbela.mp3

#15yrsago Book price-fixing: good, bad, or just weird? https://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/10/books-on-the-bo.html

#15yrsago StormWorm botnet lashes out at security researchers https://web.archive.org/web/20071026013023/http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/102407-storm-worm-security.html

#10yrsago Entropy versus warranty: how companies figure out how breakable their products are https://www.wired.com/2012/10/ff-why-products-fail/

#10yrsago #10yrsago Hey! There’s a new Hilda book out! Hey! https://memex.craphound.com/2012/10/24/hey-theres-a-new-hilda-book-out-hey/

#10yrsago UK record industry demands expansion of the Great Firewall of Britain https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-20026271

#10yrsago Neal Stephenson talks REAMDE with lawyers, security experts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6-gpVmHh4c

#10yrsago Accidental CC from wedding planner to couple reveals thriving English class snobbery https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-20042589

#5yrsago A quarter of US military “sees white nationalism” in the ranks https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2017/10/23/military-times-poll-one-in-four-troops-sees-white-nationalism-in-the-ranks/

#5yrsago Zoning and the housing crisis: at Manhattan densities, San Francisco could house 100 million people https://www.buildzoom.com/blog/paying-for-dirt-where-have-home-values-detached-from-construction-costs

#5yrsago Hackers can force airbags to deploy https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-14937

#5yrsago John Hodgman’s Vacationland: a masterpiece of humor that means something https://memex.craphound.com/2017/10/24/john-hodgmans-vacationland-a-masterpiece-of-humor-that-means-something/

#1yrago Cyber-mercenaries helped Saudis hack an NYT reporter: Citizen Lab caught the NSO Group in a(nother) war crime https://pluralistic.net/2021/10/24/breaking-the-news/#kingdom

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🍁 Colophon

Currently writing:

* The Bezzle, a Martin Hench noir thriller novel about the prison-tech industry. Friday's progress: 545 words (52998 words total)

* The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation, a nonfiction book about interoperability for Verso. Friday's progress: 521 words (49271 words total)

* Picks and Shovels, a Martin Hench noir thriller about the heroic era of the PC. (92849 words total) - ON PAUSE

* A Little Brother short story about DIY insulin PLANNING

* Vigilant, Little Brother short story about remote invigilation. FIRST DRAFT COMPLETE, WAITING FOR EXPERT REVIEW

* Moral Hazard, a short story for MIT Tech Review's 12 Tomorrows. FIRST DRAFT COMPLETE, ACCEPTED FOR PUBLICATION

* Spill, a Little Brother short story about pipeline protests. FINAL DRAFT COMPLETE

* A post-GND utopian novel, "The Lost Cause."  FINISHED

* A cyberpunk noir thriller novel, "Red Team Blues."  FINISHED

Currently reading: Analogia by George Dyson.

Latest podcast: Sound Money https://craphound.com/news/2022/09/11/sound-money/

Upcoming appearances:

* Surviving Apocalyptic Economics, with Douglas Rushkoff and Rebecca Giblin, Ottawa Writers Festival, Oct 24
https://writersfestival.org/events/fall-2022-in-person-events/surviving-apocalyptic-economics

* Launch for Chelsea Manning's "Readme.txt: A Memoir" (Bookshop.org), Oct 26:
https://xychelsea.tv/#event-bookshop-org

* World Ethical Data Forum, Oct 26-28
https://worldethicaldataforum.org/

* Radical Book Fair/Lighthouse Bookshop (Edinburgh), Nov 10
https://lighthousebookshop.com/events/chokepoint-capitalism-cory-doctorow-and-rebecca-giblin

* Arthur C Clarke Award (DC), Nov 16
https://www.clarkefoundation.org/2022-awards-event/

* Big Ideas Live (London), Nov 19
https://news.sky.com/bigideaslive

Recent appearances:

* Why Patients Should Hack Med Tech (Defcon 30)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i1BF5YGS0w

* The Literary Life with Mitchell Kaplan (Lithub)
https://lithub.com/cory-doctorow-why-our-current-tech-monopolies-is-all-thanks-to-ronald-reagan-and-robert-bork/

* Sex and Politics with Dan Savage (use coupon code "Doctorow" for a free month):
https://index.supportingcast.fm/subscription/type/podcast#c3f7380e-441b-11ed-8f80-1f06b0646875

Latest books:

* "Chokepoint Capitalism: How to Beat Big Tech, Tame Big Content, and Get Artists Paid, with Rebecca Giblin", on how to unrig the markets for creative labor, Beacon Press/Scribe 2022 https://chokepointcapitalism.com

* "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 (print edition: https://bookshop.org/books/how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism/9781736205907) (signed copies: https://www.darkdel.com/store/p2024/Available_Now%3A__How_to_Destroy_Surveillance_Capitalism.html)

* "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/p2682/Corey_Doctorow%3A_Poesy_the_Monster_Slayer_HB.html#/.

Upcoming books:

* Red Team Blues: "A grabby, compulsive thriller that will leave you knowing more about how the world works than you did before." Tor Books, April 2023

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