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Inside: Hospital rings up $2755 upcharge by sending pregnant woman to ER; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/10/27/cro…

#Pluralistic 1/
The paperback for Attack Surface - a standalone Little Brother book for adults - is out!

us.macmillan.com/books/97812507…

Signed copies:

darkdel.com/store/p1840/Co…

One-month only audiobook sale with Little Brother and Homeland:

sowl.co/uqT2G 2/
Hospital rings up $2755 upcharge by sending pregnant woman to ER: Poudre Valley Hospital is a clip-joint. 3/
#20yrsago When the Yippies stormed Disneyland web.archive.org/web/2001030511…

#20yrsago RIAA claims it never compared downloading to terrorism, demands apology web.archive.org/web/2001110203…

#15yrsago Going Under: moving kids’ novel memex.craphound.com/2006/10/26/goi… 5/
#10yrsago Machine Man: a discomfiting novel about the antihuman side of transhumanism memex.craphound.com/2011/10/26/mac…

#10yrsago Canadian Tory MP: Don’t worry about violating our stupid new copyright law, because we probably won’t catch you if you do web.archive.org/web/2011102915… 6/
#5yrsago Everfair: a diverse, ambitious steampunk novel of Fabian socialists and American Black Zionists in Belgian Congo memex.craphound.com/2016/10/26/eve…

#5yrsago When the FCC asked about unlocking set-top boxes, the Copyright Office ran to the MPAA eff.org/deeplinks/2016… 7/
#5yrsago AT&T developed a “product” for spying on all its customers and made millions selling it to warrantless cops thedailybeast.com/atandt-is-spyi…

#1yrago Chile restores democratic rule pluralistic.net/2020/10/26/viv…

#1yrago Phone surveillance, made in Canada pluralistic.net/2020/10/26/viv… 8/
#1yrago Surveillance startup protected sexual harassers pluralistic.net/2020/10/27/pea… 9/
Yesterday's threads: Maxing out our global credit-card with authoritarian debt; 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…

One-month, $30 audiobook bundle with all three Little Brother books:

sowl.co/uqT2G 11/
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… 12/
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/ 13/
Upcoming appearances:

* Lessons from the First Internet Ages (@KnightFdn), Nov 2-3
blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2021/…

* Keynote for @SeaGL 2021, Nov 5-6
seagl.org/news/2021/06/0…

* Anti-Dystopian Congress (@GoetheInstitut), Nov 10-12
goethe.de/ins/sk/de/kul/… 14/
Recent appearances:

* Seize the Means of Computation (@InternetArchive):


* Making Money (@DIDiscworld)
desertislanddiscworld.com/episodes/6-1-c…

* Reconciling Social Media & Democracy, @TechPolicyPress
techpolicy.press/podcast/ 15/
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.

pluralistic.net/2020/07/14/poe… 16/
You can also follow these posts as a daily blog at pluralistic.net: no ads, trackers, or data-collection!

Here's today's edition: pluralistic.net/2021/10/27/cro… 17/
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. 18/
My latest @Medium column is "The Traitorous Eight and the Battle of Germanium Valley," How California's ban on non-competes saved the tech industry from eugenics.

medium.com/@doctorow/a-th… 19/
If you prefer a newsletter, subscribe to the plura-list, which is also ad- and tracker-free, and is utterly unadorned save a single daily emoji. Today's is "🪕". Suggestions solicited for future emojis! 20/
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Are you trying to wean yourself off Big Tech? Follow these threads on the #fediverse at @pluralistic@mamot.fr.

Here's today's edition: mamot.fr/@pluralistic/1… 22/
Today's top sources: @BoingBoing (boingboing.net). 23/

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