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Inside: Ban surveillance advertising; and more!

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Ban surveillance advertising: EFF's technological and legal proposal for a surveillance-free internet.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1506288203128520706

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#15yrsago American Born Chinese, a graphic novel about identity memex.craphound.com/2007/03/22/ame…

#15yrsago Elephant shit paper poopoopaper.com

#15yrsago Blagofaire xkcd.com/239/

#15yrsago @bruces video explains the future of cities 3/

#15yrsago U of Nebraska to @RIAA: here’s a bill for the time you’re wasting techdirt.com/2007/03/21/ria…

#10yrsago Australia’s government won’t disclose its secret copyright meetings because knowing what went on isn’t in the public interest techdirt.com/2012/03/22/aus… 4/

#10yrsago @stephenfry and Ian McKellen pay to save The Hobbit pub from trademark trolls bbc.com/news/uk-englan…

#5yrsago Desperate @JohnDeere tractor owners are downloading illegal #Ukrainian firmware hacks to get the crops in vice.com/en/article/xyk… 5/

#5yrsago Longstanding, unpatched Bluetooth vulnerability lets burglars shut down Google security cameras helpnetsecurity.com/2017/03/21/nes…

#1yrago Patent troll IP is more powerful than Apple's pluralistic.net/2021/03/22/gan…

#1yrago Podcasting "Free Markets" pluralistic.net/2021/03/22/gan… 6/

Yesterday's threads: Podcasting "What Is Peak Indifference?"; To make Big Tech better, make it smaller; Brazil's "Remuneration Right" will strengthen Big Tech and Big Media; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1505965203208519683

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Hey look at this

* A @creativecommons licensed textbook about Conway's Game of Life github.com/nathanieljohns… (h/t @fadhl3y) 8/

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:

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Signed copies here:
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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:

* Competition & Regulation in Disrupted Times (Charles River Associates/Brussels), Mar 31
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* Seize the Means of Computation, Emerging Technologies For the Enterprise, Apr 19-20
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Recent appearances:

* @thebtcpodcast:
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* Dangerous Visions: False Dawns and Wandergrounds - Dystopia, Then and Now


* Safety Orange (@TWiT)
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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: "@marc_laidlaw's 'Underneath the Oversea'"

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