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Today (Mar 6), I'm a guest on This Week in Tech, from 1415hPT-17hPT:

https://www.youtube.com/ThisWeekinTech

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Student debt strike called for May 1: If Biden won't fulfill his campaign promise, we'll do it for him.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/107910689281859948

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#20yrsago The Homeless Hacker https://web.archive.org/web/20020601000000*/https://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,50811,00.html

#15yrsago China blocks Livejournal https://web.archive.org/web/20070308093805/https://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,72872-0.html?tw=wn_index_7

#15yrsago Charlie Brooker reviews the Samsung E900 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2007/mar/05/digitalmedia.comment

#10yrsago TSA to nursing mother: breast-pump can’t go through security unless you pump your breasts first https://abcnews.go.com/Travel/hawaiian-mom-breast-pump-humiliated-tsa/story?id=15835844

#5yrsago TSA’s new “pat-downs” are so invasive, airports are pre-emptively warning cops to expect sexual assault claims https://consumerist.com/2017/03/06/tsa-introducing-new-more-invasive-pat-down-method/

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#5yrsago Chris Christie’s Port Authority boss blackmailed United into scheduling a flight to bring him to his weekend place https://www.cnn.com/2017/03/06/us/david-samson-port-authority-chairmans-flight-bribery/index.html

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Yesterday's threads: How to be safer while using Telegram in Russia and Ukraine; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/107904679260880863

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Hey Look At This:

* Poesy the Monster Slayer cosplay: https://twitter.com/espressogeoff/status/1499676446557708291

* Chonky Palmtop https://gitlab.com/norris.daniel/chonky-palmtop (h/t JWZ)

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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:

* Competition & Regulation in Disrupted Times (Charles River Associates/Brussels), Mar 31
https://www.cra-brusselsconference.com/

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

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Recent appearances:

* Seize the Means of Computation (Boston Computation Club)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzzIftKz600 (video)
https://castro.fm/episode/cBq9TF (audio)

* 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

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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/2022/03/06/i-want-to-do-it-now-make-me-do-it/

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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: "All (Broadband) Politics Are Local: A Chance for Individuals to Make a Difference"

https://doctorow.medium.com/all-broadband-politics-are-local-e103967a0f0c

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

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