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Inside: Competition is Killing Us; Predatory lender seeks national bank charter; Militarizing cops was a failure; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2021/01/08/competition-is-killing-us/
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Competition is Killing Us: Consumer harm considered harmful.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/105517224002269184
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Predatory lender seeks national bank charter: Oportun led America in suing latinx borrowers during the pandemic.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/105521115839603663
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#15yrsago Hollywood’s Canadian MP claims she’s no dirtier than the rest https://web.archive.org/web/20060906162414/http://www.michaelgeist.ca/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1063&Itemid=89&nsub=
#15yrsago John McDaid’s brilliant sf story Keyboard Practice free online https://web.archive.org/web/20060111055353/http://www.sfsite.com/fsf/fiction/jm01.htm
#5yrsago Gene Luen Yang’s inaugural speech as National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature https://memex.craphound.com/2016/01/08/gene-luen-yangs-inaugural-speech-as-national-ambassador-for-young-peoples-literature/
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#1yrago A Public Service: a comprehensive, comprehensible guide to leaking documents to journalists and public service groups without getting caught https://memex.craphound.com/2020/01/08/a-public-service-a-comprehensive-comprehensible-guide-to-leaking-documents-to-journalists-and-public-service-groups-without-getting-caught/
#1yrago Three years after the W3C approved a DRM standard, it’s no longer possible to make a functional indie browser https://blog.samuelmaddock.com/posts/the-end-of-indie-web-browsers/
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Yesterday's threads: Into the breach; Revolutionary Colossus; and more!
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/105515988346637611
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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."
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Upcoming appearances:
* What if the future of our public lives online looked like _____? (panel at New_ Public), Jan 13, https://newpublic.org/festival/event/783/all-star-world-cafe-what-if-the-future-of-our-public-lives-online-looked-like
* Keynote for linux.conf.au, Jan 22 (US) 23 (Australia) https://linux.conf.au/schedule/
* Evening with William Gibson, Jan 25, https://www.eventbrite.com/e/william-gibson-cory-doctorow-agency-tickets-132831910821
* Keynote, NISO Plus, Feb 22-25, https://niso.plus/cory-doctorow-to-keynote-at-niso-plus-2021/
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Recent appearances:
* Hedging Bets on the Future (Motherboard Cyber):
https://play.acast.com/s/cyber/hedgingbetsonthefuturewithauthorcorydoctorow
* Applying the Pandemic Mindset to Climate Change:
https://hbr.org/podcast/2020/12/applying-the-pandemic-mindset-to-climate-change-with-cory-doctorow
* 2020 Beaverbrook Lectures:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y66r57bGG5w
* Bibliotherapy/Shelf Healing:
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1509671/6580831
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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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