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This 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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Safegraph follows people into abortion clinics and then sells the data: And then they lie about it.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/108260452393343766

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Hey look at this

* Nashville Public Library issues "I Read Banned Books" library cards https://boingboing.net/2022/05/05/nashville-public-library-issues-i-read-banned-books-library-cards.html

* The Artificial Grottoes of the Renaissance and Beyond https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/petrified-waters

* “Are You For 86?” by Bruce Sterling (1992) https://bruces.medium.com/are-you-for-86-by-bruce-sterling-1992-1224c33a1d98 ("In the American Civil Cold War, what comes around, goes around")

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#20yrsago Emulating an IBM mainframe on a Psion palmtop https://web.archive.org/web/20020605082600/http://www.conmicro.cx/hercules/

#20yrsago Washington Post reporter doxes online critics, tries to get them fired https://web.archive.org/web/20020615092309/https://prospect.org/webfeatures/2002/05/nyhan-b-05-07.html

#15yrsago HOWTO own a 128-bit number! #AACS https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2007/05/07/you-can-own-integer-too-get-yours-here/

#15yrsago Unauthorized Mickey Mouse pirate tee pays tribute to Dali https://web.archive.org/web/20070509034345/http://www.trestriges.com/en/t-shirts.html

#15yrsago BBC Trustees agree to let BBC infect Britain with DRM https://arstechnica.com/uncategorized/2007/05/bbc-trust-approves-final-plan-for-drmed-program-downloads/

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#10yrsago AAirpass: American Airlines’s all-you-can-eat lifetime first class ticket, and what became of it https://web.archive.org/web/20120506043051/https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-0506-golden-ticket-20120506,0,3094073,full.story

#10yrsago Savage beatings for pro-democracy, anti-Putin protesters in Russia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxTBF57cYw4

#10yrsago Makers, the Master’s thesis https://practicalaesthetics.wordpress.com/2012/05/07/my-makers-thesis-is-done/

#10yrsago Scorching legal response from Dajaz1.com to the unsealed US gov’t docs on the illegal, sleazy seizure of its domain name https://web.archive.org/web/20120510024553/http://dajaz1.com/our-response-to-unsealed-court-documents-in-dajaz1-domain-seizure/

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#10yrsago New Kansas abortion bill lets doctors lie to patients, withhold cancer treatmenthttps://web.archive.org/web/20120508004509/https://thinkprogress.org/health/2012/05/04/478174/kansas-anti-abortion-bill-would-force-doctors-to-warn-women-of-false-cancer-risk/

#5yrsago In Oklahoma, a law to bankrupt groups that organize political protests https://theintercept.com/2017/05/06/oklahoma-governor-signs-anti-protest-law-imposing-huge-fines-on-conspirator-organizations/

#5yrsago Soupy Leaves Home: a masterpiece of YA graphic storytelling, about hobos on the open road https://memex.craphound.com/2017/05/06/soupy-leaves-home-a-masterpiece-of-ya-graphic-storytelling-about-hobos-on-the-open-road/

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#5yrsago Idaho GOP Congressjerk: “Nobody dies because they don’t have access to health care” https://www.idahostatesman.com/news/local/article149013339.html

#5yrsago Matt Furie celebrated yesterday’s Free Comic Book Day by killing off Pepe the Frog https://www.themarysue.com/pepe-the-frog-free-comic-book-day/

#5yrsago Irish police open blasphemy investigation into Stephen Fry for calling God an “utter maniac” https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/stephen-fry-blasphemy-god-utter-maniac-ireland-gardai-rte-meaning-of-life-atheist-a7722081.html

#5yrsago How to support a writer’s career https://memex.craphound.com/2017/05/07/how-to-support-a-writers-career/

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#1yrago The FTC's (kick-ass) Right to Repair report https://pluralistic.net/2021/05/07/pro-act-class-war/#we-fixit

#1yrago The PRO Act and worker misclassification https://pluralistic.net/2021/05/07/pro-act-class-war/#sectoral-balances

#1yrago NY AG attributes Net Neutrality fraud to telcos: 18 million fraudulent comments filed in the FCC docket https://pluralistic.net/2021/05/06/boogeration/#pais-lies

#1yrago Ed-tech apps spy on kids https://pluralistic.net/2021/05/06/boogeration/#i-spy

#1yrago Scammers recycled covid nose-swabs https://pluralistic.net/2021/05/06/boogeration/#up-your-nose

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Thursday's threads: A New York law to end to Wall Street's pension ripoff; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/108249851898089704

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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/

* The Sci-Fi Feedback Loop: Mapping Fiction’s Influence on Real-World Tech (Arizona State University Center for Science and the Imagination), May 12
https://asu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_qKjK9PSLQpW82ACUhHqBWg

* OpenJSWorld (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

* A New HOPE (NYC), Jul 24
https://www.hope.net/

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Recent appearances:

* Revolutionizing Activism — The Power of Utopia (Center for Artistic Activism)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TBlSc3PNUA

* A Little Patience and a Lot of Tape (This Week in Tech)
https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech/episodes/873

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

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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/2022/05/07/safegraph-spies-and-lies/

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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 "End-To-End Encryption is Too Important to Be Proprietary"

https://doctorow.medium.com/end-to-end-encryption-is-too-important-to-be-proprietary-afdf5e97822

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