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Inside: Amazon's $31b "ad business" isn't; and more!

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Today (Feb 27), I'm on a panel called "False Dawns and Wandergrounds: Dystopia, Then and Now," as part of @CityLightsBooks's launch of *Dangerous Visions and New Worlds: Radical Science Fiction, 1950 to 1985*:

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Amazon's $31b "ad business" isn't: They getcha coming and going.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1497986983385354243

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#20yrsago The Chilling Effects project web.archive.org/web/2002032714…

#20yrsago Jack Valenti pushes mandatory DRM for every computer theregister.com/2002/02/26/mpa…

#20yrsago Michael Moore versus Bill O’Reilly web.archive.org/web/2002022223… 4/

#10yrsago SKS, world’s largest microfinance service, drives debtors to suicide nhregister.com/news/article/L…

#10yrsago Author discovers that Amazon can reprice his indie Kindle books however they want and cut his royalties, at will jimchines.com/2012/02/amazon… 5/

#10yrsago Repo Man director urges fans to “pirate a bunch of my stuff right away” thequietus.com/articles/08085…

#10yrsago Save Disney World from Disneylandification passport2dreams.blogspot.com/2012/02/on-int…

#10yrsago Labour to Britain’s Internet: drop dead harrietharman.org/speaking-at-th… 6/

#10yrsago Rumblefish claims to own copyright to ambient birdsong on YouTube web.archive.org/web/2012022708…

#10yrsago Wikileaks releases “Global Intelligence Files” — 5MM emails from private spook outfit Stratfor wikileaks.org/gifiles/ 7/

#10yrsago Danish collecting society blocks band from playing anti-ACTA gig modspil.dk/wordpress/?p=2…

#10yrago Techdirt post about SOPA censored from Google results due to bogus DMCA complaint techdirt.com/articles/20120… 8/

#5yrsago The Body Orifice Security Scanner is why the rectally smuggled phone is called “Beat the BOSS” memex.craphound.com/2017/02/27/the…

#5yrsago The Amazon reviews for a phone designed for rectal smuggling are pretty interesting reading memex.craphound.com/2017/02/27/the… 9/

#5yrsago THEFT: A History of Music memex.craphound.com/2017/02/25/the…

#5yrsago Three kinds of propaganda, and what to do about them memex.craphound.com/2017/02/25/thr…

#5yrsago The CPAC replacement speaker for Milo Yiannopoulos was a notorious Japanese cult-member mutantfrog.com/2017/02/26/pol… 10/

#1yrago Privacy is not property: Interests, not exclusive rights pluralistic.net/2021/02/26/mea…

#1yrago K-Zombies: Zombies conquer Korea pluralistic.net/2021/02/26/mea…

#1yrago Against hygiene theater: Wired: Ventilation. Tired: Handwashing. Fired: Sterilization. pluralistic.net/2021/02/25/rin… 11/

Thursday's threads: Mass arbitration attack could bring Intuit to its knees; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1496856965510799365

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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:

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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… 14/

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:

* Dangerous Visions and New Worlds(@CityLightsBooks), Feb 27
citylights.com/events/dangero…

* Seize the Means of Computation, Konline Poland, Mar 4
konline.ava.waw.pl/konline

* Emerging Technologies For the Enterprise, Apr 19-20
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Recent appearances:

* The Policy Implications of Web3 (@StanfordCyber)


* Big Tech & Surveillance Capitalism (@shaunattwood):


* Bringing Back Luddites (@OhNoPodcast)
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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: "We Should Not Endure a King: Antitrust is a political cause, not an economic one"

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Today's top sources: @yvessmith (nakedcapitalism.com). 24/