On September 27, I'll be at Chevalier's Books in #LosAngeles with #BrianMerchant for a joint launch for my new book *The Internet Con* and his new book, *Blood in the Machine*:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-internet-con-by-cory-doctorow-blood-in-the-machine-by-brian-merchant-tickets-696349940417

On October 2, I'll be in #Boise to host an event with #VESchwab:

https://www.thecabinidaho.org/all-events/ve-schwab

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Down in the (link)dumps: A link sundae for a fall Saturday.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/111115348881025581

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#15yrsago Pinhole skull-camera https://web.archive.org/web/20080924121957/http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2008/09/23/pinhole-camera-fashi.html

#15yrsago New media formats revealed by the Internet https://web.archive.org/web/20080923124739/http://www.internetevolution.com/author.asp?section_id=479&doc_id=164252&

#15yrsago How Children Learn: classic of human, kid-centered learning https://memex.craphound.com/2008/09/23/how-children-learn-classic-of-human-kid-centered-learning/

#15yrsago DHS invests in mind-reading anti-terrorist technology — and staff phrenologists to interpret the results https://web.archive.org/web/20080924083517/http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,426485,00.html

#10yrsago Floppy ROM: distributing software on #flexidiscs https://web.archive.org/web/20130926014255/http://blog.modernmechanix.com/the-floppy-rom-software-distributed-on-records/

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#5yrsago Since 2007, #debt-haunted grads have been doing public service to earn #LoanForgiveness, which they won’t get https://www.vice.com/en/article/kz5zew/youre-probably-not-getting-that-loan-forgiveness-youre-counting-on

#5yrsago #MeToo meets the #FightFor15 as #McDonalds workers walk out over sexual harassment https://jacobin.com/2018/09/mcdonalds-strike-metoo-sexual-harassment-organizing

#5yrsago Exploring the ruins of a #ToysRUs, discovering a trove of sensitive employee data https://hackaday.com/2018/09/17/exploring-an-abandoned-toys-r-us/

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Yesterday's threads: Apple fucked us on right to repair (again); and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/111110041825234342

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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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My latest novel is Red Team Blues, available wherever books are sold!

Signed copies at Dark Delicacies (US):

https://www.darkdel.com/store/p2873/Wed%2C_Apr_26th_6pm%3A_Red_Team_Blues%3A_A_Martin_Hench_Novel_HB.html#/

and Forbidden Planet (UK):

https://forbiddenplanet.com/385004-red-team-blues-signed-edition-hardcover/

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My ebooks and audiobooks (from Tor Books, Head of Zeus, McSweeneys, Beacon, Verso 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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Upcoming appearances:

* Launch for "#TheInternetCon" and @brianmerchant's "#BloodInTheMachine," Chevalier's Books (#LA), Sept 27
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-internet-con-by-cory-doctorow-blood-in-the-machine-by-brian-merchant-tickets-696349940417

* An Evening with #VESchwab (#Boise), Oct 2
https://www.thecabinidaho.org/all-events/ve-schwab

* Wired Nextfest/#WNF23 (#Milano), Oct 7-8
https://eventi.wired.it/nextfest23-milano

* #TheInternetCon at #MoonPalaceBooks (#Minneapolis), Oct 15
https://moonpalacebooks.com/events/30127

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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* 26th #ACM Conference On Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing keynote (#Minneapolis), Oct 16
https://cscw.acm.org/2023/index.php/keynotes/

* 41st annual McCreight Lecture in the Humanities (#Charleston, WV), Oct 19
https://festivallcharleston.com/venue/university-of-charleston/

* Seizing the Means of Computation (Edinburgh Futures Institute), Oct 25
https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/seizing-the-means-of-computation-with-cory-doctorow/

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