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Today's Attack Surface Lecture: Tech in SciFi with Ken Liu and Annalee Newitz https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cory-doctorow-tech-in-sci-fi-attack-surface-w-ken-liu-annalee-newitz-tickets-120249069203?aff=ebdssbonlinesearch

Full schedule: https://attacksurface.com

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Feds gouge states, subsidize corporations: The Federal Reserve is overcharging local governments and showering money on zombie corporations.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/105067483604564948

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Cadillac perfects the murdermobile: "It took 13 children seated in a line in front of the Escalade before the driver could see the tops of their heads."

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/105067688235111452

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Solar's "miracle material": A perovskite breakthrough.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/105067794573338782

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#15yrsago Finnish copyright minister carries fake Prada bag on official business https://hietanen.typepad.com/copyfraud/2005/10/karpela_is_a_vi.html

#15yrsago Chinese activist to Jerry Yang: You are helping to maintain an evil system https://web.archive.org/web/20051027021122/https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blogs/gelman/archives/003388.shtml

#10yrsago Scary Godmother: delightful, spooky graphic storybook for kids https://memex.craphound.com/2010/10/20/scary-godmother-delightful-spooky-graphic-storybook-for-kids/

#5yrsago The Welcome to Night Vale novel dances a tightrope between weird humor and real pathos https://memex.craphound.com/2015/10/20/the-welcome-to-night-vale-novel-dances-a-tightrope-between-weird-humor-and-real-pathos/

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#5yrsago Reality check: we know nothing whatsoever about simulating human brains https://mathbabe.org/2015/10/20/guest-post-dirty-rant-about-the-human-brain-project/

#5yrsago How the market for zero-day vulnerabilities works https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/10/the-rise-of-the-zero-day-market/

#5yrsago How a lobbyist/doctor couple are destroying Worker’s Comp across America https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-corporate-americas-plan-to-ditch-workers-comp

#1yrago Yahoo Groups archivists despair as Verizon blocks their preservation efforts ahead of shutdown https://web.archive.org/web/20191021041210/https://modsandmembersblog.wordpress.com/for-the-press-2/

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Yesterday's threads: Turning plastics into carbon nanotubes; Kids reason, adults rationalize; Someone Comes to Town Part 19; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/105062192591943297

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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:

* TWiT: The J to J Protocol
https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech/episodes/793

* Writing Excuses: Researching the FCK out of Things
https://writingexcuses.com/2020/10/11/15-41-researching-the-fck-out-of-things-with-cory-doctorow/

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

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My first picture book just came out! It's called Poesy the Monster Slayer and it's an epic tale of bedtime-refusal, toy-hacking and monster-hunting, illustrated by Matt Rockefeller. It's the monster book I dreamt of reading to my own daughter.

https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/14/poesy-the-monster-slayer/#poesy

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Today's top sources: Super Punch (https://www.superpunch.net/), Naked Capitalism (https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/), Slashdot (https://slashdot.org/).

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