#20yrsago Dell won’t help customers remove #spyware https://yro.slashdot.org/story/03/12/03/0257238/dell-to-techs-dont-help-customers-remove-spyware

#15yrsago #SpiderRobinson reads #JohnVarley’s “The Persistence of Vision” https://web.archive.org/web/20111215214809/http://hw.libsyn.com/p/b/f/e/bfea9a6569a591aa/SOTW057.mp3?sid=669e18ee3a02e91b0ddc3bc71878673a&l_sid=21159&l_eid=&l_mid=1970776&expiration=1323992876&hwt=f3158434ea94dcfa536ce7d3b1a49107

#15yrsago #Atheism Song — #AdamSandler’s #HannukahSong, but for nonbelievers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFqSNpK9vm8

#15yrsago Interview with Harvard law prof who’s challenging the constitutionality of the #RIAA suits https://archive.blogs.harvard.edu/mediaberkman/2008/12/02/radio-berkman-the-pay-us-hotline-fines-and-the-riaa/

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#10yrsago RIP, #RoyTrumbull: happy mutant, TV/radio engineering legend, podcaster https://memex.craphound.com/2013/12/02/rip-roy-trumbull-happy-mutant-tv-radio-engineering-legend-podcaster/

#10yrsago Leaked UN document: countries want to end #WarOnDrugs and prohibition https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/nov/30/un-drugs-policy-split-leaked-paper

#10yrsago How big corporations and government spy agencies surveil and sabotage activist groups https://web.archive.org/web/20131121063549/http://www.corporatepolicy.org/spookybusiness.pdf

#10yrsago 84% of stocks owned by richest 10% of Americans https://money.com/stock-ownership-10-percent-richest/

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#1yrago How tech changed global #labor struggles for better and worse https://pluralistic.net/2022/12/02/not-what-it-does/#who-it-does-it-to

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Yesterday's threads: All the books I reviewed in 2023; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/111505684432989215

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My latest novel is "The Lost Cause," a solarpunk novel of radical hope in the climate emergency, from Tor Books (US)/Head of Zeus (UK):

http://lost-cause.org

Signed, personalized copies available from Dark Delicacies:

https://www.darkdel.com/store/p3007/Pre-Order_Signed_Copies%3A_The_Lost_Cause_HB.html#/

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My latest nonfiction book is "The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation" from Verso Books:

http://seizethemeansofcomputation.org

Signed copies available from Book Soup:

https://www.booksoup.com/book/9781804291245

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Upcoming appearances:

* The Lost Cause at #FlyleafBooks (#ChapelHill), Dec 5
https://www.flyleafbooks.com/doctorow-2023

* The Geneva Dialog (Dec 7)
https://genevadialogue.ch/event/geneva-manual-event/

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Recent appearances:

* Explore the Future of the 🔥 Climate and Information Climate (#AndrewRevkin)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OGT-cvs4_Q

* Digital Markets Act; Interoperability; Entrenchment; Copyright; "What-About-Ism" (Digital Markets Research Hub)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xm23pO5_WKM

* Science fiction for a dystopian present (Institute of Art and Ideas)
https://iai.tv/video/science-fiction-for-a-dystopian-present-cory-doctorow?_auid=2020

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Today's top sources: #NakedCapitalism (https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/).

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