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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 last days of Myspace: Facebook is following the steep decline playbook.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/107811181102447334

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The child labor story hidden by the Great Resignation: Bosses want to turn kids into scabs.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/107814511089621605

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#10yrsago Newspaper claims Vikileaks Twitter account traced back to House of Commons https://web.archive.org/web/20120220034250/http://www.ottawacitizen.com/business/Vikileaks30+linked+House+Commons+address/6165497/story.html

#10yrsago Dan Kaminsky on the RSA key-vulnerability https://dankaminsky.com/2012/02/17/primalfear/

#10yrsago WSJ: Google caught circumventing iPhone security, tracking users who opted out of third-party cookies https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/02/time-make-amends-google-circumvents-privacy-settings-safari-users

#5yrsago Irish women call for a nationwide strike if they don’t get a referendum on the country’s brutal abortion ban https://www.themarysue.com/feminism-around-the-world-ireland-strike-against-abortion-ban/

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#5yrsago American airbase personnel sent erroneous “Missile inbound — seek shelter” warning https://www.stripes.com/news/incoming-missile-test-message-inadvertently-sent-out-to-all-airmen-at-spangdahlem-1.454319

#5yrsago City of Paris deploys “anti-refugee boulders” to prevent camping while waiting for space at a humanitarian center https://www.lexpress.fr/actualite/societe/centre-humanitaire-apres-les-grilles-des-pierres-pour-dissuader-les-migrants_1878638.html

#5yrsago Millions of lead-filled CRTs have been abandoned in warehouses across America https://www.vice.com/en/article/z4gv73/americas-television-graveyards

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#5yrsago Hereditary Samsung chieftain arrested for bribing disgraced president’s “Shamanic” cult leader https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/02/samsung-chief-lee-jae-yong-arrested-for-bribery/

#1yrago Reverse centaurs and the failure of AI https://pluralistic.net/2021/02/17/reverse-centaur/#reverse-centaur

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Yesterday's threads: The extremely shady "educational integrity" industry; Oh great, there's DRM in printer PAPER now; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/107808592242863484

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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

* The Policy Implications of Web3/Stanford Cyberpolicy Center, Feb 22:
https://cyber.fsi.stanford.edu/events/policy-implications-web3

* 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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Here's today's edition: https://pluralistic.net/2022/02/17/live-by-the-swordlive-by-the-sword/

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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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Are you trying to wean yourself off Big Tech? Follow these threads on the #fediverse at @pluralistic.

Here's today's edition: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/107814567454462137

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Today's top sources: Naked Capitalism (https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/).

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