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DC's security theater panned: The curtain-call's gonna be BRUTAL.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/105538038441273821

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Weaponing and monetizing apophenia: 5G conspiracies have a business-model.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/105538480806813278

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Awful voting-machine demands silence: ES&S; piggybacks censorship on Dominion's grievances.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/105538825098871636

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Someone Comes to Town Part 27: My latest podcast installment.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/105538905981638292

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#15yrsago Hollywood’s MP denounces “users,” “EFF members” https://web.archive.org/web/20060323035434/accordionguy.blogware.com/blog/_archives/2006/1/12/1659162.html

#15yrsago #15yrsago Correcting the Record: Wikipedia v Register https://memex.craphound.com/2006/01/11/correcting-the-record-wikipedia-vs-the-register/

#5yrsago HOWTO make a motorcycle out of cigarette lighters https://web.archive.org/web/20161008082647/https://imgur.com/user/joedusk

#5yrsago Chelsea Manning reviews book of Aaron Swartz’s writing Chelsea Manning reviews book of Aaron Swartz’s writing

#5yrsago NSA says it will take four years to answer questions about its kids’ coloring book https://www.vice.com/en/article/vv7e74/the-nsa-told-me-it-needs-4-years-to-answer-a-foia-about-a-coloring-book

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#1yrago William Gibson talks about scrapping and rewriting a novel after the 2016 Trump election https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jan/11/william-gibson-i-was-losing-a-sense-of-how-weird-the-real-world-was

#1yrago Wireheading: when machine learning systems jolt their reward centers by cheating https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/vXzM5L6njDZSf4Ftk/defining-ai-wireheading

#1yrago America’s most popular governor: the lavishly corrupt Larry Hogan [R-MD] https://newrepublic.com/article/156183/popular-crook-america

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Yesterday's threads: Busting myths about the Night of the Short Fingers; Impeachment and realignment; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/105533057619678738

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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:

* 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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Today's top sources: Hackaday (https://hackaday.com/), Utopian Encyclopedia (https://rollership.tumblr.com/), Boing Boing (https://boingboing.net).

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