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The battle for Ring Zero: The esoteric argument I have been having with myself since 2002.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/107713164040232509

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#20yrsago The guy who stole sex.com says he can't afford a lawyer https://web.archive.org/web/20020201182327/https://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,50104,00.html

#20yrsago Wired Wellington, a citywide, publicly owned fiber network https://web.archive.org/web/20020207131813/http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2841197,00.html

#5yrsago Google quietly makes “optional” web DRM mandatory in Chrome https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13514415

#5yrsago Beyond the Trolley Problem: Three realistic, near-future ethical dilemmas about self-driving cars http://rodneybrooks.com/unexpected-consequences-of-self-driving-cars/

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#5yrsago “Work ethic”: Minutes from 2011 meeting reveal Federal Reserve bankers making fun of unemployed Americans https://theintercept.com/2017/01/27/federal-reserve-bankers-mocked-unemployed-americans-behind-closed-doors/

#1yrago Understanding the aftermath of r/wallstreetbets https://pluralistic.net/2021/01/30/meme-stocks/#stockstonks

#1yrago Thinking through Mitch McConnell's plea for comity https://pluralistic.net/2021/01/30/meme-stocks/#comity

#1yrago Further, on Mi
tch McConnell and comity https://pluralistic.net/2021/01/30/meme-stocks/#no-seriously

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Yesterday's threads: No, payday lenders aren't nice guys; The Right to Repair; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/107706984545546550

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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:

* Boskone 59 (Feb 18-20)
https://boskone.org/program/schedule-text-view/

* Dangerous Visions and New Worlds: Radical Science Fiction, 1950 to 1985 (City Lights), Feb 27
https://citylights.com/events/dangerous-visions-and-new-worlds-radical-science-fiction-1950-to-1985/

* Emerging Technologies For the Enterprise, Apr 19-20
https://2022.phillyemergingtech.com

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Recent appearances:

* The End of Uber (The War on Cars)
https://thewaroncars.org/2022/01/26/the-end-of-uber-with-cory-doctorow/

* Moral Panic (Drug Science Podcast)
https://www.drugscience.org.uk/podcast/53-moral-panic-with-cory-doctorow/

* It Could Happen Here podcast
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-it-could-happen-here-30717896/episode/an-interview-with-author-cory-doctorow-90500468/

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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/2022/01/30/ring-minus-one/

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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 "A Bug in Early Creative Commons Licenses Has Enabled a New Breed of Superpredator"

https://doctorow.medium.com/a-bug-in-early-creative-commons-licenses-has-enabled-a-new-breed-of-superpredator-5f6360713299

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