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Inside: The Cuban vaccines; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/11/28/som…

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Are you going to San Diego @Comic_Con? Me too!

* I'll be signing at the @MystGalaxyBooks Booth (#1325) today from 12-12:45PM

* And I'll be on a panel, The Kids Are (Kinda) All Right, today from 1:30-230PM

eventeny.com/events/comicco… 2/

The Cuban vaccines: Omicron, vaccine apartheid, WTO TRIPS waivers and the false hope of viruses "gentling" themselves.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1464986300973559819

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#20yrsago Cybiko PDA looks like a scientific calculator designed by HR Giger web.archive.org/web/2001120421…

#20yrago Footage of the real Christopher Robin in a Pooh suit news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertain… 4/

#15yrsago Russia saves to US Trade Rep's brutal conditions for WTO membership web.archive.org/web/2006120507…

#10yrsago Alan Moore talks V for Vendetta Guy Fawkes masks theguardian.com/books/2011/nov…

#10yrsago How the tax code works for billionaires nytimes.com/2011/11/27/bus… 5/

#10yrsago One percenter asks: “Have You Ever Heard of Anybody Great That’s Come Out of the 99 Percent?” web.archive.org/web/2011113023…

#10yrsago Secret records of US bank bailout released, over howls of protest bloomberg.com/news/articles/… 6/

#5yrsago The Snoopers Charter gives these 48 organisations unlimited, secret access to all UK browsing history web.archive.org/web/2016112715…

#5yrsago Donald Trump didn’t kill the TPP – activism did theguardian.com/commentisfree/… 7/

#5yrsago Ransomware creep accidentally hijacks San Francisco Muni, won’t give it back sfgate.com/bayarea/articl…

#5yrsago Amid a media blackout of the Standing Rock protests, law enforcement targets the rare journalists on the scene theintercept.com/2016/11/27/arr… 8/

Friday's threads: UK ICO: surveillance advertising is dead; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1464313251781660681

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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:

* Redistribute the Internet (@NGIForward Summit), Nov 30
summit.ngi.eu/programme#day2

* @intgovforum (Warsaw), Dec 10
intgovforum.org/en/schedule/20…

* Competition and Regulation in Disrupted Times, Dec 16
cra-brusselsconference.com 13/

Recent appearances:

* NFTs (@UpstreamPodcast)
soundcloud.com/upstreampodcas…

* Policy, Profit, Privacy, and Privilege: The Post-Pandemic Future of Remote Testing Technology (ACM-@USTPC):
acm.org/public-policy/…

* Alternative recommender systems in the DSA:
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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.

pluralistic.net/2020/07/14/poe… 15/

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My latest Medium column is "Apple’s Right-to-Repair U-turn":

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