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Welcome back to the Cory Doctorow podcast, London edition. You can hear from the room tone that I am in the big hard surface room that is my home office in London. And until about 10 minutes ago, my guest room in London. My parents who've been visiting us have just left and they are now at King's Cross Station on their way to Edinburgh for a bit of a Scottish holiday. They stopped in to see us. on their way back from visiting my brother's in-laws in Poland, so they've been having quite a European jaunt in the heat dome and all. I am back in London, as you can tell, and next Saturday, the 11th of July, I will be at the Idler Festival. I will be in Edinburgh myself on the 16th and 17th of August for a solo presentation and a presentation with Jimmy Wales.
I'm going to Australia after that. I'll be at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas in Sydney, August 23rd and 24th, and at the Wheeler Center in Melbourne on August 25th.
Where is Cory Doctorow recording and what upcoming events does he announce?
And while it's not on my schedule yet, I can reveal that I will be in Warsaw from September 4th through 7th for the launch of the Polish edition of Enshitification. And then I rush back to the UK to do an event on September the 8th in Brighton with Carol Cadwallader and in London with Riley Quinn on September the 9th That is hosted by Foils Piccadilly. Again, not on my schedule yet, but I will be at Brain Bar in Budapest, September 16th through 18th. In Berkeley for the 25th anniversary of the Samuelson Clinic at UC Berkeley on September the 24th. In Edmonton at the Public Library on September the 28th. In Notre Dame on October the 6th in South Bend. And in Hudson, Ohio at a local library on October the 7th.
In the middle of October, shortly after that, I'll be in Vancouver, Victoria, Winnipeg and Ottawa for dates still to be confirmed at various writers festivals and other events. And I will be in Vienna for an as yet unrevealed event on October the 29th and in Kilkenny for Kilkenomics on November the 5th. I'll be on Vancouver Island on November the 11th and in Vancouver itself on November the 12th, in Folkestone, England on November the 16th, in Madrid on November the 18th, and I'll be in Oxford on November the 22nd for an event with Kim Stanley Robinson. I'm also going to be likely in Manchester in the middle of September. So that's the travel I've got coming up between now and late November. There are a few more events that haven't been fully solidified, but that's a good crack at what's going on for the rest of the year for me.
So I've had a busy couple of weeks since I last spoke to you. I got some very good news very early on in my book tour in the U.S. for the Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI. which is that I am now cancer free. So I had my CT PET scan and there is no cancer. And so the judgment of the oncologist and the hematologist is that I am cancer free, having been treated with immunotherapy and radiotherapy and some excisions. So that is very good news. I do have to get follow up scans and that will be in my future. But for now, it's very good news. And I did have a bit of a scare. So I had the scan. And I asked the radiation tech if I could see the scan. And the radiation tech said, sure, but you understand that I can't consult with you on it.
I'm not a radiologist. And so if you see anything you have questions about, I can't tell you anything about it. Now, I'd seen a few of my scans before, kind of had a sense of what I was looking for, little white dots that would indicate tumors. And there were no little white dots. Instead, there were pie plate sized white disks over my heart and my bladder. And I asked the radiation tech, is that what I think that is? And he said, I can't discuss this with you. You will have to wait for the radiologist who will take no more than four business days to get back to you. And so I walked out of there thinking that I had massive tumors in my bladder and in the middle of my chest. It turns out that they were just ghosts on the scan.
The way that those PET scans work is you get infused with radioactive glucose while you're in a fasting state and they let you sit for a bit and your hungry cells take up that glucose.
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