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Inside: Podcasting "So You’ve Decided to Unfollow Me"; and more!

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Next Sat (Aug 13), I'm co-presenting a program item at @Defcon (Las Vegas) called "Literal Self-Pwning: Why Patients - and Their Advocates - Should Be Encouraged to Hack, Improve, and Mod Med Tech" with @CDameffMD & @jefftullymd:

forum.defcon.org/node/242205 2/

Podcasting "So You’ve Decided to Unfollow Me": On the joys of writing to find your people, rather than pleasing a hypothetical audience.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1556647070588706819

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Hey look at this

* Eugene V. Debs: “Back Up the Teachers” jacobin.com/2022/08/eugene…

* Every company Amazon bought in the past 20 years gizmodo.com/every-company-…

* Why hackers keep exploiting cross-blockchain bridges protos.com/explained-why-… 4/

#15yrsago BBC podcast: what’s the future of the BBC’s archive? web.archive.org/web/2012080702…

#15yrsago Original proposal for William Gibson’s Spook Country g-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/bo… 5/

#10yrsago Wild stuff they’ll teach in Louisiana’s publicly funded charter schools motherjones.com/kevin-drum/201…

#10yrsago Curiosity landing is a bonanza for YouTube ContentID copyfraudsters memex.craphound.com/2012/08/08/cur… 6/

#10yrsago Every one of Rudy Rucker’s short stories on one web-page for free rudyrucker.com/blog/2012/08/0…

#10yrsago Who will buy the WELL? nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2012/08/th…

#10yrsago Call centre brings in prison labour at £3/day, fires regular workers theguardian.com/society/2012/a… 7/

#5yrsago Toronto’s amazing science fiction library, the Merril Collection, has a new head librarian toronto.com/news/torontos-…

#5yrsago Desperate last-ditch attempt to save the right to sue abusive nursing homes thehill.com/regulation/hea… 8/

#5yrsago Establishment Dems worried they’ll get primaried if they don’t back single-payer healthcare politico.com/story/2017/08/… 9/

Yesterday's threads: Epson boobytrapped its printers; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1556315888802054144

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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… 11/

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."

craphound.com/shop/ 13/

Upcoming appearances:

* @DEFCON 30 (Las Vegas), Aug 13
defcon.org/html/defcon-30…

* #UnfinishedLive (NYC), Sept 21-24
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Recent appearances:

* DRM Secretly Polices You (@dtnsshow)
dailytechnewsshow.com/2022/07/29/drm…

* Bricking Tractors (Inside Agri-Turf)
inside-agriturf.captivate.fm/episode/bricki…

* Blockchain, Bitcoin & Selling The Brooklyn Bridge (@MMTPodcast):
pileusmmt.libsyn.com/135-cory-docto… 15/

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… 16/

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My latest Medium column is "Como is Infosec"

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