Today's links

Squeeze Me: Carl Hiaasen's Trump-as-Florida-man masterpiece.
The Internet is for End-Users: IETF on "user agents."
Ad-tech is a bubble: Subprime Attention Crisis.
Schools! Libraries! Classrooms! Get free Attack Surface hardcovers: An imperfect solution to a thorny problem.
Facebook's living will: Leaks reveal the company's idiotic plans to stave off breakup.
Part 17 of Someone Comes to Town Someone Leaves Town: This week on the podcast: a murder most foul.
Seeking home call-center workers: Propublica wants your story.
This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

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Announcing the Attack Surface tour: Eight nights, 16 guests, and me, signing and mailing hundreds of books.

WV's deabeat governor now owes $140m: Billionaire Jim Justice made his money the old fashioned way: fraud.

Faulty TV behind daily, town-wide internet outages: The real story here is that Openreach actually fixed something.

Blogcritics on Attack Surface: "Doctorow has recreated our world in all its scary detail."

This day in history: 2010, 2015, 2019

Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

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