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Monday's Attack Surface Lecture: Cyberpunk and Post-Cyberpunk with Bruce Sterling and Christopher Brown https://www.eventcombo.com/e/Virtual-event-with-Cory-DoctorowAttack-Surface-40932

Full schedule: https://read.macmillan.com/torforge/cory-doctorow-virtual-lecture-series/

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Beastie Boy mashups: Beastles, Beachtie Boys, Ghostbeasties.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/105051070398613631

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Educator sued for criticising "invigilation" tool: Proctorio has permanently disqualified itself from being entrusted with learners' educations.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/105051272128372443

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#10yrsago G20 Toronto cop who was afraid of girl blowing soap bubbles sues YouTube for “ridicule”

#10yrsago Furniture made from rusted Soviet naval mines https://marinemine.com/

#5yrsago 23andme & Ancestry.com aggregated the world’s DNA; the police obliged them by asking for it https://splinternews.com/cops-are-asking-ancestry-com-and-23andme-for-their-cust-1793851927

#1yrago Pacifica Radio ignores injunction, continues to play canned content on NYC’s WBAI https://brooklyneagle.com/articles/2019/10/15/wbai-supporters-vow-to-keep-fighting-for-local-programming/

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#1yrago 6 years after expose revealed docs taking millions from pharma, it’s only getting worse https://www.propublica.org/article/we-found-over-700-doctors-who-were-paid-more-than-a-million-dollars-by-drug-and-medical-device-companies#169337

#1yrago Leaks reveal how creepy, cultish monopolist Intuit lobbied Congress and the IRS to kill free tax-filing https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-turbotax-20-year-fight-to-stop-americans-from-filing-their-taxes-for-free#168905

#1yrago Berkeley city council unanimously votes to ban facial recognition technology https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/10/victory-berkeley-city-council-unanimously-votes-ban-face-recognition

#1yrago Yahoo Groups is being prepared for shutdown, with all stored archives to be deleted on Dec 14 https://help.yahoo.com/kb/SLN31010.html

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#1yrago Cable is bullshit, and so is 5G: give me fiber or give me death! https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/10/why-fiber-vastly-superior-cable-and-5g

#1yrago The first book collecting the new Nancy comic is incredibly, fantastically, impossibly great https://memex.craphound.com/2019/10/17/the-first-book-collecting-the-new-nancy-comic-is-incredibly-fantastically-impossibly-great/

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Yesterday's threads: Ferris wheel offices; UK to tax Amazon's victims; Amazon returns end up in landfills; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/105046070400842027

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I have a (free) new book out! "How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism" is an anti-monopolist critique of Big Tech that connects the rise of conspiratorial thinking to the rise of tech monopolies and proposes a way to deal with both:

https://onezero.medium.com/how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism-8135e6744d59

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My ebooks and audiobooks (from @torbooks, @HoZ_Books, @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 talks:

* The Attack Surface Lectures: 8 nights of bookstore-hosted events in which I and a massive group of entertaining and knowledgeable experts discourse on my latest novel's themes, Oct 13-22 https://read.macmillan.com/torforge/cory-doctorow-virtual-lecture-series/

* Milehicon (Guest of Honor!), Oct 23-5, https://milehicon.org/

* Coding Democracy/Toronto International Festival of Authors, Oct 24 https://festivalofauthors.ca/event/maureen-webb-coding-democracy/

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Recent appearances:

* SRSLY WRONG: Stop Techno Dystopia!
https://srslywrong.com/podcast/220-stop-techno-dystopia-w-cory-doctorow/

* Judge John Hodgman: "The Doctorow Doctrine"
https://maximumfun.org/episodes/judge-john-hodgman/episode-488-the-doctorow-doctrine/

* Savage Lovecast
https://www.savagelovecast.com/episodes/729

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My first picture book just came 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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Today's top sources: Fipi Lele, Ian Linkletter.

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