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Inside: Podcasting "Revenge Of the Chickenized Reverse Centaurs"; and more!

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

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Podcasting "Revenge Of the Chickenized Reverse Centaurs": The relationship between algorithms, interoperability and worker power.

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Hey look at this

* Against Technocratopianism (h/t Paul Davis)

* Heritage Auctions Disneyana catalog ha.com/c/catalog-prin… (h/t Markus Wessel)

* Eugene Debs’s May Day Address to Black Workers jacobinmag.com/2022/05/eugene… 4/

#15yrsago Everything is Miscellaneous – how the Web destroys categories, disciplines and hierarchies (@dweinberger) memex.craphound.com/2007/05/02/eve…

#15yrsago XKCD's map of online communities in the style of a D&D map xkcd.com/256/ 5/

#15yrsago Digg users revolt over #AACS key web.archive.org/web/2007050405…

#10yrsago US copyright enemies list is worst ever, including countries whose crime is poverty web.archive.org/web/2012050312…

#10yrsago Notes from a scratchbuilt 8-bit computer web.archive.org/web/2012042301… 6/

#10yrsago UK MPs: Rupert Murdoch is “not a fit person” to run an international corporation theguardian.com/media/2012/may…

#10yrsago Stephen King calls on politicians to tax him and other rich people thedailybeast.com/stephen-king-t… 7/

#5yrsago Senator Chris Dodd [D], father of #SOPA, is stepping down as MPAA boss techdirt.com/2017/05/01/chr…

#5yrsago India’s controversial national ID scheme leaks fraud-friendly data for 130,000,000 people cis-india.org/internet-gover… 8/

#5yrsago Google order its secretive “raters'” hours cut, so now they’re going public arstechnica.com/features/2017/…

#5yrsago Leaked confidential memo reveals Facebook program to identify and target “insecure” kids theaustralian.com.au/business/media… 9/

#5yrsago Even by North Korean standards, the DPRK’s Ullim tablet is creepily surveillant 38north.org/2017/03/mwilli…

#5yrsago Announcing the Walkaway audiobook, with Wil Wheaton, Amber Benson, Amanda Palmer and more! ia800607.us.archive.org/8/items/walkaw… 10/

Saturday's threads: Disney's writer wage theft, a year on; 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… 12/

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:
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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."

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Upcoming appearances:

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

* Sci-Fi Feedback Loop: Mapping Fiction’s Influence on Real-World Tech (@imaginationASU), May 12
asu.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

* @openjsf Keynote (Austin), Jun 8
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Upcoming appearances:

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

* A New @hopeconf (NYC), Jul 22-24
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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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