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Inside: How and why to break up Big Tech; The Dawn of Everything; and more!

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Thursday (Mar 10), I'm on a #RightToRepair panel in honor of the special "War on Repair" issue of @make: magazine:

makezine.com/2022/03/07/vol… 2/

How and why to break up Big Tech: My new Locus column, "Vertically Challenged."

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1501259822947344388

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The Dawn of Everything: An essential reminder that we are in charge of our own destiny.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1501286636365230086

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#15yrsago EFF Pioneer Award winners: Schneier, Benkler, me web.archive.org/web/2007030915…

#10yrsago ACLU sues school district for student’s social media free speech rights web.archive.org/web/2012030702…

#10yrsago HOWTO get metal through a TSA full-body scanner professional-troublemaker.com/2012/03/06/1b-… 5/

#10yrsago Danish trade minister and ACTA booster apologise for bogus piracy numbers techdirt.com/2012/03/07/dan…

#10yrsago Maher Arar on Canada’s pro-torture policy web.archive.org/web/2012061209… 6/

#5yrsago In Russia, where wife-beating is legal, socialists celebrate Women’s Day with feminist guerrilla “ads” globalvoices.org/2017/03/08/rus…

#5yrsago SXSW will remove contractual immigration threats for international artists who play the show sxsw.com/sxsw-statement… 7/

#5yrsago What will the 25th century call the 21st century? torforgeblog.com/2017/03/06/wha…

#5yrsago Radio Shack is bankrupt. Again. bloomberg.com/news/articles/… 8/

#5yrsago Russian dissident warns that the anti-Trump movement’s Russian conspiracy theories are a distraction nybooks.com/daily/2017/03/…

#5yrsago Who is immigration policy for: “taxpayers,” “ordinary people” or all citizens? legalresearch.blogs.bris.ac.uk/2017/03/the-uk… 9/

#5yrsago How the GOP’s simplified Border Adjustment Tax will be instantly riddled with loopholes bloomberg.com/opinion/articl… 10/

Yesterday's threads: "All (Broadband) Politics Are Local"; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1500881126277234697

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Hey look at this

* Why Social Media Needs Mandatory Interoperability techpolicy.press/why-social-med…

* Socialist Modernism in Former Yugoslavia (800 copy limited edition) urbanicagroup.ro/ushop/publicat…

* March 10 tweetstorm to end Canadian fossil fuel subsidies docs.google.com/document/d/1II… 12/

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… 13/

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:

* @make Vol 80 launch party (Mar 10)
makezine.com/2022/03/07/vol…

* Competition & Regulation in Disrupted Times (@News_CRA/Brussels), Mar 31
cra-brusselsconference.com

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

* Safety Orange (@TWiT)
twit.tv/shows/this-wee…

* Seize the Means of Computation (Boston Computation Club)

castro.fm/episode/cBq9TF

* Policy Implications of Web3 (@StanfordCyber)
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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… 18/

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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.

My latest Medium column is: "What is 'Peak Indifference?'"

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