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Inside: Killing online surveillance with contextual ads; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2022/04/29/tak…

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Next weekend (May 6-8), I'm Guest of Honor at the @DemiConDM 33 science fiction convention in #DesMoines:

demicon.org/33/programming… 2/

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

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Hey look at this

* 103 Bits of Advice I Wish I Had Known by @kevin2kelly kk.org/thetechnium/10… 4/

#15yrsago Reading from Little Brother, my forthcoming young adult novel craphound.com/news/2007/04/2…

#10yrsago Brazil’s copyright societies indicted for fraud, new law demands efficient, transparent collecting societies www12.senado.leg.br/noticias/mater… 5/

#10yrsago @StephenKing interviewed by @NeilHimself journal.neilgaiman.com/2012/04/popula…

#10yrsago East London residents warned of surface-to-air missiles sited on their roofs for the Olympics bbc.com/news/uk-178848… 6/

#5yrsago The CIA created a “@Snowden Stopper” to catch future whistleblowers web.archive.org/web/2017042818…

#5yrsago US government tells Supremes it could strip citizenship from virtually all naturalized Americans if it wanted to courthousenews.com/citizenship-ca… 7/

#1yrago Disney's writer wage-theft is far worse than reported pluralistic.net/2021/04/29/wri…

#1yrago Korea set to break the Samsung dynasty pluralistic.net/2021/04/29/wri…

#1yrago What the hell is "carried interest" pluralistic.net/2021/04/29/wri… 8/

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

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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 @darkdel:

darkdel.com/store/p1840/Co… 10/

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:

onezero.medium.com/how-to-destroy…

Signed copies here:
darkdel.com/store/p2024/Av… 11/

My ebooks and audiobooks (from @torbooks, @HoZ_Books, @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."

craphound.com/shop/ 12/

Upcoming appearances:

* @DemiConDM 33 (Des Moines), May 6-8
demicon.org/33/programming…

* @openjsf Keynote (Austin), Jun 8
events.linuxfoundation.org/openjs-world/p…

* @CMAgovUK Data Technology/Analytics (London), Jun 15-16
eventbrite.co.uk/e/cma-data-tec… 13/

Recent appearances:

* Blockchain, Crypto & Web3 (@forlifeitself podcast)


* Launch for @Egangoonsquad's "Candy House" (@vpl)


* Surveillance Capitalism, Borders, Police (@twcsandiego)
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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 @MCRockefeller. It's the monster book I dreamt of reading to my own daughter.

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My latest Medium column is "Automation is Magic: The Messy Business of Security Economics"

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Today's top sources: Kurt Opsahl (@kurtopsahl). 20/