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This weekend's events:

Milehicon (Fri/Sat/Sun): https://milehicon.org/

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Facebook threatens ad-transparency group: Ad Observatory gets the Power Ventures treatment.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/105092122784482871

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The madness of elite varsity sports: WWI by another means.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/105096101419561378

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Bob Dylan sings a EULA: You've already made a legally binding commitment to watch this.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/105096319543017096

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#10yrsago Rand Paul supporters pin down and curb-stomp MoveOn activist – video https://web.archive.org/web/20101029024622/https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/10/10/moveon-supporter-brutally-attacked-by-rand-paul-supporter/65155/

#5yrsago NSA spying: judge tosses out case because Wikipedia isn’t widely read enough https://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security/privacy-and-surveillance/court-chooses-ignore-overwhelming-evidence-nsas-mass

#1yrago How an usher at (and would-be star of) Hamilton organizes the women’s bathrooms during intermission https://www.inquirer.com/arts/theater/hamilton-forrest-theatre-philadelphia-bathroom-line-intermission-tips-20191022.html

#1yrago Zuck claims he chows down with politicos from “across the spectrum” but they all seem to be far-right creeps https://theintercept.com/2019/10/25/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-dinners/

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Yesterday's threads: Davis Haunters rise from the grave; RIAA kills youtube-dl; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/105090242755488231

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My latest novel is Attack Surface, a sequel to my bestselling Little Brother books. @washingtonpost called it "a political cyberthriller, vigorous, bold and savvy about the limits of revolution and resistance."

Get signed books from @darkdel: https://www.darkdel.com/store/p1840/Available_Now%3A_Attack_Surface.html

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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 appearances:

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

* Keynote, Privacyweek, Oct 27 https://cfp.privacyweek.at/pw20/speaker/LKXVKM/

* How to Fix the Internet/Reboot 2020, Nov 9, https://www.rebootconference.org/day-two

* Cyberterrorists, Post-Apocalyptic Landscapes, and Were-Pomeranians/Texas Book Festival, Nov 12, https://www.texasbookfestival.org/events/cyberterrorists-post-apocalyptic-landscapes-and-were-pomeranians-new-in-speculative-fiction/

* Let's Talk About Influence/Designthinkers, Nov 16, https://www.designthinkers.com/week-2/strategy-lets-talk-about-influence

* Shaping the Digital Future Summit/Kaspersky, Nov 17, details TBD

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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 is 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/), Jeremy B Merrill, Dan Howland (https://twitter.com/ridetheory/).

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