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Inside: Stockholm's war on interoperability; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2021/11/09/skrota-skolplattformen/
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Stockholm's war on interoperability: An object lesson in how (not) to resolve the tension between comcom and privacy.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/107247672590668469
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#15yrsago Why Zune shouldn’t pay blood money to Universal https://cdm.link/2006/11/universal-microsoft-screw-over-artists-set-absurd-and-dangerous-precedent-with-zune/#more-1719
#10yrsago Policy-by-nudging unsupported by evidence, and undemocratic https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21228376-500-nudge-policies-are-another-name-for-coercion/
#10yrsago Occupy Atlanta encamps on lawn of house under foreclosure threat https://web.archive.org/web/20111109225513/https://thinkprogress.org/special/2011/11/08/363692/occupy-atlanta-encamps-in-neighborhood-to-save-police-officers-home-from-foreclosure/
#10yrsago Ben from Ben and Jerry’s serves ice-cream to Occupiers https://secure.flickr.com/photos/62159569@N08/6324830762/in/pool-41894168726@N01
#5yrsago A history of Chinese science fiction, from 475 BC to Cixin Liu https://mithilareview.com/wang_11_16/
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#5yrsago How Audi cheated emissions tests: if (steering) then (pollute) https://jalopnik.com/america-figured-out-a-new-way-audi-cheated-on-emissions-1788630969
#5yrsago A lightbulb worm could take over every smart light in a city in minutes https://eyalro.net/project/iotworm.html
#1yrago Boundless Realms https://pluralistic.net/2020/11/09/boundless-realm/#fuxxfur
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Yesterday's threads: Imagining the end of capitalism; Charlie Jane Anders' Victories Greater Than Death; Right-Clicker-Mentality; and more!
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/107242627339840314
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My latest book is Attack Surface, a sequel to my bestselling Little Brother books, now in paperback, wherever books are sold.
Signed copies at Dark Delicacies:
https://www.darkdel.com/store/p1840/Cory_Doctorow_-__Attack_Surface_HB_%26_TPB.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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Upcoming appearances:
* Anti-Dystopian Congress (Goethe-Institut), Nov 10-12
https://www.goethe.de/ins/sk/de/kul/sup/adc.html
* Move Fast and Fix Things (Aaron Swartz Day), Nov 13
https://www.aaronswartzday.org/
* The Kids Are (Kinda) All Right (San Diego Comic-Con), Nov 28
https://www.eventeny.com/events/comiccon-special-edition-1800/?action=schedule-item&action_ops[item_id]=9591
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Recent appearances:
* Seize the Means of Computation (Internet Archive):
https://youtu.be/pzMlOtrhEwc?t=2241
* Making Money (Desert Island Discworld)
https://www.desertislanddiscworld.com/episodes/6-1-cory-doctorow-and-making-money/
* Reconciling Social Media & Democracy, Tech Policy Press
https://techpolicy.press/podcast/
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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 "Bait and Switch: Capitalism’s Shell Game: From Robert Bork to John Deere"
https://medium.com/@doctorow/bait-and-switch-7f61cff85aa3
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