Today (Mar 9), you can catch me in person in #Austin at the UT School of Design and Creative Technologies:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-buckman-center-presents-cory-doctorow-tickets-526627556197

And remotely at #UManitoba's Ethics of Emerging Tech Lecture:

https://eventscalendar.umanitoba.ca/site/science/event/ethics-of-emerging-technology-lecture---rebecca-giblin-and-cory-doctorow/

Tomorrow (Mar 10), Rebecca Giblin and I kick off the #SXSW reading series:

https://schedule.sxsw.com/2023/events/PP1143284

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The AI hype bubble is the new crypto hype bubble: Someday, we're gonna feel pretty silly about our autocomplete worship.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/109994523436704765

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Hey look at this

* Burning Men by @mariafarrell https://westerlymag.com.au/burning-men-by-maria-farrell/

* #GigiSohn’s Full Statement On Withdrawing Her #FCC Nomination https://www.techdirt.com/2023/03/08/gigi-sohns-full-statement-on-withdrawing-her-fcc-nomination/

* #UnitedAutoWorkers on Brink of Unprecedented Leadership Upset https://theintercept.com/2023/03/07/uaw-union-election-shawn-fain/

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#20yrsago #NYT reviews Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom https://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/09/books/does-that-mean-we-can-defrost-walt.html

#20yrsago Notes from “Doing Good Online” https://web.archive.org/web/20030604125836/http://cheesedip.com/?p=archives/week_2003_03_02.phtml

#20yrsago Left-wing media bias? In your dreams https://web.archive.org/web/20030411094341/weblog.siliconvalley.com/column/dangillmor/archives/000838.shtml

#15yrsago #AirForce lawyers send #DMCA notice to YouTube https://www.wired.com/2008/03/air-force-cyber-2/

#15yrsago Cal State U forced to re-hire #Quaker math teacher who inserted “non-violently” into loyalty oath https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-mar-08-me-loyaltyoath8-story.html

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#10yrsago AP: #chavez made “meager” gains only reduced poverty, didn’t build the world’s tallest building https://fair.org/home/ap-chavez-wasted-his-money-on-healthcare-when-he-could-have-built-gigantic-skyscrapers/

#15yrsago Society of Automotive Engineers kills #DRM on its journal following MIT boycott https://web.archive.org/web/20080308131031/http://news-libraries.mit.edu/blog/following-removal/1024/

#15yrsago Flowchart: How D&;D is a gateway drug to every flavor of nerdiness https://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/09/opinion/09rogers.html

#10yrsago Welcome to your Awesome Robot: instructional comic turns kids & cardboard boxes into AWESOME ROBOTS! https://memex.craphound.com/2013/03/09/welcome-to-your-awesome-robot-instructional-comic-turns-kids-cardboard-boxes-into-awesome-robots/

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#10yrsago US Ninth Circuit says forensic #LaptopSearches at the border without suspicion are unconstitional https://www.techdirt.com/2013/03/08/9th-circuit-appeals-court-4th-amendment-applies-border-also-password-protected-files-shouldnt-arouse-suspicion/

#10yrsago Austin Chronicle on #AaronSwartz and the future of computers https://www.austinchronicle.com/screens/2013-03-08/invaluable-information/

#10yrsago Random House responds to #SFWA on its Hydra ebook imprint https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/digital/content-and-e-books/article/56244-rh-responds-to-sfwa-slamming-its-hydra-imprint.html

#10yrsago NYPD will arrest you for carrying condoms: the women/trans/genderqueer version of stop-and-frisk https://www.vice.com/en/article/3b5mx9/new-york-cops-will-arrest-you-for-carrying-condoms

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#10yrsago Canada’s National Post pretends #FairDealing doesn’t exist, presents you with bill to copy a single word https://web.archive.org/web/20130311104536/https://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/6802/125/

#5yrsago A mechanical, wooden #TuringMachine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vo8izCKHiF0

#5yrsago Florida students succeed where so many have failed, force state legislature to pass #GunControl rules despite ferocious #NRA lobbying https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/florida-legislature-backs-new-gun-restrictions-after-parkland-school-shooting/2018/03/07/f97057ea-2229-11e8-badd-7c9f29a55815_story.html

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#5yrsago Vendor lock-in, #DRM, and crappy #EULAs are turning America’s independent #farmers into tenant farmers https://www.vice.com/en/article/a34pp4/john-deere-tractor-hacking-big-data-surveillance

#5yrsago A critical statistics education that fits on a postcard https://timharford.com/2018/03/your-handy-postcard-sized-guide-to-statistics/

#5yrsago An algorithm that converts 3D meshes into machine-knitting patterns https://textiles-lab.github.io/publications/2018-autoknit/

#5yrsago After #Airbnb hosts converted New York’s available housing stock to unlicensed hotel rooms, rents soared https://www.mcgill.ca/newsroom/files/newsroom/channels/attach/airbnb-report.pdf

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#5yrsago The company that turned #Grenfell Tower into a deathtrap reports profits up 50% and anticipates no downside from the disaster https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/mar/08/rydon-profit-rises-grenfell-tower-contractor

#5yrsago The Warrior Within: a tight science fiction novella about a warrior who contains multitudes https://memex.craphound.com/2018/03/08/the-warrior-within-a-tight-science-fiction-novella-about-a-warrior-who-contains-multitudes/

#5yrsago How denialists weaponize media literacy and what to do about it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0I7FVyQCjNg

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#5yrsago Machine learning models keep getting spoofed by adversarial attacks and it’s not clear if this can ever be fixed https://www.wired.com/story/ai-has-a-hallucination-problem-thats-proving-tough-to-fix/

#5yrsago RIP #JohnSulston, open science hero and father of the Human Genome Project https://phys.org/news/2018-03-john-sulston-decoded-human-genome.html

#1yrago The cruelty isn't the point: The point is power https://pluralistic.net/2022/03/09/turkeys-voting-for-christmas/#culture-wars

#1yrago The #DawnOfEverything: An essential reminder that we are in charge of our own destiny https://pluralistic.net/2022/03/08/three-freedoms/#anti-fatalism

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#1yrago How and why to break up #BigTech https://pluralistic.net/2022/03/08/three-freedoms/#alphabet-soup

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Tuesday's threads: End to End; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/109982126010944897

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

https://chokepointcapitalism.com

Signed copies available from Book Soup:

https://www.booksoup.com/book/9780807007068

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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 Dark Delicacies:

https://www.darkdel.com/store/p1840/Cory_Doctorow_-__Attack_Surface_HB_%26_TPB.html#/

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My ebooks and audiobooks (from Tor Books, Head of Zeus, McSweeneys, Beacon 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."

https://craphound.com/shop/

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