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Next weekend (May 6-8), I'm Guest of Honor at the Demicon 33 science fiction convention in Des Moines:

https://demicon.org/33/programming-grid/

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Killing online surveillance with contextual ads: For chrissakes, can we stop talking about who the product is?

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/108211899655919889

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Hey look at this

* 103 Bits of Advice I Wish I Had Known by Kevin Kelly https://kk.org/thetechnium/103-bits-of-advice-i-wish-i-had-known/

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#15yrsago Reading from Little Brother, my forthcoming young adult novel https://craphound.com/news/2007/04/29/reading-from-little-brother-my-may-2008-young-adult-novel/

#10yrsago Brazil’s copyright societies indicted for fraud, new law demands efficient, transparent collecting societies https://www12.senado.leg.br/noticias/materias/2012/04/24/cpi-do-ecad-propoe-novas-leis-e-orgaos-para-gerir-direitos-autorais

#10yrsago Stephen King interviewed by Neil Gaiman https://journal.neilgaiman.com/2012/04/popular-writers-stephen-king-interview.html

#10yrsago East London residents warned of surface-to-air missiles sited on their roofs for the Olympics https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-17884897

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#5yrsago The CIA created a “Snowden Stopper” to catch future whistleblowers https://web.archive.org/web/20170428184239/https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-04-28/wikileaks-reveals-snowden-stopper-cia-tool-track-whistleblowers

#5yrsago US government tells Supremes it could strip citizenship from virtually all naturalized Americans if it wanted to https://www.courthousenews.com/citizenship-case-takes-speedsters-lie-weight/

#1yrago Disney's writer wage-theft is far worse than reported https://pluralistic.net/2021/04/29/writers-must-be-paid/#pay-the-writer

#1yrago Korea set to break the Samsung dynasty https://pluralistic.net/2021/04/29/writers-must-be-paid/#dynasties

#1yrago What the hell is "carried interest" https://pluralistic.net/2021/04/29/writers-must-be-paid/#carried-interest

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Yesterday's threads: Renegotiate the web "bargain" by blocking all ads; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/108209941494023187

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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:

* Demicon 33 (Des Moines), May 6-8
https://demicon.org/33/programming-grid/

* OpenJSWorld Keynote (Austin), Jun 8
https://events.linuxfoundation.org/openjs-world/program/schedule/

* UK Competition and Markets Authority Data Technology and Analytics conference (London), Jun 15-16
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cma-data-technology-and-analytics-conference-2022-registration-308678625077

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Recent appearances:

* Blockchain, Crypto & Web3 (Life Itself podcast)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eUMD5MoQdo

* Launch for Jennifer Egan's "Candy House" (Vancouver Public Library)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cbxMLxDkPM

* Surveillance Capitalism, Borders, and the Police (Tech Workers Coalition San Diego)
https://youtu.be/sN8iD-nTUWo

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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/2022/04/29/taken-in-context/

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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 "Automation is Magic: The Messy Business of Security Economics"

https://doctorow.medium.com/automation-is-magic-f4c1401d1f0d

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Today's top sources: Kurt Opsahl (https://twitter.com/kurtopsahl/).

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