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This week, I'm on two online panels about Web3 and activism.

Feb 22
The Policy Implications of Web3/Stanford Cyberpolicy Center:
https://cyber.fsi.stanford.edu/events/policy-implications-web3

Feb 24
Web3 for Activists: What Could Go Right, What Could Go Wrong (Fight for the Future/Amnesty International)
https://amnestyusa-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_NVefCOFkSHWKCYxaQVpEQw

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A(nother) massive Swiss banking leak: Sunshine won't disinfect anything on its own.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/107834088166624272

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The people's disruption: Tech rights are workers' rights.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/107834209309087431

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#20yrsago Science fiction without the future https://web.archive.org/web/20020305220328/home.earthlink.net/~judithberman/fiction/sffuture.html

#20yrsago Vegas is decadent again https://web.archive.org/web/20020215223514/http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20020215/3862582s.htm

#20yrsago Thin-skinned Mike Harris brings $15m libel suit against the Globe and Mail https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/government-to-pay-for-harriss-libel-suit/article4131730/

#20yrsago The Betamax decision, demystified https://people.well.com/user/doctorow/betamax.txt

#15yrsago Odeo for sale https://web.archive.org/web/20070222055143/http://blog.obvious.com/2007/02/looking-for-odeos-new-home.html

#15yrsago Pay-per-use electricity in Dallas/Fort-Worth airport https://www.flickr.com/photos/doctorow/398406153/

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#15yrsago MSU forces students to watch RIAA videos https://web.archive.org/web/20070223042521/http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070221/ap_on_hi_te/downloading_music

#15yrsago Understanding what a progam can do https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2007/02/21/why-understanding-programs-hard/

#10yrsago Leaked climate-change denial lobby docs came from water scientist https://www.desmog.com/2012/02/14/heartland-insider-exposes-institute-s-budget-and-strategy/

#5yrsago It’s very hard to maintain an anonymous Twitter account that can withstand government-level attempts to de-anonymize it https://theintercept.com/2017/02/20/how-to-run-a-rogue-government-twitter-account-with-an-anonymous-email-address-and-a-burner-phone/

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#5yrsago “Europe’s last dictator” finally finds the limits to power: taxing the unemployed during a recession https://www.reuters.com/article/us-belarus-protests-idUSKBN15Y0PB

#5yrsago A Clinton-era tech law has quietly, profoundly redefined the very nature of property in the IoT age https://www.vice.com/en/article/qkxkmw/the-internet-of-hackable-things-you-dont-own

#1yrago The Paltrow-Industrial Complex: How Goop is cashing in on covid https://pluralistic.net/2021/02/21/paltrow-industrial-complex/#goopy

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#1yrago Facebook vs Australia: It's not a link-tax, it's collective bargaining https://pluralistic.net/2021/02/21/paltrow-industrial-complex/#facecrook

#1yrago K-shaped recovery vs wealth taxes: Evita's spectre is haunting Argentina https://pluralistic.net/2021/02/21/paltrow-industrial-complex/#wealth-tax

#1yrago Tech trustbusting's moment has arrived https://pluralistic.net/2021/02/20/escape-velocity/#trustbusting-time

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Saturday's threads: Pluralistic is two; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/107825416119891889

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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:

* The Policy Implications of Web3/Stanford Cyberpolicy Center, Feb 22:
https://cyber.fsi.stanford.edu/events/policy-implications-web3

* Web3 for Activists: What Could Go Right, What Could Go Wrong (Fight for the Future/Amnesty International), Feb 24:
https://amnestyusa-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_NVefCOFkSHWKCYxaQVpEQw

* Dangerous Visions and New Worlds: Radical Science Fiction, 1950 to 1985 (City Lights), Feb 27
https://citylights.com/events/dangerous-visions-and-new-worlds-radical-science-fiction-1950-to-1985/

* Emerging Technologies For the Enterprise, Apr 19-20
https://2022.phillyemergingtech.com

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Recent appearances:

* Big Tech & Surveillance Capitalism (Shaun Attwood):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqzeMlvENPs

* Bringing Back Luddites (Oh No Ross and Carrie)
https://ohnopodcast.com/investigations/2022/2/14/ross-meets-cory-doctorow-bringing-back-luddites-edition

* The End of Uber (The War on Cars)
https://thewaroncars.org/2022/01/26/the-end-of-uber-with-cory-doctorow/

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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/2022/02/21/contra-nihilismum/

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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: "We Should Not Endure a King: Antitrust is a political cause, not an economic one"

https://doctorow.medium.com/we-should-not-endure-a-king-dfef34628153

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Today's top sources: Bruce Schneier (https://www.schneier.com/).

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