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

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

Thu (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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Podcasting Part III of "The Internet Heist": In which the cartel gives itself a veto over your family life.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/107836664151653089

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China hamstrings its Big Tech: "National champions" are neither.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/107842475633960464

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#15yrsago What Steve Jobs’s DRM announcement means https://www.salon.com/2007/02/23/itunes_7/

#5yrsago What it’s like to be spied on by Android stalkerware marketed to suspicious spouses https://www.vice.com/en/article/aeyea8/i-tracked-myself-with-dollar170-smartphone-spyware-that-anyone-can-buy

#1yrago What Democrats need to do: Don't just stand there, govern! https://pluralistic.net/2021/02/22/sorcerers-apprentice/#do-something

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Yesterday's threads: A(nother) massive Swiss banking leak; The people's disruption; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/107836427526250812

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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/2022/02/22/national-champions/

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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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