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Inside: Privacy Without Monopoly, EU edition; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2021/06/11/technological-self-determination/
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Privacy Without Monopoly, EU edition: The GDPR forbids competition in human rights abuses.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/106392756755836597
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#20yrsago Embarassing gaffe in Microsoft’s anti-Linux campaign https://web.archive.org/web/20010619154332/http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/06/01/1540231
#15yrsago Inside China’s iPod sweat-shops https://www.macworld.co.uk/news/inside-apples-ipod-factories-14915/
#10yrsago Walt Disney’s 1956 time-capsule letter to the future https://web.archive.org/web/20060906113727/http://craphound.com.nyud.net:8080/walts1956letter.pdf
#10yrsago Terry Pratchett initiates assisted suicide process https://web.archive.org/web/20110614215922/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/8571142/Sir-Terry-Pratchett-begins-process-that-could-lead-to-assisted-suicide.htmln
#5yrsago It’s getting harder and harder to use gag clauses to silence laid off workers in America https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/12/us/laid-off-americans-required-to-zip-lips-on-way-out-grow-bolder.html
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#1yrago Interoperability and privacy https://pluralistic.net/2020/06/11/1-in-3/#interoperable
#1yrago Tesla modder selling discounted upgrades https://pluralistic.net/2020/06/11/1-in-3/#boost-50
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Yesterday's threads: A denialism taxonomy; Urban broadband deserts; and more!
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/106387476457715580
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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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My book "How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism" is a critique of Big Tech connecting conspiratorial thinking to the rise of tech monopolies (proposing a way to deal with both) is now out in paperback:
https://onezero.medium.com/how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism-8135e6744d59
Signed copies here:
https://www.darkdel.com/store/p2024/Available_Now%3A__How_to_Destroy_Surveillance_Capitalism.html
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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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Recent appearances:
* Darts and Lasers podcast:
http://www.dartsandletters.ca/2021/06/11/ep24-darts-and-lasers-ft-cory-doctorow-nalo-hopkinson-batya-weinbaum/
* Nicole Sandler Show:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcyrQAWTKwk
* Fireside Chat with Beatriz Busaniche (Rightscon)
https://youtu.be/R3XsUnAMb5U?t=701
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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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If you're a Medium subscriber, you can read these - as well as previews of upcoming magazine columns and early exclusives on doctorow.medium.com.
My latest Medium column is "The Rent’s Too Damned High," about the long con of convincing Americans that they will grow prosperous through housing wealth, not labor rights
https://doctorow.medium.com/the-rents-too-damned-high-520f958d5ec5
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