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I'm going overseas for work on Dec 8, which means time to order signed/personalized copies of my books from Dark Delicacies is running out!

Attack Surface:
https://www.darkdel.com/store/p1840/Cory_Doctorow_-__Attack_Surface_HB_%26_TPB.html#/

Little Brother/Homeland:
https://www.darkdel.com/store/p1750/Cory_Doctorow_-_Little_Brother_%26_Homeland.html#/

How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism:
https://www.darkdel.com/store/p2024/Cory_Doctorow_-_How_to_Destroy_Surveillance_Capitalism.html#/

Poesy the Monster Slayer:
https://www.darkdel.com/store/p1562/_Poesy_the_Monster_Slayer.html

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Podcasting "Give Me Slack": On the parenting challenges of an era without second chances.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/107406274068859036

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A lexicon of euphemisms for "corporate crime": Compliance, risk, white collar crime...

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/107406523418018552

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IP lawyers weaponize trade secrecy to stall vaccine waivers: But Karan Menon has their number.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/107406613684304951

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#20yrsago Busting the WSJ’s FUD on open 802.11 networks https://web.archive.org/web/20020111221354/80211b.weblogger.com/discuss/msgReader$178

#20yrsago The post-PC interface https://web.archive.org/web/20020118162540/http://www.nooface.net/

#20yrsago Chris Raettig on KPMG's linking legal threats https://web.archive.org/web/20020207141547/http://chris.raettig.org/email/jnl00040.html

#15yrsago Canada’s documentaries lost to copyright https://web.archive.org/web/20061209003316/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20061206.wxcopyright06/BNStory/Entertainment/home

#10yrsago Business Software Alliance fractures over SOPA support https://www.cnet.com/news/kaspersky-dumps-trade-group-over-sopa/

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#10yrsago Planesrunner: Ian McDonald’s YA debut is full of action-packed multidimensional cool, airships, electropunk and quantum physics https://memex.craphound.com/2011/12/06/planesrunner-ian-mcdonalds-ya-debut-is-full-of-action-packed-multidimensional-cool-airships-electropunk-and-quantum-physics/

#10yrsago Petition to get a pardon for Turing’s “gross indecency” conviction https://web.archive.org/web/20120110183548/https://submissions.epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/23526

#10yrsago Derek Kirk Kim’s Same Difference: slacker Korean-American kids come of age in the Bay Area https://memex.craphound.com/2011/12/07/derek-kirk-kims-same-difference-slacker-korean-american-kids-come-of-age-in-the-bay-area/

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#10yrsago On Jan 1, awesome stuff will enter the public domain: HG Wells, Gertrude Stein, Buster Keaton, Walt Disney, Lenny Bruce (but not in the USA) https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/class-of-2017

#10yrsago AT&T is the worst carrier in America. Again. https://www.ibtimes.com/verizon-wireless-trumps-att-again-consumer-reports-survey-379522

#5yrsago Mr Robot has driven a stake through the Hollywood hacker, and not a moment too soon https://www.technologyreview.com/2016/12/07/155284/mr-robot-killed-the-hollywood-hacker/

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#5yrsago Learning about the internal culture of the NSA from 262 leaked articles from its internal employee newsletter https://theintercept.com/2016/12/07/drowning-in-information-nsa-revelations-from-262-spy-documents/

#5yrsago The kickstarted Pebble smartwatch is now a division of Fitbit, so they may “reduce functionality” on all the watches they ever sold https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/597507018/pebble-2-time-2-and-core-an-entirely-new-3g-ultra/posts/1752929

#5yrsago For two years, criminals stole sensitive information using malware hidden in individual pixels of ad banners https://www.welivesecurity.com/2016/12/06/readers-popular-websites-targeted-stealthy-stegano-exploit-kit-hiding-pixels-malicious-ads/

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#5yrsago Italy’s referendum: a vote against neoliberalism and authoritarianism https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/12/italy-constitution-referendum-reform-renzi-democratic-party-m5s/

#5yrsago Quitting Facebook feels GREAT https://mathbabe.org/2016/12/06/i-quit-facebook-and-my-life-is-better-now/

#5yrsago Stop calling it “Puppy-Burning” — it’s the “Alt-Warmth Movement” https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/why-i-am-changing-the-name-of-our-puppy-burning-movement-to-alt-warmth

#5yrsago dj BC has your Christmas mashups covered with this year’s amazing Santastic holiday music sampler http://djbc.net/christmash/

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#1yrago China’s war on big data backstabbing https://pluralistic.net/2020/12/07/backstabbed/#big-data-backstabbing

#1yrago The largest strike in human history https://pluralistic.net/2020/12/06/surveillance-tulip-bulbs/#modi-miscalulation

#1yrago Ad-tech as a bubble overdue for a bursting https://pluralistic.net/2020/12/06/surveillance-tulip-bulbs/#adtech-bubble

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Sunday's threads: When you hear "one size fits all," think "universal"; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/107395292116793110

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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:

* Internet Governance Forum (Warsaw), Dec 10
https://www.intgovforum.org/en/schedule/20211210

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Recent appearances:

* Seize the Means of Computation (SeaGL)
https://seagl.org/archive/2021/seize-the-means-of-computation

* Redistribute the Internet (NGI Summit)
https://vimeo.com/651018259

* NFTs (Upstream)
https://soundcloud.com/upstreampodcast/nfts

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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/2021/12/07/solar-panel-for-a-sex-machine/

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

My latest Medium column is "Pandemic of the Unvaccinated":

https://medium.com/@doctorow/pandemic-of-the-unvaccinated-5844d6c37c9b

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