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Email sabbaticals: I'm going offline until next year.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/105390795878080085

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Chaos Communications Congress: Finally a way to do CCC without making your family furious.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/105390876680247815

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Landmark US financial transparency law: Beginning of the end for the US onshore

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/105390980240899170

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Rogues' Galleries and facial recognition: Self-fulfilling prophecies at the core of white supremacist policing.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/105391058685006051

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#10yrsago Data mining the intellectual history of the human race with Google Book Search https://web.archive.org/web/20101219070813/http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2010/12/16/the-cultural-genome-google-books-reveals-traces-of-fame-censorship-and-changing-languages/

#5yrsago America’s permanent, ubiquitous tent-cities https://placesjournal.org/article/tent-city-america/

#5yrsago McKinsey is lying about its role in building ICE’s gulags, and paying to own the top search result for “McKinsey ICE” https://www.propublica.org/article/mckinsey-called-our-story-about-its-ice-contract-false-its-not

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#1yrago Bunnie Huang’s classic “Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzhen” is now free online

#1yrago Private equity firms should be abolished https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/why-private-equity-should-not-exist

#1yrago ICANN hits pause on the sale of .ORG to Republican billionaires’ private equity fund https://www.icann.org/news/blog/org-update

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Yesterday's threads: Pornhub and payment processors; Asset forfeiture is just theft; EU competition rules have real teeth; Blockchain voting is bullshit; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1338916128542793728

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My latest novel is Attack Surface, a sequel to my bestselling Little Brother books. @washingtonpost called it "a political cyberthriller, vigorous, bold and savvy about the limits of revolution and resistance."

Get signed books from @darkdel: https://www.darkdel.com/store/p1840/Available_Now%3A_Attack_Surface.html

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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 appearances:

* Chaos Communications Congress: "What the cyberoptimists got wrong - and what to do about it," Dec 27, 19h CET/10h Pacific https://rc3.world/

* Chaos Communications Congress: Fireside Chat Dec 27, 20h CET/11h Pacific https://rc3.world/

* Keynote, NISO Plus, Feb 22-25, https://niso.plus/cory-doctorow-to-keynote-at-niso-plus-2021/

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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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Today's top sources: Waxy (https://waxy.org/), Naked Capitalism (https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/).

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