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Inside: Uline's billions fund voter suppression; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2022/10/26/box…

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Tonight (Oct 26), I'm hosting an online launch for XYChelsea's new book, "Readme.txt: A Memoir" via @Bookshop_Org:

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Uline's billions fund voter suppression: The Uihlein family used to fund the John Birch Society, today it's the Big Lie.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1585292807022993411

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#20yrsago @hilaryr debates file-sharing at Oxford web.archive.org/web/2002120806…

#15yrsago LOLCat programming language: LOLCode blog.notdot.net/2007/6/LOLCode…

#15yrsago US terrorist watchlist “galloping toward the million mark” usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/20… 4/

#10yrsago @StephenAtHome to Trump: I’ll pay $1M to your favorite charity if you let me put my balls in your mouth web.archive.org/web/2012102713… 5/

#10yrsago Aviation vulnerability: Scan boarding passes to discover if you’re in for deep screening; print new barcodes if you don’t like what you find puckinflight.wordpress.com/2012/10/19/sec…

#10yrsago Copyright versus human rights techdirt.com/2012/10/26/no-… 6/

#5yrsago A new, virulent ransomware epidemic is fuelled by yet another leaked NSA cyberweapon arstechnica.com/information-te…

#5yrsago A socialist candidate for Minneapolis city council has broken all fundraising records through individual $25 donations theintercept.com/2017/10/26/min… 7/

#5yrsago Six months before the breach, a researcher warned Equifax that all its data was unprotected vice.com/en/article/ne3…

#5yrsago A common satellite comms package for ships and oil rigs has a backdoor that won’t be patched bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/… 8/

#5yrsago 200 Trump inauguration protesters face 70 years in prison each over 6 broken windows theintercept.com/2017/10/25/tru…

#5yrsago Trump Cabinet Secretary’s hometown, 2-person company wins $300m power-rebuilding contract in Puerto Rico washingtonpost.com/national/small… 9/

#5yrsago Epson uses dubious patent claims to nuke ink sellers’ listings from eBay eff.org/deeplinks/2017…

#5yrsago Those “heroic rogue GOP senators” just helped Trump shield Equifax and Wells Fargo from lawsuits theintercept.com/2017/10/24/aft… 10/

#5yrsago Simple steps your small organization can take to defend itself against cyberattacks cs.rice.edu/~dwallach/howt…

#5yrsago Kaspersky’s explanation for possessing secret NSA cyberweapons is a doozy theintercept.com/2017/10/25/nsa… 11/

#5yrsago San Francisco may finally get decent internet access, thanks to municipal fiber wired.com/story/san-fran…

#5yrsago Why electrical engineers should support the right to repair spectrum.ieee.org/why-we-must-fi… 12/

#5yrsago How the Chicago School’s extremist ideology destroyed the American economy with unchecked monopolies web.archive.org/web/2017102413… 13/

#1yrago The Dems' most secret Congressional committee: The Steering and Policy Committee runs the show and we're not even allowed to know who's on it pluralistic.net/2021/10/25/peo… 14/

#1yrago Maxing out our global credit-card with authoritarian debt: Or, why countries are spending more on "border security" than the climate emergency pluralistic.net/2021/10/26/ine… 15/

Monday's threads: An hour of interwar Halloween music; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1584493419287973893

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My latest book is Chokepoint Capitalism (with @rgibli), nonfiction about monopoly and fairness in creative labor markets.

chokepointcapitalism.com

Signed copies available from @BookSoup:

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My latest novel 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 ebooks and audiobooks (from @torbooks, @HoZ_Books, @mcsweeneys, @BeaconPressBks et al) 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 xychelsea's "Readme.txt: A Memoir" (@Bookshop_Org), 10/26:
us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

* @WEDF_forum, 10/26-28
worldethicaldataforum.org/wedf-2022

* #RadicalBookFair/@Lighthousebks (Edinburgh), 11/10
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* Arthur C Clarke Award (DC), 11/16
clarkefoundation.org/2022-awards-ev…

* Big Ideas Live (London), 11/19
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Recent appearances:

* Why Patients Should Hack Med Tech (@defcon 30)


* Literary Life with Mitchell Kaplan (@lithub)
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* Sex and Politics with @fakedansavage (use code "Doctorow" for a free month):
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Happy #SpookySeason! My picture book "Poesy the Monster Slayer" is the perfect read for your little monsters: it's an epic tale of bedtime-refusal, toy-hacking and monster-hunting, illustrated by @mcrockefeller.

pluralistic.net/2020/07/14/poe… 23/

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My latest Medium column is "How to Fix Cars By Breaking 'Felony Contempt of Business Model'"

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