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Inside: A dark money group is lying about Medicare cuts; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2022/08/11/rop…

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This 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/

A dark money group is lying about Medicare cuts: Who the fuck are the "American Prosperity Alliance?"

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1557724677224611841

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Hey look at this

* Guardians of the Galaxy: The Live Immersive Experience — @secretcinema tickets.secretcinema.org/guardians-of-t…

* Growing an Appreciation for Plants bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=6481

* Brooklyn Bar Menu Generator brooklynbarmenus.com (h/t @Nelson) 4/

#10yrsago @Beck’s new album is sheet-music only mcsweeneys.net/pages/song-rea…

#10yrsago @WIPO’s Broadcasting Treaty is back: a treaty to end the public domain, fair use and Creative Commons eff.org/deeplinks/2012…

#10yrsago @pussyrrriot’s closing statement olenskae.tumblr.com/post/291373276… 5/

#5yrsago @AjitPai just stacked the @FCC’s advisory panel with dingo babysitters from big telcoms thedailybeast.com/almost-all-of-…

#5yrsago 20 year old advice on helping people with computers is still relevant todayhttps://pages.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/agre/how-to-help.html 6/

#5yrsago 7 years later, Sun Microsystems cofounder @vkhosla loses bid to privatize public beach theguardian.com/environment/20…

#5yrsago @WellsFargo also gouged small businesses on credit-card fees consumerist.com/2017/08/11/wel… 7/

#1yrago IRS leaks reveal billions reaped through ultra-wealthy lobbying on the tax bill pluralistic.net/2021/08/11/the…

#1yrago Canada's got the world's worst internet ideas pluralistic.net/2021/08/11/the… 8/

Yesterday's threads: A modest proposal to fix contracts; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1557368566286106628

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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… 10/

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… 11/

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:

* @DEFCON 30 (Las Vegas), Aug 13
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* Talking "Radicalized" with the @buildbridges4am Book Club, Aug 15
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Upcoming appearances: (cont'd)

* Launch for @Motherboard's Terraform anthology, @Vice offices (Los Angeles), Aug 18
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* Radical Interoperability: An Internet Disassembly Manual, Aug 29 15h (@BurningMan Center Camp) 14/

Upcoming appearances: (cont'd)

* Chokepoint Capitalism: a Better Deal for Creative Labor, Aug 30, 13h (@BurningMan @PalenqueNorte, 915 and B)

* Interview with @BunnieStudios on the Precursor and Trusting Trust, Aug 31, 12h (@BurningMan Liminal Labs, 945 and Rod's) 15/

Upcoming appearances: (cont'd)

* #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):
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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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My latest Medium column is "Como is Infosec"

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