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Tomorrow (May 12), I'm participating in an Arizona State University Center for Science and the Imagination workshop called "The Sci-Fi Feedback Loop: Mapping Fiction’s Influence on Real-World Tech"

https://asu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_qKjK9PSLQpW82ACUhHqBWg

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The (billionaires') case against billionaires: Turns out, we live in a society.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/108283933455617740

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Hey look at this

* Bossware comparison chart https://surfshark.com/employee-surveillance (h/t Dave Maass)

* Who Gets Access to Fast Broadband in Los Angeles? https://arnicusc.org/who-gets-access-to-fast-broadband-in-los-angeles/ (h/t Ernesto Falcon)

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#20yrsago The harder you look at the DMCA, the stupider it gets https://thelookingglass.blogspot.com/2002_05_05_archive.html

#20yrago John Gilmore gives Intel hell https://people.well.com/user/doctorow/gilmoreintel.txt

#15yrsago HOWTO explain quantum theory to a dog https://web.archive.org/web/20070518093722/https://scienceblogs.com/principles/2007/05/many_worlds_many_treats.php

#10yrsago Google search ranking is editorial in nature and qualifies for First Amendment protection https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/05/scholar-regulating-google-results-would-violate-first-amendment/

#5yrsago Jeff Sessions wants to bring back long mandatory prison sentences for minor drug offenses https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/sessions-reviews-justice-department-criminal-charging-policy/2017/05/09/74ffac3a-2e8d-11e7-8674-437ddb6e813e_story.html

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#5yrsago Wrapping up the Crooked Timber seminar on Walkaway: Coase’s Spectre https://crookedtimber.org/2017/05/10/coases-spectre/

#5yrsago Most European millennials would join “a large-scale uprising” https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/05/10/upri-m10.html

#5yrsago What’s inside a phone that’s designed to fit inside your rectum? https://hackaday.com/2017/05/11/tearing-down-the-boss-phone/

#5yrsago Trump plans ban on laptops in the cabins of flights from Europe https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-airlines-electronics-ban-idUSKBN1862QS

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#5yrago Photographs from the archives of the Stasi, East Germany’s legendary, paranoid secret police https://www.wired.com/2017/05/adrian-fish-the-stasi-archives/

#5yrsago The 2020 Census is headed for a “train wreck” thanks to Trump’s mismanagementhttps://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2017/04/trumps-threat-to-the-2020-census-000404/

#5yrsago Apple’s control-freakery is making the Internet of Shit shittier https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2017/5/6/15566630/homekit-internet-of-shit

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#5yrsago Crashed computer at Oslo pizzeria reveals covert facial recognition scheme https://twitter.com/GambleLee/status/862307447276544000

#1yrago Let's eat all the cicadas https://pluralistic.net/2021/05/11/uniboob/#eat-the-brood

#1yrago Cyclopedia Exotica: Aminder Dhaliwal's cryptid history of our one-eyed cousins https://pluralistic.net/2021/05/11/uniboob/#one-eye-and-three-dot-dot-dot

#1yrago LA traveling toward free public transit https://pluralistic.net/2021/05/10/comrade-ustr/#get-on-the-bus

#1yrago Biden's shift on vaccine patents is a Big Deal https://pluralistic.net/2021/05/10/comrade-ustr/#vaccine-diplomacy

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Monday's threads: At the FTC, a quiet, profound shift on antitrust; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/108271511847490244

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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:

* The Sci-Fi Feedback Loop: Mapping Fiction’s Influence on Real-World Tech (Arizona State University Center for Science and the Imagination), May 12
https://asu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_qKjK9PSLQpW82ACUhHqBWg

* OpenJSWorld Keynote (Austin), Jun 8
https://events.linuxfoundation.org/openjs-world/program/schedule/

* UK Competition and Markets Authority Data Technology and Analytics conference (London), Jun 15-16
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cma-data-technology-and-analytics-conference-2022-registration-308678625077

* A New HOPE (NYC), Jul 24
https://www.hope.net/

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Recent appearances:

* Revolutionizing Activism — The Power of Utopia (Center for Artistic Activism)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TBlSc3PNUA

* A Little Patience and a Lot of Tape (This Week in Tech)
https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech/episodes/873

* Blockchain, Crypto & Web3 (Life Itself podcast)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eUMD5MoQdo

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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/2022/05/11/a-dent-in-the-universe/

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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 "About those kill-switched Ukrainian tractors: What John Deere did to Russian looters, anyone can do to farmers, anywhere"

https://doctorow.medium.com/about-those-kill-switched-ukrainian-tractors-bc93f471b9c8

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