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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 coming novel from Tor Books.

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

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The extremely shady "educational integrity" industry: From Proctorio to Honorlock.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/107808385593105444

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Oh great, there's DRM in printer PAPER now: Dymo was so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/107808544107327556

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#15yrsago Macrovision sends pretty lies to Steve Jobs https://web.archive.org/web/20070218084354/macrovision.com/company/news/drm/response_letter.shtml

#10yrsago Meet the western technology companies who sell network snooping technology to torturing dictators https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/02/spy-tech-companies-their-authoritarian-customers-part-i-finfisher-and-amesys

#5yrsago More anti-money laundering measures hit China as top three Bitcoin exchanges freeze withdrawals https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/legal/chinas-top-three-bitcoin-traders-freeze-withdrawals-for-a-month/

#1yrago Ring helped LAPD spy on BLM protests https://pluralistic.net/2021/02/16/ring-ring-lapd-calling/#ring

#1yrago Uber loses (another) $6.8b https://pluralistic.net/2021/02/16/ring-ring-lapd-calling/#uber-unter

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Yesterday's threads: McKinsey For Kids (no, really); Outing German spy agencies by mailing them Airtags; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/107803163881648020

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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/2022/02/16/unauthorized-paper/

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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: Slashdot (https://slashdot.org/).

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