Oddbean

My next novel is #TheLostCause, a hopeful tale of the climate emergency. As with all my audiobooks, Amazon refuses to sell this one, so I made my own indie audiobook and I'm pre-selling it right now through #Kickstarter: http://lost-cause.org -- On October 7-8, I'm in #Milan to keynote Wired Nextfest/#WNF23: https://eventi.wired.it/nextfest23-milano 2/ https://mamot.fr/system/media_attachments/files/111/177/537/673/702/356/original/3a62ba1728bdbb65.jpg

#10yrsago #DRM standards, the harmonica version https://fleasnobbery.blogspot.com/2013/10/harmonica.html #10yrsago #Firefox bug: “Pledge never to implement HTML5 DRM” https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=923590 #10yrsago London School of Economics: #piracy isn’t killing big content; government needs to be skeptical of entertainment industry claims https://torrentfreak.com/piracy-isnt-hurting-the-entertainment-industry-121003/ #5yrsago New Macbooks and Imacs will brick themselves if they think they’re being repaired by an independent technician https://www.vice.com/en/article/yw9qk7/macbook-pro-software-locks-prevent-independent-repair 5/ https://mamot.fr/system/media_attachments/files/111/177/544/114/853/157/original/de69553502028fdb.png

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 -- 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/ 9/

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/ 10/ https://mamot.fr/system/media_attachments/files/111/177/553/022/823/284/original/245daf2f990ba18f.jpg

Upcoming appearances: * Wired Nextfest/#WNF23 (#Milano), Oct 7-8 https://eventi.wired.it/nextfest23-milano * #TheInternetCon at #MoonPalaceBooks (#Minneapolis), Oct 15 https://moonpalacebooks.com/events/30127 * 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/ 11/ https://mamot.fr/system/media_attachments/files/111/177/554/567/158/821/original/13207b657f0795f3.jpg

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