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Inside: How Democrats could win more elections; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2022/08/16/do-…

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This Thurs (Aug 18), I'll be at the launch for @VICE @motherboard's new "Terraform" sf anthology in Venice, CA:

eventbrite.com/e/terraform-bo… 2/

How Democrats could win more elections: Do stuff. Make it timely. Tell people about it.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1559567560974209025

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Hey look at this

* Slipstream by @bruces journalscape.com/jlundberg/page2 (h/t @MitchWagner) 4/

#20yrsago Carnegie-Mellon offers course on DRM seclists.org/interesting-pe…

#15yrsago AllOfMP3 founder not guilty of copyright infringement cnn.com/2007/TECH/bizt…

#15yrsago US schools ask 14-year-olds to declare a major nytimes.com/2007/08/16/edu… 5/

#10yrsago The Coming Civil War Over General Purpose Computers web.archive.org/web/2012082001…

#5yrsago Fox and other conservative sites hastily scrub posts urging vehicular murder of left-wing protesters money.cnn.com/2017/08/15/med… 6/

#5yrsago David Byrne: The secret appeal of technology is that it takes away the need to talk to people technologyreview.com/2017/08/15/149…

#5yrsago Uncanny Japan: a podcast highlighting “all that is weird from old Japan” uncannyjapan.com 7/

#1yrago Housing, money laundry, speculation and precarity pluralistic.net/2021/08/16/die… 8/

Yesterday's threads: This weekend, I watched a hacker jailbreak a John Deere tractor live on stage; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1559206724535554054

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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:

* Launch for @motherboard's Terraform anthology, @VICE offices (Los Angeles), Aug 18
eventbrite.com/e/terraform-bo…

* Radical Interoperability: An Internet Disassembly Manual, Aug 29 15h (@burningman Center Camp) 13/

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) 14/

Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* Canadians Connected (Ottawa), Sept 15
member.cira.ca/Events/Canadia…

* #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… 16/

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… 17/

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