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This coming weekend (Feb 18-20) I'm a (virtual) guest at the Boskone sf convention. I'm doing several panels and my first-ever reading from *Red Team Blues,* my forthcoming novel from @TorBooks.

https://schedule.boskone.org/people/29740

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McKinsey For Kids (no, really): Give us a child when they are seven and they are ours for life.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/107803061325204078

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Outing German spy agencies by mailing them Airtags: A threat-model parable.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/107803136864267371

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#15yrsago Vancouver cops hate WiFi https://web.archive.org/web/20070217033827/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20070215.BCWIRELESS15/TPStory/TPNational/BritishColumbia/

#10yrsago UK: yes, we kidnapped people and sent them to be tortured by Qaddafi, but you can’t sue us https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/feb/14/mi6-licence-to-kill-and-torture

#5yrsago In the US and UK, retirement is only for the super-rich https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/feb/14/wealthy-retire-austerity-pensioners-work

#5yrsago Scottish court: your neighbours owe you for the distress of pointing a CCTV at your back yard and recording your conversations https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170214/03215936704/scottish-sheriff-awards-couple-compensation-distress-caused-neighbors-use-cctv.shtml

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#1yrago Billionaires think VR stops guillotines https://pluralistic.net/2021/02/15/ulysses-pacts/#motivated-reasoning

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Yesterday's threads: Podcasting Part II of "The Internet Heist"; Comprehensive synthesis of the technological, ecological and political critique of blockchainism; Eating invasive species; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/107797866993724518

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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://schedule.boskone.org/people/29740

* 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:

* Bringing Back Luddites (Oh No Ross and Carrie)
https://ohnopodcast.com/investigations/2022/2/14/ross-meets-cory-doctorow-bringing-back-luddites-edition

* 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/

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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/2022/02/15/management-jesuits/

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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: "An Open Letter to Pixsy CEO Kain Jones, Who Keeps Sending Me Legal Threats"

https://doctorow.medium.com/an-open-letter-to-pixsy-ceo-kain-jones-who-keeps-sending-me-legal-threats-5dfc54558f2c

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Today's top sources: Crypto-gram (https://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram/, Naked Capitalism (https://nakedcapitalism.com/).

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