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Today (Feb 24), I'm on a panel for Amnesty International and Fight for the Future called "Web3 for Activists: What Could Go Right, What Could Go Wrong":

https://amnestyusa-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_NVefCOFkSHWKCYxaQVpEQw

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Mass arbitration attack could bring Intuit to its knees: Justice for the millions ripped off by Turbotax's "Free File" fraud.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/107851094805532697

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#20yrsago Judith Merril's memoirs, at last https://web.archive.org/web/20020603125448/http://www.kissmachine.org/emily.htm

#20yrsago I’m a Googlebot! I will not kill you https://ftrain.com/robot_exclusion_protocol

#20yrsago RIP, Chuck Jones https://www.cnn.com/2002/SHOWBIZ/TV/02/22/chuck.jones.obit/

#20yrsago A bad fall while installing a WiFi antenna https://people.well.com/user/doctorow/rob.txt

#15yrsago Best muscle-rub ever https://memex.craphound.com/2007/02/24/best-muscle-rub-ever/

#5yrsago Techdirt is being sued by the “I invented email” guy and needs your money https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170216/17220136729/techdirt-survival-fund-i-support-journalism.shtml

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#5yrsago So It Is: a Cuban-inspired album from the astounding Preservation Hall Jazz Band https://memex.craphound.com/2017/02/24/so-it-is-a-cuban-inspired-album-from-the-astounding-preservation-hall-jazz-band/

#5yrsago The automated, invisible revert-wars of Wikipedia’s bot ecosystem https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0171774

#5yrsago Putinology considered harmful: the many legends we tell ourselves about Vladimir Putin https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/22/vladimir-putin-killer-genius-kleptocrat-spy-myths

#5yrsago Pope to greedheads: better to be an atheist than the kind of Catholic who screws the poor https://www.reuters.com/article/us-pope-atheists-idUSKBN1621I3

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#5yrsago Customs officials refuse to allow passengers to debark a domestic flight unless they show ID https://www.vice.com/en/article/4349pm/ice-manhunt-forces-passengers-to-show-id-to-exit-domestic-flight

#5yrsago In which Laurie Penny comprehensively proves that she has Yiannopoulos’s number https://psmag.com/news/on-the-milo-bus-with-the-lost-boys-of-americas-new-right#.8061cp4jc

#5yrsago Lawsuit forces DoJ to admit that Obama administration sneakily killed transparency bill https://freedom.press/news/new-documents-show-the-obama-admin-aggressively-lobbied-to-kill-transparency-reform-in-congress/

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#5yrsago After a century of resisting monopolies, Democrats became the party of finance capitalism and it cost them the election https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/02/antimonopoly-big-business/514358/

#5yrsago Found at a thrift shop: the last record of a doomed Apple DRM effort from 1979 https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9vexSPkhkh-UWVrREI4SXB4TGc/view?resourcekey=0-unBUEHLvITiqLmJK8LI-SQ

#1yrago Court rejects TSA qualified immunity: Government genital massages can be video-recorded https://pluralistic.net/2021/02/24/gwb-rumsfeld-monsters/#junk-touching

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#1yrago The Mauritanian: Hitler painted roses and GWB does portraiture https://pluralistic.net/2021/02/24/gwb-rumsfeld-monsters/#gwb-and-gitmo

#1yrago EVs as distributed storage grid: Go green, buy a bigger truck https://pluralistic.net/2021/02/24/gwb-rumsfeld-monsters/#mobile-batteries

#1yrago Bossware and the shitty tech adoption curve: White collar workers, your blue collar comrades tried to warn you https://pluralistic.net/2021/02/24/gwb-rumsfeld-monsters/#bossware

#1yrago German covid coinages: Schadenfreude fur CoronaFußgruß https://pluralistic.net/2021/02/23/acceptable-losses/#Zeitgeist

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#1yrago Malcolm X's true killers: NYPD deathbed confessions confirms "conspiracy theory" https://pluralistic.net/2021/02/23/acceptable-losses/#deathbeds-r-us

#1yrago Private equity's nursing home killing spree: Pre- and post-covid https://pluralistic.net/2021/02/23/acceptable-losses/#disposable-olds

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Tuesday's threads: Podcasting Part III of "The Internet Heist"; China hamstrings its Big Tech; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/107842572914417646

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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:

* Web3 for Activists: What Could Go Right, What Could Go Wrong (Fight for the Future/Amnesty International), Feb 24:
https://amnestyusa-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_NVefCOFkSHWKCYxaQVpEQw

* 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 Policy Implications of Web3 (Stanford Cyber Policy Center)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fir5ujS-Dkg

* Big Tech & Surveillance Capitalism (Shaun Attwood):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqzeMlvENPs

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

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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/2022/02/24/uber-for-arbitration/

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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: "We Should Not Endure a King: Antitrust is a political cause, not an economic one"

https://doctorow.medium.com/we-should-not-endure-a-king-dfef34628153

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