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Today's Attack Surface Lecture: Cyberpunk and Post-Cyberpunk with Bruce Sterling and Christopher Brown https://www.eventcombo.com/e/Virtual-event-with-Cory-DoctorowAttack-Surface-40932

Full schedule: https://attacksurface.com

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Turning plastics into carbon nanotubes: Promising new research!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/105061441309486370

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Kids reason, adults rationalize: Thoughts on YA literature and books for adults.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/105062029759471071

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Someone Comes to Town Part 19: This week on the podcast.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/105062098018007010

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#15yrsago Fox shuts down Buffy Hallowe’en musical despite Whedon’s protests https://web.archive.org/web/20051001075206/http://www.counterpulse.org/calendar.shtml

#10yrsago English Heritage claims it owns every single image of Stonehenge, ever http://blog.fotolibra.com/2010/10/19/stonewalling-stonehenge/

#10yrsago HOWTO make edible Hallowe’en eyeballs https://web.archive.org/web/20101006045702/http://www.britta.com/Hw/hwr.html

#10yrago HOWTO Make Mummy Meatloaf https://web.archive.org/web/20101022232509/http://gatherandnest.com/?p=2848

#10yrsago HOWTO make a prop jetpack out of soda bottles https://www.instructables.com/Rocketeer-Rocket-Pack-from-Trash/

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#5yrsago White supremacists call for Star Wars boycott because imaginary brown people https://www.themarysue.com/boycott-star-wars-vii-because-why-again/

#5yrsago Some suggestions for sad, rich people https://whatever.scalzi.com/2015/10/18/the-1-of-problems/

#5yrsago Survivor-count for the Chicago PD’s black-site/torture camp climbs to 7,000+ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/19/homan-square-chicago-police-disappeared-thousands

#5yrsago In upsidedownland, Verizon upheld its fiber broadband promises to 14 cities https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20151015/10311432544/close-only-counts-horseshoes-hand-grenades-apparently-verizons-fiber-optic-installs.shtml

#1yrago AOC to endorse Bernie Sanders today https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-bernie-sanders-scored-a-coup-and-won-the-backing-of-ocasio-cortez-and-omar/2019/10/16/53beca18-f020-11e9-8693-f487e46784aa_story.html

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#1yrago Catalan independence movement declares a general strike in Barcelona https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50098268

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Yesterday's threads: Happy World Standards Day or not; Progressives demand ban on corporate execs in government; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/105056996884168361

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I have a (free) new book out! "How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism" is an anti-monopolist critique of Big Tech that connects the rise of conspiratorial thinking to the rise of tech monopolies and proposes a way to deal with both:

https://onezero.medium.com/how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism-8135e6744d59

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My ebooks and audiobooks (from @torbooks, @HoZ_Books, @mcsweeneys, and others) are for sale all over the net, but I sell 'em too, and when you buy 'em from me, I earn twice as much and you get books with no DRM and no license "agreements."

https://craphound.com/shop/

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Upcoming talks:

* The Attack Surface Lectures: 8 nights of bookstore-hosted events in which I and a massive group of entertaining and knowledgeable experts discourse on my latest novel's themes, Oct 13-22 https://read.macmillan.com/torforge/cory-doctorow-virtual-lecture-series/

* Milehicon (Guest of Honor!), Oct 23-5, https://milehicon.org/

* Coding Democracy/Toronto International Festival of Authors, Oct 24 https://festivalofauthors.ca/event/maureen-webb-coding-democracy/

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Recent appearances:

* SRSLY WRONG: Stop Techno Dystopia!
https://srslywrong.com/podcast/220-stop-techno-dystopia-w-cory-doctorow/

* Judge John Hodgman: "The Doctorow Doctrine"
https://maximumfun.org/episodes/judge-john-hodgman/episode-488-the-doctorow-doctrine/

* Savage Lovecast
https://www.savagelovecast.com/episodes/729

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