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Inside: How "hollowed" hotels are destroying worker rights; and more!

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This Friday (Mar 4), I'm giving a keynote called Seize the Means of Computation at Poland's @StowAvangarda convention:

konline.ava.waw.pl/konline 2/

How "hollowed" hotels are destroying worker rights: REITs aren't just for money laundering.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1498712848238792704

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Hey Look At This:

* Bicycle-mounted GPS laser projector (h/t Boing Boing)

* Bruegel the Elder’s Big Fish Eat Little Fish (1556) publicdomainreview.org/collection/bru…

* Why old books smell good compoundchem.com/2014/06/01/new… (h/t Core77) 4/

#20yrsago How Scientology tricks Google web.archive.org/web/2002060406…

#20yrsago Man legally prohibited from ever owning a Sony product latimes.com/archives/la-xp…

#10yrsago Censorship is surveillance, and privacy is a public health problem theguardian.com/technology/201… 5/

#10yrsago Who should know what’s happening in your computer? Who should control it? locusmag.com/2012/03/cory-d…

#10yrsago Proposed US law bans protesting near anyone who rates a Secret Service detail techdirt.com/articles/20120… 6/

#5yrsago Wells Fargo: preventing the customers we ripped off from suing us is doing them a favor consumerist.com/2017/03/01/wel…

#5yrsago Reply All covers DRM and the W3C gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-al… 7/

#5yrsago We are one RFID away from a dishwasher. that rejects third-party dishes on pain of a 5-year prison sentence theguardian.com/technology/201… 8/

#5yrsago Wisconsin Republican Senator Ron Johnson threatens legal retaliation against constituent who won’t give up trying to talk to him web.archive.org/web/2017032210… 9/

Yesterday's threads: Podcasting "We Should Not Endure a King"; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1498349771987243017

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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… 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."

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Upcoming appearances:

* 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: "All (Broadband) Politics Are Local: A Chance for Individuals to Make a Difference"

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