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Sponsor me for the Clarion Write-A-Thon! I'm writing 10,000 words on my prison-tech thriller "Some Men Rob You With a Fountain Pen" and raising scholarship money for the Clarion SF/F workshop, which I graduated from in 1992.

https://clarionwriteathon.com/members/profile.php?writerid=293388

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Daycare apps are insecure surveillance dumpster-fires: Apps are like software, only worse.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/108527602762904570

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Hey look at this

* The Jovian Duck: LaMDA and the Mirror Test https://www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=10269

* Taking the 6th edition of Car Wars for a test drive https://boingboing.net/2022/06/21/taking-the-6th-edition-of-post-apocalyptic-vehicle-combat-game-car-wars-for-a-test-drive.html

* Agnes Giberne's The Story of the Sun, Moon, and Stars (1898) https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/story-of-sun-moon-stars

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#15yrsago Open Source Consortium to regulators: Stop the BBC’s DRM! https://web.archive.org/web/20070210062816/http://www.opensourceconsortium.org/content/view/65/55/

#15yrsago Broadcast Treaty wounded and dying! https://web.archive.org/web/20070626103453/https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/005333.php

#15yrsago Podcasting Bruce Sterling's "Hacker Crackdown" https://craphound.com/news/2007/06/23/the-hacker-crackdown-part-001/

#10yrsago St Colin and the Dragon: great torn paper kids’ comic https://memex.craphound.com/2012/06/22/st-colin-and-the-dragon-great-torn-paper-kids-comic/

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#10yrsago EFF joins the defense in Charles Carreon v. The Whole Goddamned Internet https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-will-represent-oatmeal-creator-fight-against-bizarre-lawsuit-targeting-critical

#10yrsago Bruce Sterling interviewed about the New Aesthetic https://web.archive.org/web/20120626071907/http://davidalbertcox.com/blog/?p=29

#10yrsago Top US drug cop can’t tell the difference between marijuana and heroin https://web.archive.org/web/20120624135651/http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/06/20/top-dea-agent-wont-admit-heroin-more-harmful-than-marijuana/

#10yrsago Science fiction in Africa https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00t4yn2

#5yrsago A Chinese vitamin MLM cult is replacing healthcare for poor Ugandans https://web.archive.org/web/20200925111836/https://www.aljazeera.com/program/episode/2017/6/22/ugandas-health-pyramid/

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#5yrsago For the first time, Jeremy Corbyn overtakes Theresa May in UK polls https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/corbyn-theresa-may-poll-best-prime-minister-pm-latest-labour-conservatives-a7803911.html

#5yrsago US Copyright Office recommends sweeping, welcome changes to America’s DRM laws https://www.vice.com/en/article/d3zbnz/the-government-wants-to-permanently-legalize-the-right-to-repair

#5yrsago Crowdfunding a pro-vaccination bus to follow the anti-vaxxer bus https://www.gofundme.com/f/craigs-provax-world-tour

#5yrsago Canada: Trump shows us what happens when “good” politicians demand surveillance powers https://www.cbc.ca/2017/what-happens-after-the-good-politicians-give-away-our-rights-cory-doctorow-shares-a-cautionary-tale-1.4170865

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#5yrsago A DRM-locked, $400 tea-brewing machine from the Internet of Shit timeline https://gizmodo.com/a-400-smart-tea-machine-gave-this-brit-an-existential-1796219286

#5yrsago John Oliver dared a coal exec to sue him, and now he’s being sued https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/06/22/john-oliver-a-giant-squirrel-and-a-defamation-lawsuit-by-a-coal-industry-titan/

#5yrsago Tumblr is now owned by a phone company, so it’s stopped fighting for Network Neutrality https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/21/15816974/verizon-tumblr-net-neutrality-internet-politics-david-karp

#5yrsago A history of artist Anish Kapoor and his assholic mission to own the color black https://www.wired.com/story/vantablack-anish-kapoor-stuart-semple/

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#1yrago Peloton bricks its treadmills https://pluralistic.net/2021/06/22/vapescreen/#jane-get-me-off-this-crazy-thing

#1yrago Juul's junk science https://pluralistic.net/2021/06/22/vapescreen/#smokescreen

#1yrago Improving the ACCESS Act: Six ways to make the most important tech law of the legislative season even better https://pluralistic.net/2021/06/22/vapescreen/#improve-access

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Monday's threads: The sex industry isn't technophilic; Schroedinger's streaming service just died; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/108516718955637211

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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:

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

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Recent appearances:

* Supp-Lie Demand (Bad Faith podcast with Briahna Joy Gray):
https://www.patreon.com/posts/67550669

* The Sci-Fi Feedback Loop: Mapping Fiction’s Influence on Real-World Tech
https://csi.asu.edu/calendar/events/the-sci-fi-feedback-loop-mapping-fictions-influence-on-real-world-tech/

* Privacy is the New Celebrity
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1806101/10643084

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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/2022/06/23/peek-a-boo/

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If you're a Medium subscriber, you can read these essays - as well as previews of upcoming magazine columns and early exclusives on doctorow.medium.com.

My latest Medium column is "Reasonable Agreements: On the Crapification of Literary Contracts"

https://doctorow.medium.com/reasonable-agreement-ea8600a89ed7

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