#20yrsago Report from the spam/anti-spam summit web.archive.org/web/2004042607…

#20yrsago Broadcast Treaty threatens the whole world with super-duper DMCA web.archive.org/web/2004042722…

#20yrsago John Gilmore on Gmail’s terms-of-service craphound.com/gilmoreongmail.h…

#15yrsago U2’s manager wants the power to cut off your Internet connection memex.craphound.com/2009/04/08…

#15yrsago Sustainable Energy Without the Hot Air: the Freakonomics of conservation, climate and energy memex.craphound.com/2009/04/08…

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#15yrsago What you should be afraid of instead of terrorists web.archive.org/web/2009032707…

#15yrsago Obama DOJ invents radical authoritarian theory to defend Bush administration’s warrantless wiretapping salon.com/2007/08/01/obama/

#15yrsago London cop’s unprovoked attack on G20 bystander who then has fatal heart attack theguardian.com/uk/2009/apr/07…

#10yrsago EU’s highest court strikes down mass surveillance under the Data Retention Directive eff.org/deeplinks/2014/04/data…

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#10yrsago Online test-proctoring: educational spyware that lets third parties secretly watch and listen to you through your computer web.archive.org/web/2014041214…

#10yrsago My daughter Poesy reviews Hilda and the Black Hound youtube.com/watch?v=2lVWEiMbx_…

#5yrsago The BLM’s Burning Man environmental impact statement is terrible, calls for drug searches, dumpsters, and a 19,000,000lb concrete wall memex.craphound.com/2019/04/07…

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#5yrsago China’s toxic livestreaming culture: the vicarious lives of angry, alienated, uneducated rural gamers sixthtone.com/news/1003642

#5yrsago The two hidden intellectual moves behind the “progressive” argument against free college washingtonpost.com/politics/20…

#5yrsago Pledge: I will not participate in any event organized by or including institutions that employ Kirstjen Nielsen memex.craphound.com/2019/04/08…

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#5yrsago Most browsers — except Firefox and Brave — are eliminating the option to turn off surveilling “hyperlink auditing” bleepingcomputer.com/news/soft…

#1yrago Everything advertised on social media is overpriced junk pluralistic.net/2023/04/08/lat…

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Yesterday's threads: How to shatter the class solidarity of the ruling class; and more!

mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11223599…

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My last novel was "The Lost Cause," a solarpunk novel of radical hope in the climate emergency, from Tor Books (US)/Head of Zeus (UK):

lost-cause.org

Signed, personalized copies available from Dark Delicacies:

darkdel.com/store/p3007/Pre-Or…

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My latest nonfiction book is "The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation" from Verso Books:

seizethemeansofcomputation.org

Signed copies available from Book Soup:

booksoup.com/book/978180429124…

Both are national bestsellers!

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My ebooks and audiobooks (from Tor Books, Head of Zeus, McSweeneys, Beacon, Verso 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."

craphound.com/shop/

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Upcoming appearances:

* UCLA Institute for Law, Technology and Policy, Apr 10
pages.e2ma.net/pages/1972582/4…

* The Bezzle at Harvard Berkman-Klein Center, with Randall Munroe (Boston), Apr 11
cyber.harvard.edu/events/enshi…

* RISD Debates in AI (Providence), Apr 12
involved.risd.edu/event/977796…

* The Bezzle at Anderson's Books (Chicago), Apr 17
andersonsbookshop.com/event/co…

* Torino Tech Biennale, Apr 21
biennaletecnologia.it/evento/c…

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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* The Bezzle at Book Passage (Corte Madera, Marin), Apr 27
bookpassage.com/event/cory-doc…

* Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (Winnipeg), May 2
eventbrite.ca/e/cory-doctorow-…

* Wordfest (Calgary), May 3
wordfest.com/2024/event/wordfe…

* Massy Arts (Vancouver), May 4
eventbrite.ca/e/solo-reading-c…

* Tartu Prima Vista Literary Fest, May 5-11
tartu2024.ee/en/kirjandusfesti…

* “Enshittification” and AI, with @timoreilly (virtual), May 14
oreilly.com/live-events/tim-or…

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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* Authorship in an Age of Monopoly and Moral Panics (SF), May 17
authorsalliance.org/2024/03/15…

* Media Ecology Association keynote (Amherst, NY), Jun 6-9
media-ecology.org/convention

* American Association of Law Libraries keynote (Chicago), Jul 21
aallnet.org/conference/agenda/…

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Recent appearances:

* Digital capitalism course: What is digital capitalism? (Transnational Institute)
youtube.com/watch?v=oCzWpEQcd7…

* The Scam Economy (Lost Dollar Business Club)
youtube.com/watch?v=SChg9ZiY_b…

* Private Prisons, Finance Ghouls and The Bezzle (It Could Happen Here)
iheart.com/podcast/105-it-coul…

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I'm touring my new, nationally bestselling novel *The Bezzle*! Catch me TOMORROW (Apr 10) at UCLA, then Chicago (Apr 17), Torino (Apr 21) Marin County (Apr 27), Winnipeg (May 2), Calgary (May 3), Vancouver (May 4), and beyond!

pluralistic.net/2024/02/16/nar…

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From the picture at Macmillan it appears that Mr. Brust also plays clawhammer banjo, a fact you should have mentioned in your review as it MAKES ALL THE DIFFERENCE. I mean, all the other stuff you mentioned is cool, but clawhammer banjo players are a unique breed, with sensibilities unknown to ordinary humans. I think I may try out one of these Brust novels.