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Tomorrow (Monday) at 2PM PT, I'm chairing a webinar for ACM-USTPC called "Policy, Profit, Privacy, and Privilege: The Post-Pandemic Future of Remote Testing Technology"

https://www.acm.org/public-policy/ustpc/hottopics/remote-testing

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Vizio makes more money spying on people who buy TVs than it does on TVs themselves: Even if you're paying for the product, you're still the product.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/107276187840400378

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#10yrsago Stolen government of Malaysia certificate used to sign malicious fake Adobe software update https://archive.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00002269.html

#10yrsago Chapel Hill sends SWAT team to arrest Occupy “anarchists” https://web.archive.org/web/20111114130328/https://www.newsobserver.com/2011/11/13/1641362/activists-take-over-vacant-franklin.html

#10yrsago Secret documents reveal the flimsy case for Ofcom to give into BBC’s public TV DRM demands https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/nov/14/bbc-hd-drm

#5yrsago Anish Kapoor banned from using world’s pinkest pink in retaliation for hoarding the blackest black https://www.vice.com/en/article/4xqzb3/the-worlds-pinkest-paint

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#5yrsago Remember when they told us Hillary, not Bernie, would beat Trump? https://fair.org/home/polls-showed-sanders-had-a-better-shot-of-beating-trump-but-pundits-told-you-to-ignore-them/

#5yrsago Keep hoping machine running: Woody Guthrie’s New Years resolutions, 1943 https://memex.craphound.com/2016/11/14/keep-hoping-machine-running-woody-guthries-new-years-resolutions-1943/

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Yesterday's threads: How to be safe(r) online; and more!

https://mamot.fr/web/statuses/107270661133499436

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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 Tor Books, Head of Zeus, 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:

* Policy, Profit, Privacy, and Privilege: The Post-Pandemic Future of Remote Testing Technology (ACM-USTPC), Nov 15
https://www.acm.org/public-policy/ustpc/hottopics/remote-testing

* Alternative recommender systems in the DSA: How to protect free expression, create competition and empower users all at once (Article 19)
https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_FrUPBi7oT-2YT-BtoJQTAg

* Launch for Jeffrey Cranor and Janina Matthewson's "You Feel It Just Below the Ribs" (Kepler's), Nov 18
https://www.keplers.org/upcoming-events-internal/cranor-matthewson

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Recent appearances:

* Tales From the Bridge:
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1795352/9527530

* 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/

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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/2021/11/14/still-the-product/

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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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Today's top sources: Slashdot (https://slashdot.org/).

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