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Inside: This weekend, I watched a hacker jailbreak a John Deere tractor live on stage; and more!

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Tonight (Aug 15), I'll be joining the @buildbridges4am Book Club for the final installment of their discussion of my 2019 book "Radicalized":

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This weekend, I watched a hacker jailbreak a John Deere tractor live on stage: Total pwnage, with a a side of copyfraud.

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Hey look at this

* A Taxonomy of Access Control schneier.com/blog/archives/…

* @HankGreen Explains the Climate Bill

* Lock and unlock grocery store shopping carts with your phone speaker begaydocrime.com/carts 4/

#20yrsago #Hypercard is back, baby wired.com/2002/08/hyperc…

#20yrsago @FBI on #warchalking: the sky is falling, halp! seclists.org/interesting-pe…

#15yrsago @KarlSchroeder: Colonize the Earth web.archive.org/web/2007110823… 5/

#15yrsago An anonymous Disney employee vandalized the Wikipedia entry on DRM by removing all mentions of me opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2007/08/why-op…

#15yrsago Catalog of Fox News Wikipedia whitewashes web.archive.org/web/2007101313… 6/

#15yrsago @RIAA stiffs former defendant on legal fees recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com/2007/08/riaa-f…

#15yrsago #DRM as a Potemkin village theguardian.com/technology/200…

#15yrsago @BBC picketed over use of Microsoft DRM defectivebydesign.org/blog/iPlayerPr… 7/

#15yrsago George Orwell on getting shot rjgeib.com/thoughts/soldi…

#10yrsago Civil rights implications of Big Data radar.oreilly.com/2012/08/big-da…

#10yrsago @HachetteUS to @TorBooks authors: you must keep the DRM on your ebooks publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/co… 8/

#10yrsago What to do if your car gets broken into and you’re the @MPAA techdirt.com/2012/08/13/if-…

#10yrsago 2BainCapital buys profitable American plant, ships it to China; soon-to-be-jobless workers train their overseas replacements theguardian.com/business/2012/… 9/

#10yrsago Animation teacher faces the sack for refusing to push “unnecessary, expensive” textbooks at hedge-fund invested Art Institute of California web.archive.org/web/2012081423…

#10yrsago @remixeverything’s TED Talk: “Embrace the Remix” – a must-see 10/

#10yrsago RIP, Harry Harrison whatever.scalzi.com/2012/08/15/rip…

#10yrsago A Mary Blair Treasury of Golden Books memex.craphound.com/2012/08/15/a-m…

#10yrsago Neo-Nazi MEP from Hungary discovers he is Jewish web.archive.org/web/2012081500… 11/

#5yrsago CEOs quit Trump: The 1% can’t win elections unless the 99% turkeys vote for Christmas memex.craphound.com/2017/08/15/ceo…

#5yrsago A new edition of @DanielPinkwater’s happy mutant kids’ classic, “Lizard Music” memex.craphound.com/2017/08/15/a-n… 12/

#5yrsago In NYC, every tenant facing eviction is now entitled to a lawyer bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

#5yrsago School to parents: a $100 donation gets your kids to the front of the lunch line abcactionnews.com/news/region-po… 13/

#5yrsago Russian inequality is worse than imagined; worse than other post-Soviet states piketty.pse.ens.fr/files/NPZ2017W…

#5yrsago Republican lawmakers double-down on legalizing the vehicular murder of protesters theintercept.com/2017/08/14/bac… 14/

#5yrsago The secret text of the @GOP’s border bill reveals plan to dramatically increase surveillance of Americans and visitors arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…

#5yrsago Donald Trump will not condemn the terrorist attacks on anti-Nazi protestors memex.craphound.com/2017/08/13/don… 15/

#10yrsago Great writing advice from this year’s @ClarionUCSD writing workshop samjmiller.com/clarion-2012-e…

#5yrsago @Airbnb’s preferred smart lock vendor accidentally bricks 500 door-locks bleepingcomputer.com/news/hardware/… 16/

#5yrsago Real people don’t (just) need encryption phys.org/news/2017-08-e…

#5yrsago So the Alt-Right is coming to your campus splcenter.org/sites/default/…

#1yrago Provocateur copyrights a Magic: The Gathering Deck pluralistic.net/2021/08/14/ang… 17/

#1yrago End of the line for #Reaganomics pluralistic.net/2021/08/13/pos…

#1yrago Smart cities are neither, 2021 edition pluralistic.net/2021/08/13/pos… 18/

Friday's threads: The FTC takes aim at commercial surveillance; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1558118193004158979

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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… 20/

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:

* Talking "Radicalized" with the @buildbridges4am Book Club, Aug 15
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* Launch for @Motherboard's Terraform anthology, @Vice offices (Los Angeles), Aug 18
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* Radical Interoperability: An Internet Disassembly Manual, Aug 29 15h (@BurningMan Center Camp)

* Chokepoint Capitalism: a Better Deal for Creative Labor, Aug 30, 13h (@BurningMan @PalenqueNorte, 915 and B) 23/

Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

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

* #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.

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