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This Friday (Mar 4), I'm giving a keynote called Seize the Means of Computation at Poland's Konline convention:

https://konline.ava.waw.pl/konline

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Defi and Shadow Banking 2.0: Leverage, rigidity and bank runs.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/107885537151660221

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#20yrago Vancouver Olympics will own words like “winter,” “2010” and “Vancouver” https://web.archive.org/web/20070305171751/https://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/1777/125/

#10yrsago Romney finance co-chair VanderSloot makes a habit of threatening journalists https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/03/billionaires-bogus-legal-threats-against-bloggers-threaten-free-speech

#10yrsago Island of Guersney moots becoming a “libel haven” where rich & powerful can sue & silence critics https://anniemachon.ch/annie_machon/2012/03/a-new-threat-to-media-freedoms.html

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#5yrsago Healthcare facilities widely compromised by Medjack, malware that infects medical devices to steal your information https://www.wired.com/2017/03/medical-devices-next-security-nightmare/

#5yrsago Fill Your Boots: my column on how technology could let us work like artisans and live like kings https://locusmag.com/2017/03/cory-doctorow-the-jubilee-fill-your-boots/

#5yrsago SXSW threatens to narc musicians out to immigration authorities if they play unauthorized gigs https://www.sxsw.com/sxsw-statement-performance-agreement-concerns/

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#5yrsago Terms and Conditions: the bloviating cruft of the iTunes EULA combined with extraordinary comic book mashups https://memex.craphound.com/2017/03/03/terms-and-conditions-the-bloviating-cruft-of-the-itunes-eula-combined-with-extraordinary-comic-book-mashups/

#5yrsago UK government threatens jail for journalists who work with whistleblowers https://web.archive.org/web/20170307120803/https://therealnews.com/t2/story:18474:New-UK-Secrecy-Laws-Include-Harsh-Sentences-For-Journalists-Working-With-Whistleblowers

#5yrsago Mike Pence used his AOL account for Indiana government business, and got hacked https://www.indystar.com/story/news/politics/2017/03/02/pence-used-personal-email-state-business----and-hacked/98604904/

#5yrsago Landmark ruling shows Canada has one of the world’s worst DRM laws https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2017/03/canadian-dmca-in-action-court-issues-massive-damage-award-in-first-major-anti-circumvention-copyright-ruling/

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Yesterday's threads: How "hollowed" hotels are destroying worker rights; and more!

https://mamot.fr/web/statuses/107882502386677610

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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:

* Seize the Means of Computation, @StowAvangarda Poland, Mar 4
https://konline.ava.waw.pl/konline

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

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Recent appearances:

* The Policy Implications of Web3 (Stanford Cyber Policy Center)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fir5ujS-Dkg

* 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

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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/2022/03/02/shadow-banking-2-point-oh/

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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: "All (Broadband) Politics Are Local: A Chance for Individuals to Make a Difference"

https://doctorow.medium.com/all-broadband-politics-are-local-e103967a0f0c

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Today's top sources: DSHR's Blog (https://blog.dshr.org/)

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