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Tomorrow (Mar 10), I'm on a Right to Repair panel in honor of the special "War on Repair" issue of Make: magazine:

https://makezine.com/2022/03/07/vol80-launch-party/

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The cruelty isn't the point: The point is power.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/107927313029913814

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#20yrsago Rob Ford: dead cyclists have themselves to blame! https://web.archive.org/web/20080704112241/accordionguy.blogware.com/blog/_archives/2007/3/9/2792448.html

#10yrsago Infographic: Charter Cable’s dirty tricks to kill community broadcast https://muninetworks.org/content/charter-fights-dirty-kill-competition-monticello

#10yrsago TSA body-scanner guy says TSA is “strongly cautioning” reporters not to write about him https://professional-troublemaker.com/2012/03/08/breaking-tsa-threatens-mainstream-media-not-to-cover-story/

#10yrsago Arizona Senate votes to let anti-abortion docs lie to pregnant women https://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2012/03/06/senate-approves-bill-on-wrongful-births/

#5yrsago Bunnie Huang’s tour-de-force “Hardware Hacker” https://memex.craphound.com/2017/03/09/bunnie-huangs-tour-de-force-hardware-hacker-book-is-finally-in-print/

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#5yrsago Senate Republicans introduce resolution ensuring ISPs don’t need your permission to sell your private data and SSN https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/03/gop-senators-new-bill-would-let-isps-sell-your-web-browsing-data/

#5yrsago The grueling emotional labor of an open source maintainer https://nolanlawson.com/2017/03/05/what-it-feels-like-to-be-an-open-source-maintainer/

#5yrsago Uber’s “sharing economy” is really the “taking economy” https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2929643

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Yesterday's threads: How and why to break up Big Tech; The Dawn of Everything; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/107922710062967033

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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:

* Make: magazine Vol 80 launch party (Mar 10)
https://makezine.com/2022/03/07/vol80-launch-party/

* 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:

* Safety Orange (This Week in Tech)
https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech/episodes/865

* 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

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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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Hey look at this

* Zelensky's "Servant of the People" sitcom, with English subtitles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZ-3YwVQV0M (h/t David Isenberg)

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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/2022/03/09/turkeys-voting-for-christmas/

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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: "What is 'Peak Indifference?'"

https://doctorow.medium.com/what-is-peak-indifference-b7ddb6d92ca5

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