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Into the breach: Intelligence failure, complicity, or incompetence?

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/105515764712152491

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Revolutionary Colossus: Mange le roi.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/105515919007011569

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#5yrsago High-rez trip through Florida’s Haunted Mansion with a low-light filter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKVd-xwxgJs

#5yrsago Dear Comcast: broadband isn’t gasoline https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160105/08100533246/with-fixed-costs-fat-margins-comcasts-broadband-cap-justifications-are-total-bullshit.shtml

#5yrsago Caught lying by an EFF investigation, T-Mobile CEO turns sweary https://www.theverge.com/2016/1/7/10733298/john-legere-binge-on-lie

#1yrago Review: Aeropress Go, the best travel coffee you’ll ever brew https://memex.craphound.com/2020/01/07/review-aeropress-go-the-best-travel-coffee-youll-ever-brew/

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#1yrago After more than a decade, Cecil Castellucci and Jim Rugg’s YA classics The PLAIN Janes are back! https://memex.craphound.com/2020/01/07/after-more-than-a-decade-cecil-castellucci-and-jim-ruggs-ya-classics-the-plain-janes-are-back/

#1yrago 1975 Disneyland Haunted Mansion Standard Operating Procedures manual https://archive.org/details/hauntedmansionmanual

#1yrago A masterclass in reverse image-search https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/how-tos/2019/12/26/guide-to-using-reverse-image-search-for-investigations/

#1yrago Despite 50 state AGs’ antitrust investigations, Google stocks hit an all time high https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/06/google-and-facebook-hit-all-time-highs-despite-antitrust-probes.html

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#1yrago The New Deal was partly motivated by a desire to kill the fake news epidemic of the Gilded Age https://twitter.com/matthewstoller/status/810158671170772992

#1yrago Explaining the con that is private equity https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2020/1/6/21024740/private-equity-taylor-swift-toys-r-us-elizabeth-warren

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Yesterday's threads: The WELL State of the World; Food and Climate Change Without the Hot Air; Mass court: "I agree" means something; Congress bans "little green men"; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/105509679260619071

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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:

* What if the future of our public lives online looked like _____? (panel at New_ Public), Jan 13, https://newpublic.org/festival/event/783/all-star-world-cafe-what-if-the-future-of-our-public-lives-online-looked-like

* Keynote for linux.conf.au, Jan 22 (US) 23 (Australia) https://linux.conf.au/schedule/

* Evening with William Gibson, Jan 25, https://www.eventbrite.com/e/william-gibson-cory-doctorow-agency-tickets-132831910821

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

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Recent appearances:

* Hedging Bets on the Future (Motherboard Cyber):
https://play.acast.com/s/cyber/hedgingbetsonthefuturewithauthorcorydoctorow

* Applying the Pandemic Mindset to Climate Change:
https://hbr.org/podcast/2020/12/applying-the-pandemic-mindset-to-climate-change-with-cory-doctorow

* 2020 Beaverbrook Lectures:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y66r57bGG5w

* Bibliotherapy/Shelf Healing:
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1509671/6580831

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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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