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This Saturday, July 10, I'm helping Neil Sharpson launch his debut novel,"When the Sparrow Falls" at an event with Mysterious Galaxy:
https://www.mystgalaxy.com/sharpson71021

My review:
https://pluralistic.net/2021/07/01/basilisk-tamers/#rage-against-the-machine

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Indonesia's gig work tech resistance: Tuyul apps and the IT of the Road.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/106541996130721435

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Owning a sports-team is a plute's get-out-of-tax-free card: Here's what to do about it.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/106545518023910933

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#15yrsago Ben Rosenbaum’s “Ant King” story under CC license https://benjaminrosenbaum.com/stories/the.ant.king.html

#15yrsago Song inspired by Ted Stevens’ “Internet is a series of tubes” https://myspace.com/tedstevensfanclub

#10yrsago Half of US social program recipients believe they “have not used a government social program” https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-politics/article/abs/reconstituting-the-submerged-state-the-challenges-of-social-policy-reform-in-the-obama-era/124850252051794EB3E1AE87E1D082C8

#10yrsago Creative License: how the hell did sampling get so screwed up and what the hell do we do about it? https://memex.craphound.com/2011/07/08/creative-license-how-the-hell-did-sampling-get-so-screwed-up-and-what-the-hell-do-we-do-about-it/

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#5yrsago Tiffin: a boardgame based on Mumbai’s miraculous lunch-delivery network https://memex.craphound.com/2016/07/08/tiffin-a-boardgame-based-on-mumbais-miraculous-lunch-delivery-network/

#5yrsago William Gibson’s Archangel: intricate military sf, mercilessly optimized for comics https://memex.craphound.com/2016/07/08/william-gibsons-archangel-intricate-military-sf-mercilessly-optimized-for-comics/

#5yrsago One line in a federal law from 1866 makes it basically impossible to prosecute killer cops https://theintercept.com/2016/07/07/one-simple-change-to-the-law-could-make-prosecuting-killer-cops-easier/

#5yrsago Why did some of the richest, most powerful people in the UK support Brexit? https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/07/brexit-eu-uk-referendum-leave-remain-labour-corbyn-immigration-ukip-tory-sovereignty/

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#5yrsago Tenant farmers: how “smart” agricultural equipment siphons off farmers’ crop and soil data https://techcrunch.com/2016/07/06/the-land-grab-for-farm-data/

#5yrsago As browsers decline in relevance, they’re becoming DRM timebombs https://thetech.com/2016/07/06/electronic-frontier-foundation

#5yrsago NYC’s sloppy records gave $59.2M in tax breaks to dead people https://observer.com/2016/07/city-gave-59-2m-in-senior-citizen-tax-breaks-to-dead-people-comptroller-says/

#1yrago The awful stupidity of measuring engineers' productivity https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/08/absolutely-remarkable-thing/#goodhartism

#1yrago The rotten culture of the rich https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/08/absolutely-remarkable-thing/#get-out-of-selfish

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#1yrago EY helped 'Ndrangheta sell mafia bonds https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/08/absolutely-remarkable-thing/#ndrangheta

#1yrago Hank Green's "A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor" https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/08/absolutely-remarkable-thing/#carls

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Yesterday's threads: Technological self-determination; Biden delivers Right to Repair via executive order; Comic book store files comic-book lawsuit; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/106539709449019841

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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."

https://craphound.com/shop/

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Upcoming appearances:

* Launch for Neil Sharpson's When the Sparrow Falls (Mysterious Galaxy), Jul 10, https://www.mystgalaxy.com/sharpson71021

* Project Abraham book club (to benefit Yezidi refugees):
https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/truthmustbetold/pages/2460/attachments/original/1624890447/Project_Abraham_-_Book_Club_2_Flyer.pdf?1624890447

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Recent appearances:

* The Bitcoin Podcast:
http://thebitcoinpodcast.com/the-bitcoin-podcast-359/

* The Rent's Too Damned High, Macro n Cheese:
https://realprogressives.org/podcast_episode/episode-127-the-rents-too-damned-high-with-cory-doctorow/

* 3D Printing Sci-Fi, 3DPOD:
https://3dprint.com/282547/3dpod-episode-68-3d-printing-sci-fi-with-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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You can also follow these posts as a daily blog at pluralistic.net: no ads, trackers, or data-collection!

Here's today's edition: https://pluralistic.net/2021/07/08/tuyul-apps/

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If you're a Medium subscriber, you can read these - and upcoming magazine columns and early exclusives on doctorow.medium.com.

My latest Medium column is "Self Publishing," about the consolidation in publishing and what to do about it

https://doctorow.medium.com/self-publishing-41800468bcfe

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Today's top sources: Matt Katz (https://twitter.com/MattKatz).

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