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Inside: Descartes' God has failed and Thompson's Satan rules our computers; and more!

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Descartes' God has failed and Thompson's Satan rules our computers: Computers, trust, and the knowability of the universe.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1335302491328532480

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#15yrago Sony *finally* releases rookit uninstaller — sort of web.archive.org/web/2005120401…

#10yrsago UK govt demands an end to evidence-based drug policy theguardian.com/politics/2010/…?

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#1yrago Prasad’s Law: there’s always enough health spending to concentrate wealth, never enough to diffuse it memex.craphound.com/2019/12/06/pra…

#1yrago The retreat of “scientific selfishness,” a literature review the-tls.co.uk/articles/greed…

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#1yrago Radicalized is one of the CBC’s best books of 2019! cbc.ca/books/the-best…

#1yrago German researchers with ties to for-profit “neuromarketing” company want to use AI to guess peoples’ “intelligence” from their writing memex.craphound.com/2019/12/06/ger…

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Yesterday's threads: Student debt trap; Postmortem of the NYPD's murder of a Black man; Section 230 is Good, Actually; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1334936960708722688

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My latest novel is Attack Surface, a sequel to my bestselling Little Brother books. @washingtonpost called it "a political cyberthriller, vigorous, bold and savvy about the limits of revolution and resistance."

Get signed books from @darkdel: darkdel.com/store/p1840/Av…

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I have a (free) new book out! "How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism" is an anti-monopolist critique of Big Tech that connects the rise of conspiratorial thinking to the rise of tech monopolies and proposes a way to deal with both:

onezero.medium.com/how-to-destroy…

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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."

craphound.com/shop/

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Upcoming appearances:

* Monopoly, Not Mind Control: What's Really Happening With "Surveillance Capitalism," Dec 8, nuug.no/aktiviteter/20…

* Colloquium on Information Security, Dec 14, eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-31st-hph…

* Keynote, NISO Plus, Feb 22-25, niso.plus/cory-doctorow-…

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Recent appearances:

* A More Competitive Web (Techdirt Podcast): techdirt.com/articles/20201…

* Big Tech Podcast:
cigionline.org/big-tech/cory-…

* Nerdcanon Podcast:
nerdcanon.com/episode-25-cor…

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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.

pluralistic.net/2020/07/14/poe…

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Today's top sources: Naked Capitalism (nakedcapitalism.com).

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