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This Saturday (July 30) at 3PM, I will be reading and signing my picture book "Poesy the Monster Slayer" at the Dark Delicacies booth at Midsummer Scream in Long Beach, CA:

http://midsummerscream.org/

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Sponsor me for the Clarion Write-A-Thon! I'm writing 10,000 words on my prison-tech thriller "The Bezzle" 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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"A Half-Built Garden": Ruthanna Emrys's stunning First Contact novel.

https://mamot.fr/web/@pluralistic/108711526968555103

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Hey look at this

* Starred Publishers Weekly review for Chokepoint Capitalism https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-8070-0706-8

* Consumer Reports is hiring public interest technologists (and others) https://digital-lab.consumerreports.org/2022/06/23/new-opportunities-at-cr/

* I Don’t Know What A Sympathetic Character Is Anymore https://www.tor.com/2022/07/20/i-dont-know-what-a-sympathetic-character-is-anymore/

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#5yrsago American wages are so low, the robots don’t want your job https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/25/upshot/maybe-weve-been-thinking-about-the-productivity-slump-all-wrong.html

#5yrsago Leaked memo details Koch Bros’ astroturf strategy to lower US corporate tax rate https://theintercept.com/2017/07/26/koch-brothers-tax-reform-plan-grassroots-document/

#5yrsago China forces Xinjiang Uyghurs to install mobile spyware, enforces with stop-and-frisk https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/government/china-forces-muslim-minority-to-install-spyware-on-their-phones/

#5yrsago Roomba wants to sell the maps of the inside of your home it created while cleaning https://www.reuters.com/article/us-irobot-strategy-idUSKBN1A91A5

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#5yrsago Escaping prison with D&D https://www.vice.com/en/article/padk7z/how-inmates-play-tabletop-rpgs-in-prisons-where-dice-are-contraband

#1yrago Surge pricing violates antitrust law https://pluralistic.net/2021/07/26/aggregate-demand/#pure-transfer

#1yrago Oregon's carbon offsets go up in smoke https://pluralistic.net/2021/07/26/aggregate-demand/#murder-offsets

#1yrago Disney parks and aggregate demand management https://pluralistic.net/2021/07/26/aggregate-demand/#why-are-we-waiting

#1yrago Charter schools are money laundries https://pluralistic.net/2021/07/26/aggregate-demand/#ed-bezzle

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Yesterday's threads: Why none of my books are available on Audible; Sarah Gailey's "Just Like Home"; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/108708427002283602

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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:

* Midsummer Scream (Long Beach), Jul 30
http://midsummerscream.org/

* DEFCON 30 (Las Vegas), Aug 13
https://defcon.org/html/defcon-30/dc-30-index.html

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Recent appearances:

* Closing keynote, a New Hope (2600)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQVElKl5X4I

* Bricking Tractors (Inside Agri-Turf)
https://inside-agriturf.captivate.fm/episode/bricking-tractors-with-cory-doctorow

* Blockchain, Bitcoin & Selling The Brooklyn Bridge (MMT Podcast):
https://pileusmmt.libsyn.com/135-cory-doctorow-blockchain-bitcoin-selling-the-brooklyn-bridge

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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/2022/07/26/aislands/

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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 "Dare to Know: What if knowing the exact date of your death was a luxury good?"

https://doctorow.medium.com/dare-to-know-96975e898677

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